Dr Tay Sok Yan (Annabelle)

Otorhinolaryngologist

Specialty

Otorhinolaryngology / ENT

Languages

English, Korean, Mandarin

Gender

Female

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Experience

Dr Annabelle Tay is an ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.

She has experience in both routine and complex surgical procedures specialising in paediatric airway reconstruction surgery for children with congenital and acquired airway stenosis. Her other interest is in paediatric sleep apnoea and hearing loss.

Dr Tay was a senior consultant in the department of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at the National University Hospital and a visiting consultant at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

She graduated from the National University of Singapore. She was awarded an Academic Medicine Development Award for a paediatric otolaryngology fellowship and spent 1 year at the Texas Children’s Hospital, USA, as a clinical fellow in its American ENT board-accredited paediatric otolaryngology fellowship programme. She has also done an observership at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, USA. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, Scotland. She has been practising medicine for more than 15 years.

Dr Tay has published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and had presented her research at regional and international meetings.

She is interested in improving paediatric tracheostomy care and tonsillectomy care in the hospital and community in Singapore and the region.

Associated treatments

Laryngeal framework surgery
Laryngotracheal reconstruction
Tonsillectomy and arrest of tonsillar haemorrhage
Adenoidectomy
Cochlear implant

Awards and honours

2017
Proactive Risk Management Excellence Award
2012
Best Clinical Award for Doctors, Singapore

Research & publications

Leow, O., Aoyama, R., Loh, W. S., Shih, E., Tay, S. Y., Chew, K. L., Chew, K. L., Shen, L., & Chan, S. M. (2023). Non-Tuberculous mycobacterial cervicofacial lymphadenitis in Children—10-Year experience in a tertiary pediatric center. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 12(7), 406–412.

Tay, S. Y., Foster, J., Heczey, A., & Sitton, M. (2020). Pediatric Oncology Patients with Vincristine induced Recurrent laryngeal Nerve palsy: Two case reports and a brief review of literature. Ear Nose Throat Journal, 100(10):NP459-NP463

Tay, S. Y., Krishnasarma, R., Mehta, D., Mehollin-Ray, A., & Chandy, B. (2019). Predictive factors for perinatal outcomes of infants diagnosed with micrognathia antenatally. Ear Nose & Throat Journal, 100(1), NP16–NP20.

A Ten-Year review of audiological performance in children with inner ear abnormalities post cochlear implantation in Singapore. International Journal of Otolaryngology.