Sumytra Menon

Sumytra Menon

Deputy Director

Profile

Dr Sumytra Menon is Deputy Director of CBmE & Co-Director of the Clinical Ethics Network + Research Ethics Support (CENTRES) initiative, which develops educational activities in clinical and transplant ethics to enhance capabilities in ethics committees work in Singapore. She is also CBmE’s Co-Director of Education and the Programme Director of Science, Health and Policy-relevant Ethics in Singapore (SHAPES).

Sumy is a lawyer by training, and her particular research interests are in healthcare decision-making, the law on mental capacity and at the end of life. Sumy teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and designs and develops the curriculum for CENTRES’ continuing education programmes.

Previously, Sumy was Deputy Director of the PACE Programme at the Lien Centre for Palliative Care (Duke-NUS) where she conducted research in advance care planning and spearheaded the Centre’s e-educational initiatives in offering a blended learning platform for palliative care education.