Wilson Wai San TAM

Dr. Wilson Tam is Associate Professor at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies (ALCNS), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is an epidemiologist and statistician by training, he obtained his M.Phil. degree in Statistics at the University of Hong Kong and PhD degree in Medical Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Before joining ALCNS as Assistant Professor in 2014, he was Research Assistant Professor at the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK. He has been working in the field of Public Health and Nursing for more than 20 years. His research focuses include statistical analyses on health data, methodological issues in meta-analyses, and environmental health. Dr.Tam has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• MPhil, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• BSc, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Companies

• Associate Professor National University of Singapore (2021)
• Assistant Professor 新加坡国立大学 (2014 — 2021)
• Research Assistant Professor The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2010 — 2014)

RESEARCH INTEREST(S)

• Environmental Health
• Epidemiology and Statistics
• Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Fong, R. Y., Glen, W. S. S., Mohamed Jamil, A. K., Tam, W. W. S., & Kowitlawakul, Y. (2018). Comparison of the Emergency Severity Index versus the Patient Acuity Category Scale in an emergency setting. International Emergency Nursing.
• Amin, N. A. L., Tam, W. W. S., & Shorey, S. (2018). Enhancing first-time parents’ self-efficacy: A systematic review and meta analysis of universal parent education interventions’ efficacy. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES, 82, 149-162.
• Hui, D. S., Ng, S. S., & Tam, W. W. S. (2018). Home-based approach noninferior to hospital-based approach in managing patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 197(9), 1233-1234.
• Wijaya, C. S., Lee, J. J. Z., Husain, S. F., Ho, C. S. H., McIntyre, R. S., Tam, W. W., & Ho, R. C. M. (2018). Differentiating Medicated Patients Suffering from Major Depressive Disorder from Healthy Controls by Spot Urine Measurement of Monoamines and Steroid Hormones. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 15(5), 13 pages.
• Lim, G. Y., Tam, W. W., Lu, Y., Ho, C. S., Zhang, M. W., & Ho, R. C. (2018). Prevalence of Depression in the Community from 30 Countries between 1994 and 2014. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 8, 10 pages.