Toxicology and Pharmacology

Biography

Dr Ponampalam has spent most of his working years at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) as an Emergency Physician since 1995. Soon after he pursued his sub-speciality interest in Toxicology and was given the Health Manpower Development Program (HMDP) Award from Ministry of Health (MOH) for training in Emergency Toxicology in USA in 1998. Upon his return he has invaluably contributed to the hazardous materials disaster preparedness program both nationally and at the hospital level. He has been responsible for having trained the personnel who make up the decontamination teams at SGH. He was instrumental in having developed programs in Hazardous Materials Life Support (HMLS) courses which have been conducted as a national training program for emergency responders dealing with chemical disasters.

Research Interest

Clinical toxicology, hazardous material incident management, disaster medicine, & Healthcare IT Innovations.