Foong Wai Cheng

Senior Lecturer
Paediatrics
Penang Medical College
Malaysia

Academician Pediatrics
Biography

"Wai Cheng received her medical degree from UniversitiSains Malaysia in1997. She completed her postgraduate training in Paediatrics and obtained the MRCPCH (UK) in 2003. She is registered with the National Specialist Register as a General Paediatrician. She has worked with the Ministry of Health from 1997 till 2005 before joining Penang Medical College where she is now a Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics. She is still a practicing paediatrician in Seberang Jaya Hospital and is involved in post-graduate teaching in government hospitals for MRCPCH. She is also a certified NRP and PALS instructor as well as a Cochrane Systematic Review author. She has special interest in children with Thalassaemia and chronic illnesses. She is currently the leading educator for the SEA-URCHIN project in Penang, an international educational programme aiming to reduce neonatal infections though education for health care workers."

Research Intrest

"Tocotrienol Supplementation in School Going Children with ADHD – a randomised controlled trial (TOCAT) Propranolol on Chilren with Autism Spectrum disorder in Improving Language Functioning"

List of Publications
May Loong Tan, Jacqueline J Ho, Siew Cheng Foong, Wai Cheng Foong (2013) A survey of Lactation Management teaching in Malaysian undergraduate medical schools. Annual Scientific Meeting 2013,University College Dublin, Ireland.
Foong SC, Tan ML, Ho JJ, Foong WC (2013) Mid-course appraisal as a tool to help students with problems in the undergraduate paediatric course. Annual Scientific Meeting 2013,University College Dublin, Ireland.
Lai NM, FoongSCheng, FoongWCheng, Tan K (2010) Co-bedding in neonatal nursery for promoting growth and neurodevelopment in stable preterm twins. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 4: CD008313.