Amelia Monteiro

House officer in the Department of General Medicine,

Changi General Hospital

Registered Pharmacist of the Singapore Pharmacy Council, offering 4 years of clinical experience in restructured hospital

DUKE-NUS Dermatology Student Interest Group (SIG)

• President (AY 2023/2024), Vice-President (AY 2022/2023), Exco member (AY 2021/2022)

1) Research Talk 2023 & 2024

• Organized the annual Research Talk aimed to inspire fellow students to undertake research as well as provide networking and research opportunities for students
• Invited distinguished guest speakers, senior consultant dermatologists with a vast research background to share their research interests and current ongoing research activities
• Delegated tasks to fellow team members to ensure good spread of roles while providing guidance to new team members
• Successfully hosted the event with more than 30 attendee, with excellent feedback and at least 3 students scoring research opportunities with the guests invited

2) World Congress of Dermatology (WCD) Collaboration

• Collaborated with the organizers of WCD in providing student-volunteers for WCD, the largest international dermatology congress held only once every 4 years which had over 11,000 participants
• Effectively communicated with WCD organizers to obtain volunteer roles, discussed manpower as well as ensure food provided for volunteers
• Met with good outcomes as volunteers obtained the invaluable opportunity to access an international congress otherwise only available to delegates, and allowed them to interact with other like-minded researchers

3) World Psoriasis Day collaboration (2022 & 2023)

• Annual collaboration with National Skin Centre (NSC) nurses and doctors to provide student-volunteers for World Psoriasis Day, a one-day event to connect with the public and draw awareness on Psoriasis
• Delegated tasks to fellow team members while taking a supporting role
• Successfully pulled off the event with 4 student-volunteers and good feedback from NSC staff

Duke-NUS Y3 Research Scholarly Programme

Utility of Micro-needle sampling for the  diagnosis of superficial fungal skin infections – A prospective cohort study

• Collaborating with National Skin Centre (NSC) and A*Star Research Laboratories (A*SRL) (Apr 2022 - Apr 2023)
• Spearheaded a clinical research accessing the utility of microneedle devices for diagnosis of fungal skin infections, including formulation of the research question, , drafting of IRB, methodology, patient recruitment and sample collection, qPCR optimization, fungal culture and microscopy, analysis and discussion of results
• Wrote up a research proposal and budget, delivered a five minute sales pitch of our research idea to the grant panel, and ultimately received a grant worth $100,000 for our research

Grants and Sponsorship Awards

• Awarded the 4th NHG Centre for Medical Technologies & Innovations (CMTi) and National Health Innovation Centre Singapore (NHIC) Joint MedTech Grant worth $100,000
• International Societies for Investigative Dermatology (ISID)Travel Grant 2023 worth 60,000 ¥

Conferences attended with Poster Presentation

• Inaugural International Societies for Investigative Dermatology (ISID) Meeting 2023 (Tokyo)
• World Congress of Dermatology 2023 (Singapore)
• 48th PDM Annual General Meeting & Annual Dermatology Conference 2023 (Penang)

1) Student mentorship 

• Mentored junior students (Y2) in ward bedside tutorials. Guided their physical examination, investigations and management as well as presentation skills
• Shared patient cases and learning points with other classmates and juniors
• Volunteered to be student examiner for Y2 mock examinations in 2023 and 2024, giving constructive feedback and advice especially on how to study smart in medical school given the large syllabus

2) Peer support group

• Organized peer support groups for classmates who needed to retake exams, including group study sessions, mentoring and frequent check ins and counseling.
• Met with success as fellow classmates were returned with good results
• Organized small group study sessions amongst classmates, including self-directed mock examinations with multiple back-to-back cases to mimic real exam setting

Track and Field Athlete (NUS 2012 - 2016)

- Elected Vice-Captain of the Institute-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) team (2013 - 2014)

- Represented Singapore in the ASEAN University Games in 400m women, 100m women and 4x400m women races (2016)

- Accomplishments 

• Inter-club championships overall women champions, overall team champions (2015, 2016)
• 4x100m Runner Ups, Biennial Inter-varsity Games Hong Kong (2015)
• IVP Women's Champion and Overall Champions (2013, 2015, 2016)
• IVP Women and Overall Runner-ups (2014)
• Rookie of the Year, NUS Sports Awards, (2013)
• 4x100m Champions, Perak Open Malaysia (2012)

Sports Students' Interest Group (Duke-NUS)

- Exco member (2020-2021)

- Organized various sporting activities for the student body such as hiking, running, biking and canoeing

Publications

• Monteiro AY, Choo W, Tan EWK, Tey HL (2022) Understanding Your Creams: Principles of Dermatological Formulation. Clin Exp Dermatol Ther 7: 190. DOI:10.29011/2575-8268.100190
• Monteiro AY, Choo W, Tey HL (2022) Treatment of Bromhidrosis with a 2% Glycopyrrolate Spray: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Clin Exp Dermatol Ther 7: 192. DOI:10.29011/2575-8268.100192
• Monteiro AY, Min AW, See JS, Pan JY. Cutaneous mucormycosis infection owing to Rhizomucor variabilis presenting as recurrent lower limb ulceration and cellulitis in a diabetic patient. Dermatol Online J. 2024 Apr 15;30(2). doi: 10.5070/D330263579. PMID: 38959919.
• Tan EWK, Monteiro AY, Ur Rehman M, Kabir T. Per-rectal passage of intestinal cast: an unusual complication of pseudomembranous enterocolitis in an immunocompromised patient and literature review. ANZ J Surg. 2020;90(12):2574-2576. doi:10.1111/ans.15943
• Seng JJB, Monteiro AY, Kwan YH, et al. Population segmentation of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and its clinical applications - a scoping review. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2021;21(1):49. Published 2021 Mar 11. doi:10.1186/s12874-021-01209-w
• Tan EWK, Shelat VG, Monteiro AY, et al. Spontaneous retroperitoneal haemorrhage from pancreatoduodenal artery (PDA) rupture and associated complications. BMJ Case Reports CP 2022;15:e250383.

In Press

• A Prospective Cohort Study Comparing Microscopy and Culture in the Diagnosis of Superficial Fungal Skin Infections (Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore, First Author)

Submitted

• Silencing siRNA dissolvable microneedle patches versus silicone sheets in reducing post-surgical scars: a randomized single-blinded intra-individually controlled clinical trial (Third author)