Director, Quality, Safety and Risk Management (QSRM) and Senior Consultant, Department of Neonatology, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital; Singapore

Dr Chang is Director, Quality, Safety and Risk Management (QSRM) and Senior Consultant, Department of Neonatology, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital(KKH). He is a Clinical Asst Professor in Paediatrics at the DUKE-NUS School of Medicine and the National University of Singapore. In addition, he is an Adjunct Asst Professor in Paediatrics at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He Chairs the Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Standards and Co-chairs the Patient Safety and Risk Council, KKH. He contextualised the Joint Commission International standards in KKH leading to changed mindsets in using standards for continuous improvement. He conducts regular Root Cause Analysis and Speak Up for Safety seminars. His interest include safety culture and contributes in crafting materials and workshops in TeamSPEAK, TeamSTEPPS and TeamCHOICE. He is a faculty of the SingHealth Institute for Patient Safety and Quality (IPSQ) graduate programmes in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality.

He led a team using quality improvement tools to reduce the incidents of chronic lung diseases of infancy in 2013 that won awards. He is President- Singapore Paediatric Society, Standing Committee- Asia Pacific Paediatric Association and Council of Delegates- International Pediatric Association. He had published in peer-reviewed journals, including Cochrane reviews, in quality, safety and neonatal topics. He served as Faculty of Singapore Healthcare Improvement Network, a collaborative program to reduce harm nationally. He is one of few Instructor-Mentors based in Singapore of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Neonatal Resuscitation training.