Dr Tay Kim Heng

Procedure Focus:

• Lumbar puncture
• HIV care and prevention
• Pleural tap and drainage
• Chest tube insertion
• Medical pleurodesis

Diseases treated:

• Dengue
• General Infectious Diseases
• Multidrug Resistant Infection
• Fever for Investigation
• Tropical Diseases
• HIV treatment
• Tuberculosis
• Sexually transmitted illness
• COVID-19
• Complicated Infectious Diseases

Memberships & Associations:

• Member, Malaysia Medical Association; 
• Member, Malaysian Society of HIV Medicine (MASHM); 
• Member, Malaysian Society of Infection Control and Infectious Diseases (myICID)

Post Graduate Clinical Training:

• International Medical University (MBBS), 
• Royal College of Physician (MRCP UK), 
• Peter MacCallum Cancer Center (Infectious Disease Fellowship training)  

Board Certification:

MRCP (UK) , Fellowship in Infectious Disease (MOH Malaysia)

Medical School:

International Medical University

Awards:

Young Investigator Award (19th International Congress of Infectious Diseases), Excellence Service Award (MOH Malaysia)  

Publications:

1. Tay KH, Arrifin F, Sim BLH, Chin SY, Sobry AC. Multi-faceted intervention to improve the antibiotic prescriptions among doctors for acute URI and acute diarrhoea cases: The Green Zone Antibiotic Project. Malays J Med Sci. 2019;26(4):101-109. http://doi.org/10.21315/mjms2019.26.4.12 
2. Kim H. Tay, Monica A. Slavin, Karin A. Thursky, Julien Coussement, Leon J. Worth, Benjamin W. Teh, Amit Khot, Constantine S. Tam, Michelle K. Yong, Internal Medicine Journal Article DOI: 10.1111/imj.15496 
3. Lim SCL, Hor CP, Tay KH, Mat Jelani A, Tan WH, Ker HB, Chow TS, Zaid M, Cheah WK, Lim HH, Khalid KE, Cheng JT, Mohd Unit H, An N, Nasruddin AB, Low LL, Khoo SWR, Loh JH, Zaidan NZ, Ab Wahab S, Song LH, Koh HM, King TL, Lai NM, Chidambaram SK, Peariasamy KM; I-TECH Study Group. Efficacy of Ivermectin Treatment on Disease Progression Among Adults With Mild to Moderate COVID-19 and Comorbidities: The I-TECH Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Apr 1;182(4):426-435. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.0189. Erratum in: JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Jun 1;182(6):690. PMID: 35179551; PMCID: PMC8980926. 
4. Lindsay J, Othman J, Yong MK, Ritchie D, Chee L, Tay K, Tio SY, Kerridge I, Fay K, Stevenson W, Arthur C, Chen SC, Kong DCM, Greenwood M, Pergam SA, Liu C, Slavin MA. Dynamics of Epstein-Barr virus on post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders after antithymocyte globulin-conditioned allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant. Transpl Infect Dis. 2021 Oct;23(5):e13719. doi: 10.1111/tid.13719. Epub 2021 Sep 12. PMID: 34453768.