Professor Tan Chorh Chuan

President, National University of Singapore and Professor of Medicine Senior Consultant, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital Telephone DID: (65)6516 1200 Telefax: (65)6775 0225 Mail to: uprtancc@nus.edu.sg
Qualifications
MBBS, MMed (Int Med), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lon), FRACP, FACP, PhD

A graduate of the National University of Singapore in 1983 and a renal physician, Prof Tan started his medical career in 1983. He has held concurrent hospital and academic appointments from 1987 starting as a faculty member with the NUS Department of Medicine, and Registrar, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital. He has been a Senior Consultant with the Division of Nephrology, NUH since 1997 and a Professor of Medicine with NUS since 1999. He was Chief and Head of the Department of Medicine from 1997 to 1998, NUS/NUH and the Dean of Faculty of Medicine, NUS and also Chairman of the NUH Medical Board from 1997 - 2000.

He was appointed as the Director of Medical Services, Ministry of Health from 2000-2004 in which capacity he was responsible for the medical response to the SARS epidemic in 2003. He won the 1996 Singapore Youth Award for his research in regulation of erythropoietin which was his area of research interest.

He had received several fellowships awards including the Commonwealth Medical Fellowship, Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK, Welcome Fellow, University of Oxford and the Elected Fellow, Polish Academy of Medicine.