Tan May Loong

Senior Lecturer
DEPARTMENT OF PAEDIATRICS
Penang Medical College
Malaysia

Professor Pediatrics
Biography

"Dr Tan May Loong was trained at Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya and graduated in 2001. In 2006, she received her Membership of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH), United Kingdom. She has served in the Ministry of Health from 2001 until 2009 when she joined Penang Medical College as a lecturer. Other than teaching undergraduate medical students, she is a certified Neonatal Resuscitation Programme (NRP) instructor and is also involved in post-graduate teaching for local candidates for MRCPCH. Her special interests are in the area of developmental and behavioural problems of childhood. She is also a breastfeeding advocate. She is the leading lecturer in lactation management for Penang Medical College undergraduates and is actively involved education and training related to both areas of interest. She is currently serving at Hospital Pulau Pinang as an honorary Paediatrician."

Research Intrest

Childhood Developmental and Behavioural Problems:2010-2012: Grant holder from PEMANDU/MPOB and Principal Investigator for “Tocotrienol supplementation for school going children with ADHD – A randomised control trial”

List of Publications
Foong WC, Ho JJ, Foong SC, Tan ML, Ching LL, et al. (2013) Loh RLC Pre-clinical undergraduate students’ preparedness for Evidence-based medicine learning, poster presentation for the Irish Network of Medical Educators (INMED) Annual Scientific Meeting 2013,University College Dublin, Ireland; oral presentation for the 8th International Medical Education Conference, International Medical University Malaysia
May Loong Tan, Jacqueline J Ho, Siew Cheng Foong, Wai Cheng Foong (2013) A survey of Lactation Management teaching in Malaysian undergraduate medical schools; poster presentation for the Irish Network of Medical Educators (INMED) Annual Scientific Meeting 2013,University College Dublin, Ireland; poster presentation for the 8th International Medical Education Conference, International Medical University Malaysia