FACULTY

DR THAM KWANG WEI

Senior Consultant
Department of Endocrinology Services
Woodlands Health
​Singapore

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Dr. Tham Kwang Wei is a Senior Consultant Endocrinologist from Singapore. After completing her Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Cleveland Clinic, USA, she returned to Singapore to start her Endocrine career at the Singapore General Hospital where she was part of a core team establishing the LIFE Centre, purposed to deliver multi-disciplinary care across several chronic diseases including obesity.

Amongst her interests are, the care delivery and clinical interventions in obesity management, the outcomes of obesity interventions including remission of diabetes and metabolic diseases, quality of life, and in weight bias and stigma. Passionate about the training and education of healthcare professionals in obesity, she has been active in participating and crafting education programmes in this aspect, with an appointment in the Clinical Care Committee, World Obesity Federation.

As part of her work to improve the delivery of care and advocacy for people living with obesity, she is involved as Co-Chair of the working group on the Consensus in the Care and Management of Obesity in South-SouthEast Asia published in 2023, and served as the Co-Chair of the Obesity Policy Engagement Network in Southeast Asia (OPEN-SEA).