Kenneth Lyen

Kenneth Lyen is a Singaporean pediatrician, visiting consultant pediatric endocrinologist and a visiting tutor in developmental pediatrics.

Lyen is also part of the management board for the Rainbow Centre which manages two of the schools he founded which were built for children with disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. He also received the Public Service Medal for his community services. trained in pediatrics at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (1978-1980), and was a research fellow at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (1980-1983).

Lyen was part of the team that investigated mass poisoning in Perak, Malaysia in 1991, did an anthropometric study of Singapore School children in 1991 and pubertal development in 1995. He was the founding president of two schools for disabled and autism spectrum disorder children, the Margaret Drive (1987) and the Balestier (1992) Special Schools.

Lyen is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese, and the Cantonese dialect.

Lyen is a consultant pediatrician at Mt. Elizabeth Medical Centre. He also responded to an open letter and debunked the anti-Covid-vaccine claims made by 12 other doctors. He used his pediatric expertise to assure the public that the vaccines are safe for children.

Publications Lyen has co-authored and co-edited several books including Asian Child Care and Rainbow Dreams. In addition, he has written and staged 20 musicals in Singapore, including:

Big Bang! (1995): based on the life of cosmologist Stephen Hawking Orchard Square (1996): four teenagers work out their personal problems Catch the Rainbow (1997): the history of Singapore Yum Sing! (1999): wedding flashback of how a bride and bridegroom met Temptations (2000): cross-dressed TV cook show presenter falls for a girl Magic Paintbrush (2001): an ancient Chinese folk tale Song of the Whale (2002): the biblical story of Jonah and the whale Sayang (2002): radio talk show host and his fan, a lonely florist Exodus (2003): story of Moses Making The Grade (2004): schoolmistress and her problem students Blue Willow House (2006): Lim Boon Keng and prostitutes in Singapore at the end of the 19th century School House Rockz (2008): TV series musical about teenagers and their school problems Monkey (2009): puppet musical of an episode from Monkey: Journey to the West It's Academic! (2011) love triangle among teenagers