Hui-leng Tan MD

Dr Hui-leng Tan studied medicine at the University of Cambridge. She completed her general pediatric training at Addensbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Dr Tan's MD thesis was on airway inflammation in cystic fibrosis patients. This thesis, supervised by Dr Jane Davies, Professor Andrew Bush, and Professor CM Lloyd was done at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London. She completed her pediatric respiratory medicine training at Royal Brompton and Great Ormond Street hospitals.

Dr Tan received a Fellowship from the European Respiratory Society. This was to go to the University of Chicago, one of the leading sleep centers in the world. She studied developments in clinical pediatric sleep medicine. She also participated in research into sleep-disordered breathing in children. She received the Scadding-Morriston Davies Fellowship for her work on T-regulatory lymphocytes in pediatric obstructive sleep apnoea and endothelial dysfunction.