Pathologist
KKH, Singapore
Dr. Kenneth Chang is Senior Consultant and Head of Department, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Singapore. He is Clinical Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, and Academic Vice-Chair for Clinical Service Innovation in the SingHealth Duke-NUS Pathology Academic Clinical Programme. He is a Principal Investigator and Steering Committee member in the VIVA-KKH Paediatric Brain and Solid Tumours Programme and platform lead for molecular pathology in the Childhood Brain and Cancer Centre at KKH. He is also Director of the SingHealth Tissue Repository and Advanced Molecular Pathology Laboratory, which are core research facilities in the SingHealth Academic Medical Centre. He is Visiting Professor at Shanghai Children’s Medical Centre / Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. Kenneth leads the St Jude-KKH Asia-Pacific Paediatric Pathology Programme based in KKH; this global health programme supports the growth and development of paediatric oncological pathology and paediatric pathologists in partner sites in the Asia-Pacific region as part of the St. Jude Global Alliance and Asia-Pacific Regional Initiative. He is a member of the International Affairs Committee of the Association of Molecular Pathologists based in the USA. Kenneth was a clinical fellow in paediatric pathology from 2007 to 2009 at the Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. In the summer of 2015, he was a visiting fellow at the University of British Columbia and BC Cancer Agency as part of the Terry Fox Foundation Program in Cancer Research. His research interests include molecular diagnostics in relation to paediatric cancers, paediatric sarcomas with a focus on BCOR-mutated sarcomas, and placental pathology. He has published 135 scientific articles and 21 book chapters including contributions to the current (5th) edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Tumours.