Profile of:

Kathy (Ying Ying) Leung


Dr Ying Ying Leung (Katy) is a senior consultant in the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and an associate professor at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. A passionate researcher, Dr Leung received a National Medical Research Council Transition Award in 2013 and a Clinician Scientist Award in 2017. Her research interests include osteoarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and outcome measures. She has sat on the GRAPPA education committee since 2018 and has been co-chair of the outcome measures working group of GRAPPA since 2017. She led the peripheral arthritis working group for the GRAPPA Recommendation Update 2021. She is also a member of the OMERACT Technical Advisory Group (OMERACT-TAG). She is a full member in ASAS and was a working group member for the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) for inflammatory arthritis. She is the scientific co-chair in the Asian Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR) since 2021.

Full name: Kathy (Ying Ying) Leung

Current country: Singapore

Membership level: Full

Type of membership: Member

Number of publications: 3

OMERACT Filter 2.1 instrument selection for physical function domain in psoriatic arthritis: Provisional endorsement for HAQ-DI and SF-36 PF (2021)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34392975/

Early identification of axial spondyloarthritis in a multi-ethnic Asian population (2021)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34625882/

Residual Disease Burden in Patients With Axial Spondyloarthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis Despite Low Disease Activity States in a Multiethnic Asian Population (2021)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33132217/