Roy Joseph
Emeritus Professor
Profile
Clinical Ethics, Neonatology and Paediatrics is the sphere of the experience and expertise of Emeritus Professor Roy Joseph. At the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, he directs the newly established Paediatric Ethics Programme.
Dr Roy is Emeritus Consultant in the Department of Neonatology, National University Hospital and chairs the Paediatric Ethics and Advocacy Center in the Department of Paediatrics. Roy also chairs the National Medical Ethics Committee, the Health Ethics Capability Committee and the Institutional Review Board (HBR) at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Bioethics Advisory Committee.
His current research interests are in harnessing technology for improving education in ethics and professionalism and understanding the local empirical basis of Ethical End of life Care and Clinical Innovation. Past research activities aimed at improving medical education, preventing mental and developmental retardation through providing a safe transition into the extrauterine environment and in universal newborn screening for selected congenital conditions.
He read Medicine at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, trained as a paediatrician at the Singapore General Hospital and as a Neonatologist at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Singapore and at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre, Melbourne.
Roy was the Acting Director of CBmE from 2017-2018 and the Director of its Undergraduate education programme from 2017 to 2022. He served as Chairman of the Clinical Bioethics Committee at the National University Hospital from 2006 to 2019 and as Chief, Department of Neonatology from 1997-2005. In 2003, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.