Stacy Lum

Stacy is a seasoned Senior Speech Therapist with extensive experience in acute care, clinical innovation, and team development. A graduate of the University of Sydney with a Bachelor’s in Applied Science (Speech Pathology) (First-Class Honours) and a recipient of the University’s Academic Merit Prize in 2017, she has spent several years honing her expertise in the adult sector, specializing in dysphagia (swallowing difficulties), acquired communication disorders and voice rehabilitation. She has been trained in delivering treatment for children, adolescents and adults for dysfluency (stuttering). In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious SingHealth Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) fellowship, where she learned more about vocational (return to work) rehabilitation for patients with acquired communication deficits at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston and Spaulding Rehab Hospital Cambridge.

As the former Rehabilitation Team Lead at Sengkang General Hospital, Stacy managed team dynamics, optimized resource allocation, and led efforts to improve communicative access and return-to-work opportunities for patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She also served as the lead of the department’s Communication Clinical Practice Group, shaping service planning and advancing professional development in speech, language, and cognition.

Stacy has supervised numerous new staff members, provided one-on-one clinical supervision and ensured their smooth integration into the department. Additionally, she has been involved in educational training, mentoring both local and overseas speech therapy students for clinical placements and local medical students on observership. She has also attended the clinical educator training courses at both NUS and SIT.

In 2021, she served as the Head of the SingHealth Speech Therapy Day Committee, organizing campaigns across SingHealth institutions to raise awareness of the IDDSI Framework for dysphagia.

Beyond her clinical and educational responsibilities, Stacy’s career is distinguished by her ability to blend clinical expertise with innovative solutions to enhance patient care and service delivery. As the lead of innovation for her department, she has developed initiatives to increase uptake of projects and a framework for Kaizen, QI, and innovation within the department. Notably, Stacy secured the $100K SingHealth-SUTD Population Health Innovation Grant to explore cervical auscultation machine learning for dysphagia assessment. Additionally, her team’s development of an automated system to distribute personalized electronic handouts to caregivers, aimed at improving workplace efficiency, earned first prize for the poster in the Communication domain at the Singapore Healthcare Management 2024 Conference. She was also selected for the SingHealth Allied Health & Pharmacy Joint Data, Innovation, Technology & Transformation (DIT2) Taskforce, where she advocates for the visibility of SingHealth innovators and innovation within the SingHealth healthcare community.

With a strong foundation in acute and outpatient care and a passion for innovation, Stacy is keen to apply her skills in complex patient management and collaborative care to the field of paediatric speech therapy.