Tan may loong
Senior Lecturer
Paediatrics
Penang Medical College
Malaysia
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 Interest
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”
Publications
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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.
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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.
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Tan ML, Ho JJ, Teh KH (2016) Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) for children with specific learning disorders. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 9:CD009398.
