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ANNEX – Recipients of President’s Award for Nurses 2015
Teo Lee Wah (张丽华)
Senior Nurse Clinician & Advanced Practice Nurse
National Heart Centre Singapore
Age: 50
In 2006, Lee Wah, together with a team of heart failure cardiologists and allied health professionals,
developed the Heart Failure Service at the National Heart Centre Singapore. It encompasses
initiatives such as the heart failure coordinated clinical care pathway, ancillary clinic, nurse-led clinic,
a support group and education for heart failure patients. She now has four other nurses working
with her in the service.
Lee Wah has been actively conducting and promoting research, and she serves on several
committees including the Nursing Research and Peer Review Council which she chairs at the
National Heart Centre Singapore. Her research has shown that nurse-led heart failure services have
helped to halve readmission rates, and a collaborative review of medications by nurses and
pharmacists has also helped to improve patient outcomes.
Most recently, she was the Principal Investigator for the project “The lived experience of patients in
Singapore after left ventricular assist device implantations”, and the Co-Investigator for
“Ultrafiltration in patients with decompensated heart failure and diuretic resistance, an Asian Centre
experience”. The findings of these two projects provide further evidence to help care for and
support heart failure patients.
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Lo Sok Wan
Executive, SingHealth Group Communications
Email: [email protected]
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