Ahmed Alhammadi, is the Chief, Division of General Academic Pediatric at Hamad Medical Corporation –Qatar and Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at Weill-Cornell Medical College in Qatar.Has strong interests in medical education and supervises residents on the pediatric wards and clinics, while also serving as Assistant Program Director of Pediatric Residency Program.Dr.Alhammadi completed his Pediatrics Residency Training at British Colombia children hospital (BCCH) Vancouver –Canada, and General Academic Pediatrics fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children-Toronto –Canada .He is a member of American Academy of Paediatrics and Canadian Paediatrics Society.

Pascale Allotey is a Medical Anthropologist, Clinical and Public Health Nurse and Midwife, and Professor of Public Health at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. She is the Head of Global Public Health and Associate Director for international collaborations of the South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO) in Segamat, Johor.

Prof Pascale’s research and public health practice focus largely on community-based research and intervention programs in infectious and non-communicable disease, sexual and reproductive health and rights, adolescent health, to explore the importance of context and marginalizing factors such as ethnicity/race, rights violations, gender using a combination of anthropological and epidemiological methods. She has worked in universities in Australia, the UK, Ghana and the US. She previously worked for WHO and UNICEF holding consultancy and technical advisory roles, and she is also on the board of trustees of a number of international NGOs. She has published over 100 peer reviewed articles, book chapters and technical reports, and is an associate editor for several public health journals.

Prof Pascale is currently a PI of the large Wellcome Trust (UK) grant and has been a chief investigator of grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), WHO and also the Global Forum for Health Research.

My name is Christian Ardianto. I am a fourth year medical student at Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. I have been working as a peer tutor for two years. In my second year as tutor, I have been entrusted as the tutor's coordinator. As tutor and coordinator, I have prepared many tutoring sessions, coordinating and organizing Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) sessions, and participated in trainings for PT. I developed my interest in Medical Education since then. I am also a research assistant for Microbiology Department.

Dr. Balmer serves as the Director for Continuing Medical Education of the University of Virginia School of Medicine

Dr. Balmer served as the President/Board of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions from 2005 -2012 Dr. Balmer is on the Board of Directors for GAME. She served as Co-Chairman for the 1st China International Conference on Continuing Medical Education. She speaks at the ACEHP. (AMEE), CME Congress and other organizations.

Dr. Balmer served on the Accreditation Review Committee of the ACCME from 1994-2000. Dr. Balmer received the 2003 Willard M. Duff, PhD Award for exemplary, long-term service to the ACCME She serves as the Chair of the Commission for Accreditation for the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

Justin is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Education. Prior to joining the Dept of Medical Education, he spent 10 years as a Research Fellow with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne. During this time, he was involved in a number of large-scale research projects, including a $5million Australia-wide program evaluating the introduction of routine screening protocols for postnatal mental illness. Justin is involved in teaching and co-ordination of a number of academic programs within the Melbourne Medical School including the Doctor of Medicine (MD), Masters of Clinical Education, Masters of Clinical Research and Bachelor of Medical Science. Justin’s research interests include student transition to clinical learning, curriculum design, integration of medical humanities into clinical teaching and assessing student research competency.

Timothy P. Brigham, MDiv, PhD, is the Chief of Staff and Senior Vice-President, Department of Education at the ACGME. Dr. Brigham’s responsibilities, as head of the Department of Education, include the ACGME’s Annual Educational Conference, the Milestone Outcome Project, and the development of new educational programs for the ACGME.

Prior to joining the ACGME in 2008, Dr. Brigham served since 1989 in several capacities at Jefferson Medical College, including associate dean for graduate medical education and continuing medical education and, most recently, as senior associate dean for organisational development and chief of staff and associate professor of medicine. Dr. Brigham has been involved in physician faculty development, resident education and chief resident and program director development. He is widely sought after as a teacher, speaker, group facilitator, and consultant in a variety of areas including resident stress and well-being; chief resident, program director and chairperson leadership development; medical student, resident and faculty teaching development; and group and team organisational development.

Dr. Brigham holds a PhD in psychological studies in education from Temple University, a master’s degree in counseling and human relations from Villanova University, and a master’s of divinity from Palmer Theological Seminary.

Professor Ben Canny is Head of the School of Medicine at the University of Tasmania, where he is responsible for the Divisions of Medicine, Pharmacy, Psychology and Paramedicine that teach approximately 10,000 students, and conducts research in the relevant disciplines.

Prior to joining the University of Tasmania, Ben was Deputy Dean (MBBS) in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. In this role, he was responsible for the overall academic governance of the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (Medical) degree, working closely with colleagues in Victoria and Malaysia, He played a critical role of establishing the Monash MBBS in Malaysia. He currently leads the Medical Education portfolio of the M8 Alliance of Medical Universities, which is working towards establishing and sharing curricula in Global Health.

Ben has an abiding interest in medical education, but has also a significant background in human and animal stress and metabolic physiology. He has been president of the Endocrine Society of Australia, and is Vice President of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE).

Dr. Chappell is Interim Chief Officer of the American Nurses Credentialing Center with oversight over all credentialing programs including organizational, programmatic, and individual nurse credentialing. She is also responsible for accreditation of residency and fellowship programs; and directs the Institute for Credentialing Research, analyzing outcomes related to credentialing. She holds a baccalaureate in nursing with distinction from the University of Virginia, a masters of science in advanced clinical nursing and a doctorate in nursing from George Mason University. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a Distinguished Scholar & Fellow in the National Academies of Practice.

Dr Cofrancesco is the director of the Johns Hopkins University SOM Institute for Excellence in Education. He maintains an active internal medicine practice and is involved in teaching students, residents, fellows, health professionals and peers locally, nationally and internationally. He has won multiple awards for teaching and mentoring. Dr. Cofrancesco has numerous publications related to education and has successfully mentored many faculty members on education projects.

Dr Day is Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs, ACGME-I. A native of Louisiana, she practiced pediatric ophthalmology in San Francisco CA for thirty years. Her avocation centered on medical education, manifest in past roles as program director and designated institutional official. For years she volunteered in various capacities for the ACGME, including Chair of the Ophthalmology Residency Review Committee, Chair of the ACGME Board of Directors, and Co-Chair of the Professionalism and Patient Safety Task Force Committee. She relocated from San Francisco to Chicago in 2014 to serve the international efforts of ACGME.

Peter de Jong is a staff adviser and assistant professor in Technology Enhanced Learning at the Leiden University Medical Center in The Netherlands. In this position in the Center for Innovation in Medical Education, he has been managing several major programs within Medical School in the field of development, application and evaluation of educational technologies, and is currently also involved in medical education research. Peter has a Master degree in Medical Technology from Eindhoven University and a PhD in Biophysics/Physiology from Maastricht University. He has been a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Netherlands Association for Medical Education (NVMO), he has been Chair of their national Special Interest Group on E-learning in Medicine and he chaired the 2000 NVMO Annual Meeting.

Since 2007 Peter is involved in the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), an international organization with a focus on advancing medical education through faculty development while ensuring that the teaching and learning of medicine continues to be firmly grounded in science. He has served the organization as Vice President and in 2009 as Program Chair and Site Host for the first IAMSE Annual Meeting outside of North America. Currently he holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of Medical Science Educator, the online journal of IAMSE.

Professor Elizabeth Farmer is an independent health sector consultant who specializes in health professional education and assessment, accreditation, revalidation and policy development. Following roles as the Executive Director, Workforce Innovation and Reform at Health Workforce Australia and Dean of Medicine, she joined the Australian Medical Council in 2011 and now serves as Chair Prevocational Standards Accreditation Committee, and Chair Research Committee. She also Chairs the Expert Advisory Group on Revalidation for the Medical Board of Australia.

• Curriculum and assessment innovation and reform in the health professions
• Performance based assessment including workplace-based assessment
• Revalidation
• Accreditation policy and practice

Ardi Findyartini is a medical doctor graduated from Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia (FMUI) in 2002. Her interest in high quality medical education process encouraged her to complete a doctoral program in Melbourne Medical School Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne in 2012. The highlight of her thesis on how clinical reasoning is taught and learned in Australia and Indonesia motivates her to learn further on how best practices in medical education can be implemented contextually. She is currently the Head of Medical Education Unit and academic staff member of Department of Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia. She has been teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate program in medical education and mentoring students and graduates interested in medical education. With her team, she’s been very active in conducting workshops for faculty development in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education within the FMUI and in other institutions in Indonesia for the past 10 years, and is a nominated panel member for ASPIRE excellence in faculty development since 2014. She authored and co-authored several international publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences. She’s also been involved as the reviewer of national and international medical education journals. Her research area of interest includes clinical reasoning and clinical teaching, curriculum development in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, assessment, interprofessional education and socio-cultural factors underpinning approaches in medical and health professions education.

Kirsty recently moved to Bond University in August 2016 to be Deputy Head of Medicine. Prior to this Kirsty was Director of Medical Education and Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching at Macquarie University.

Kirsty has been involved in medical educational research for 14 years and awarded funding via a University Fellowship and the Higher Education Academy. She is co-author and editor of a number of best-selling medical textbooks including ‘Essential guide to educational supervision, in postgraduate medical education’ and ‘Essential Simulation in Clinical Education’.

Ian Frank joined the Australian Medical Council in 1988 with a background in medical school administration. He has been the senior executive and subsequently the AMC’s Chief Executive Officer since 1991. The Australian Medical Council is responsible for the accreditation of basic and specialist education in Australia and the examination of international medical graduates.

Areas of special interests include:

• Development of computer administered and computer adaptive MCQ examinations
• Application of advanced technology to high fidelity clinical assessment
• Development of performance assessment tools, including workplace-based assessment
• Collaboration between licensing and examination authorities on the exchange of information and expertise in assessment.

Richard Fuller graduated MBChB from Leeds School of Medicine, returning to read his higher degree whilst undertaking higher specialist training in Geriatric Medicine. His current clinical academic role is divided between clinical work as Consultant Stroke Physician (with special interest in anticoagulation and Atrial Fibrillation) and as Director of Undergraduate Education at Leeds Institute of Medical Education. He is responsible for directing the MBChB degree programme, leading it through a significant and successful review that has produced an innovative and highly integrated curriculum which continues to generate exciting new initiatives in curriculum design, mobile technology, assessment and personalised learning.

His main research interests focus on assessment, particularly in relation to assessment frameworks and the quality measurement and improvement of criterion-based assessment. He leads the Assessment Research Group within Leeds Institute of Medical Education, supervising a number of research students looking at diverse areas such as psychosocial frameworks of assessor decision-making, impact of national examinations and student anxiety within performance assessment. His current research focuses on the ‘personalisation’ of assessment, focusing on the validity of workplace based assessment formats, assessor behaviours, mobile technology delivered assessment and the impact of sequential testing methodologies.

He publishes regularly, speaking regularly at leading international medical education conferences and is a faculty member at a number of leading global assessment courses. He holds a number of national/UK advisory roles, including acting as an assessment expert for the General Medical Council - and undertakes a range of advisory and developmental work in relation to curriculum, senior faculty development and assessment for a number of international institutions.

Dr Chitra graduated with a degree in medicine and masters in Pharmacology from Madras Medical College. After a stint in Paediatrics at Sri Ramachandra Medical college and Research Institute, was actively involved in a collaborative project of the ICMR INDIA,TDR-WHO, NIH USA in Madras Medical College on W. bancraftian Filariasis and in a multicentric ADR Monitoring study. Currently, she is the Head of Pharmacology and Assessment at Mahsa University, Malaysia. Her research entails Quality of Life and Professionalism and is a co- investigator in Adverse Drug Monitoring project in Malaysia. Active member of AMEE, MSA, MSPP AND MAEHMS.

Dr. Hamstra is responsible for oversight and leadership regarding research in Milestones and assessment systems that inform decisions around resident progression and board eligibility. Dr. Hamstra works with medical subspecialty societies, program director organizations, the American Board of Medical Specialties, and specialty certification boards, to collaborate with and inform them of ongoing research and evaluation activities. His research addresses medical education broadly, including competency assessment for residency training programs, developing administrative support for educational scholarship within academic health settings, and bringing humanities and social sciences into health professions education.

Aviad (Adi) Haramati, PhD, is Professor of Integrative Physiology in the Departments of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology and Medicine and co-director of the CAM Graduate Program at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). A graduate of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, he received a PhD in Physiology from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and came to Georgetown in 1985 after spending 5 years at Mayo Clinic.

For over 25 years, Dr. Haramati’s research focus was on regulation of kidney and electrolyte function during growth and in heart failure. Currently, his activities are more centered on medical education and rethinking how health professionals are trained.

However, his first love is teaching, and he has been recognized with nine Golden Apple awards from medical and graduate students and selected by the faculty and alumni for the Magis Master Teacher Award. He received the Arthur C. Guyton Teacher of the Year award by the American Physiological Society, the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Master Scholar Award from the International Association of Medical Science Educators. This year he was named as Distinguished Educator (one of two inaugural inductees) in the GUMC Teaching Academy in the Health Sciences. In 2013, he was named the inaugural director of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Education (CENTILE) at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC)

Marcus Henning currently works as senior lecturer and post-graduate academic advisor at the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The Centre provides a suite of post graduate clinical education courses using an online interface. He has facilitated numerous workshops to clinical teachers in New Zealand in relation to developing pragmatic teaching skills. He is actively engaged in research encompassing: quality of life, the motivation to teach and learn, organizational behaviour, conflict management, and professional integrity. His background is in psychology, education and mathematics teaching. His PhD was in educational psychology.

Julie Hewett, owner of JulNet Solutions, is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelors Degree in Entrepreneurial Management. She has over 25 years of office management experience working with small organizations in the services and manufacturing industries. This broad work experience allowed Julie to develop JulNet Solutions, offering management support services to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and eventually professional non-profit associations.

Since 1998 Julie has been involved in IAMSE for Association Management and Meeting Planning. In 2010 JulNet Solutions got involved in the production of IAMSE’s online journal Medical Science Educator, and her office now offers Editorial Manager Support for the Editor-in-Chief.

Dr. Holmboe is Senior Vice President, Milestones Development and Evaluation at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). He is also Professor Adjunct of Medicine at Yale University, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Fineberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

His research interests include interventions to improve quality of care and methods in the assessment of clinical competence. Dr. Holmboe is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He completed his residency and chief residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University.

Dr. Halah Ibrahim is the founding DIO and former Chair of Academic Affairs for Tawam Hospital in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She also served as the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director. In these roles, Dr. Ibrahim spearheaded the move for ACGME-I accreditation for Tawam Hospital. She is a member of several advisory committees for medical education, including the ACGME International RRC. She holds a Masters of Education for Health Professionals from the Johns Hopkins School of Education, where she serves as a faculty member. She is currently the Executive Director of Health and Wellness at NYU Abu Dhabi. Prior to moving to Abu Dhabi in 2008, Dr. Ibrahim was a clinician-educator in NYC. She is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed residency at The New York Hospital- Cornell Medical Center. Her research interests include medical professionalism and international GME reform.

Professor Dato’ Dr Ravindran Jegasothy is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, MAHSA University, Kuala Lumpur which has a large international student population. He was formerly the Head of the Department of O&G at Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Malaysia. He graduated with the MBBS from the University of Malaya and is a Fellow of the Royal College of O&G, London. He has the Masters in O&G from the National University of Singapore. He was awarded the Distinguished Community Service Award by the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) in 2003.

Yan Jin is a Research Assistant in Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She obtained her medical degree from Capital Medical University, Beijing, China and worked as a clinical doctor in Beijing Friendship Hospital before she joined CUHK in 2005. In Faculty of Medicine, she participates in the work of reviewing examination question for item quality control. She is managing an item bank for both summative and formative assessment. She is active in hosting workshops on item writing and item analysis. Her areas of educational interests include designing eLearning courseware, constructing assessment questions and standard setting.

Currently working as a senior lecturer on a Masters in Medical Education. I lead modules on Educational Leadership; Professionalism and Research. I’m passionate about pedagogy and have spent three decades enabling others to become the best teachers they can be. Previous educational roles have included being National Advisor for a regulatory body (Social Work); a Teaching Fellow (communication skills) at Imperial Medical School and Director of Learn2 Associates.

My Doctorate is in International Education (Institute of Education London) and my research interests include formative assessment; emotional labour and emotional intelligence and creative pedagogies. My preferred research approaches are qualitative, phenomenological.

Paul has a background in clinical examination and consultation skills teaching and teaches on the Swansea leadership and education Masters’ programmes. Research interests include simulation, assessment and innovative teaching methods. Publications include mental workload measurement during student consultations, the predictive value of self-assessed clinical skills in medical students and an evaluation of the use of experiential learning in teaching clinical skills to trainee physicians.

Paul’s experience in training, hospital management and leadership has been gained from working in senior clinical, advanced practice roles and from running leadership workshops internationally in Canada, Ireland, Singapore, Mexico, the UK and Saudi Arabia.

Professor Indika Karunathilake is currently the Head of the Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Medical Education Development, Training and Research. He has conducted extensive research and authored many publications in medical education and public health. Prof. Indika has been a resource person in Medical Education for many national, regional and international forums. Prof. Indika Karunathilake is the editor-in-Chief of the South East Asian Journal of Medical Education (SEAJME) and President of the College of Medical Educationists (CME) in Sri Lanka. He also serves as the Vice President of Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) and took the initiative in developing the public health education accreditation framework for Asia Pacific.

Associate Professor Sandra Kemp is the Director of Learning and Teaching at Curtin Medical School, Curtin University in Perth, Australia. She was formerly Assistant Dean for Course Evaluation at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore. She is an education scientist with extensive experience in assessment and evaluation. She completed her PhD in Educational Studies at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom and has been working with medical educators for many years to ensure quality teaching, learning and assessment practices.

Máire is a Director of the Work Psychology Group, a research led consultancy specialising in assessment (for selection and development) and innovation. She has worked in Medical Education for the last 15 years in collaboration with the Department of Health (UK and Australia), General Medical Council, Health Education England, Medical Schools Council, National University of Singapore and UK Medical Royal Colleges. Previous to her current role, she was a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at City University, London, and Lecturer at the University of Nottingham, UK. She publishes widely including co-authored articles on Situational Judgement Tests and Values Based Recruitment.

Dr. Rehan Ahmed Khan is Assistant Dean Medical Education at Riphah International University .His main interests in medical education include Curriculum development and evaluation, Assessment practices and E-Technology. He has worked in leading position to bring a major curricular reform in his medical school. Currently he is Chairperson Assessment Committee and working on improving assessment practices . He has also been actively involved in the scientific and organising committee of International conference on Medical Education (ICME). He has also currently teaching and is focal person for MHPE program in Pakistan.

Dr. Amal Khidir, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Khartoum University, Sudan in 1991 and completed her residency training at Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C. and latter joined as faculty and clerkship director. In 2006 she joined Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and Hamad Medical Corporation continuing her role as clerkship director. She is American Board certified and She completed faculty development training program at Harvard Macy Institute. Aside from teaching and supervising students and trainees, she is the founder of several faculty development modules presented regionally and internationally. Her area of interest is professionalism and clinical teaching.

Professor Shekhar Kumta is the Executive Director the Chinese University's CENTRE FOR BIOETHICS. He is also the Assistant Dean for Medical Education and is a passionate and award winning teacher.

Professor Kumta manages an intensive Musculoskeletal Oncology programme involving state of art Computer Assisted Surgery, Palliative Surgery & Care as well as Molecular Research.

Behavioral Ethics forms a key aspect of Prof. Kumta's responsibilities in assessing Interns and junior doctors at the workplace. He is also responsible for Clinical Ethics teaching and has been organizing Ethics Rounds and Workshops for the healthcare fraternity.

My name is Carolyn. I am a fourth year medical student from Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. I have been working as a peer tutor for two and a half year. As a tutor i have prepared many materials, managing and coordinating technical problems for tutoring sessions, and participated in training for PT. I have written a book review entitled Understanding The Importance of Checklist for Medical Students and Professions. I have also presented my research about Impact of Medical Education Topic to Students’ Perspective and Critical Thinking at International Medical Education Conference 2016.

I am currently a Lecturer In Clinical Education at the University of Melbourne responsible for subject coordinator in The Excellence in Clinical Teaching (E.X.C.I.T.E) program in both the Graduate Certificate in Clinical Teaching and in the Graduate Diploma in Clinical Education. Previously, I worked as an academic at Melbourne Graduate School of Education teaching into the Master of Teaching. Additionally, I have been involved with various research teams investigating clinical praxis, and models of practicum organization. Currently, I am part of a research team exploring clinical reasoning. I have over twenty years teaching experience, both in Australia and overseas, ranging from primary and secondary levels to higher education.

I’m a medical teacher, graduated from master of Medical Education, and work as Head of Medical Education Unit in Faculty of Medicine, Jenderal Achmad Yani, Indonesia. I’m concerning student assessment filed, mostly in oral assessment, OSCE, and assessment on professional behavior. Recently, I also became part of national team on developing CBT for National Board Exam in Indonesia. I have been presented my study in a few International Conference of Medical Education, such as AMEE, APMEC and Ottawa Conference with best poster award SEARAME 2010 in and best oral presentation in IASHE International Conference on 2014.

Vishna is currently, Professor and Dean of Learning and Teaching at the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A biochemist by training, she obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge in the field of microbial biochemistry (2000). She is also a graduate of the Masters in Health Professionals Education from Maastricht University (2014). She has published and presented research papers in both biomedical sciences and medical education, supervises research students and reviews for indexed and international journals. She was awarded the Malaysian Womens Weekly (2012), Great Women of Our Time award for her contribution in Science and Technology in Malaysia. Her current portfolio at IMU, involves developing and implementing strategic initiatives for Teaching and Learning across the 5 health professional schools: medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, health sciences and postgraduate studies. Her pet projects are enhancing the student learning environment and faculty development activities nationally and regionally.

Professor Nair is the Director of the award winning and largest Workplace Based Assessment Program in Australia and Chair of the WBA committee of the AMC. He is involved in many committees of the AMC and RACP. He is an active clinician, researcher and educationalist who had won many awards. He has published widely in medical education, clinical medicine and geriatrics.

He is the foundation Chair of the Overseas Trained Doctors assessment committee of the RACP and foundation Chair of the Hunter Ageing Research Group.

Dr. Hiroshi Nishigori is an Associate Professor at the Center for Medical Education, Kyoto University, Japan. He graduated from Nagoya University School of Medicine in 1998 and became a Fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine (2004) and a Diplomate in Primary Care of the Japan Primary Care Association (2011). He obtained a Masters Degree in Medical Education from University of Dundee (2008). His research interests include BUSHIDO and medical professionalism (especially work ethics and pro-sociality) and Hypothesis-driven physical examination (HDPE). He is working as an editor of the Journal 'Medical Education (Japan)', and a co-chair of the APME-Net (Asian Pacific Medical Education Network).

Nakorn Nuntasukasame's finished his high school from St. George's College, Mussoorie, India. Which then, as a Thai student, enrolled in Mahsa University's MBBS program.

During the pre-clinical phase of the MBBS course, he's been elected as a class representative for the second academic year Mahsa's MBBS program.

As an international student in Malaysia, he's a member of Mahsa Association of International Student (AIS) board committee and Thai Students Association of the Royal Thai Embassy in Malaysia.

Nakorn also participated in many intervarsity events such as debating, medical quizzes, and sports events.

Dr. Neil Osheroff joined the faculty of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1983. He currently holds Professorships in the Departments of Biochemistry and Medicine and was endowed with the John G. Coniglio Chair in Biochemistry in 2003. Dr. Osheroff plays several educational roles at Vanderbilt. He has been a medical school course director since 1990 and currently co-leads the pre-clerkship phase. He also Chairs a group of Master Science Teachers and Directs the Academy for Excellence in Education. Internationally, he is the immediate Past-President of the Association of Biochemistry Educators and the Treasurer of the International Association of Medical Science Educators. Dr. Osheroff has received awards for mentoring, lecturing, and curricular design. He is actively engaged in approaches to integrating foundational and clinical sciences in the undergraduate medical school curriculum and in the process of curricular revision.

Elise Paradis, PhD holds a Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Healthcare Practice at the University of Toronto, with appointments at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, in the Department of Anesthesia (Faculty of Medicine), and at the Wilson Centre. Her research focuses on the rise of collaboration as a solution in healthcare, on collaborative care practices in tertiary settings, and on education for collaboration. She is an Associate Editor with Perspectives on Medical Education, and has published in many journals, including Medical Education, Advances in Health Sciences Education, Perspectives, Critical Care Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, and Body & Society.

Dr. Ponnamperuma has served as an invited speaker cum resource person in many international symposia and conferences. Author of several journal articles and books, he sits on the editorial boards of two international medical education journals. He is a postgraduate tutor, examiner, and resource material developer for national and international medical education courses. Gominda has served as an advisor, visiting professor, consultant and fellow in several academic institutes and educational projects. He is a founder co-chair of the Asia Pacific Medical Education Network (APME-Net). His research interests are on assessment (including selection for training), and curriculum development and evaluation.

I am Natalia Puspadewi, I graduated from the School of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia in 2011 and got my master degree in Medical Education from Gadjah Mada University in 2015. I currently worked at Medical Education Unit in Atma Jaya School of Medicine from 2011 til now and was appointed as the head of the unit since August 2015. My research interests are teaching-learning, assessment, and simulated patients. I recently published an article titled “Implementation and Evaluation of Medical Education Elective Course for Undergraduate Students” in Jurnal Pendidikan Kedokteran Indonesia in 2016.

Greg Radu is an associate professor of psychiatry at Memorial University, the largest university in Atlantic Canada. He is an associate editor of the Canadian Medical Education Journal, and former chair of the Section of Psychotherapy of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Greg is also an honorary associate professor at Swansea University Medical School in the United Kingdom, where he teaches in the area of medical education leadership.

Dr Ganesh Ramachandran is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs at the medical faculty of MAHSA University since 2013.

He obtained his basic degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia which was the first school in Malaysia to adopt the integrated curriculum in medicine in 1988 and the membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists London in 1997. He was elected Fellow in 2012 and council member of the Malaysian Association of Medical and Health Science Education in 2015.

His areas of interest in medical education are curriculum development, assessment and mentoring.

A Medical Educator, Physician, and Clinical Researcher. Currently working as a clinical academic (Stroke/Neurology), in the Institute of Neurology, University of Glasgow, UK. He qualified in India, and underwent postgraduate training in Internal Medicine. He continues to train undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. He has completed a Masters degree in Medical Education from the University of Manchester, and is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK). He has a special interest in assessment, problem based learning, self-directed learning and research in medical education. He has presented papers at national and international levels, and co-authored the AMEE guide on OSCE.

Working in Manipal University, India for the past 13 years. Currently working as the Professor of Pharmacology in Melaka Manipal Medical College (MMMC) (an International twinning programme of the University with the Govt. of Malaysia)

Areas of interest include clinical trials and medical education

A FAIMER fellow from the FAIMER Regional Center - CMC, Ludhiana (2011 batch)

Recipient of the Australian Executive Endeavour Fellowship 2016. Worked in James Cook University, Queensland for 4 months in the area of 'technology in education', 'medical education' and 'professional development'

Introduced PBL in the other constituents medical schools of Manipal University.

Professor Ringsted is dedicated to fostering research-based innovation in health sciences education. During 2004-2011 she served the executive board of Association of Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). She has been program director of the course Research Essential Skills in Medical Education (RESME) since 2007. Her personal research interest is training and assessment in clinical workplace and laboratory/simulation settings, and the role of students and patients as teachers. She has published extensively in medical education; been supervisor of many Master and PhD-students and served the editorial board of several scientific journals related to health science education.

Elisabeth Rukmini works at Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. She finished BA from Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia (1998) and MSc in chemistry (2000) from Kosin University, Korea. She finished her doctoral degree in chemistry education (2010) from Miami University, Ohio. Her working experiences included chair of: Medical Education Unit (2011-2014), Planning & Evaluation of Educational Processes (2014) and Strategic Planning Unit (2015). She is currently the Vice Rector for collaboration, research, & strategic planning; and teach chemistry at the School of Medicine and School of Biotechnology. Some of her research interests are: active learning, medical education, educational policy.

Professor Scherpbier’s key interests are quality assurance of medical education, career prospects for medical teachers, involvement of medical students, and medical education research. He has published extensively: around 300 papers in international journals, 100 papers in national journals, 70 chapters in books and conference proceedings. He teaches medical education research at Maastricht School of Health Professions Education. He supervises national and international PhD students (51 finished) and has been a consultant to medical schools in various countries, including Indonesia, Uganda, Nepal and Ghana. He has been a driving force for curriculum innovation and involved in innovations in postgraduate specialist training.

Lambert Schuwirth obtained his MD from Maastricht University. In 1991 he joined the department of Educational Development and Research there, taking up various roles in student assessment: chairman of the inter-university and the local progress test review committee, the OSCE review committee and the case-based testing committee. Since the early 2000s he has been chair of the overall task force on assessment. He has been advisor on assessment to medical colleges in the Netherlands and the UK. In 2010 he chaired an international consensus group on education research the results of which were published in Medical Teacher. Since 2007 he is a full-professor for Innovative Assessment at Maastricht University – currently as adjunct; since 2011 he is a strategic professor for Medical Education at Flinders University in Adelaide Australia and the Director of the Flinders University Prideaux Centre for Health Professions Education.

Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CHCP, Senior Vice President, Educational Strategy at TOPEC Global, a Swiss-based medical education provider, has been involved in continuing medical education for the last 21 years, and has been teaching pre-hospital medicine for over 30 years. His education and training in medicine and adult education have helped him to become a leader in this profession. His TED talk on involving patients in medical education has been viewed over 30,000 times. He has spent the majority of this time designing, developing, delivering and evaluating CME courses for physicians and other healthcare professionals around the world. He is a Fellow of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, a founding advisor to the NC-CME (the organization that certifies CME professionals in the US), an instructor at the Emergency Medical Institute at the Center for Learning and Innovation of the Northwell Health in New York, and has taught healthcare communications at the Center for Communicating Science at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He was recently appointed to the Postgraduate Education Committee for AMEE (Association for Medical Education in Europe), and will be involved with forming Continuing Professional Development Committees for organizations in Europe and Asia. He was the original host and creator of Lifelong Learning, a radio show broadcast on ReachMD via internet radio in the US and via reachmd.com and a mobile app for smartphones worldwide.

Lastly, Lawrence frequently lectures around the world on topics including:

• Role of social networking in CME
• Regulations and guidelines in CME
• International/global CME and CPD

Dr Diantha Soemantri is a senior lecturer in medical education in the Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia. Graduated as a medical doctor from Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia in 2005, acquired Master in Medical Education title from University of Dundee in 2007 and a PhD in the same field from University of Melbourne in 2013. She is now the head of Master in Medical Education Program in the university and also responsible for the integrated curriculum of Health Sciences Cluster. She has published several journal articles both nationally and internationally and participated as invited speakers in international conferences on medical education. Her research interests are reflection and feedback, interprofessional education and student assessment.

Dr. Stadler is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar (WCM-Q) and a staff physician at the US Embassy in Vienna, Austria. She has served as Assistant Dean for Continuing Professional Development and the Medicine Clerkship Co-Director at WCM-Q. Dr. Stadler is active in curriculum and simulation program development on the undergraduate and postgraduate level, and has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences.

Dr. Stadler received her MD from WCM-Q and completed her residency in the Internal Medicine - Primary Care Track at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Her clinical interests include preventive and travel medicine.

Yvonne Steinert, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and Professor of Family Medicine, is the Director of the Centre for Medical Education and the Richard and Sylvia Cruess Chair in Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. She is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, educational research, and the design and delivery of faculty development programs and activities. Her research interests focus on teaching and learning in the health professions, the impact of faculty development on the individual and the organization, and professional identity formation. She has written extensively on topics related to faculty development and medical education and has recently edited a book on Faculty Development in the Health Professions: A Focus on Research and Practice. A former Associate Dean for Faculty Development at McGill University and Past-President of the Canadian Association for Medical Education, Dr. Steinert frequently addresses medical educators in both national and international venues.

Educationalist (MHPE), Sociologist (PhD), and Co-Director of the Joint Master in Health Professions Education (JMHPE) between Maastricht University and Suez Canal University, Egypt. Currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Development & Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences (FHML), Maastricht University (UM). His research and teaching interests include social aspects of medical education and professional work, research methodology, global health and cultural competence. For publications, see: http://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=reEkxRcAAAAJ&hl=nl

Krishna SUVARNABHUMI is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine. He previously served as Assistant Dean in Education at Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand.

Krishna received his medical degree and Diploma Thai Board of Family Medicine from Prince of Songkla University. He has also completed Academic Fellowship of Family Medicine from the University of Toronto, Canada. He holds a Master of Science in Medical Education from Cardiff University, United Kingdom. Now, he is the PhD candidate at School of Health Professions Education (SHE), Maastricht University, Netherlands.

Dr Magda Wagdy senior consultant pediatrician at Hamad Medical Corporation and assistant Professor of Clinical Paediatrics at Weill-Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Dr. Magda received her medical training at Cairo University -Egypt ; she has worked as a general pediatrician on staff at Hamad Medical Corporation –Qatar since 2006.Dr Magda areas of practice include: inpatient medicine, Patient safety, detection of adverse events and was appointed to chairs pediatrics quality and patient safety Committee. Dr Magda has strong interests in medical education supervises residents on clinical setting; she is instructor and in charges of different workshops including; communication, APLS, quality, and professionalism.

Associate Professor Michael Wan (MBChB, FRCP, FHKCP, FHKAM, GCUT, JP) is the Head of Basic and Clinical Science Domain and the former Head of Assessment in the School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney. He is an interventional cardiologist by training. He received the Vice-Chancellor’s award for Excellence in Teaching & Assessment in 2011 and is recognised nationally by receiving the Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australia Office of Teaching & Learning in 2012. His current research is focusing on medical education and assessment of clinical reasoning using Script Concordance Testing.

Dr. Wartman is the President/CEO of the Association of Academic Health Centers and the Association of Academic Health Centers International™. Prior to assuming this position, he was Executive Vice President for Academic and Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Wartman is an internist and sociologist, and a Master of the American College of Physicians. He received his AB from Cornell University and his MD and PhD degrees from Johns Hopkins University. He has received numerous awards and honorary degrees, most recently the 2015 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award.

Dr Craig Webster is a Senior Lecturer with the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education and the Department of Anaesthesiology at the University of Auckland, and has degrees in psychology and medical human factors. Craig has been involved with research on the cognitive ergonomic evaluation of medical equipment, compliance with safety initiatives, teamwork functioning and patient safety. Through many years’ experience in such projects he has used qualitative and quantitative methods of many kinds, and enjoys considering the “big picture” of possible research designs and the best way to match these with particular research questions.

Dr. Rahila Yasmeen is Director MHPE- RIPHAH Program, Associate Professor Medical Education, Chairperson Faculty Development Committee and Associate Director Riphah Academy of Research and Education, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Riphah International University, Pakistan. She has 11 years’ experience in medical education. In her expertise & research work, she has a wide experience in faculty development, integrated medical and dental curriculum, assessment planning, and student support and program evaluation. She is one of the core members in designing of curriculum of Rasulkhaima College of Dentistry in UAE, which is one of the eminent projects of Riphah International University.

Dr Naveed Yousuf is the Associate Director, Assessment in the Examination Board and Assistant Professor of Educational Development in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Aga Khan University. Dr. Yousuf is a PhD in Medical Education. His PhD thesis focused on psychometrics and standard setting in OSCEs. He has also done a Fellowship in Medical Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Dr Yousuf is responsible for the psychometric quality of examinations and for psychometric research projects at Examination Board. He also serves as Thesis Supervisor and Faculty for the Master of Health Professions Education Programme.

This is Alex Yung from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. I have worked in Faculty of Medicine's Education Resources department for more than 10 years as a medical education pedagogy expert. I provide advice and training to my faculty members who needs innovative and elearning supports. This includes the leading development of latest App-based elearning gadgets for medical students. I also participate the re-development an medical assessment item bank system and support various institutions to adopt the new system to their environment.

Jessica has spent the last 10 years honing her facilitation skills through teaching in both Problem-based Learning (PBL) and recently Team-based Learning (TBL) classrooms. With a background in microbiology, biotechnology and physiology, she taught biomedical sciences modules in a local polytechnic and now facilitate in large-group TBL classes in an undergraduate medical school. With her experience and interest in educational development, she designs faculty development programmes to support staff in their large-group teaching and in their understanding of student-centered pedagogical approaches.

Sophia is a cardiac anesthesiologist by training and the Chair of the Risk Management and Patient Safety Committee and the Patient Safety Officer in NUH. She has been involved in training medical students, medical officers, consultants and faculty in patient safety. Sophia has had grants and participated in a number of patient safety projects including communication of critical results, rapid escalation for deteriorating patients and information dashboard system in the operating theatre for patient safety. Her work has gained recognition at the national level and she was awarded a public service administration gold award for her role as an activist in patient safety in 2011. Her current interests include patient safety performance measures, accreditation of ward procedures, team training and improving the curriculum and education of patient safety in medical school.

Rachel graduated with a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in Social Work at the National University of Singapore in 2010.

After her graduation, Rachel practiced as a Social Worker at the community level where she was actively involved in the conceptualisation and development of a community needs assessment questionnaire to understand the social needs of residents. She has also served in the Public Sector where she was involved in the service development and management of disability services in Singapore.

Currently, Rachel is a Research Assistant for the Interprofessional Education research study at her alma mater.

Esther graduated from Nanyang Polytechnic with Diploma in Occupational Therapy and obtained her Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy from Curtin University of Technology, Australia. Upon completion of her studies in Master of Mental Health (Art Therapy) from University of Queensland, Esther has been practicing both occupational therapy and art therapy at her area of work. She has been involved in educating individuals affected by stress related issues on ways of coping with stress, strategies to improve their quality of life and ways to maintain their mental well-being. Some of these coping strategies include relaxation techniques, leisure activities and art making.

Dr Archuleta is an assistant professor and clinician educator in the Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine of the National University of Singapore. She served as Transitional Year Residency Program Director 2009-2011 and is now Program Director of the Infectious Diseases Senior Residency Program at the National University Health System. She’s a senior consultant in Infectious Diseases at the National University Hospital - her clinical interests are in the field of HIV/AIDS and she heads the NUH HIV Program. She is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases and, prior to moving to Singapore in 2008, she was on the faculty of the Division of International Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Weill Medical College of Cornell University where she developed her passion for graduate medical education.

Marion is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLL SoM), National University of Singapore and a Consultant Paediatrician in the Department of Paediatrics, National University Hospital (NUH). After completing paediatric specialist training in Singapore, Dr Aw spent 2 years with the Paediatric Liver Unit at King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom. Her MD thesis (University of London) is based on clinical and research work done whilst she was there.

Her area of clinical expertise is in paediatric gastrointestinal disease, hepatology and liver transplantation. She is a member of the National Liver Transplantation Sub-Committee, Ministry of Health. In addition, she has an interest in nutrition and feeding issues in children.

Dr Aw's other passion is in medical education. She is actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. She is the Program Director for Paediatric Residency Training in her department. She also serves as the Associate Chairman, Medical Board (Education) for NUH, and is an Assistant Dean (Education) for the YLLSoM.

Katharine Boursicot BSc MBBS MRCOG MAHPE NTF SFHEA FRSM, Director, Health Professional Assessment Consultancy, graduated from the University of London with an Honours BSc in Anatomy and MBBS from the Medical College of St Bartholomew’s Hospital. She went onto train in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in London, Dublin and Hong Kong then worked as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at St Thomas’, St Bartholomew’s and Homerton Hospitals in London, with an Honorary Reader position at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

With an increasing interest in medical education, Katharine studied at the Institute of Education in London and was awarded a distinction in her Masters in Higher and Professional Education. As a full time medical educationalist, she has gained experience and expertise in medical education and has led the reform of curriculum and assessment at the undergraduate medical schools at Barts and the London, Cambridge University and St George’s University of London. In 2014, she moved to Singapore to work as Assistant Dean for Medical Education Research and Assessment at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Since 2015, she has worked independently, to lead a consortium of health professional educationalists (Health Professional Assessment Consultancy: HPAC http://www.hpac.sg/index.html) to conduct internationally acclaimed assessment courses in London (http://www.hpac.sg/facourse) and Singapore (http://www.hpac.sg/siaac), as well as advise internationally on assessment, quality assurance, faculty development and reviews of assessment programmes.

She has published her research in the leading medical education journals and is an Associate Editor for the journals Advances in Health Sciences Education, BioMedCentral and is a regular reviewer for Medical Education, Medical Teacher, the BMJ, the Clinical Teacher, Higher Education Quarterly and Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. She is the Series Editor for the Oxford University Press companion volumes to their Handbooks of Medicine series, with six volumes published and another three in press (Oxford Assess and Progress series).

Katharine has been invited to advise on numerous national and international initiatives including several of the Royal Medical Colleges in the UK, the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, the Association of Veterinary Schools in the UK, the General Medical Council, the General Dental Council, the Osteopathic Council, the Lawyers Regulatory Council, the Arab Board of Postgraduate Examinations, the National Assessment Group of Switzerland, the IDEAL Consortium, and has held visiting Professorships at the Universities of Cyberjaya (Malaysia), Hong Kong, Amman (Jordan) and Tromsø (Norway).

Currently, she is consultant to the Singapore Ministry of Health, Curtin Medical School (Australia), University College Dublin School of Veterinary Medicine (Ireland), the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, and the General Medical Council (UK).

Dr Claire Ann Canning, is a Senior Lecturer, Medical Education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. She is also Lead for Written Assessment, Years 1 and 2, Lead for Introduction to Medical Sciences, a TBL facilitator and House Tutor.

Dr Claire Ann Canning graduated from the National University of Ireland with a BSc. (Hons) degree in Biochemistry in 1998. After gaining a MSc. in Medical Genetics and Immunology, she was awarded her PhD in 2002 in the field of Sex Determination (Developmental Genetics) from the National Institute of Medical Research, UK. Claire relocated to Singapore in 2004, where until 2012, she was a senior research fellow at A*STAR. Her research interests were primarily in the field of embryology and genetics, studying signalling pathways and their involvement in normal development and disease.

Research Focus
In 2013, she joined LKCMedicine to pursue a career in Medical Education. Her research interests are in the areas of Assessment in Medical Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Mapping and Admissions.

Clara is an Assistant Manager in Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She obtained her Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Business Studies with Human Resource Management from Loughborough University, United Kingdom in 2014.

She has been involved in healthcare and medical education related work since 2009. Her current work with Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine involves supporting Curriculum Implementation and assist in developing new pedagogy such as Collaborative Learning Cases (CLCs) that will help medical students to better correlate basic sciences to real clinical conditions, develop students’ clinical reasoning skills and create an active learning environment through strong interaction with their peers.

Dr Sri Chander is an Associate Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore. His focus is on the development and teaching of new and current Global Health modules for MPH students, medical undergraduates, non-medical undergraduates and health leaders from the Asia Region.

He has nearly 30 years’ Global Health experience as the Asia-Pacific Regional Health Advisor of World Vision, where Dr Sri Chander led a regional team to provide technical support to World Vision Offices in 17 countries in the Asia-Pacific region from his Singapore home base.

He has a medical degree from the National University of Singapore and a Master’s of Public Health (MPH) degree from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr Chander has extensive experience in the design, monitoring, evaluation and advocacy of large-scale maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN), immunization, TB, HIV & AIDS and pandemic preparedness programs.

Adj A/Prof Nicholas Chew is a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1995, holds a Masters of Medicine in Psychiatry (NUS, 2001), and a Masters of Science in Health Professions Education from Massachusetts General Hospital, Institute of Health Professions (2013).

He served as the Deputy Head of Department, Psychological Medicine from 2006 to 2010 where he started the HIV Psychiatry and the Post-Stroke Depression Programmes. In 2009 He started the Transitional Year Residency Programme in NHG and subsequently took on the role of the Designated Institutional Official for NHG Residency. In 2013 he also served as the Assistant Chairman Medical Board (Medical Manpower Development). He currently serves as the Group Chief Education Officer for the National Healthcare Group and is a member of the Specialist Accreditation Board in Singapore

Audrey is Associate Professor of Management & Organization, NUS Business School. She holds a joint appointment at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore. Audrey studies how social and health problems can be addressed by social entrepreneurship and innovative philanthropy. Audrey’s research has been published in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) and by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She has spoken on social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, innovative financing and inclusive growth at meetings of the ADB, OECD, United Nations and the European Union. Her work has been presented at conferences of the Academy of Management, the Integrated Care Foundation and the World Health Summit.

Audrey directs the NIHA (NUS Initiative to Improve Health in Asia) Healthcare Leadership Programme for senior leaders in the public, private and NGO sectors from 15 countries across Asia. Audrey also directs NUS Business School’s Leadership Development Programme, which attracts participants from five continents. She has received three University awards, two Faculty awards and numerous commendations for excellence in teaching.

Hui Ting received her BSc (Hons) (Pharmacy) in 2008 and PhD in 2013 from the Department of Pharmacy, NUS. She is a registered pharmacist with the Singapore Pharmacy Council since 2009. She was a clinical editor with the National Healthcare Group Pharmacy & Therapeutics Office before joining the university in Dec 2014 to pursue her interest and passion in education. She aims to marry her training and experiences in the pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy practice to answer pertinent research questions in the areas of drug interactions, medication adherence, and, pharmacy and inter-professional education.

Shien Chue, PhD is a research fellow at Medical Education Research and Scholarship Unit in Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Researching alongside educating, she is keen to broaden medical professional education focus beyond individual teaching effectiveness to foster communities of practice. Her research interests include transitions, workplace learning, social semiotics and professional learning communities.

A/Prof Chui Wai Keung received the degree of B.Sc. (Pharmacy) Honours from NUS. He obtained his PhD degree from Aston University (UK). He was one of the five co-chairpersons of the NUS Interprofessional Education Steering Committee. He has been invited to speak at seminars as well as conduct training for academics and pharmacists in Western Pacific countries. He was awarded the Ishidate Award for Pharmaceutical Education at the Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Association Congress in 2012. In Singapore, he was elected as the President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore and he was the recipient of the 1999 Professor Lucy Wan Outstanding Pharmacist Award.

Dr. Cook joined Duke - NUS Medical School in June 2006, as Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Curriculum Development as well as head of the Medical Education, Research, and Evaluation Department. In 2010 she was promoted to Senior Associate Dean and took on an expanded role in supporting the Vice Dean in managing the Education Office. She helped establish the Academic Medicine Education Institute (AM.EI), which was launched in 2012. It is a joint venture with Duke-NUS and SingHealth –designed to promote excellence in education for all Health Professional Educators. In 2014, she was accepted into the NUS Teaching Academy Fellows and 2016 received the Master Scholar Award from the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE). In 2016, she was appointed Interim Vice Dean and Co-Chair of AM.EI.

Dr. Cook received her PhD from Cornell University in Adult and Continuing Education. Her Master’s is in Research Methodology and her Bachelor’s in Experimental Psychology, both from Ohio State University. Dr. Cook went to Chicago in 1985 to work as an education specialist for the Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC), a major NIH grant that was awarded to the University of Chicago in 1976 and continues to be funded. One of the major focuses on that grant has been the translation of diabetes research to the community, patients, and physicians. She continued on that grant and other diabetes related grants until 2003, when she needed to focus more of her time with University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medical and working with faculty to develop scholarly medical education

M Kamala Devi has over 16 years of teaching experience in nursing. She is a Senior Lecturer at ALCNS. She is actively involved with undergraduate teaching and supervision of Honours student projects and is the Program Coordinator of the Bachelor of Science (Nursing) Program. She obtained her basic nursing education and post-basic Oncology training in Singapore and completed her Bachelor of Health Sciences (Nursing) with University of Sydney. Kamala obtained a post-graduate Diploma in Higher Education and holds a Master of Science degree in Advanced Practice from University of Surrey, UK. Kamala completed her PhD with National University of Singapore in 2016. She is a member of Board of Directors in the Singapore Nurses Association and is a member of the Education Committee, Singapore Nursing Board.

Dr Goh is a graduate of the Melbourne Medical School in Australia (1987), a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in the UK (1993), Fellow of the Academy of Medicine in Singapore, and has obtained a Master of Health Professions Education from Maastricht University (2012). He has been practicing as a clinical radiologist for the last 26 years, and teaching at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and National University Hospital (NUH) for the last 23 years. He has a special interest in Neuroradiology, Chest Radiology, and Abdominal Radiology. Dr Goh has previously served as Radiology Department Clinical Director, Undergraduate Teaching Director, and Postgraduate Teaching Director; as well as serving NUH as the inaugural Chair of the hospital Risk Management and Patient Safety Committee. He has served as Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Radiological Society; a Council Member of the College of Radiologists of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore; and on organising committees for local and international scientific conferences in Radiology; Biomedical Engineering; and Medical Education; including being previous Chair, organising committee, of the 11th APMEC (Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference) 2014; and a member of the organising committee eLearning symposium for AMEE 2015, Glasgow.

He has been developing and evaluating eLearning platforms and solutions for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and learning for the last 15 years; and has presented this work at conferences, invited symposia and workshops both locally and internationally. He has published papers on Technology enhanced learning / eLearning in Medical Education journals as well as online papers and reflection pieces. He was a member of the NUS task-force successful in developing a proposal for setting up the Interactive and Digital Media Institute at NUS.

Dr Goh is currently core faculty of the NUHS Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program; as well as being local faculty and serving as Unit 7 co-ordinator for the MHPE-S program run conjointly by Maastricht University with the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He is a current member of the AMEE (Association for Medical Education in Europe) eLearning committee.

“Passions - Technology enhanced learning, Education, Radiology. Technology as a tool, platform and enabler to support and augment face to face customised teaching and learning; with educational principles as the foundation; and Radiology, as well as Medical Education Faculty Development and Scholarship as my academic and clinical focus.”

His current focus is on building and evaluating the use of hyperlinked radiology and educational case repositories in medical education.

http://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.sg/2016/04/collected-medical-education-activities.html
(for Collected Medical Education Activities)

Anita Ho is an Associate Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Medical Ethics Curriculum at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBME) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining NUS, Anita was an Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Ethics and the Director of Ethics Services at Providence Health Care in Vancouver, Canada. She is particularly interested in using strength-based approaches to teach professionalism and ethics, and in developing models for evaluating ethics curricula for various educational and professional programs. Her other main area of research focuses on supportive and shared decision making in the diverse healthcare settings. Anita is currently also a Section Editor for the BMC Medical Ethics.

Calvin WL Ho is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also Co-Head of the Collaborating Centre for Bioethics of the World Health Organization, and a Research Associate with The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. In addition, he serves as a member of the Singapore Nursing Board, an Assistant Director with the Legal Aid Bureau (Ministry of Law), a member of the National Transplant Ethics Panel (Ministry of Health), a member of the Bioethics Committee of Alexandria Hospital, a member of the Paediatric Ethics and Advocacy Centre, National University Hospital and a member of NUS Inter-professional Education Steering Committee.

Reshmi Karayan Kayanoth graduated with her M.Sc in Clinical Psychology from Bangalore University, India, and her M.Phil in Clinical Psychology from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India. A Registered Psychologist with the Singapore Psychological Society, she has been working at the National University Hospital, Singapore, since 2004, and currently leads the team of psychologists in the Department of Psychological Medicine. Her special interests include mindfulness-based therapies, mood disorders, trauma focused therapies, and women’s emotional health issues. She has been involved in clinical teaching and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate Psychology students, as well as medical students and residents.

Reshmi received both her basic training in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Advanced Teachers Training for MBCT and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teachers from the UC San Diego Centre for Mindfulness. A passionate believer in the beneficial effects of mindfulness for physical and mental health, she has incorporated mindfulness in her clinical practice and has been running mindfulness-based groups with the clinical population (anxiety and depression relapse prevention, cancer), as well as non-clinical population (mindful parenting).

A/Prof Koh had received her PhD in Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, from the School of Nursing, University of Melbourne, Australia in 2008. She is currently Associate Professor at ALCNS, NUS, teaching undergraduates & postgraduates on research, evidence-based practice, patient safety and quality as well as supervision of the students for their research thesis. She worked in the Ministry of Health from 2009-2016, developing patient safety strategies and overseeing clinical quality in the hospitals. She previously worked in KKH as a midwife since 1995, and extended to research and teaching roles since 2001. Her research interests are in patient safety and maternal health.

Dr. Kowitlawakul received her PhD in Nursing in 2008, from George Mason University, Virginia, USA. Her professional experiences have included critical care nursing and clinical teaching. Dr. Kowitlawakul has been working as an Assistant Professor at Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, since July 2011. She has been involved in teaching undergraduate and graduate nursing program. Her research areas of interest are patient safety and quality and educational technology.

1. Education and Training
   1. Medical School, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 1968-1973
   2. Training in Psychiatry, Oxford University, 1978 - 1980
   3. Geriatric Psychiatry Training, Harvard University, 1984


2. Research Interests
   • Ageing, dementia, medical education and psychotherapy.


3. Scientific Advisory Boards
   1. WHO Dementia Research Team, 1990 – 2005
   2. Director, NUS Gerontology Research Programme, 1994 – 2000
   3. Inter-Ministerial Committee on Healthcare of Elderly, Singapore, 2000–2003
   4. Chairman, Specialist Advisory Board (Psychiatry), Min of Defence, 2005–2016


4. Leadership in Administration
   1. Head, Department of Psychological Medicine, NUS, 1994-2002 and 2006-2009
   2. CEO and Medical Director, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, 1999 – 2002


5. International recognition
   1. Chief Editor, Asia-Pacific Psychiatry Journal, 2008 - 2012.
   2. President, Pacific-Rim College of Psychiatrists, 2009 - 2012.
   3. Editor-in-Chief (with Professor Norman Sartorius) of a new textbook on ‘Mental Health and Illness Worldwide’ to be published by Springer 2017

Dr Lau Tang Ching is currently working as a consultant rheumatologist in the Division of Rheumatology, University Medicine Cluster in the National University Health System. He has been appointed as the Assistant Dean (education) of Yong Loo Ling School of Medicine in June 2010, and as Vice Chairman Medical Board (education) for NUH since July 2013. He graduated in 1991 from the National University of Singapore and obtained his Membership of the Royal College of Physician in United Kingdom and the Master of Medicine (internal medicine) degree in 1997. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore since 2001 and the Royal College of Physician (Edinburgh) since 2004. He also holds a Master of Medical Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology (University of Newcastle, Australia), and a graduate diploma degree in acupuncture (Singapore). His main research interests are in osteoporosis, pharmacoeconomic evaluation, medical education and evidence based medicine. He has helped to coordinate the Health Service Development Program for osteoporosis (HSDP) in 2003 to 2007 in the NHG cluster, which was successful in improving adherence and reducing the recurrent fracture rates of patients who were at high risk of recurrent fractures. He is helping to coordinate the Osteoporosis Disease Management Program (OPTIMAL), which is an extension of the previous HSDP osteoporosis program. He is currently the president of the Osteoporosis Society (Singapore) and the vice-chairman of the National Arthritis Foundation. His hobbies include photography, singing, cooking, jogging and taichi.

Ms Cindy Lee has been involved in teaching undergraduate nursing students. Her teaching areas are Medical-Surgical Nursing, Maternal and Child Health Nursing, Fundamental of Nursing. She has integrated gamification for blood transfusion into nursing curriculum in the nursing laboratory.

Kai Yin is currently a first year General Surgery resident with National University Health System. She graduated in 2015 from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and has rotated through various institutions including Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Changi General Hospital, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and currently National University Hospital. She has been gaining valuable insight and clinical experience, and was awarded the Best House Officer award during her General Medicine rotation. She has research interests in both clinical and translational medicine, and hopes to continue to learn and improve to be able to do her best for her patients.

Dr. Lee plays an active role in the training and education of junior ophthalmologists in Singapore, being head of his department’s Training and Education committee. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NUS, and the inaugural Program Director for the National Healthcare Group Ophthalmology Residency Program. He is a member of the institution’s Graduate Medical Education Committee, and currently serves as Member and Site visitor, Joint Committee on Specialist Training (JCST) Accreditation Committee of Singapore, as well as Member of the JCST Accreditation Process Workgroup. He also serves as Member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-International (ACGME-I) Review Committee.

Dr Liaw Sok has been involved in a number of educational initiatives at ALCNS, including the development and implementation of simulation evaluation tools, Objective Structure Clinical Examination (OSCE), simulation-based interprofessional education and virtual patient simulation. She has created a website at www.rapids.nus.edu.sg to share her evidence-based educational resources on RAPIDS. Her research work on simulation education and RAPIDS has been recognized through publications in high impact journals (e.g. Resuscitation and Journal of Medical Internet Research). She has been invited as a speaker on simulation education by a number of institutions in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand.

Professor Lim Boon Leng serves as Deputy Group Director of Education, SingHealth and serves as the Designated Institutional Official. His interest in graduate medical education initially focused within his specialty of anesthesiology, with emphasis in intensive care medicine. Past leadership positions include Director of the Surgical ICU; Head, Department of Anaesthesia; President, Society of Intensive Care Medicine; President, Singapore Society of Anaesthesiology. He is an active participant in committees for the Ministry of Health which address medical education, including the Specialist Accreditation Board; Medical Education Coordination; Medical Standards and Development; Postgraduate Training Coordination; Training and Assessment Standards; Transplant Ethics.

Assoc Professor Erle CH Lim graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1990, and obtained his Masters in Medicine (Internal Medicine) from the same university in 1997. In 2009, he was appointed as a Fellow to the Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow. He trained in Neurology at the Singapore General Hospital, after which he completed his training in Movement Disorders at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, under Professors C Warren Olanow and Mitchell F Brin. He is currently Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National University Hospital and was Assistant Dean of Education at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS from 2007 to 2010. A/Prof Erle Lim's subspecialty interest is in Movement disorders, focusing on clinical applications of Botulinum toxin, Parkinson's disease, Spasticity and Dystonia. He has been invited to give lecture on Neurology and Movement Disorders regionally and internationally, and teaches techniques of Botulinum toxin injection using electromyographic guidance to regional neurologists. He has published over 100 papers in international journals, covering topics in general neurology, movement disorders, botulinum toxin, general medicine and medical education, and is reviewer for international journals in Medicine, Neurology, Movement disorders and Medical Education. He is Deputy Editor of the Annals, Academy of Medicine, Singapore, and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Medicine Research. He sits on the specialist training committee in Neurology. An avid educationist, he conducts weekly postgraduate clinical tutorials at the National University Hospital, and is director of the yearly Neurologic Localisation Course. In 2006 and 2007, he was awarded both the faculty teaching excellence award and the university's annual excellence teaching award. In 2007, he was awarded the university’s outstanding educator award.

Dr Keith Lim graduated from the National University of Singapore and obtained his post graduate fellowship in Radiation Oncology from the Royal Australian, New Zealand College of Radiology (RANZCR).He is presently a Senior Consultant and one of the Deputy Chief Medical Information Officers for the National University Hospital.

He is presently an Assistant Dean with the Yong Loon Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and is a member of the Residency Advisor Committee for radiation oncology. He has previously served as the Vice President of the Singapore Society of Oncologists.

Ms Siriwan Lim received her Master of Health Science (Education) in 2009 from University of Sydney. She has both clinical experiences as a critical care nurse and infection control practitioner and as an educator, she has taught a variety of nursing modules including healthcare ethics and law. She joins Alice Lee Nursing Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore as a Senior Lecturer in 2013. Her research areas of interest are patient empowerment, patient safety and nursing education.

A/Prof Lim Wee Shiong is Senior Consultant in the Department of Geriatric Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He is faculty advisor for medical education research to the National Healthcare Group ACEO (Education) office; Adjunct Associate Professor of Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS; Fellow of the American Geriatric Society; and Associate Fellow of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).

A/Prof Lim helped to launch NHG-HOMER to advance research in health professions education. A firm believer in asking clarification questions to understand the complexity and richness of phenomena, he strives to conduct Pasteur’s quadrant research that balances rigor and relevance. His research interests in health professions education include interprofessional teams and leadership; outcomes-based program evaluation; and mixed methods research.

Ivan is a fourth-year medical student at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and currently serves as the President of the NUS Medical Society (Medsoc). He has a strong interest in public health, community outreach, and medical education, and in recent years has sought to empower communities as director of the Medsoc Public Health Service and the Community Service Directorate. He currently guides community engagement initiatives as a member of the NUS Medicine Global Health & Leadership Advisory Committee, and spearheads technical support programmes for innovation in health as the Faculty Chair for the NUS Medical Grand Challenge.

Dr Ray is a Senior Consultant and the Undergraduate Medical Education Director in Ophthalmology at National University Hospital. His field of specialization is Cornea and External Eye Diseases and General Ophthalmology. He is also Assistant Professor in Dept of Ophthalmology at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

Dr Ray completed his undergraduate training at the University of Calcutta, India. He underwent basic surgical training in Ophthalmology at Prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, the premier medical institute in India. He obtained his MD (Ophthalmology) in 1997. Subsequently he underwent advanced surgical training in the field of Cornea and external diseases at AIIMS. He also obtained Fellowship in Ophthalmology from Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (UK) in 1998.

Dr Mark Muthiah is an Associate Consultant in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National University Health System. His clinical interest is in liver transplantation.

He was part of the pioneer batch of residents that entered the Internal Medicine Residency Programme of NUHS in 2010. He was the Chief Resident of the Internal Medicine Residency Programme in 2012, as well as the Chief Senior Resident from 2013-2016.

He has been actively involved in the education of both undergraduates and post-graduates, and serves on the core faculty of the Family Medicine Residency Programme in NUHS.

Ms Yvonne Ng is the Senior Director (Education) of the National Healthcare Group (NHG) and Executive Director of NHG College. She has been in education for 15 years, with the past 9 years focussing on health professions education.

She currently oversees the whole spectrum of health professions education from pre-professional, to postgraduate for medical and pharmacy; and education development in NHG, as well as the group’s training arm - NHG College.

Working closely with NHG’s education leadership and educators, Yvonne plays a pivotal role in setting up and growing the quality health professions education system in NHG.

Professor Shirley Ooi has served as the Designated Institutional Official at NUHS since 2009 and is recognized for her mentorship and leadership both in Singapore and beyond. She is a recognized leader in her specialty of Emergency Medicine and is the past Chief of the Emergency Medicine Department at NUHS. Her contributions to her institution are numerous, as they are nationally. She has served and frequently chaired the following professional activities: Specialist Training Committee for Emergency Medicine; Society for Emergency Medicine in Singapore; Singapore Medical Journal; Emergency Cardiac Care; Training and Assessment Standards Committee. She is an invited guest speaker for numerous international meetings as well.

Ms Poh Chee Lien is the Assistant Director at the National Healthcare Group Education Office, Singapore; Senior Project Administrator at the Ministry of Health, Singapore; and Tutor at the University of Adelaide - Ngee Ann Education Centre. Before her appointment at NHG Education Office, she was the Assistant Director, Nursing (Education) and Head of Nursing Training Department at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), Singapore. She is an Evidence-Based Practice Clinical Fellow of Joanna Briggs Institute, Adelaide, Australia. She holds a Master of Health Science (Education) from the University of Sydney, Australia; a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Sydney, Australia; Advanced Diploma in Nursing (Gerontology) from Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore; and a Diploma in Nursing from Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore.

Preman is an advocate of active student-centred approaches to learning, and an experienced faculty developer. He has separate master degrees in Engineering and Education, a doctorate in Education Psychology, and has previously taught engineering, science and critical thinking. In his current role he is Head of Educational Development and TBL Facilitation at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Here his responsibilities include providing advice on curriculum development and faculty development. He is also responsible for the TBL facilitation and leads a team of TBL Facilitators, whose job it is to run the TBL sessions effectively.

Professor Rajasoorya is an Endocrinologist and Internist at KTPH. He is also the Education Director at the hospital, Clinical Professor at YLL School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor at Duke NUS Medical School and chairs the Training and Assessment Standards Committee for Postgraduate Year 1 in Singapore. He has a strong interest in medical education. He chaired the National Undergraduate Curriculum Committee which produced its report that provided strategic oversight of the long term development of Singapore’s undergraduate medical education. He is a recipient of numerous teaching awards including the inaugural Clinician Educator National Medical Excellence Award.

Dujeepa Samarasekera is the Director, Centre for Medical Education, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Dujeepa has been involved in curriculum planning, evaluation, and student assessment at both undergraduate and postgraduate level health professional courses.

Dujeepa serves on the editorial advisory boards of South East Asian Journal of Medical Education (SEAJME), Korean Journal of Medical Education and is a peer reviewer for Medical Teacher, Medical Education, Annals of Academic Medicine, Singapore Medical Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health and serves as faculty to local and international health professional education programs.

He is also the vice-president of Association for Medical Education in the Western Pacific Region(AMEWPR) and a board member of Asian Medical Education Association, AMEE Ambassador and member of ASPIRE panel for Medical School Assessment and Faculty Development, and Asia Pacific Network for Scholarship in Medical Education (APNetSME).

His main research interests are in effective teaching/learning behaviours and assessment and has published in peer reviewed journals as well as authored book chapters relating to Medical and Health Professional Education.

Dr Neeta Satku graduated from NUS Medicine in 2002 and worked in the Anaesthesiology Department of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) until 2015. She has a Masters in Bioethics (Monash), and has experience with clinical ethics consults and medical education at TTSH. She is now an adjunct lecturer and clinical tutor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

Dr See Kay Choong is Consultant and Head, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore. He is also Director, Research Residency Program, National University Health System. Dr See graduated from the National University of Singapore and completed Advanced Specialty Training in both Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. He obtained the European Diploma in Intensive Care and Masters of Public Health from Harvard University with a focus on Quantitative Methods. His recent medical education work revolves around physician well-being, evidence-based medicine assessment, clinical reasoning, pleural ultrasound training and critical care ultrasonography.

Liang received her PhD in Statistics from National University of Singapore, and is currently working as senior biostatistician at the Biostatistics Unit in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She is actively involved in conducting research and statistical courses to help researchers in their aims of publication and to enhance their understanding of reading published articles. She serves as statistical reviewer for the international journal Disease of Colon and Rectum.

Dr Shorey is an Assistant Professor at Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, National University of Singapore. Her research areas focus on family and women health as well as nursing education. She has designed psychosocial and educational interventions for varied group of populations. She has conducted both quantitative (e.g. Randomized controlled trials, descriptive quantitative studies) and qualitative (e.g. descriptive qualitative) studies. Her research studies involve national and international collaborations. Dr Shorey’s research focus is on enhancing health outcomes, quality of care and students’ satisfaction in nursing education. Dr Shorey has received various awards for her academic and research excellence. She has been invited at various conferences and the findings of her research has been presented in national, regional and international conferences. She has published in high impact factor journals.

With more than 30 years of direct medical education experience, Lisa has fostered and galvanized her reputation as a senior executive with proven leadership credentials and strategic insight. She is accredited by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) as a provider of Quality Improvement and Continuing Professional Development (QI&CPD), where she has been instrumental in the development and delivery of numerous accredited programmes to Australian GPs, nurses and pharmacists both face-to-face and online. Lisa is also the President of the Global Alliance for Medical Education (GAME), a US based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting lifelong learning by providing healthcare professionals with resources and fostering programs, standards, and partnerships, leading to quality care for patients and communities.

Dr Anna Tan is an assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Her clinical area of expertise is in Cornea and External Eye diseases as well as Refractive Laser Surgery like femtosecond laser LASIK and SMILE. She is also the Program director of Ophthalmology Residency Program at the National University Health System. Her special interest is in surgery simulation through wet laboratories and currently conducts 4 wet lab sessions annually to teach cataract surgery. She is involved in curriculum development for the undergraduates and examination and assessments for post graduates.

Dr Kevin Tan is a Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National Neuroscience Institute and Associate Professor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Duke-NUS Medical School. He completed his Fellowship in Neuroinfectious Disease and Neuroimmunology at Johns Hopkins University (2008) and Master of Science in Health Professions Education at MGH Institute of Health Professions (2016). His clinical expertise is in neuroinflammatory diseases and neurological infections. He is currently Programme Director, Neurology Senior Residency and Head, Office of Neurological Education, NNI. His medical education interests are team-based learning, innovations in teaching and assessment, and clinical reasoning.

Professor Tan serves as a Consultant Psychiatrist at National University Hospital and an Associate Professor in Pharmacology of the National University of Singapore.

She is a member of Centre for Medical Education and is actively involved in faculty training. She served many years in Medical Education from Curriculum Review, Problem-Based Learning, Educational Task Force, Professional Development, Mentoring Program, and Longitudinal Patient Program in the School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

Dr Tan has received multiple University teaching awards from 2002 to 2016. She has been named the National University of Singapore Faculty Outstanding Educator in 2016.

Associate Professor Clement Tan took over Headship of Ophthalmology Department, National University Hospital and National University Singapore in 2014. He obtained his MBBS from the National University of Singapore in 1993. After completing his basic and advanced Ophthalmology training in Singapore, Associate Professor Tan completed a fellowship in Neuro-ophthalmology at King’s College Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. He received his Masters in Health Professions Education from University of Maastricht in June 2014.

Apart from general clinical ophthalmology and general neuro-ophthalmology, he has special interests in eye movement and pupil disorders. Associate Professor Tan heads the Neuro-ophthalmology service at the National University Hospital. He also plays a significant role as NUHS Associate Designated Institutional Official in Residency Program. He is passionate about teaching and has been recipient of National University Hospital Postgraduate Teaching Excellence Award for 5 consecutive years (2011-2015). As such he was awarded the NUH Eminent Teacher Award in 2016 an award that is given to educators who have won the Teaching Excellence Award 5 times. In 2015, he also received the Distinguished Service Award under the Eye & Vision Health Award from KTPH for contributions that are major, durable in impact and generally entail going beyond the call of duty.

Ms Winnie Teo graduated from the School of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 2001. After her post-doctoral research stint, she joined an educational consultancy group, helping Singapore schools set up and implement molecular biology education programmes. A keen educator, she also lectured part-time in the School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Nanyang Polytechnic.

As one of the newest members in the NHG Education team, Winnie is excited about being in the burgeoning scene of education research in the health professions.

Dr Sandhya Mujumdar is the Deputy Director, Medical Affairs (Clinical Governance) Department, National University Hospital (NUH); Senior Specialist, Quality & Accreditation, NUH; and part-time lecturer in Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSOM), Singapore. She has helped to develop quality and safety framework in NUH. She oversees and drives clinical quality and patient safety, clinical audit, risk management, JCI accreditation, performance management, clinical pathways and case management in NUH.

She has a wide experience in driving quality improvement and patient safety projects and has presented posters, given oral presentations and won many awards for her projects at national/international levels; and published articles in scientific journals and a book on quality & patient safety for medical students and residents.

She is one of the founding members of Healthcare Quality Society of Singapore (HQSS) and is actively involved in various activities conducted by the society.

A/P Wong Mun Loke is actively involved in the undergraduate teaching of Preventive Dentistry, Dental Public Health and Behavioural Science and is also a member of NUS Inter-professional Education Steering Committee. His interest in inter-professional teaching led to his engagement in various teaching activities beyond the dental faculty. Mun Loke received his MSc, with Distinction, in Dental Public Health from the Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, in 2002.

As part of the Education team in Dean’s Office, Nicholas supports in the planning and development of the curriculum for medical undergraduate education. This involves designing a curriculum which aims to produce future ready graduates for the Singapore healthcare system. He obtained his Bachelors in Business from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia in 2001 and has been involved in medical education related work since 2002. His interests are in inter-professional education and promoting the use of simulation as a teaching tool.

Teck Yee is a Family Physician, Senior Consultant, in TTSH and Associate Professor & Assistant Dean (Year 4 & Family Medicine) in LKCMedicine. He has obtained his MBBS (1995), Masters in Family Medicine (2001), MPH (2009) & Masters in Health Professions Education (2013).

After completing his Family Medicine residency training, he worked in Choa Chu Kang Polyclinic as a Family Physician (2001 - 04) and later as Head/Senior Family Physician (2004 - 06). He was awarded the Human Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) scholarship to the Dept of General Practice in Monash University, Melbourne (2005). He joined the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor (2006-11), holding the post of FM Undergraduate Education Director.

In 2011, he joined Tan Tock Seng Hospital as a Family Physician Consultant and was appointed Asst Dean (Fam Med) of LKCMedicine. He is currently an examiner for the Graduate Diploma of FM and the MMed (FM) in Singapore. He was a member of the National Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and is currently on the FM Residency Advisory Committee for the FM postgraduate medical examination.

He remains in active clinical practice, has contributed more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals and to Disease Management Guidelines. He also actively participates in both local and international conferences, with numerous oral and poster presentations.

Lishan has facilitated in Problem-based Learning and Team-based learning classroom settings for over 10 years in a diverse range of subjects, such as Anthropology, History, Creative Writing and Theatre Studies. While her own educational background comprised the liberal arts and social sciences, she now facilitates large-group TBL classes at a medical school. She is also faculty development trainer and has co-authored pedagogical case studies for graduate level courses. She believes that true education occurs through how the learner comes to an understanding of the content, i.e. through inquiry and analysis, rather than just the memorization of the content itself.

A/Prof Mabel Yap is currently Director, Professional Training and Assessment Standards Division, MOH, where she oversees development and implementation of assessments for doctors/specialists and accreditation of healthcare professionals. She is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the Duke–NUS Graduate Medical School, Centre for Health Services and Systems Research (HSSR). She received her PhD (Nutrition) from Wageningen University in Netherlands and her Post Graduate Diploma (Human Nutrition) from Deakin University, Australia. A/Prof Yap also has a Master’s degree in Science (Public Health) and medical degree from the National University of Singapore.

Jenn Ye graduate with a Bachelor in Life Science from NUS in 2008. Having found her calling in education early on, she began lecturing in Nanyang Polytechnic in 2010. During her time with the poly, she developed curriculum content for the diploma in Biomedical Sciences, served as the school's outreach ambassador and held the secretariat role in the IACUC and IRB committees.

Hoping to serve the larger educational landscape in Singapore, she made her move to NUS Medicine Dean's Office in 2016. She works with a team of like-minded colleagues to rationalize and implement the new medical curriculum.

Adj. A/Prof Yip is Head and Senior Consultant at the Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Department of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital; and Clinical Director at Admiralty Medical Centre. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore as well as Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University. He received the American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award (2008), the American Academy of Ophthalmology International Ophthalmologist Education Award (2011) and the Eye and Visionary Award (2012) for his contributions in ophthalmic education. He has an educational research interest in effective teaching and learning.