Koh Yen Sin

Experience

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  Saw Swee Hock School Of Public Health

  May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Undergraduate Student Researcher

  - Co-author of a clinical protocol titled “Singapore Tele-technology Aided Rehabilitation in Stroke (STARS) trial: protocol of a randomized clinical trial on tele-rehabilitation for stroke patients”, which is published in BioMed Central. - Assembled and summarize research papers that were related to the research topic "Elderlies living alone" for a professor in Department of Social Work, NUS.

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  National Cancer Centre Singapore

  Aug 2016 - Mar 2021

  Coordinator (Research Database)

  - Managed 4 databases (Esophageal cancer, Lung Cancer, Nasopharyngeal Cancer and Prostate Cancer) by transferring these databases to a research database platform, REDCap, and using its features to ensure good integrity and validation of data- Performed quantitative analysis for various research studies by generating statistics (e.g. Kaplan-Meier curves) using R, so as to examine the outcomes of the respective studies (e.g. survival rate).- Collected and verified data for 4 cancer-related research studies by gathering data from 3 different sources (e.g electronic medical records, hard copy medical records), ensuring that Principal Investigators have relevant and good quality data to carry out with their respective studies- Improved efficiency and accuracy of data collection process by having a Python program to assist in reading clinical entries and creating data validation programs using R to flag out potential errors- Visualized the clinicians’ poor compliance of recording acute toxicities data for patients with nasopharyngeal cancer by generating graphs using SPSS, creating the awareness and improve subsequent data completeness from 33% to 90%.- Established the usage of REDCap as a research database platform by advocating its practical features to both the research team and the clinicians. Show less

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  Institute of Mental Health

  Mar 2021 - now

  Research Officer