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2024/03/11
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Dr Preetha Venugopalan Menon

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Designations:

  • Consultant, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Alexandra Hospital
  • Consultant, Healthy Ageing Programme (Age Better), Alexandra Hospital

Qualifications:

MBBS, MRCP (UK), MMed (Singapore), FAMS

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Geriatric Medicine

Clinical Disciplines/Programmes:

Healthy Ageing Programme (Age Better), Medicine

Special Interests:

Parkinson's Disease, gait disorders

Biosketch

Dr Preetha Menon is Consultant and Deputy Head of Healthy Ageing Programme at Alexandra Hospital.

She graduated from Madras Medical College, India and then went on to complete internal medicine residency and senior residency in geriatric medicine under National University Health System, Singapore.

Passionate about undergraduate and post graduate education, she functions as the Education lead for Healthy Ageing and has also won the Alex Educator Award multiple times. Dr Preetha Menon is also the clinical lead for the Integrated Parkinson's Hub@AH which is a multidisciplinary service aimed at providing person-centered holistic care for patients with Parkinson's Disease. She is the Chair of Fall Prevention Committee at Alexandra Hospital and her research interests include movement disorders, frailty and sarcopenia.

Journals & Publications

1. LF Tan, J. Teng, Z. J. Chew, A. Choong, L. Hong, R. Aroos, P. V. Menon, J. Sumner, K. C. Goh, S. K. Seetharaman. Geriatric Services Hub- A Collaborative Frailty Management Model between the Hospital and Community Providers, J Frailty Aging 2023 Apr 11: 1-6 doi:10.14283/jfa.2023.23
2. PV. Menon, CY. Lee, CH. Tan, S. Kumar Seetharaman. Polypharmacy and drug-related problems in geriatric patients with Parkinson's Disease [abstract]. Mov Disord. 2022; 37 (suppl 1). https://www.mdsabstracts.org/abstract/polypharmacy-and-drug-relatedproblems-in-geriatric-patients-with-parkinsons-disease/
3. Li Feng Tan, Chan Yiong Huak, Isabel Siow, Angel Justina Tan, Preetha Menon Venugopalan, Arthi Premkumar, Santhosh Kumar Seetharaman & Benjamin Y Q Tan (2022) The road to achieving herd immunity: factors associated with Singapore residents' uptake and hesitancy of the COVID-19 vaccination, Expert Review of Vaccines, DOI: 10.1080/14760584.2022.2021883
4. Michelle Soo Rui Ting MBChB, MRCP (UK) ,Joo Wei Chua MBBS, MMed, MRCP (UK) Preetha Venugopalan Menon MBBS, MMed, MRCP (UK) ,Winnie Z.Y. Teo MB Bch BAO, MRCP, FRCPATH (UK) , Infection related acquired haemophilia and false positive dengue: a case report, The American Journal of Medicine (2020),
doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.08.041
5. J. Gu, P. Venugopalan Menon, L. Tan, S. Seetharaman Falls prevention strategy in Singapore's first Integrated General Hospital Journal of American Geriatrics Society Volume 68 Issue S1 A52 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting
6. P. Venugopalan Menon, M. Chen, S. Ng. An unusual cause for recurrent falls Journal of American Geriatrics Society Volume 68 Issue S1 B64 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting
7. Menon PV, Tan LF, Seetharaman SK “Uncovering the secret hidden beneath a failing memory”- Am J Med 2019 May 2 .pii: S0002-9343(19)30356-0. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.04.014.
8. Suresh E, Menon PV, Myint MZ - “Problem based review: the patient with recent onset polyarthritis.” Acute Med. 2014;13 (3): 132-8

Professional Memberships

  • Member of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
  • Fellow of Academy of Medicine, Singapore

2024/06/06
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