Senior Consultant, Department of Emergency Medicine
Singapore General Hospital
Email: gaerpo@sgh.com.sg 

Biography

Dr Ponampalam has spent his working years at SingaporeGeneralHospital (SGH) as an Emergency Physician since 1995. Soon after he pursued his sub-speciality interest in toxicology and was given the Health Manpower Development Program (HMDP) Award from Ministry of Health (MOH) for training in Emergency Toxicology in USA (Cincinnati, Drug & Poison Information Centre) in 1998. Upon his return he has invaluably contributed to the hazardous materials disaster preparedness program both nationally and at the hospital level. He was instrumental in having developed programs in Hazardous Materials Life Support (HMLS) courses which have been endorsed by the MOH as a national training program for emergency responders dealing with chemical disasters. He currently sits on MOH committees advising on toxicology matters & is the Chairman of the Clinical Practice Guidelines in Poisoning workgroup. Academically he is senior clinical lecturer at National University of Singapore (NUS) medical faculty and adjunct lecturer at Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) teaching nurses in the advanced diploma in nursing program.