Profile
Dr Pooja Sachdeva is a Senior Consultant in the Department of General Medicine at Sengkang General Hospital.
Dr Pooja received her medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi, India in 2008. She received post-graduate training in Basic and Advanced Internal Medicine from Singapore and joined Sengkang General Hospital in 2016.
Education
- MBBS (Maulana Azad Medical College, 2007, New Delhi, India)
- MRCP (Acute Internal Medicine, United Kingdom)
- FAMS (Fellow of Academy of Medicine, Singapore)
- FRCP (Fellow of Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2020)
- DRCOG (Diploma of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology, United Kingdom, 2023)
- Masters in Medical Education (University of South Wales, United Kingdom, 2024)
- Professional Diploma in Obstetric Medicine (Royal College of Physicians, 2024)
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Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships
- Visiting Consultant, Maternal Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
- Senior Adjunct Lecturer, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
- Physician Faculty Member for PGY1 Programme in SingHealth
- Physician Faculty Member for SingHealth Advance Internal Medicine Residency Programme
- Sengkang General Hospital Quality and Risk Management Committee (QRMC)
- Sengkang General Hospital Education Office
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Awards
COVID-19 Resilience Medal 2023
SingHealth Residency Awards: Outstanding Faculty Award 2022/2023
Singapore Health Quality Service Award 2022: Silver
- MOH Health Manpower Development (HMDP) Award 2019 - Maternal Medicine Postgraduate Fellowship Training at Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada
- SingHealth 10 Years Long Service Award January 2019
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Publications
- Idiopathic hyper eosinophillic syndrome presenting as urinary incontinence: A case report . Open J Clin Med Case Rep: Volume 5 (2019) ISSN: 2379-1039. Wai Ching Lee; Sachdeva Pooja; TanYan Denise; Felik Paulus; Tan Leonard; Baikunje Shashidhar
- Diabetes Mellitus -associated severe hypertriglyceridemia causing pancreatitis :Experience with two cases. Sachdeva P, Rohit, Willis G Christopher, D'Souza M Jason, Pawar Manjit, Tavintharan Subramaniam. Open Journal of Clinical and Medical case Reports 2018 ISSN 2379-1039 , vol 4 :Issue 19 :1470
- Anti-NMDA Receptor Antibody Encephalitis: - A Review of Nine Patients with Clinical Presentation, Investigations, Treatment and Outcome in Singapore. Sachdeva P, Rohit, Sharan P, Prakash K, Yip CW and See SJ. J Neurol Disord 2016, 4: 297 DOI: 10.4172/2329-6895.1000297.
- Squamous cell carcinoma of kidney with Nephrolithiasis: An uncommon entity. P. Sachdeva, Rohit, R. Kaur, J. Yew. Nephrology Sep 2015 Volume 20 Issue Supplement S3, pages 60-89. DOI: 10.1111/nep.12544.
- Public opinions towards Dementia: Awareness, Knowledge and Attitudes. P Sachdeva, S. Hameed, L.T. Ng. European Journal of Neurology. May 2014 Volume 21, Issue Supplement s1 pages 388-713. DOI: 10.1111/ene.12497.
- Unprecedented Case of Tumor Lysis Syndrome in a Patient with Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. Ling Winnie; Sachdeva Pooja; Wong Alvin SC; Lee Soo-Chin; Zee Ying-Kiat. Pancreas: May 2012 - Volume 41 - Issue 4 - p 659-661 doi: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e3182327a16. Letters to the Editor.
- May–Thurner Syndrome: A Consideration for Deep Vein Thrombosis in Males. Tay Tian En Jason, Tay Jia Sheng, Tieng Chek Edward Choke, Pooja Sachdeva. Case Reports in Medicine, vol. 2020, Article ID 2324637, 2020.
- Percutaneous Transgastric-Transpancreatic Treatment of a Dissecting Splenic Artery Pseudoaneurysm due to Segmental Arterial Mediolysis. Pradesh Kumar, Jasmine Ming Er Chua, Jared Jue Ying Yeo, Edward Tieng Chek Choke, Pooja Sachdeva. Letter to Editor, J Clin Interv Radiol ISVIR, April 2020, DOI https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-3401395 ISSN 2457-0214.
- Spanish Flu to COVID-19: Healthcare Challenges and Evolution, Sachdeva P, Rohit. Accepted for publication in Vol 12, issue no 4 in Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development. Oct to Dec 2021
- Case write-ups and reflective journal writing in early clinical years – Have these been "worthy" educational tools? Sachdeva P, Chen A W Derrick. The Asia Pacific Scholar (TAPS), Volume 9 Number 4
- Chapter contribution Abdominal pain, Delirium in book, The Geriatric Admission:- A handbook for hospitalist.
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