Rate My Professor Laurel Teoh

Associate Professor Laurel Teoh is an academic staff member in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Otago, affiliated with the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health on the Wellington campus. She holds qualifications including BSc(Med), MBBS(Hons), DCH, FRACP, and PhD. Her PhD thesis addressed acute asthma exacerbations and the recovery phase in children. As a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, she specializes in paediatrics, contributing to clinical academia at the University of Otago and Wellington Hospital.

Laurel Teoh's research specializations encompass paediatric respiratory conditions, evidenced by her peer-reviewed publications listed in the University of Otago Health Sciences expertise database. Key works include Riach, C., Willink, R., & Teoh, L. (2024). A retrospective review of polysomnography results in children referred for suspected obstructive sleep apnoea, published in SLEEP Advances. Teoh, L., Chatfield, M. D., Acworth, J. P., McCallum, G. B., & Chang, A. B. (2022). How does the Canadian Acute Respiratory Illness and Flu Scale relate to other scales in pediatric asthma exacerbations?, in the Journal of Asthma. Additional publications are Teoh, L., Chatfield, M. D., Acworth, J. P., McCallum, G. B., & Chang, A. B. (2021). Determinants of cough and caregivers' quality of life in pediatric asthma exacerbations, in Pediatric Pulmonology; Teoh, L., & Chang, A. B. (2021). Bird's eye overview of asthma in children, in the Indian Journal of Medical Research; and Teoh, L., Mackay, I. M., Van Asperen, P. P., Acworth, J. P., Hurwitz, M., Upham, J. W., et al. (2018). Presence of atopy increases the risk of asthma relapse, in Archives of Disease in Childhood. These contributions reflect her focus on asthma management, cough assessment, and related caregiver impacts in paediatric populations.