Dr. Somani is from the U.S. and has been living in Singapore since November 2014. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati medical school in 1991 and attended the University of Chicago Hospitals for her Internal Medicine Residency and the first year of her Infectious Disease Fellowship. She completed her ID fellowship at Emory University. Dr. Somani was in the US Indian Health Service (1998-2000), then became an Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease at Emory University (2000-2004). She started the Transplant ID Fellowship Elective, and was the ID Occupational Health Consultant for Yerkes Primate Centre. From 2004-2008, she worked on a HIV and Leadership Training Program for doctors in Chennai, India. She also spent time in private practice in Atlanta (2008-2012) and subsequently the Australian Embassy clinic and Siloam Hospitals in Jakarta (2012-2014).
Dr. Somani then joined the General Medicine Department at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore in 2014. In late 2018, she moved to NUHS as a Senior Consultant for the Division of Infectious Diseases and as the Director of the ASP program. She is also the Director of the NUH Hospital Epidemiology Unit and Chair of the Infection Control Committee. She has been actively involved in the COVID response for NUH, and remains passionate about the rational use of antibiotics. Her clinical interests include transplant related infectious diseases.
