Dr 

Wijeweera Olivia
MBBS, MMed (Anaes)

Senior Consultant
 KK Women's and Children's Hospital
Specialty: Paediatric Anaesthesia
Sub-specialties: Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesia, Neuro-Anaesthesia
Dr Olivia Wijeweera is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Paediatric
Anaesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital. She graduated from the
Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2004 and won the Best
Houseman award in 2005. She went on to complete her five year specialty
training in Anesthesiology and obtained her Masters of Medicine
Anaesthesiology in 2009. 

Dr Wijeweera has been a Paediatric Anaesthetist with our department since

2009, and was awarded the Health Manpower Development Programme in
2011. She completed her fellowship in Paediatric Cardiac and Neuroanaesthesia
in Birmingham Children's Hospital, United Kingdom in 2012.

Being a mother of two girls, Dr Olivia was inspired to do Paediatric Anaesthesia

because of her desire to work with children. She enjoys helping children through
the perioperative process of anaesthesia and surgery and seeing them recover
well.

Her subspecialty interests in the field of Paediatric Anaesthesia include

paediatric cardiac anaesthesia and neuroanaesthesia.

She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School,

Clinical Senior Lecturer with Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and a Clinical
Faculty Member of the SingHealth Anaesthesia Residency Program.

Education

 MMED (Anaes) (Spore)

 MBBS (Spore)
Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

 Adjunct Assistant Professor - Duke-NUS

 Clinical Senior Lecturer - YLL School of Medicine
 Clinical Faculty Member - SingHealth Anaesthesia Residency
Program

A concept mobility device with multi-positional configurations and child-kind restraint for
safe perioperative transfer and induction of anaesthesia in children with autistic spectrum
disorder – a cross sectional study

Sellick maneuver assisted real-time to achieve target force range in simulated environment
—A prospective observational cross-sectional study on manikin

Changes in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy After Congenital Cyanotic Heart Surgery

Management of a Kaposiform haemangioendothelioma of the kidney with

Kasabach-Meritt phenomenon without chemotherapy

Retrospective review of tracheoplasty for congenital tracheal stenosis