Former NUS Medicine Dean elected to the United States of America's National Academy of Medicine
Published: 21 Oct 2019
The National University Health System (NUHS) Chief Executive and National University of Singapore (NUS) Senior Vice President (Health Affairs), Professor John Eu-Li Wong, has been elected to the United States of America’s National Academy of Medicine (NAM), a globally influential organisation on health and science.
The NAM works to address critical issues in health, medicine, and related policy and inspire positive action across sectors through its domestic and global initiatives. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honours in the fields of health and medicine and recognises individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care and public health.
A medical oncologist-haematologist, Professor Wong obtained his medical degree from NUS and completed his residency and fellowship at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where he was the Chief Resident in Medicine, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He has been actively involved in the development of Health and Biomedical Sciences as a key pillar of Singapore’s economy and serves as a member of the National Health and Biomedical Sciences Executive Committee. In his distinguished 27-year career with NUS and NUHS, Professor Wong has held strategic leadership positions including Chairman, Medical Board, National University Hospital (NUH), Vice President (Life Sciences), NUS, Dean, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS and Director of the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS). He is also the Isabel Chan Professor in Medical Sciences at NUS. Professor Wong has been instrumental in transforming NUHS into the comprehensive and learning academic health system that it is today.
Professor John Wong said, “I am deeply honoured by this recognition from the United States of America’s National Academy of Medicine. I have been extraordinarily fortunate to have been part of the National University Health System, the National University of Singapore, Singapore’s public healthcare system and the national Health and Biomedical Science initiative these past 27 years. This recognition is very much because of them and what they have been able to do to improve the health and well-being of Singapore and the community we live in. This would not have been possible without the incredible support from my family, team, colleagues, donors and friends.”
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