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Prof Lee Soo Hoon

Professor of Management, Strome College of Business, Old Dominion University
Professor (by Courtesy), Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University
Affiliate Faculty, Armstrong Institute of Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Lee Soo Hoon is Professor in Management at the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University. She is an Affiliate Faculty at the Armstrong Institute of Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine and a Professor (by Courtesy) at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She was a Visiting Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and an Academic Visitor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and the School of Engineering at the National University of Singapore.

She earned her Ph.D. from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. Her domain expertise is Human Resources Management. She applies her domain expertise to health services research and patient safety culture. Her research focuses on managing: (1) teams in the operating theatre, (2) patient handoffs and transitions of care, and (3) compliance behaviors of healthcare professionals and patients in transitions of care protocols.

She publishes in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, Journal of Patient Safety, Anesthesia & Analgesia, BMJ Open, BMC Health Services Research, Nursing Outlook, the International Journal for Quality in Health Care, BMC Medical Education, among others. Her research has helped shape both policy and practice at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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Prof Phillip H. Phan

Alonzo and Virginia Decker Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Professor (joint appointment), Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Core Faculty, Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
Visiting Professor, Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Phil’s academic and professional work focuses on innovations in health services research with a focus on transitions of care. He has published more than 250 peer reviewed research papers and is author/editor of 13 scholarly books. He is Deputy Editor of the International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Academic Editor of Medicine®, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Technology Transfer.  He reviews for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.

He is Core Director for the NIA-funded Johns Hopkins Artificial Intelligence Collaboratory for Aging Research, and Principal Investigator of the Johns Hopkins Innovation for Substance Use Disorder (I4SUD) program, a NIDA-funded national training program for researchers. Recently, he co-organized with the FDA the Future of AI Medical Devices Regulation Symposium in Washington D.C. He is co-founder of P4Microbiome Inc., a peptide-based biotech startup.

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Prof Tai E Shyong

Senior Consultant, Division of Endocrinology, National University Hospital
Joint Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
Honorary Joint Professor, Centre for Biomedical Ethics
Chief Medical Officer and Co-Chair for Clinical Adoption Workgroup, National Precision Medicine, Ministry of Health Holdings
Director, NUHS Centre of Excellence, Centre for Disease Prevention and Management

Prof Tai E Shyong, MD underwent medical training at the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom and a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine in Singapore (Endocrinology). Prof Tai is currently a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. Prof Tai has also served on the committees that write the clinical practice guidelines for the Ministry of Health in the areas lipids and diabetes mellitus.

Prof Tai has a longstanding interest in the development of novel treatments for chronic diseases that leverages on human genetics for the identification of specific drug targets. Through his appointment with PRECISE, the National Precision Medicine programme, he is involved in initiating the national implementation of clinical workflows that integrate genetic information into care plans.

He has also been involved in several studies to incorporate behavioural change techniques to improve outcomes in patients living with chronic disease or who are at risk of heart disease or diabetes. These personalised programmes and digital platforms are developed to tap on to intrinsic motivation by promoting self-reflection to facilitate sustainable lifestyle change.

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Dr Aishworiya Ramkumar

Senior Consultant, Child Development Unit, Khoo Teck Puat – National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital
Junior Academic Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Dr Aishworiya Ramkumar is a developmental behavioural paediatrician by training and practices at the Child Development Unit, National University Hospital, Singapore. Dr Ramkumar’s clinical interests include autism spectrum disorder and socio-emotional difficulties in children and she is committed to serving this group of children through direct clinical care and research that translates into clinical care pathway improvements.

Her research interests are anchored around the over-arching vision of improving outcomes of children on the autism spectrum in Singapore and beyond. Specific themes including implementation of screening for autism in early childhood and design of sustainable interventions for autism in young children. She has received competitive research funding and published her work in several peer-reviewed journals. She is also the current co-chair of the workgroup that produced the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Autism in Children and Adolescents in Singapore.

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Dr Amanda Zain

Consultant, Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children’s Medical Institute, NUH
Deputy Director, Centre for Sustainable Medicine, NUS

Dr Amanda Zain is the Deputy Director at the Centre for Sustainable Medicine and Assistant Dean of Sustainability at NUS Medicine. A paediatric consultant at the National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore, Amanda obtained her MBBS and Master of Medicine (Paediatrics) at NUS and completed her paediatrics training at NUH. She is also a clinical tutor for medical and dental undergraduate and postgraduate students at NUS Medicine.

Dr Amanda previously served as Chief Resident of the Paediatric Residency Programme, and is an alumnus of the NUH Residency Leadership Development Programme. As a paediatric consultant and mother of two, her call to action was when she learned that 88% of the burden of climate change falls on children. She has since actively engaged in clinical sustainability projects and advanced the community of practice in sustainable healthcare among clinicians across Singapore. Her research interest is in the implementation science of sustainable inhaler prescribing.

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Dr Ellie Choi

Consultant Dermatologist, Division of Dermatology, National University Hospital
Junior Academic Faculty, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
M.B.B.S., Master of Medicine (MMed), Masters of Clinical Investigation (National University of Singapore), Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom

Dr Ellie is practicing dermatologist at the National University Hospital in Singapore and holds a junior faculty position at the National University of Singapore School of Medicine. Her research expertise lies in health services and behavioral medicine, with a specific focus on unraveling the inefficiencies and discordance that may exist between patients and physicians in the management and treatment of diseases.

She is currently enrolled in a part-time diploma program in psychodermatology and is concurrently pursuing a Masters of Business Administration with John Hopkins University. She is also embarking on a PhD program with NUS, where her thesis “Development and Pilot Implementation of an Electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measure (ePROM) system to Guide Clinical Decision Making and Improve Efficiency of Consult” is centered around PROMs and patient reported outcomes.

Ellie's commitment to advancing the field of dermatology extends to her editorial roles, where she serves as the senior assistant editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD) and section editor for International Journal of dermatology. She is also active in the country’s social and healthcare community as an executive committee member of the Society of Behavioural Health Singapore (SBHS) and as part of the governing council of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine.

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Dr Jocelyn Chew

Assistant Professor, NUS Nursing, National University of Singapore
Assistant Professor, Department for Biomedical Informatics, National University of Singapore
Clinical Lead (Data Insights Unit), Education & Research Office, National University Health System
Member, Singapore Association for the Study of Obesity (SASO), an affiliate of the World Obesity Federation

Dr Chew completed her PhD at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is the youngest nursing PhD holder in Singapore. She is passionate about population health, digital health, and healthcare innovation, having received training in nutrition science, artificial intelligence, and advanced statistics. She is also the first nurse to receive training in the Stanford Biodesign methodology as a Singapore Biodesign Innovation Fellow FY23/24, which included training in regional and global centers such as Beijing and the United States.
Dr Chew’s research focuses on using innovative strategies to promote health behavior change, specifically for cardiometabolic diseases and the upstream problem of obesity. She has developed multiple self-regulation programs including an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted behavioral prediction and prevention system for personalized weight management. She is a recipient of the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) talent award and has been awarded the NMRC PHRG-NIG to support her research in obesity prevention and management.

Dr Chew has published over 60 internationally peer-reviewed articles of high impact factor and has been awarded more than SDG750,000 worth of research funding. She has presented her research in various conferences globally and has received multiple international awards over the years. Dr Chew also serves as an editor for Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Nutrition, and sits in the Department Ethics Review Committee.

As an educator, Dr Chew teaches research methods both at the undergraduate and PhD levels, emphasizing the importance of innovation. She is also a member of the Singapore Nurses Association Education Committee.

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Dr Laureen Wang

Consultant, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Alexandra Hospital
Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre, Singapore
Head, Well Programme (Be Better), Alexandra Hospital

Dr Laureen Wang is a practising clinician in cardiology and internal medicine at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore and Alexandra Hospital, Singapore. Her interests are in preventive cardiology, cardiometabolic disease, and Women's heart health.

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Prof Ng Chirk Jenn

Clinical Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Prof Ng Chirk Jenn is a Senior Consultant at SingHealth Polyclinics and a Clinical Professor at Duke-NUS, Singapore. His research expertise is in the field of digital health, shared decision making and implementation science. He uses qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods approaches to develop, evaluate and implement healthcare interventions in primary care. He is currently leading the EmPaTHy (Empowering People to Transform Healthcare through technology) programme at the Department of Research at SingHealth Polyclinics. Prof Ng is also very passionate about teaching and conducts regular research training, workshops, symposiums to help build and enhance the research skills of healthcare professionals and medical students.

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Dr Philip Iau

Head & Senior Consultant, Division of Breast & Endocrine Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Senior Consultant, Division of General Surgery (Breast Surgery), Department of Surgery, National University Hospital
Head, Western Trauma Cluster, National University Healthcare Systems
Senior Consultant, Division of General Surgery (Trauma), Department of Surgery, National University Hospital

Dr Philip Iau was born in Johore in 1965 and schooled in Singapore. He is married with three children. After obtaining his medical degree in Singapore in 1989, he completed his national service and started his surgical training with an interest in breast cancer. He worked as a clinical fellow in the Nottingham Breast Unit under Prof Roger Blamey, where he carried out his PhD thesis work in breast cancer genetics before returning to NUH and starting the breast cancer workgroup and Singapore’s first stratified trauma system. Further training in sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer was carried out at the Netherlands Cancer Institute under Prof Emil Rutgers. Aside from a short spell as a locum consultant at the Nottingham Breast Unit, all his breast related work has been at the NUH. He completed a second clinical fellowship at the Johannesburg Trauma Unit and has carried out various responsibilities as chief surgeon in the Singapore Armed Forces, with a tour of Afghanistan with NATO forces in 2010.

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Dr Rayner Tan

Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System
Visiting Research Fellow, National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore
Research Associate, Centre for Family and Population Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
Consultant, FHI 360

Dr Rayner Tan’s research interests revolve broadly about the social determinants of health, community engagement, implementation science, and health equity of vulnerable communities. To date, he has published widely in leading scientific journals, including The Lancet, The Lancet Global Health, Clinical Infectious Diseases, JAMA Network Open, International Journal of Drug Policy, and the Journal of the International AIDS Society.

Rayner was a recipient of the Fulbright Visiting Research Scholarship for the academic year 2022/2023 and has received training in implementation sciences as a fellow of the HIGH-IRI program at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently deputy editor of a leading HIV scientific journal, the Journal of the International AIDS Society, an Academic Editor at PLOS Global Public Health, and a perspectives editor at the BMJ journal, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI).

He leads several community-based organizations in the region as well. He currently is the president of Project X Society serving the health and social needs of sex workers, and a Director at The Greenhouse Community Services Limited, a charity providing substance use recovery services for marginalized groups in Singapore. He also currently serves as the Treasurer for the Society of Behavioural Health, Singapore and a co-lead at SG Mental Health Matters. He is currently a co-lead of Project Hayat, a community-led initiative to develop a national suicide prevention strategy in Singapore. He is currently a representative on the Ministry of Health Agency for Care Effectiveness (ACE) Consumer Panel.

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Dr Stephanie Ko

Consultant, Advanced Internal Medicine, National University Hospital
Lead, NUHS@Home

Dr Stephanie Ko, MBBS MMed MPH, is a Consultant in Advanced Internal Medicine at the National University Hospital and at NUHS@Home, the hospital-at-home program in NUHS. She is one of the founders of NUHS@Home in 2020, and is currently the Lead of NUHS@Home as it scales up over the next few years. She is an affiliate at the Behavioral and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI), National University of Singapore. Stephanie’s work has been primarily exploring alternatives to existing healthcare models, and straddles both implementation and the evaluation of the implementation of these care models.

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