Rate My Professor Kenneth Tan

Associate Professor Kenneth Tan is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Monash University, within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. As a consultant neonatologist at Monash Newborn, Monash Children's Hospital, and honorary staff at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research (Ritchie Centre), he specializes in neonatal care. His academic background includes an MBBS from the University of Melbourne awarded in 1991, a PhD in Medicine from the University of Leeds in 2006 titled "An expert system for neonatal ventilation and intensive care," and a Master of Biostatistics from Monash University in 2020. Tan trained at the University of Melbourne, completed specialist training in the United Kingdom, and served as a Paediatrics Lecturer at the University of Leeds.

His research focuses on engineering applications in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), data analytics and statistical modelling for quality improvement in the NICU, and systematic reviews for the Cochrane Neonatal Review Group. Career highlights include his appointment as Consultant Neonatologist at Monash Health since May 2008 and Honorary Staff at the Hudson Institute since April 2009. Tan collaborates with biomedical engineers at McMaster University and within the Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME), and is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network (ANZNN) practice improvement committee. He has contributed to NHMRC-funded multi-centre randomized controlled trials including ProPREMS, BOOST-II, and N3RO, and served as Primary Chief Investigator on projects such as "Computerised Controller for Oxygen Delivery in a Lamb Model of Periodic Breathing" and "Oxygen therapy for the preterm infant - optimising delivery." Key publications include the Cochrane review "Dexmedetomidine for analgesia and sedation in newborn infants receiving mechanical ventilation" (2024), "Is neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio an accurate predictor of neonatal sepsis in premature infants?" (2025), and "Combining activity and grimace scores reflects perinatal stability in infants <32 weeks gestational age" (2024). Tan is an editorial board member of Translational Pediatrics since 2016 and chairs the Scientific Research Review Committee since 2022. His extensive research output, comprising over 70 articles, supports UN SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being.