Dr Lim Su Lin

Dr Lim Su Lin is the Chief Dietitian and Senior Assistant Director of the Dietetics Department at the National University Hospital in Singapore. With 22 years’ experience as a clinical dietitian, she is best known for her work on hospital malnutrition and designing the ‘3-Minute Nutrition Screening’ tool which has been validated and currently used in many hospitals and nursing homes in Singapore. She has also developed a nutrition intervention method for malnourished patients using tele-health and home visits, which resulted in improved nutritional status, quality of life and survival.

A strong believer in disease prevention, she has recently developed a mobile application called Nutritionist Buddy to help overweight people lose weight, reduce their cholesterol levels and keep to a healthy lifestyle. She has recently won a RM 3Million competitive National Medical Research Council grant to conduct studies to assess the efficacy of the mobile app on weight loss, diabetes, pre-diabetes

Su Lin has received numerous awards on her work. At the national level, she has won the NHG Best Oral Presentation in 2006, NHG Young Investigator’s Award in 2007 and was a 4-time winner of the Singapore Allied Health Award for best oral presentation from 2009 to 2013. She was a recipient of the Singapore National Day Efficiency Medal in 2007, Singapore Public Service Excellence Award in 2011 and the NUHS-Mochtar Riady Pinnacle Excellence Award in 2015. A UKM graduate, Associate Professor Lim Su Lin received her PhD from Queensland University of Technology in Australia. She was awarded the QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award 2014, which was accorded to the top 5% of successful doctoral candidates in QUT, in recognition of her exceptional contribution and standard of excellence demonstrated in postgraduate research practice. In 2016 she was also awarded the QUT Outstanding Alumni - Special Excellence Award for the impact that she has made in the community.