Teaching faculty
Dr Mak is Consultant of the Division of Rheumatology, National University Hospital, and he is a tenured Associate Professor of the Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Dr Mak's major research areas include mechanism of early lupus-related damage in major organs, and immunopathogenesis of lupus nephritis and neuropsychiatric lupus. His recent major discoveries are the involvement of specific neural circuits in subclinical cognitive dysfunction related to SLE, the association between bone loss, inflammation and endothelial dysfunction in lupus, as well as disease activity-related oxidative stress in lupus lymphocytes. Currently, Dr Mak is focussing on addressing the neuropathology of lupus-related cognitive impairment using resting-state and event-related functional MR brain imaging, and the role of CD137L in the pathogenesis of SLE.
Dr Mak is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases and the member of the Scientific Committee of the APLAR. He is a regular reviewer of a few international peer-reviewed journals including the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, American Journal of Kidney Disease, British Journal of Psychiatry, Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, Kidney International, Rheumatology (Oxford), Arthritis Care and Research, Journal of Rheumatology and Lupus.
Dr Mak is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases and the member of the Scientific Committee of the APLAR. He is a regular reviewer of a few international peer-reviewed journals including the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, American Journal of Kidney Disease, British Journal of Psychiatry, Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, Kidney International, Rheumatology (Oxford), Arthritis Care and Research, Journal of Rheumatology and Lupus.