Prof Lo Yew Long

Professor Lo Yew Long is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Medical Affairs & Quality Management) and a Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National Neuroscience Institute. His concurrent appointment is Group Director of Research Integrity, Compliance and Ethics at SingHealth. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1988. He joined the Department of Neurology, Singapore General Hospital in 1994 and completed his postgraduate fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Oxford in 1998. He is Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine, LKC School of Medicine at NTU.

Professor Lo is active in the field of Clinical Neurophysiology. He was the founder president of the Clinical Neurophysiology Society (Singapore) and representative to the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He was an invited speaker for the World Congress of Neurology, as well as the European and International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology. He was awarded the Galloway Lectureship and Seah Cheng Siang Memorial Lecture by the Academy of Medicine, Singapore.

His main research interests are on spinal cord disorders and neuromodulation, where he has held 3 National Medical Research Grants. He is principal investigator of projects addressing the functional neurophysiology of cord compression, mechanisms of cervical whiplash and cortical plasticity changes in spinal cord dysfunction. Other ongoing research include transcranial magnetic stimulation in motor control, magnetic modulation of lipid function in animal brain tissue, neuromuscular transmission in demyelinating neuropathies and optical imaging of cortical and cerebellar activity. 

He was previous Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare. He has over 200 publications in international peer reviewed journals, including first author papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology, The Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Brain, Archives of Neurology, Journal of Neurology, Spine, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Nature Clinical Reviews Neurology and Movement Disorders. He is presently Associate Editor of Clinical Neurophysiology Journal.

His book titled “Clinical Neurophysiology: New Clinical and Research Applications” was published in 2013.

Fellow Academy of Medicine of Singapore, Academy Medicine of Singapore, 1999
Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine), National University of Singapore, 1994
B of Med, B of Surg, National University of Singapore, 1988

• Group Director, Research (Research Integrity, Compliance and Ethics), SingHealth
• Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Medical Affairs & Quality Management), National Neuroscience Institute
• Senior Consultant, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute (NNI@SGH)
• Medical Board, National Neuroscience Institute
• Medical Board, Singapore General Hospital
• Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
• Adjunct Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
• Clinical Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• Founder President, Clinical Neurophysiology Society of Singapore
• Country Representative, International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology

• Galloway Lectureship, Singapore Malaysia Congress of Medicine, Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 2007
• Quality Improvement Gold Team Award, Team Excellence IQC,  Singapore Productivity Association, Singapore, 2016
• Outstanding Clinician Award, SingHealth Excellence Awards, SingHealth, Singapore, 2016
• Outstanding Faculty Award, SingHealth RISE Awards, SingHealth Residency, Singapore, 2014
• Outstanding Faculty for Development (Neurology), Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, 2013
• Outstanding Faculty Award, SingHealth Residency, Singapore 2013
• Outstanding Clinician Award, SingHealth, Singapore 2013

• Spinal magnetic stimulation for functional bowel disorders
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation in tinnitus treatment
• A Very Early Rehabilitation Trial (AVERT)
• Cryotherapy in prevention of chemotherapy induced neuropathy

• ​Lo YL, See SJ. Pseudoathetosis. New Engl J Med 2010; Nov 4: e29-30
• Lo YL. Redefining therapeutic strategies for the Guillain-Barre syndrome. Lancet Neurol 2008; 7: 1082-3.
• Lo YL. Immunotherapy for anti-GQ1b IgG antibody-mediated disorders: role of electrophysiology in human trials. Brain 2009; 132: 104.
• Lo YL. Migraine, magnetic stimulation and cortical excitability. Nat Clin Rev Neurol 2010; 6: 425-7.
• Lo YL, Tan EK, Ratnagopal P, Chan LL, Tan TE. Zolpidem and its effects on hypoxic encephalopathy.  Ann Neurol 2008; 64: 477-8.
• Lo YL, Fook-Chong S, Leoh TH, Dan YF, Tan YE, Lau WH, Chan LL. High-resolution ultrasound as a diagnostic adjunct in common peroneal neuropathy. Arch Neurol 2007; 64: 1798-1800.
• Lo YL, Leoh TH, Dan YF, Lim LL, Seah A, Fook-Chong S, Ratnagopal P. Presynaptic neuromuscular transmission defect in the Miller Fisher syndrome. Neurology 2006; 66: 148-9.