Aoyuan Li

Aoyuan was awarded the Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) Health Science Overseas Scholarship in year 2011, and subsequently graduated from University College London, with a Bachelor’s with first class honours in Speech Sciences in 2015. Aoyuan is currently registered under the Allied Health Professions Council. 

Aoyuan started working at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) since 2015. As the team lead of the Neonatal Feeding Team, her work focused on the development of feeding skills in extremely premature infants and infants with complex medical diagnoses and needs, such as infants with tracheostomy, ventilator and oxygen support and tube feeding. Alongside the medical and nursing team, she supported infants and their families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Special Care Nursery (SCN), and continued to support their feeding and development progress in the outpatient clinics as these infants enter their toddlerhood.

She has worked with children up to 18 years old with complex medical needs and various medical backgrounds such as Down’s syndrome and cerebral palsy, in multidisciplinary clinics and inpatient setting, collaborating closely with other members of the medical team such as dietitians and gastroenterologists to manage their feeding needs.

As a clinical educator, Aoyuan has trained junior speech therapists in the areas of neonatal feeding, and guided junior therapists in neonatal feeding. In recognition of her efforts, she was awarded the Singhealth ‘Associate in Education’ in 2021.

Aoyuan draws joy and motivation from working closely with caregivers to help achieve every child’s feeding potential. As a mother of 2 young children, she has experienced first-hand the anxiety and concerns over breastfeeding difficulties, bottling refusal, fussy feeding and growth concerns, and deeply empathise with caregivers on these issues and the challenges faced in overcoming them.