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 and the development of new educational programmes 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 programme 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, programme 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 counselling and human relations from Villanova University, and a master’s of divinity from Palmer Theological Seminary.

Dr. Lenard Cheng is the Chief Resident of the National University Health System’s Emergency Medicine Residency. He has a personal interest in education, facilitating the learning of post-graduates in the department in case discussions and procedures, as well as mentoring undergraduate students from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and overseas partnering institutions. As Senior Resident, he is part of the department’s Residents-As-Teachers programme. Outside the department, he invests his time in education with the Centre for Healthcare Simulation as an instructor for the Advanced Cardiac Life Support course.

Professor of Physiology at Paris Descartes University School of Medicine, Head of the Department of Physiology at Georges Pompidou Hospital, and Team Leader of the lab “Cellular homeostasis and signaling in liver and kidney pathophysiology” at Institut Necker Enfants Malades, Paris, France. He is Dean of Paris Descartes University School of Medicine. He focused his experimental and clinical research on renal physiology and pathophysiology, water and mineral metabolism, calcium and phosphate homeostasis, chronic kidney diseases, and on the links between ageing, metabolism and homeostasis. The links between clinical practice, clinical investigation, experimental and translational research and medical education is a field of his interest and expertise.

Dr. Harumi Gomi graduated from Okayama University Medical School, Japan. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, and fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Texas-Houston. She obtained her master’s degree in public health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and master’s degree in health professions education (MHPE) from Maastricht University. She served as Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in the United States, Associate Professor of Medicine at Jichi Medical University, and Professor of Medicine, University of Tsukuba in Japan.

Professor David Gordon has been President of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) since 2015. After qualifying from the University of Cambridge, Professor Gordon held research, academic and clinical appointments in Leicester, Cambridge and London. He was on the staff of the Wellcome Trust, then Dean of the medical faculty in Manchester, President of the Association of Medical Schools in Europe and Chair of the Council of Heads of Medical Schools in the UK. He left Manchester in 2007 to join WFME, then based in Copenhagen, Denmark and now in Ferney-Voltaire, France, near Geneva

Aviad “Adi” Haramati, PhD, is an award-winning physiologist and medical educator. He is Professor of Integrative Physiology, Founding Director of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Education (CENTILE), and co-director of the CAM Graduate Programme at Georgetown University Medical Center. He received a PhD in Physiology (University of Cincinnati) and came to Georgetown after 5 years at Mayo Clinic. His research interests addressed renal and electrolyte homeostasis, but now focus on medical education. Dr Haramati has advocated that mindful practices be integrated into the medical curriculum. He has been a visiting professor at over 100 medical schools worldwide.

Professor Ronald Harden graduated from medical school in Glasgow, UK. He completed training and practised as an endocrinologist before moving to full time medical education. He is Professor of Medical Education (Emeritus) University of Dundee, Editor of Medical Teacher and General Secretary and Treasurer of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). Professor Harden was formerly Teaching Dean and Director of the Centre for Medical Education at the University of Dundee.

He is committed to developing new approaches to curriculum planning, assessment and to teaching and learning. Ideas which he has pioneered include the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) which has been universally adopted as a standard approach to assessment of clinical competence, the spiral curriculum and the SPICES model for curriculum planning and models for outcome-based education. He has published more than 400 papers in leading journals. He is co-editor of A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers and the Routledge International Handbook of Medical Education and author of Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher and The Definitive Guide to the OSCE. His contributions to excellence in medical education have attracted numerous awards including the Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education. He was awarded by the Queen the OBE for his services to medical education.

Professor Hooi Shing Chuan graduated with MBBS degrees from the National University of Singapore in 1983 and obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1992. He joined the Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore in 1985 and was Head of Department from 2000-2008. He was the Vice Dean (Education) in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine from 2010-2017. He is inaugural Chair of the Medical Sciences Cluster, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, formed in 2018. He has been teaching Physiology to Medical and Allied Health students over the past 25 years. He has received many teaching awards at Faculty and University levels, including the NUS Outstanding Educator Award in 2012.

Professor Dato’ Dr Ravindran Jegasothy graduated with the MBBS from the University of Malaya and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London. He has the Masters in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the National University of Singapore and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia as well as the Indian Academy of Medical Sciences. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Academy of Science, Malaysia recently. He received the Distinguished Community Service Award by the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) for his work in the reduction of maternal mortality. He has served as a WHO consultant in reproductive health on many occasions.

Dr. Dale Kummerle, a Pharmacist, currently leads the Independent Medical Education Department for Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS). He has been involved in education his entire career, starting as a University Assistant Professor, to his 14 years in educating healthcare professionals and patients as a BMS Medical Science Liaison, working in the US and Europe. Dale has lectured internationally, including North America, Europe, China, and Japan, speaking at the EU CME Forum, Association of Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), the Alliance for Continuing Education of Healthcare Professionals and the Global Alliance for Medical Education (GAME). He is the current President for GAME.

Associate Professor Kenneth Mak is Deputy Director Medical Services (Health Services Group), Ministry of Health, Singapore. He oversees the provision of health services in the primary care, community care and hospital settings, including mental health services. He co-led the Corporate Planning Team within MOH in 2015, looking at transforming the models of healthcare in Singapore, which provided the key themes which have been subsumed into Singapore’s long-term healthcare care model transformation strategy. Dr Mak works closely with the Regional Health Systems and the Agency for Integrated Care on care integration initiatives in Singapore. Dr Mak also leads the Diabetes Program Office within MOH, which supports Singapore’s national efforts to control diabetes.

Judy initially trained as a nurse, with an academic background in social and health sciences, education and management. She has led curriculum development, implementation and accreditation of undergraduate medical and postgraduate programmes. She has worked on over sixty international health workforce, reconstruction and education reform projects, is programme director for the Leadership Masters at Swansea and Director of ASME’s and AMEE’s international Educational Leadership programmes. She publishes widely on medical education and leadership and runs health professions’ leadership and education courses and workshops internationally. Her most recent book is Medical Education at a Glance (with Jill Thistlethwaite and Kirsty Forrest).

Dr. Nelson is an internist and the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education at Dell Medical School (DMS). DMS is a new medical school with a strong focus on innovation and leadership. In her role, Dr. Nelson is developing and implementing a new four-year curriculum to educate leaders who can transform healthcare. Dr. Nelson graduated from Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco. She is extremely active within the AAMC and the AMA. She is the Principle Investigator for an AMA Change MedEd consortium grant.

Neil Osheroff, PhD, received his doctoral degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Northwestern University and was a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He currently is Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and holds the John G. Coniglio Chair in Biochemistry. In addition to directing his research laboratory, he is committed to educating the next generation of health professionals and is very interested in curricular design and integration, assessment, and the professional development of medical science educators. He has been a course director in the School of Medicine since 1990 and was one of four faculty members who were tasked with developing and implementing the highly integrated pre-clerkship phase of the medical curriculum as part of a major revision in 2013. He currently serves as one of the two co-leaders of the pre-clerkship phase and chairs the phase’s teaching team. As part of his curricular leadership responsibilities, he helped to implement a successful competency-based assessment programme. Beyond his roles in the pre-clerkship phase, he directs the School of Medicine Academy for Excellence in Education. He also chairs the School of Medicine Master Science Teachers and is leading them in their efforts to incorporate foundational sciences into the clinical years. At the international level, he is a Past-President of the Association of Biochemistry Educators and currently serves as the Treasurer and Executive member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Medical Science Educators. He has received awards for mentoring, teaching, curricular design, educational service and leadership, and for promoting affirmative action and diversity. He has published over 250 scientific and educational papers.

Selan SAYAMPANATHAN, MB,BS 1982, FRCS 1990. He is an orthopaedic surgeon with previous training in UK and Germany. He has been active with professional bodies since 2004. He served as President of the College of Surgeons, Singapore from 2011-2013 and was elected as Master, Academy of Medicine, Singapore from 2016-2020. He is active with grassroots and was awarded the “PBM” by the President of Singapore in 2009. He has been active with the St John Singapore for 45 years, and he is presently Director of the St John Association Singapore. He was awarded the ‘Serving Brother of St John’ in 2011 and the ‘Officer of St John’ in 2015 by Queen Elizabeth II. In his free time, he enjoys being with his wife and 3 children.

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 Taskforce 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 educational research, the results of which were published in Medical Teacher. Since 2007, he has been a full-professor for Innovative Assessment at Maastricht University – currently as Adjunct. In 2011, he was made a Strategic Professor for Medical Education at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia and is also the Director of the Flinders University Prideaux Centre for Research in Health Professions Education.

Dr Nigel Tan is currently a senior consultant with the Department of Neurology at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), Singapore. Dr Tan received his MBBS from the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Medicine, in 1993. His basic training in Internal Medicine was done in Singapore, and his advanced training in Neurology at NNI-TTSH. His fellowship training in epilepsy was with Prof Samuel Berkovic in Melbourne, Australia. In the clinical arena, Dr Tan is a neurologist with an interest in epilepsy and epilepsy genetics.

In the area of health professions education, Dr Tan was previously Education Director, NNI, and Vice Chair (Education) of the Neuroscience Academic Clinical Programme, overseeing health professions education within NNI. He graduated with a Masters in Health Professions Education (MHPEd) from the MGH Institute of Health Professions in 2013. He is currently Deputy Group Director Education (Undergraduate) for Singapore Health Services (Singhealth), overseeing pre-professional education across medical, nursing and allied health across Singhealth. He is also directly involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching with all 3 medical schools in Singapore, and with internal medicine and neurology residency programmes. At the national level, he also serves on the Neurology Residency Advisory Committee as the Chair of the Examination Committee.

Internationally, Dr Tan is a member of the Genetics Literacy and also the Epilepsiome Task Forces of the International League Against Epilepsy. His research interests cover both neurology and education. His current neurology research interests focus on improving Genetic Literacy in epileptologists and neurologists, co-editing the Genetic Literacy series in Epileptic Disorders with Dr Daniel Lowenstein. In education, his research focuses on the use of team-based learning for neurology, assessing clinical reasoning, and the use of test-enhanced learning.

David Taylor is a general internist who trained at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and UCLA Medical Centre prior to joining the Department of Medicine at Queen’s University in Canada. He serves in various education roles including Internal Medicine residency programme director. He completed the Master’s in Health Professions Education programme at the University of Illinois, Chicago focusing on developing and implementing entrustable professional activities in residency training. He helped develop the EPAs for undergraduate medical education in Canada. Additionally, he helped lead EPA development for Internal Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Olle ten Cate, PhD attended medical school at the University of Amsterdam and has served medical education since 1980. In 1986 he completed a PhD dissertation on peer teaching in medical education. Until 1999 he was closely involved with all of the UVA’s major preclinical and clinical curriculum reforms, education research, program evaluation and educational development. In 1999 he was appointed full professor of Medical Education at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and UME program director of at University Medical Center Utrecht. He was founder and director of the Center for Research and Development of Education at UMCU (2005-2017). His interests include curriculum development, peer teaching, competency-based medical education, and many other HPE topics. 2006-2012 he chaired the Netherlands Association for Medical Education (NVMO). In 2012 was appointed adjunct professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, next to his work in Utrecht. He publishes extensively in the HPE literature, supervises many doctoral students in HPE research and received numerous international invitations to speak. He serves on HPE editorial boards and is a Fellow of AMEE. He received the NBME John P. Hubbard Award (2017), the NVMO Han Moll Penning life-time award for services to HPE development and research (2017), and the Ian R. Hart Award for innovation in medical education (2018).

Jun Hao is a fourth-year NUS Medical student, and President of the 70th NUS Medical Society. As a student himself, he is well-acquainted with the challenges medical students today face, and firmly believes in the impact our pedagogies have on our future doctors-to-be. He is immensely thankful to have been part of NUS Medicine’s newest educational methodologies, and has actively given back to his juniors through a range of mentorship initiatives. Last year, he also served as the Medical Society’s Community Service Director, where he spearheaded our first ever Motivational Interviewing Workshop for preclinical students involved in health screening projects.

Dr. Weiss is the Senior Vice President, Institutional Accreditation at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). In his role he is responsible for the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program, including serving as Co-Chair for the CLER Evaluation Committee, and he oversees the institutional accreditation review process. Dr. Weiss came to the ACGME from the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), where from 2007 to 2012 he served as President and CEO. Under Dr. Weiss’ leadership, ABMS-International was established, with its first international collaboration in Singapore.

Dr. Weiss has devoted his medical career to issues of health care quality, equity and access to care, and enhancing training experiences for physicians and other providers in health care improvement. Since the 1990s, Dr. Weiss has conducted US and international epidemiological and health services research projects related to guideline implementation, chronic care management, outcomes measurement, quality improvement, and health care equity. Dr. Weiss served as a member of the Board of Regents for the American College of Physicians, and as a member of the Board of Directors for both ABMS and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. Dr. Weiss completed his clinical training in internal medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He has a Master’s degree in public health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health and a Master’s degree in health services administration from Harvard University School of Public Health. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship in epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics. Dr. Weiss is certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). He also serves as a Professor of Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

I am a Senior Paediatric Gastroenterologist, holding a Master in Medical Education and I am interested in the field of postgraduate medical education together with my clinical commitments. I have special interest in the area of research in medical education. I graduated from Khartoum University, Sudan, got the Arab Board of Paediatrics, MRCP and FRCPCH, UK and the JMHPE.

Dr Eman A.Rahman Senan Al Maslamani is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Senior Attending Physician at SIDRA Medicine, Doha, State of Qatar. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Paediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar and the Program Director both for the Transitional Year Residency and Paediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program. She has been appointed as an Assistant Program Director of Paediatric Residency Program and Chairs its Assessment Committee, represents Qatar and an examiner of the Arab Board of Health Specialisations. In 1995, Dr Eman obtained her medical degree from Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain. She completed her Paediatric Residency Training in 2001 and Paediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training at Hamad Medical Corporation. As a practitioner, Dr Eman enhances health of infants, children, and adolescents by promoting excellence in the diagnosis, management, and prevention of infectious diseases through clinical care, education, research, and advocacy. She has been also a recipient of various awards and citations, published and presented several researches and other scholarly activities both locally and internationally.

Chief, Division of General Academic Paediatric at Hamad Medical Corporation – Qatar and Sidra Medicine - Qatar. Associate Programme Director of Paediatric Residency Programme, Assistant Professor of Paediatrics - Weill-Cornell Medical College - Qatar (WCM-Q). Dr. Alhammadi completed his Paediatrics Residency Training at British Colombia Children Hospital (BCCH) Vancouver – Canada, and a General Academic Paediatrics fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children-Toronto – Canada; Dr. Alhammadi areas of interest are medical education, faculty and professional development and cultural competency. He is the co-founder of the Professionalism Course and Workshops conducted at HMC-Qatar. He is involved and has led several medical education workshops locally, nationally and internationally. Dr. Alhammadi, Director of the new multidisciplinary programme in Qatar caring for children with technology-dependent and medically complex conditions (Paediatrics Complex Care Programme) which offer coordinated care that spans the inpatient and outpatient divide. Dr. Alhammadi was appointed to the examination board of the paediatrics Arab Board in 2011; He is a member of American Academy of Pediatrics and Canadian Pediatrics Society. Dr. Alhammadi has published over 25 articles in peer reviewed journals.

Krista Allbee is Vice President, International Programmes. In this position, she provides leadership and guidance to ABMS and the ABMS Member Boards in supporting growth and building international certification programmes and enhancing domestic certification services. Ms. Allbee’s previous experience includes 10 years with the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), where she most recently served as Director of Test Development for Client Programs. She was also Managing Editor of the United States Medical Licensing Exam Step 2. Ms. Allbee has co-authored articles that have appeared in medical journals including Academic Medicine and the American Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Vermont.

Jenny Anawati has more than 30 years of experience managing operational teams and building client relationships in the field of medical education. She specialises in strategising multifaceted, complex projects on a global scale that involve multiple stakeholders and the alignment of various accreditation standards in Europe, USA, and Canada. Jenny guides the development of professional education programs to ensure useful and valuable outcomes for both healthcare professionals and patients.

General Surgeon by training, educator by passion describes me. My journey into medical education began with basic medical education. As Curriculum Coordinator, I am into Curricular Planning and scheduling for effective engagement of 250 students. My special areas of interest include OSCEs as a learning tool and Development of competency based medical education. I have completed Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Education and perusing MPhil in Medical Education.

Dr. Chinthaka Balasooriya is an inspirational medical educator who has excelled in educational practice and research. He has a background in Medicine and a PhD in Medical Education. Chinthaka’s expertise has been recognised at the highest levels in Australia. He has received the UNSW Medicine Teaching Excellence Award, the UNSW Vice-Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence and an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation. He is a Fellow of the prestigious Scientia Education Academy and a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Education (ANZAHPE). He has a wide range of international experience. Dr. Balasooriya is the President of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE).

I am one of the four named Associate Deans for the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine (HSM). The area that I look after is Student Affairs and Service Quality (SASQ), which means I have the privilege of meeting potential students before they arrive at Bond, again during orientation, during times of success at awards evenings/graduation and as alumni when they return to mentor and give advice. Unfortunately, sometimes life events can come and disrupt our harmony; however, the SASQ team and I work with all Heads of Programme to ensure that all students are supported where needed and encouraged to reach their potential. At SASQ, we provide a confidential, personalised support service to ensure students feel safe and listened to. Offering support to students is our number one priority. The current stats around mental health are daunting but together we can support our own wellbeing and those around us to live fulfilled lives. I am also the curriculum lead for the Bond University Medical Programme, we offer students opportunities to bring to life their ambitions to become outstanding practitioners, thinkers and leaders, well equipped to deliver evidenced-based, patient centred health care that meets the needs of a diverse community.

Dr. Chappell is SVP, Accreditation, Certification, Measurement, Quality, and the Institute for Credentialing Research. She is responsible for certification of registered nurses and advanced practice registered nurses; accreditation of organisations that provide continuing nursing education and interprofessional continuing education; and accreditation of residency and fellowship programmes for nurses. She directs the Institute for Credentialing Research and the quality management department. She holds a Baccalaureate in Nursing with distinction, a Masters of Science in Advanced Clinical Nursing, and a Doctorate in Nursing. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow in the National Academies of Practice.

Dr. Fremen Chihchen Chou is a clinician-educator focusing on e-learning, medical simulation, interprofessional education and Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME). He is Assistant Professor of Medical Education at China Medical University (CMU) and also Director of Center for Faculty Development in the University Hospital. Dr. Chou received his M.D. in 2001 from CMU and is currently a PhD candidate in e-learning and science education, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. As the founder and chair of the Task Force of CBME at Taiwan Society of Emergency Medicine (TSEM), he has initiated a series of works based on the concept and strategy of “glocalisation” to carry out CBME for emergency physician training in Taiwan since 2011. Through introduction, validation, pilot and implementation stage in the past 7 years, CBME in TSEM has become a role model in the national movement of medical education reform.

Ashwini de Abrew is a Lecturer at the Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is keenly interested in curriculum development, staff development, technology-based learning and student mentorship. She has been involved in developing strategies to incorporate simulation at different stages of the medical curriculum. As a young researcher, she has been recognised by the Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) for the young researcher travel award, and by the National Institute of Health, USA as a trainee of the ASCEND programme.

Peter de Jong is a staff adviser and Assistant Professor in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. In this position at the Center for Innovation in Medical Education, he has been managing several major programmes within Medical School in the field of development, application and evaluation of educational technologies. He is also involved in the educational research programme of LUMC. 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 organisation 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 organisation as Board member and Vice President and in 2009 as Program Chair and Site Host for the first IAMSE Annual Meeting outside North America. Currently he holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of Medical Science Educator, the online journal of IAMSE.

Nicole Marie Deming is faculty in the Department of Bioethics and serves as Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Human Resources at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She received her BA in Biology and Philosophy, with honors, at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, her MA in Medical History and Ethics from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, and her JD, with honors, from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and earned concentrations in both International Law and Health Law. Nicole's current research focuses on research ethics and medical education.

Dr Dickinson is Professor and Vice-Chair of Biomedical Sciences at the Western Michigan University School of Medicine (WMed). Prior to her employment at WMed she served as Associate Professor at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (2010-2013) and as Assistant Professor at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (2004-2010). Dr Dickinson is a Harvard-Macy Fellow and is currently completing a Master of Science programme in health professions education at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions.

Erik Driessen is Professor in Medical Education and Chair of the Department of Educational in topics such as learning and assessment in the workplace and education across different cultures. At the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University is where he development and research. He is the Editor in Chief for the Journal Perspectives on Medical Education. Driessen’s interest has published more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. In 2016, he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators in the United Kingdom. And since 2017 he is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services, United States of America.

Pete Ellis retired as Professor of Psychological Medicine and Associate Dean, Medical Education from the University of Otago, Wellington, and Associate Dean, Advanced Learning in Medicine, University of Otago, in 2018. During his career he was closely involved with postgraduate training in psychiatry, and with undergraduate medical education, serving on the Education Committee of the Medical Council of New Zealand and the Medical School Accreditation Committee of the Australian Medical Council. He is currently Vice President of the Western Pacific Association for Medical Education.

Estivana graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia (UI) in 2004. After 2 years of working as a medical doctor in a rural community health centre, she returned to UI and was introduced to Medical Education Department. Later, she studied medical education and earned her master degree from UI in 2011. She is now responsible for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, and involves in faculty development programs

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 Department of Medical Education, Head of Medical Education Unit 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 moved to Bond University in August 2016 to be Deputy Dean of Medicine and was appointed Dean of Medicine in January 2018. Prior to this Kirsty was Director of Medical Education and Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching at Macquarie University. She works clinically as a consultant Anaesthetist at Gold Coast University Hospital. Kirsty has been involved in medical educational research for 15 years. She is co-author and editor of a number of best-selling medical textbooks including ‘Understanding Medical Education: evidence, Theory and Practice’, ‘Medical Education at a Glance’ and ‘Essential Simulation in Clinical Education’.

Richard Fuller is a Consultant Geriatrician/Stroke Physician and Director of Medical Education Programmes at Leeds Institute of Medical Education. He is responsible for directing the MBChB degree programme, generating exciting new initiatives in curriculum design, mobile technology, assessment and personalised learning.

His main research interests focus on assessment, and he leads the Institute’s Assessment Research Group. His current research focuses on the ‘personalisation’ of assessment, to support individual learner journeys. This is underpinned by work from the Group focusing on the application of intelligent assessment design in campus and workplace based assessment formats, assessor behaviours, mobile technology delivered assessment and the impact of sequential testing methodologies.

He publishes and speaks 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.

David has spent the last sixteen years in digital product development and management in the higher education sector. Prior to working at Elsevier, David managed the Mastering platform, an innovative adaptive higher education science learning and assessment platform. He also took part in Elsevier Hacks hackathon and subsequent 12-week incubation programme as a product development mentor, guiding the participants and helping them to refine and develop their ideas.

Nicholas is a Senior Lecturer and former Vice Dean for academic affairs at the University of Nusa Cendana Medical School in Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, one of the most underserved rural areas in Indonesia and on the border to Timor Leste and Australia. Nicholas is also a General Practitioner and has a Masters in Medical Education. He is currently enrolled in a PhD in Medical Education at Gadjah Mada University Indonesia in collaboration with Flinders University South Australia. His research interest is finding a way of educating future generation of doctors to resiliently serve the underserved people with a compassionate heart.

Dr. Manasik Hassan is a senior general paediatric fellow at HMC and a Clinical Lecturer in General Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Qatar University. Dr. Manasik received her medical training at Gezira University in Sudan. She has worked as a general paediatrician at Hamad Medical Corporation since 2015.

Dr. Manasik’s areas of practice and interest include: inpatient medicine, participating in designing and conducting clinical research, teaching, and supervising residents during their residency, putting great effort in clinical and academic researchers and quality improvement projects in paediatric programmes. She has a wide variety of accepted abstracts and has presented workshops in multiple international conferences. She is an instructor of different educational committee including: communication, simulation, quality and safety.

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.

Lynn Heywood-McLean has more than 15 years of experience in healthcare education and has directed the development and delivery of accredited continuing professional development (CPD) programmes for multiple audiences. Lynn’s focus is strategic business development in the USA, including comprehensive, ACCME-compliant educational programmes that unite the needs of healthcare professionals, patients, and healthcare systems. Lynn’s overarching goal is to ensure that knowledge transfer and practice change outcomes are measurable and statistically relevant.

Professor Wayne Hodgson is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Monash University in Australia. Professor Hodgson is responsible for overseeing the Education Portfolio of the Faculty. This includes approximately 14,000 students studying Medicine, Nursing, Radiography, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Paramedicine, Biomedical Science, and Social Work delivered at campuses in Australia and Malaysia. Professor Hodgson is a long-standing member and Chair of medical course assessment teams for the Australian Medical Council. Professor Hodgson is also Chair of the UMAT (Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test) Board and a member of the VCAA (Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority) Board.

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 Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He also served as the Associate Programme Director, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Programme, Director of Student Clinical Assessment, Yale School of Medicine and Assistant Director of the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars programme. Before joining Yale in 2000, he served as Division Chief of General Internal Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center. Dr. Holmboe retired from the US Naval Reserves in 2005.

His research interests include interventions to improve quality of care and methods in the assessment of clinical competence. His professional memberships include the American College of Physicians, where he is a Master of the College, Society of General Internal Medicine and Association of Medical Education in Europe. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London and the Academy of Medical Educators. 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.

Kathy Holtzman is Director of Assessment and International Operations for the ABMS. She provides leadership and project management for international examinations. Ms. Holtzman has extensive experience with assessment of medical decision-making skills with multiple-choice tests and simulation formats; methods for development and review of test material; design and introduction of computer-based and web-based tests; and development of new assessment formats, some utilising multimedia. In addition, she has conducted item-writing workshops at dozens of medical schools, specialty boards, and professional conferences nationally and internationally. Prior to joining the ABMS, Ms. Holtzman worked for 35 years at the National Board of Medical Examiners, most recently as Assistant Vice President in the Assessment Programs unit.

Dr Hopper is an Associate Professor tenured with excellence in education. She teaches physiology in many systems based courses, and has been instrumental in curricular redesign at the largest medical school in the United States. Her research focuses on learning methods and activities, and current projects investigate student engagement and its relationship to understanding of course concepts and development of cognitive and personal skills. Dr Hopper also serves as Director of Student Research and Scholarly work, and is an active member of numerous organisations including the International Associate of Medical Science Educators and the American Physiological Society.

Stella is Associate Dean (Quality and Academic Standards) for the School of Medicine and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education (Centre for Medical Education (CME)). Stella’s career started in physiotherapy, working in the public and private sector, mainly in the musculoskeletal field. In 2000-2004 she undertook doctoral studies related to the experience and management of pain in rheumatoid arthritis. Following these studies, Stella moved into academia and at the Centre for Medical Education leads teaching on Curriculum Planning and Evaluation as well as supervising Masters, MD and PhD students.

Wendy graduated from medicine at Sydney University, working in family medicine and child health. She was the Director of Education at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead before being appointed Chair of Medical Education and Associate Dean Learning and Innovation at the School of Medicine Western Sydney University. She is an accreditor for the Australian Medical Council and on the editorial boards of BMC Medical Education, Perspectives on Medical Education and Health Expectations. Wendy’s research interests include faculty development, research capacity building and writing for publication.

Paul was Deputy Director of Clinical Teaching prior to taking up the Programme Director role for the GEM course in June 2011. He has a background in clinical examination and consultation skills teaching. Paul jointly leads and teaches on the Swansea Masters’ course in leadership and teaches on a joint Masters in Education programme. His research interests lie predominantly, but not exclusively, in simulation, assessment and innovative teaching methods. Publications include mental workload measurement during student consultations, social learning theory, 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. More recently he has co-authored a chapter on future visioning for health leadership in Curtis’ “Leadership and Change for the Health Professional” book as well as a case study in “The International Handbook of Medical Education” book edited by Ron Harden et al. Paul has a strong background in training, hospital management and leadership, gained from working in senior clinical, advanced practice roles and more recently from running leadership workshops in international conferences in Canada, Ireland, Singapore, Mexico, the UK and Saudi Arabia as well as presenting posters related to medical education in conferences both in Britain and internationally.

Dr. Johanna Jordaan has been a clinical skills lecturer at Flinders university since 2012 teaching clinical communication skills. Since 2017, she has been in the role of Learning Coach coordinator in the MD programme. Her areas of interest are providing individualised coaching to medical students to assist them in developing as independent self-regulated learners to equip them for lifelong learning. She also provides support to and development of the role of the learning coach in health professions education.

Dr Rani Kanthan is a full-time tenured Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. As a medical educator she participates in the scholarship of teaching for the undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates. As a consultant Anatomical pathologist she pursues an active academic career buttressed by the three pillars of teaching, clinical and research portfolios through the scholarship of teaching, discovery, integration and application. She has published more than 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts as indexed in PubMed /Google scholar, serves on the editorial board for various journals and continues to participate and present at various national and international meetings.

Sheng-Po Kao is a Lecturer at the School of Medicine at Tzu Chi University in Taiwan. He is also the Director of Standardised Patient Center at Hualien Tzu Chi General Hospital. He has worked in standardised patient methodology for over 12 years including development of case writing, SP recruitment, SP trainer training and OSCE protocols. He has a keen interest in fostering the simulated patient methodology. He published a Chinese book entitled “Mastering Standardized Patient” in 2013. He is the current Supervisor of Taiwan Standardised Patient Association. And his Standardised Patient Programme was currently awarded “Symbol of National Quality” in Taiwan.

Indika Mahesh Karunathilake, is the first ever Professor in Medical Education in the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is currently the Head of the Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine. Prof Indika Karunathilake has conducted extensive research and authored over 50 publications in peer reviewed international journals and over 150 research presentations at international and national level. He also serves as the editor-in-Chief of the South East Asian Journal of Medical Education (SEAJME). Prof Karunathilake is the founder President of the College of Medical Educationists. He has made significant contribution towards at the regional and global level through several leading international organisation such as the World Health Organization (WHO), Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH), Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources (AAAH) and South East Regional Association for Medical Education (SEARAME).

Thomas Kellner holds a medical degree from the University of Munich. After his internship at the University of Munich, he has held various national and international positions at MSD including the management of a major portal for healthcare professionals, today known as Univadis®, and leading the global medical education strategy. Kellner served as general manager at an education consultancy, led the global medical education and internal training department at a smaller biopharma company. He is currently heading global medical learning at UCB, serves as a board member of the European Journal of CME, the Global Alliance for Medical Education, is an active member of the international Pharmaceutical Alliance for CME (iPACME) and co-chair of the EFPIA medical education working group. He authored multiple publications related to CME/CPD and contributes to expert conferences as facilitator and speaker such as the European CME Forum or the Annual Conference of the Global Alliance for Medical Education and associated organisations.

Associate Professor Sandra Kemp is Director of Learning and Teaching at Curtin Medical School. She is an education scientist and completed her PhD in Educational Studies at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Prior to joining Curtin Medical School in 2016, she was Assistant Dean at a new medical school in Singapore and she has held senior leadership positions in education in Australia and Singapore. Her primary expertise lies in curriculum, assessment and evaluation, and learning. She has worked extensively with medical educators both locally and internationally to develop and implement initiatives to ensure quality teaching, learning and assessment practices.

Dr. Khidir is the paediatric clerkship director and vice chair of the Institutional Review Board at Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar (WCM-Q). She graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Khartoum University, Sudan, completed residency training at Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C. and joined Howard University as faculty. She completed Harvard Macy Institute faculty development programme. She received several teaching awards. Her areas of interest are medical education, professional development, and cultural competency. She is the co-founder of the Professionalism Course and Workshops conducted at Hamad Medical Corporation. She has led several medical education workshops locally, nationally and internationally.

Professor Konishi graduated from Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University in 1982 and obtained PhD (Medicine) at Graduate School of Medicine at Kyoto University in 1993. He is the Director of Center for Medical Education at Kyoto University from 2011 till present. He is also the Vice President of Japan Association for Medical Education from 2017 till present, Executive Member of National board on Medical Licensure from 2012 till present, Member of Medical Council for Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare from 2012 till present, President of Post-graduate Clinical Training Conference from 2011 till present and Chairman of the Clinical Education Committee from 2014 till present at National Medical College Hospitals, Surveyor at Japan Accreditation Council on Medical Education (JACME) from 2016 till present and Member of Investigation/Analysis Committee at JACME from 2016 till present and Surveyor at Japan Council for the Evaluation of Postgraduate Clinical Training from 2010 till present.

Koshila is a Senior Lecturer in the Prideaux Centre for Research in Health Professions Education at Flinders University where she coordinates the postgraduate programs in clinical education (comprising the Master of Clinical Education, Graduate Diploma, and Graduate Certificate). In this role, she provides academic and strategic leadership, engages in topic coordination and teaching, and supervises Higher Degree by Research students. Koshila is an experienced qualitative researcher and has published on a range of topics in health professions education including: community-engaged medical education; student selection; career pathways; interprofessional education; faculty development/capacity building and complexity.

Dr. Chi-Wan Lai graduated from the National Taiwan University College of Medicine in 1969, received Neurology and Psychiatry residency training (National Taiwan University Hospital, 1970-1974) and Neurology residency and fellowship in epilepsy (University of Minnesota, 1975-1979). He was professor of Neurology, University of Kansas before returning to Taiwan in 1998. He was the Dean of College of Medicine, Tzu Chi University (1998-2001) and Chairman of Medical Education Committee of the Ministry of Education and Taiwan Medical Accreditation Council (TMAC). He has been interested in promoting medical humanities in medical education and initiated the Medical Educators for Humanities group in Taiwan.

Dr Lam Wee Leon is a Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgeon in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and an honorary clinical senior lecturer of the University of Edinburgh. He is the current President of the British Foundation of International Reconstructive Surgery and Training (BFIRST), which is the official charitable and outreach arm of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS). The aim of BFIRST is to teach Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery to local surgeons in developing countries, so that one day they can teach their own. The strategy is to utilise pedagogical methods within the local context and limited resources, with a constant emphasis on the use of affordable technologies.

Dr. Lawrence became a faculty member with the University of Saskatchewan since 1996 after completing her family medicine residency training. For the previous 13 years she was the Department of Academic Family Medicine’s Postgraduate Director, responsible for leading all aspects of residency training in the Province. In 2017 she was appointed as the Provincial Head of Family Medicine. Dr. Lawrence was Chair of the Board of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) in 2012/13 and President in 2013/14. Currently, she is Chair of the CFPC Postgraduate Committee and serves on a number of national academic family medicine committees.

Sa’ad Laws has worked in libraries for over a decade and in medical libraries for eight years. He has earned B.A. degrees in Anthropology and Geography in addition to a M.A. in Anthropology from George Mason University, his MLIS from San Jose State University, and a graduate certificate in Instructional Design from the University of Florida. Mr Laws’ passion for instruction extended to an array of fields, including pedagogy, eLearning, instructional design and gamification.

Dr Mahmoud received her M.B.B.S. degree from the Faculty of Medicine University of Khartoum in Khartoum, Sudan. Subsequently, she completed a residency at State University of New York (SUNY) in Brooklyn, New York and a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center (University Hospital of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons). In 2017, Dr Mahmoud completed a Master of Education in the Health Professions (MEHP) from John Hopkins University, USA. Dr Mahmoud joined WCMC-Q in 2006, and currently, she is the director for Medicine Clerkship and students academic advising and involved in educational research particularly, the areas of assessment of clinical competencies and academic integrity.

Dr. Manivasakan Shivasakthy MDS., PGDHPE., Graduated Bachelor of Dental Surgery in 2004 and Masters of Dental Surgery (Prosthodontics) in 2009 from Annamalai University, India. Completed Post Graduate Diploma in Health Professions Education at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth in 2015. The author is currently working as Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences and Deputy Director, Centre for Health Professions Education, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, India. She has copyrights publications in the field of dentistry and dental education. Noteworthy to mention, “The Proposal of a BDS syllabus framework to suit Choice Based Credit System” the first proposal for India without violating the norms of Dental Council of India. She is currently working on the strategies to improve the academic performance of Students Needing Additional Curricular Support (SNACS) as a part of her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) project. She is a member of Academy of Health Professions Educators (AHPE, India), Indian Dental Association and Indian Prosthodontics Society.

Louise Moran is a Digital Manager in education working with medical education associations and medical students globally. She led Elsevier’s participation in the AMEE Hacks medical education hackathon in Glasgow in 2015, organised the subsequent 2017 Elsevier Hacks hackathon in Helsinki in 2017 and this year managed the incubation programme that further developed three teams from the 2017 event.

Rita Mustika was born in Yogyakarta, renowned as a centre of education and culture. She graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University and also Clinical epidemiology, Universitas Indonesia (UI). She spent five years in dermatology division of Kobe university graduate school of medicine in research and clinical training. After moving to UI, working as lecturer she gain interest in medical education. She received some training in medical education to develop knowledge and skill. In addition to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate, she was responsible for fostering the development of new medical schools, and faculty development program. She was also involved in some of ministry of research and higher education national project. She currently coordinator of collaboration in education IMERI UI and coordinator of public service. She has been doing research in clinical teaching, faculty development, cultural competency, professionalism, and humanism. Alongside, she is pursuing doctoral degree in medical education.

Laura has been working with ProPatient since 2013 in business development, strategy, operations, project management and client relations roles. She spent 16 years at AbbVie/Abbott in Director roles in Global Grant Management departments. She is a member of ACEHP, GAME and SPM. Laura holds a BS in pharmacy (Univ of IL), an MBA in marketing (Keller Graduate School of Management) and a CHCP certification.

Vishna Devi V Nadarajah is currently, Professor in the School of Medicine and Pro-Vice Chancellor, Education at the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Biochemistry from the University of Malaya (1994) and obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge in biochemistry (2000). She is also a graduate of the Masters in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University (2014).

She has over 20 years of teaching experience in the medical, dentistry and pharmacy education. 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 is a member of the international editorial board of the journal Medical Education. She was awarded the Malaysian Women’s Weekly (2012), Great Women of Our Time award for her contribution in Science and Technology in Malaysia. Her areas of research for health professions education is in Faculty development, Assessment and Innovative Teaching Learning methods. Vishna has shared her experience and expertise in health professions education via invitations to speak at conferences, conducting faculty development workshops, consultancies and collaborative research, appreciating that she has also learnt very much from these collaborative sessions with other educators.

Mr. Ogunkeye joined the ACGME in August 2013 as its Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Operations, and as Executive Vice President for ACGME International. For nearly three decades, Mr. Ogunkeye held a variety of management positions within academic medical centres. He started his career in 1985 as a division administrator at the University of Texas Health Sciences in Houston. Since then, he assumed expanding scope and responsibilities, culminating in his most recent position at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he served as Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians. He also served as the Associate Dean and Executive Director for the Clinical Practice Association and Clinical Research Operations and Finance for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Ogunkeye served as the Chief Operating Officer of Jefferson Medical College, and as the executive Director and Vice President for Jefferson University Physicians (JUP), a large, multi-specialty physician group practice based in Philadelphia. Before JUP, Mr. Ogunkeye was the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Morehouse Medical Associates in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Ogunkeye has broad management experience with medical school departments, having served as a Department Administrator at a number of medical schools. He was an Administrator in surgery departments at West Virginia University, the University of Colorado, and at the University of Chicago. Mr. Ogunkeye has served on a number of non-profit boards which include physician practices, a governmental authority, an international agency, and an insurance captive. He holds Master’s of Science Degrees in Biology and HealthCare Administration.

Asela has been working as a medical educationist in Sri Lanka and Australia for over 10 years, and has published in leading journals including Academic Medicine and Medical Education. He completed his medical degree at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and his PhD in medical education at University of New South Wales, Australia. He teaches at the MD programme in Medical Education at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, Sri Lanka and has facilitated faculty development workshops in Sri Lanka, Australia and Singapore. His research interests include healthcare teamwork and interprofessional education, assessment for learning and feedback, and clinical decision-making.

Associate Professor Maria Guadalupe Piña Navarro graduated from UDEM. Post graduated from UANL as a Family physician with a fellowship in family practice in New Jersey USA. Obtained a Master´s degree in MHPE in the Netherlands. I have been a teacher at ITESM Medical school for 28 years, and had participated in committees of curriculum design, competencies evaluation, assessment elaboration etc. Other current activities include actively researching innovative educational strategies in Medicine such as Challenge, Flipped classroom, Mastery learning. Trained teachers in PBL at medicine schools in San Salvador and Dominican Republic. Also participated in the organisation committee for the 9th Congress of IAMSE.

Kalyani Premkumar MBBS, MD, MSc (Med Ed) PhD MBA is a medical educator with over three decades of experience in teaching. Trained as a physician, with a specialisation in physiology, medical education and educational technology, she is currently a Professor, in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and Associate Member of the College of Education. Academically, she is the Lead of the new Masters in Health Professions Education Programme, College of Medicine. As a member of the Faculty Development team, she helps with faculty training across the medical education continuum. Her research focus includes development and use of technology in medical education, self-directed learning, simulation, complementary and alternative medicine.

Greg Radu is Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Memorial University. He works clinically as a Consultant Psychiatrist at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital in St. John’s, Canada. He is a member of the Psychiatry Examination Board with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and an Associate Editor of the Canadian Medical Education Journal. He is a past Chair of the Psychotherapy section of the Canadian Psychiatric Association and current Chair of the European Psychiatric Association’ Section of Psychotherapy.

Greg works with government and academic partners in Canada and in Europe to design and implement mental health and social policies and services. He is senior advisor to the Ministry of Health in Newfoundland and Labrador, senior researcher with the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and honorary Associate Professor at Swansea University in the United Kingdom.

Kate Regnier, MA, MBA, is the Executive Vice President of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), based in the United States. Ms. Regnier oversees the processes of Accreditation and Reaccreditation for national and international providers of continuing medical education (CME), the Recognition of the US-based State/Territory Medical Societies as accreditors within their states according to the Markers of Equivalency, and the Joint Accreditation of Providers of Interprofessional Continuing Medical Education with colleague accreditors, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Accreditation and the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Ms. Regnier is also responsible for the review of non-US accreditors for their Substantial Equivalency with the ACCME’s system. Ms. Regnier also oversees the education, communications, monitoring, and business functions of the ACCME.

Dr. Harold Reiter is a professor in the Department of Oncology at McMaster University, where he partnered with colleagues to create both the multiple mini-interview (MMI) and an online constructed-response situational judgment test, CASPer, while serving nine years as Chair of Admissions to the medical school. Both MMI and CASPer are now used at different schools around the world for the assessment of test-taker personal competencies, particularly but not exclusively for selection to undergraduate and postgraduate educational program in the health sciences and beyond.

Professor Roberts graduated from Manchester with a degree in Medicine and a BSc in Anatomy. She undertook her early medical training in Manchester and research in Manchester and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. In 1995 she was appointed Senior Lecturer in Transplant Immunology at the University of Manchester.

In 2000 she was appointed Professor of Medical Education at the University of Leeds. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2006. In 2009 she was appointed Director of the Leeds Institute of Medical Education. She was a council member of the General Medical Council (2009 – 2012) and Chair of the Association for the Study of Medical Education until July 2013. She was a council member for the Royal College of Physicians of London (2010 – 2013) and is currently a Censor for the College. In September 2013 she became President of AMEE (*).

Professor Roberts’s main interests and expertise are in the areas of assessment of competence, professionalism, and transitions in training and education. In 2013 she was awarded a Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Educators. In January 2017 she received the MILES award (**) at the Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference. She is married to a surgeon, has two children and dreams of owning a Subaru WRX.

* Association for Medical Education in Europe.
**Mentoring, Innovation and Leadership in Educational Scholarship.

Dr. Anurag Saxena is the Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Saskatchewan and in this role is responsible for the oversight of all residency training programs in Saskatchewan. He is Professor of Pathology and a practicing pathologist in Saskatoon Health Region. Dr. Saxena completed his M.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan and MBA from the University of Wales. He has leadership certification from the Canadian College of Health Leaders and the Canadian Society of Physician Executives. A recipient of the Master Teacher Award of the University of Saskatchewan, he is passionate about teaching and is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and external teaching through workshops on various aspects leadership and change. His current research interest is in leadership in medical education and health services and in the medical education systems. One of his current projects is on assessment and changes to the learning environment in medical education.

Susie is Reader in Medical Education and Academic Lead for Distance and Blended Learning at the University of Dundee. She comes from an educational and technology background, completing her teacher training at Cambridge University. She moved into medical education over a decade ago to focus on faculty development. She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and has delivered numerous workshops and keynotes locally, nationally and internationally. In addition to her role as deputy director of the globally-renowned Masters in Medical Education at Dundee she leads their PhD programme.

Graduated from faculty of medicine University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Continued postgraduate studies in Paediatrics and child health. Received Doctor of Medicine in Paediatrics from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Had further training in Paediatrics in the United Kingdom. Received membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health of UK. Currently serving as a consultant Paediatrician and senior Lecturer attached to the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya. Special research interests in Paediatric Asthma, Allergy and simulation based medical education. Conducting simulation based teaching for undergraduates. Vice president of the Sri Lanka Association of simulation in health care. Currently conducting studies in formal introduction of simulation in the teaching of Pharmacology.

Professor Zarrin Siddiqui, PhD in Medical Education leads the assessment and faculty development at the University of Western Australia. Zarrin obtained her MBBS and MCPS (Psychiatry) from Pakistan, before receiving British Council Fellowship in 2000 to study contemporary trends in medical education. A two-year AusAID fellowship at the Adelaide University followed, after which Zarrin returned to Pakistan and joined the newly established Higher Education Commission Pakistan as the Director General, Learning Innovation. Later she joined the University of Western Australia as the assessment lead and teaching/supervision of postgraduate students in HPE. With the advent of the redesigned MD curriculum in 2014, Zarrin has been leading the longitudinal MD Portfolio. She has consistently received nominations for excellence in teaching. Zarrin is also involved in the Athena SWAN project at UWA to address gender equity and is a visiting faculty to several institutions beside on the Management Committee of ANZAHPE. She maintains an active research and teaching profile, focusing on creativity, assessment and mental health.

Diantha graduated as a medical doctor from Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia in 2005, acquired MMedEd title from University of Dundee in 2007 and PhD in the same field from University of Melbourne in 2013. She is now the head of Master in Medical Education Program in Universitas Indonesia and also responsible for the multi- and interprofessional 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 student assessment, reflection and feedback, interprofessional education and collaborative practice, and professionalism development.

Dr Praphun Somporn is a neurosurgeon consultant working for Hatyai Medical Education Centre, Hatyai Hospital, the Southern Region of Thailand. Praphun completed his Masters' thesis in Rural Community-based Medical Education (RCBME) from Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. He has also worked for the Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctors (CPIRD), the Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, to support a RCBME initiative and enhance a research capacity for Thai clinical educators.

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, professional identity formation, and the interplay between culture and health professions education. She has written extensively on topics related to faculty development and medical education and has 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.

Lisa Sullivan has been an educator of healthcare practitioners for more than 30 years with particular focus on developing outcomes based continuing professional development programmes for primary care. In Vivo Academy, a not-for-profit company registered in Australia, is accredited by the Royal Australian College of GPs and develops and delivers high quality, needs and evidence-based outcomes education, both face-to-face and online across the Asian and Australian regions.

Lisa is also the immediate past president of the Global Alliance for Medical Education (GAME) and regularly lectures at many of the international medical education congresses in the US, Europe and Asia.

Alok Tiwari is a consultant vascular surgeon and honorary senior clinical lecturer working in the United Kingdom. He is also the lead for accrediting consultant to be recognised as clinical or educational supervisor of junior doctors in his hospital. He runs a successful ‘Teach the Teachers’ course attended by more than 100 consultants every year. He has more than 90 publications.

Associate Professor Tran, Diep Tuan is the President of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City (UMP). Associate Professor Tran received his M.D. training at UMP with excellent qualification (1989), and then specialised in Paediatrics (1990-1993) and later in Paediatric Neurology. He got his Ph.D. training at Tokyo University (1998-2003) and post-doctoral training at National Institutes for Physiological Sciences of Japan (2003) and at University of Michigan (2003-2005). He was a fellow of Asian Youth Fellowship (1997), Monbusho Fellowship (1998), John J. Bonica Award (2002), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2003), International Brain Research Organization (2003), WHO/NINDS International Neurological Science Fellowship (2003), International Dean’s Course in South East Asia (2010), Programme for Leading Innovation with Harvard Macy Institute (2013), and Leadership Development Programme (2016). His research interest is pain imaging, paediatric neurology, and children quality of life. He has published more than 30 articles in international peer review journals. As a President, his main agenda is to make UMP a leading health profession university in Vietnam and an internationally recognised institution in the region.

Ivana Uzelac is Elsevier’s Product Development Manager for Australia and New Zealand in the higher education sector and focuses on localising global education products for the ANZ region. She spends time in the market gathering insights and validating product concepts with medical academics and students.

Leigh has spent the last 12 years working in London-based, award-winning network agencies. In her role as Director of Learning she works closely with clients to deliver outcomes-based education and training programmes designed to improve performance and facilitate behaviour change. Leigh started her career in Medical Education as a medical writer, building a strong scientific foundation, before moving into a more strategic role. Her therapy area experience includes pain, oncology, HIV and AIDS, respiratory, chronic inflammatory diseases and cardiovascular disease.

She has worked across the full spectrum of healthcare communication activities. Leigh’s experience includes strategic consultancy, internal and external training and capability building (including train-the trainer events and speaker-training), key message development, publication planning and tactics, marketing materials, workshops, digital tools, advisory boards, standalone events, symposia, booth activities, competitor analysis, patient materials, nurse education programmes and faculty development. Leigh leads an internal initiative, Learning for Health, that is exploring innovative ways to apply the science of learning to enhance traditional educational activities, collaborating closely with experts in the fields of educational, educational psychology and behavioural science.

I am a medical education and communications professional with more than 15 years’ experience working for agencies in the creative and healthcare industries in London. I design and deliver evidence-based learning and behaviour-change programmes on behalf of clients in the pharmaceutical industry. My career to date has encompassed a wide spectrum of healthcare-related work including medical education, public relations, stakeholder engagement, patient support solutions and corporate communications.

I am an ardent believer in life-long learning. My first degree was in a science-based subject but twelve years on from graduation I rekindled a love of drawing and took a degree in the History of Art and followed this with a Masters. My six years of part-time studying and working was an experience that substantially broadened my world-view and honed my critical-thinking and writing skills. This experience also opened my eyes to the benefits of cross-disciplinary thinking and practice; it heightened my awareness of how working life can often be siloed, with the knowledge of one discipline segregated from another. In my role, I am keenly aware of the importance of leveraging evidence bases from disciplines such as health psychology, cognitive neurosciences, behavioural sciences and graphic design as well as those from adult learning.

Paediatric Surgeon by training, Administrator by profession and educator by passion describes me. My journey into medical education began with assessment - including Introduction of Item Marking, Objectification of Examinations, critical analysis of performance by doing post validation and sharing evaluation outcomes to all stakeholders. As Vice Principal Curriculum, I’m into Curricular Planning, implementation, monitoring and review of the new curriculum for effective engagement of 250 students. My special areas of interest include Formative OSCEs as a learning tool and Development of Personalised Competency Maps. I am a Harvard Macy scholar and have won the prestigious prize for oral presentations at 5th SEARAME conference and the Pedstar simeducon. I’m currently pursuing my PhD in medical education.

Daniëlle M L Verstegen is Programme Director of the Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) programme and project leader of the university-wide PBL MOOC project. She is also involved in national and international research projects on, for example on integrating palliative care in undergraduate curriculum and developing education for (cross-border) patient handover. She studied Cognitive Science (Radboud University Nijmegen, 1992) and holds a PhD in Instructional Science (Utrecht University, 2004) entitled ‘Iteration in instructional design’. Her area of expertise lies in instructional design, the use of e-learning and online learning in the context of Problem-Based Learning.

Vivianne Vinet has more than 40 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, leading three medical education agencies prior to accepting the role of CEO at the International Centre for Professional Development in Health and Medicine. She is an expert in knowledge transfer, educational design, and accreditation requirements for countries around the globe. Vivianne’s expertise drives the company’s innovative solutions that meet learners’ needs and accreditation standards, with the overarching goal to improve individual health outcomes.

Anna is Deputy Director of the MD Program at Flinders University. She has a passion for teaching and innovation that improves outcomes of medical students and for their patients. Her research focusses on the experience of medical students.

Dr. Magda received her medical training at Cairo University -Egypt; she has worked as a general paediatrician at Hamad Medical Corporation since 2006. Dr. Magda’s areas of practice include: inpatient medicine, patient safety and detection of adverse events; and she was appointed to chair the paediatrics quality and patient safety Committee. Dr. Magda has strong interests in medical education and supervises residents in clinical setting. She is an instructor and in charges of different workshops including; communication, APLS, quality and professionalism.

Lucie Walters, PhD, is a rural generalist working in a busy maternity unit in Mount Gambier SA. She is Professor of Rural Postgraduate Medical Education at Flinders University where she leads the new Limestone/Riverland hub. Previously she lead the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum (PRCC) where medical students learn from rural doctors based in general practice. Lucie is immediate past President of ACRRM. Her research interests include medical education and rural workforce. When Lucie is home with her husband Phil she enjoys walking on the beach, sea kayaking, and cooking for friends.

A/Prof Michael Wan (MBChB, FRCP, FHKCP, FHKAM, GCUT) is the Head of Basic Clinical Sciences Domain and the former Head of Assessment in the School of Medicine Sydney at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He focuses in teaching clinical reasoning (CR) and assessment of CR using Script Concordance Testing questions. He has published more than 100 abstracts and articles in peer reviewed journals, many of them were on medical education and assessment. He also received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for excellence in teaching from the University and the Australian Office of Leaning and Teaching National Citation Award.

Danai Wangsaturaka is currently an Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. After obtaining his MD degree, he furthered his study in Masters and PhD at Center for Medical Education, University of Dundee, Scotland.

He has been a key person in curriculum planning, curriculum evaluation, faculty development and student engagement at his institution. His long-standing contribution in student engagement has resulted in Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University achieving ASPIRE-to-Excellence Award in Student Engagement in 2015 and him being awarded the National Role Model Teacher in Student Engagement in 2017.

Sophia is a Cardiac Anaesthesiologist 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.

Dr. Ashokka Balakrishnan is an anaesthesiologist and a medical educationalist. He has a Fellowship of the Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthesiologists (FANZCA) and a Masters in Health professions educations (MHPE) from Maastricht, Netherlands. His special interests are in simulation based postgraduate and undergraduate education, high stakes exam support, Inter professional education through acute care simulation and multidisciplinary team training. He has conducted international workshops at AMEE in medical education; simulation, airway and crisis management for acute care practitioners, trauma teams, anaesthesiologists and nursing delegates in USA, Taiwan, India and Malaysia.

Katharine Boursicot BSc MBBS MRCOG MAHPE NTF SFHEA FRSM, 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 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 started at Duke-NUS in September 2018.

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).

She is consultant to the Singapore Ministry of Health, Curtin Medical School (Australia), the Karolinska Institute Medical Programme, University College Dublin School of Veterinary Medicine (Ireland), the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, and the University of Helsinki.

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.

Yiong Huak received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Newcastle, Australia (1993). Prior to his current appointment (May 2004) as the head of the Biostatistics Unit in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, he was the head of Biostatistics and Data Management (1997 – 2004). In the Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Research Unit (CTERU), National Medical Research Council (NMRC). Actively involved in conducting research and statistical courses to help researchers in their aims of publication and to enhance their understanding of statistical knowledge. Authored/co-authored more than 500 publications, he also serves as the Specialty (Biostatistics) editor for the Singapore Medical Journal, a committee member of both the Product Vigilance Advisory Committee (PVAC) and the Medicines Advisory Committee (MAC), Health Science Authority (HSA) of Singapore

Dr Andre Cheah is in full-time clinical practice as a Senior Consultant and Fellowship Programme Director at the Department of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery, National University Hospital. He contributes in the academic realm as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and has administrative duties as the Director of Medical Manpower and Human Resource Analytics, National University Health System. He graduated from the National University of Singapore and has a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD.

Dr. Chen Fun Gee graduated from the Faculty of Medicine National University of Singapore on April 1981. He completed his postgraduate training in Anaesthesia in Singapore in 1987. He underwent subspecialty training in Critical Care Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney in 1990. With an interest in medical education, Dr. Chen underwent a 2-year Masters Health Professions Education course at Maastricht University Holland and graduated in 2016.

Dr. Chen joined the Department of Anaesthesia National University Hospital in 1986 and became an academic staff of the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 1989. He subsequently held positions as Director of Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Clinical Director Anaesthesia, Vice Chairman Medical Board (Quality Assurance) and Head of Department of Anaesthesia (NUS and NUH). He completed his term as head and started his current position as Director Division of Graduate Medical Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2010.

Dr. Chen is a member of the Singapore Medical Council, the Singapore Specialist Accreditation Board and the Family Medicine Accreditation Board. He is the Co-Chair, Joint Committee of Specialist Training and Chair, Joint Committee of Family Medicine Training. He sits in advisory panels in licensing assessments in Advance Practice Nursing and Pharmacy Residencies. For his contributions in education, he was awarded a Public Administration Medical (Bronze) during the Singapore National Day Awards 2016.

Dr. Chen’s research interest has been in the area of outcomes in critical care, airway devices, medical simulation as well as assessments in medical education, in particular residency training outcomes. He has been invited as a faculty internationally to talk on critical care management, use of airway devices as well as medical simulation in medical education. Dr. Chen has also served as an anaesthesia examiner in postgraduate anaesthesia examinations in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Dr. Chen’s extracurricular interest is in Jazz music. He is a student of the saxophone and electric guitar and has performed publicly in D&Ds and celebratory events.

Dr. Chen Zhi Xiong is the Deputy Education Director at the Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Chairperson of the Asia-Pacific Biomedical Science Educators Association (APBSEA). He is also Principal Investigator of the Neurodevelopment and Cancer Laboratory and Joint Scientist at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. In addition, he is a Resident Fellow of King Edward VII Hall where he lives among students including those from healthcare and life sciences disciplines. Sitting at the crossroads between biomedical sciences and health professions, Zhi Xiong is exploring ways to enhance education in both areas with specific interests in biomedical sciences graduate education, the role of biomedical sciences in medical education and faculty development.

A/Prof Nicholas Chew 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 has worked in Tan Tock Seng Hospital Department of Psychological Medicine for the last 16 years. During this time he served as the Deputy Head of Department, from 2006 to 2010 where he started the HIV Psychiatry and the Post-Stroke Depression Programmes. In 2013 he also served as the Assistant Chairman Medical Board (Medical Manpower Development) in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. A/Prof Nicholas Chew started the NHG Transitional Year Residency Programme in 2009 and took on the role of the Designated Institutional Official for NHG Residency from 2011 to 2018. He currently serves as the Group Chief Education Officer for the National Healthcare Group and has been the Chairman Medical Board of the upcoming Woodlands Health Campus since 2017.

Bernissa’s work largely revolves around implementing Competency based education into specialist training, EPAs, Training standards and faculty development. She has been working closely with all medical specialties in Singapore to develop their specialty-specific EPAs, as well as with the nursing and allied health fraternities. Her background is in education as she was formerly with the Ministry of Education Singapore for 9 years. She taught Social Studies and History at the secondary school level, delved into teacher professional development and was involved in curriculum development in Social Studies at the headquarters. Bernissa possesses a Master’s degree in Social Studies education.

Dr Faith Chia is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. She has served as the Vice-Chair of the Chapter of Rheumatologists and also contributes as the deputy chair for Natinoal Healthcare Group (NHG) DSRB E. Faith actively teaches both undergraduates and post-graduates and has been recognised numerous teaching awards. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and senior lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She was previously the Programme Director for the NHG Internal Medicine Residency Programme and is currently the Designated Institutional Official.

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 pharmacy and interprofessional education, drug interactions, and medication adherence.

Dr Alphonsus Chong is a Hand Surgeon at the National University Hospital, National University Healthcare System, Singapore. Beyond clinical work, research activities and administrative duties as Head of the Department of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery, he is active in undergraduate medical education as well as post-graduate training of Surgeons. As Chairman of the Residency Advisory Committee for Hand Surgery, he oversees the training of Hand Surgeons in Singapore. In Education Research, he is particularly interested in the acquisition and maintenance of technical skills in Surgery.

Dr Chong Choon Seng graduated from the National University of Singapore (MBBS) in 2004 and obtained his Fellowship diploma from Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2013. Being awarded the Human Manpower Development Programme Scholarship in 2013 and he proceeded on to perform minimal invasive colorectal surgery with one of the most prestigious cancer centres in South Korea, Samsung Medical Center. During this fellowship, he had the opportunity to be involved with advanced colorectal cancer treatment like robotic surgery and natural orifice surgery like Transanal Total Mesorectum Excision (taTME) and appointed as the representative for robotic surgery in the Division of Colorectal Surgery in NUH. He is appointed Assistant Professor in Surgery in 2014. He is currently a leading instructor in many colorectal cancer courses like taTME for rectal cancer, colonic stenting for malignant colonic obstruction and minimally invasive surgery for benign and malignant colorectal conditions. Appointed as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Surgery, Dr Chong is significantly involved in both the undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. He has obtained numerous awards including Best teacher award, NUH Excellence teaching award and nominated role model for students over several years. Dr Chong has published numerous publications namely in the field of colorectal cancers. He is also part of the editorial board and an invited speaker for local and overseas conferences. He is a faculty member of the several societies namely, ASEAN Society of Colorectal Surgeons (ASCS), Asian-Pacific Study Group for Gastrointestinal Surgery (APGIS), Singapore Colorectal Cancer Society (SCRS) and International Digestive Workshop.

Dr. Sonali Chonkar is Staff Physician at KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS School of Medicine, Adjunct Instructor, NUS YLL School of Medicine, Clinical Lecturer, LKC School of Medicine. She is Deputy Clerkship coordinator, Duke-NUS (OG Clerkship). She was awarded the AMEI-GOLDEN APPLE AWARD in 2014 for excellence in Medical Education and KK People Developer (KKPD) Outstanding Clinical Teacher Award. She is the Chief Editor for the book “A Practical Handbook in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for OBGYN Clinicians and the General Practitioner,” that was awarded the Highly Commended Certificate by British Medical Association in 2015.

A/Prof Chui received his professional pharmacy degree, B.Sc. (Pharmacy) Honours, from NUS. His PhD degree was conferred by Aston University (UK). He was the Head of the NUS Pharmacy Department between 2013 and 2015. He was one of the five founding co-chairpersons of the NUS Interprofessional Education Steering Committee. He has been invited to speak at conferences as well as conduct training for academics and pharmacists in several countries of the Western Pacific Region. He was awarded the Ishidate Award for Pharmaceutical Education at the Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Association Congress in 2012. He was a past president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore and a proud recipient of the Professor Lucy Wan Outstanding Pharmacist Award.

Prof Ian Curran is the Vice Dean of Education at Duke-NUS Medical School. Previously, he was Assistant Director of Education and Professional Standards at the UK General Medical Council where he led education policy, regulatory and quality assurance work in post graduate medical education and training across the UK. His achievements at GMC include the development of the innovative Generic Professional Capabilities Framework, revision of the GMC Curriculum Standards and Assessment Systems “Excellence by Design”, and development of the “Promoting Excellence” Education Standards for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Education and Training for the UK.

Prof Curran trained as an Anaesthetist with an interest in chronic pain management and was appointed Consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 2003 where he was make Professor of Innovation and Excellence in Healthcare Education in 2014. Prof Curran developed and led London’s multi-award winning Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning Initiative. This initiative was awarded the BMJ Award for “Excellence in Healthcare Education” in 2011 and HSJ Award for Patient Safety in 2009. He is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London.

Dr. Davis is a staff physician in the Adolescent Medicine service at KK Hospital and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS. Dr. Davis is also a clinical educator focusing on clinical reasoning as well as global and public health. She is the Course Director for Practice Course 3, faculty for the CARE curriculum and the faculty advisor for DOVE, an international service learning programme. Previously, she was a paediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and was an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. She received her training at Stanford University Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Davis completed an MPH at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Dong Lijuan is the assistant director of nursing (Education and Research) and the clinical educator lead (nursing) of Family Medicine Development Division at National Healthcare Group Polyclinics. She was appointed as the Education Specialist (Health Profession Education and Development) with the college of National Healthcare Group Singapore since 2014. She is the appointed member of Education Committee of Singapore Nursing Board, Ministry of Health since 2015. She holds a doctorate in education (curriculum teaching and learning) from National Institute of Education-Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; an MBA in Health Services Management from University of Ballarat, Australia; and a bachelor degree in Clinical Medicine from Beihua University, PRC.

Professor Vikki Entwistle is Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She was previously (through May 2018) Professor of Health Services Research and Ethics at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. In broad terms, Vikkikl’s research aims to develop practically useful thinking about ethical aspects of healthcare policy and practice. Vikki is particularly interested in ideas about the quality of healthcare and in the pursuit of fairness in health service provision.

Dr. Foo is a Senior Consultant and Head of the Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Service with the Ophthalmology Department of Tan Tock Seng Hospital. She is Visiting Consultant at the Eye Centre of Kandang Kerbau Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She is a Core Clinical Faculty Member of the Ophthalmology Residency Programme and has received Best Teacher Awards in recognition of her teaching efforts. Additionally, as Senior Clinical Lecturer with Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore, she is also actively involved in undergraduate medical education.

Kavitha Garuna received her undergraduate medical training from Monash University, Australia. She subsequently trained in Advanced Internal Medicine with Singhealth Residency Program. Currently she is an Associate Consultant in the Dept of Internal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital. Her special interest includes Allergy and Medical Education/Faculty Development. In collaboration between AMEI, Duke-Durham and Internal Medicine, she has organized and conducted multiple workshops targeting at remediation and improving learning experience within the department.

Poh-Sun (MBBS(Melb) 1987, FRCR 1993, FAMS 1998, MHPE(Maastricht) 2012 and FAMEE 2017) practices on the clinician educator tract (80/20 time allocation clinical/education) augmenting his education and training time allocation with technology, and regular early morning focused scholarly efforts, spent developing and evaluating the use of open access online digital repositories in clinical training, and medical education faculty development, under a mastery training and deliberate practice framework.
More here https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2017/09/sotl-in-meded.html.

Dr Suzanne Goh is the Assistant Dean for Clinical Integration in Duke-NUS Medical School. She also practices in the field of Paediatric Endocrinology. She is primarily involved in teaching Clinical Reasoning starting from the pre-clinical setting, right through the MD programme, and has introduced concept mapping combined with clinical case-based application exercises as a means to introduce the basics of clinical reasoning to pre-clinical students. She is also involved in the development of a scaffolded Clinical Reasoning curriculum spiraling through the clinical clerkships. She is also keen about driving integration of Basic Science learning with Clinical Science education.

Professor Gwee is currently a Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Medical Education, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

He joined the medical school in 1965 and has served in it in several capacities, including: Head, Dept. of Pharmacology, Vice-Dean of the then faculty of medicine, Chairman, PBL Committee and several Committees responsible for the disbursement of funds to needy students and educational scholarships to students. He has served in external organisations like WHO, Ministry of Health and CASE. He was also appointed to the NUS Teaching Academy by the then Provost of NUS. Professor Gwee also served as a Member of the University Committee on Educational Policy; the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee; inaugural Co-Chairman of the Nursing Curriculum Committee, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies; and Associate Director of the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning.

Professor Gwee is a pioneer in the field of medical education in Singapore. In 1978 he pursued a Master of Health Personnel Education degree from the University of NSW on the award of Scholarship. He received the prestigious: MILES Award in the 3rd Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference in 2006 in recognition of his many contributions to Mentoring, Innovation and Leadership in Educational Scholarship; the Lifetime Achievement Award from APMEC 2015 and, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Medical Education for Europe presented in Helsinki at the opening ceremony of the AMEE 2017 Conference.

Professor Gwee served in numerous local, regional and international committees, Advisory Boards as well as Editorial Boards, including Medical Teacher, Medical Education and the International Journal of Medical Education. Professor Gwee has been invited as speaker/panelist for several gold standard meetings in medical education in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Professor Gwee has served as a Member of the Management Committee of the Association for Medical Education in Asia, and also as a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Medical Science Educators.

He has published several chapters in books, including: “Globalisation of Medical Education: An Asian Perspective” (together with D Samarasekera and Tan Chay Hoon). He has also contributed to other book chapters, the most recent (2018) is a chapter (“Large Group Teaching”) in the International Textbook “Understanding Medical Education”. Professor Gwee also published two key papers in Special Issues to commemorate the centenary year (2010) of the Flexner Report in the Journal of Medical Education (“Medical and Health Care Professional Education in the 21st Century: Institutional, National and Global Perspectives”) and the Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (“Role of Basic Medical Sciences in 21st Century Medical Education.”).

Derek is an Emergency Physician with a passion for teaching. This passion led him to many teaching engagements with nurses, students, doctors and other allied healthcare staff. He was an invited speaker for the Society of Emergency Medicine conference 2018. He is currently serves as the Deputy Undergraduate Education Director in NUH Emergency Medicine Department and also in various Emergency Medicine postgraduate examination committees.

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 Organisation, 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.

Dr Inthrani is a lecturer at the Department of Pharmacology. She holds a joint appointment with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Her research interests revolves around women’s health. She is also interested in understanding how organisational cultures and behaviours can shape staff motivation and development.

Min-Yen Kan (BS;MS;PhD Columbia Univ.; SACM, SIEEE) is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. He serves the School of Computing as an Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies; and the University as a Deputy Director (Research) in the NUS Institute for Application of Learning Science and Educational Technology (ALSET). His research interests include digital libraries and applied natural language processing and information retrieval. He is recognised as a distinguished speaker by the ACM for natural language processing and digital libraries research. Specific projects include work in the areas of scientific discourse analysis, full-text literature mining, machine translation, lexical semantics and applied text summarisation.

Dr Kang Mei Ling was trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases; and is a senior consultant in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease, Singapore General Hospital. She is also actively involved in medical education of undergraduate and postgraduate students; and is presently clinical faculty for 3 local medical schools, core faculty for SingHealth Internal Medicine Residency Programme; and Programme Director for SingHealth Advanced Internal Medicine Residency Programme. She is a strong believer of work-based teaching and assessment; but also has interests in innovative teaching and evaluation methods such as through simulation and gaming.

Janice is a Senior Nurse Educator in the cardiac cluster at the National University Hospital (NUH) specialising in coronary and general intensive nursing care. She is actively involved in clinical teaching in NUH in-house nursing programmes: Critical Care and Cardiac nursing programmes. Her main interest is in interprofessional simulation training. She conducts clinical simulation training and train-the-trainers workshops for nurses. She also supports clinical instructors in cardiac cluster Trigger Code Blue and conducts Cardiac Rehabilitation Outpatient Code Blue drill clinical simulation training.

Dr Koh Dow Rhoon is an alumni of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and completed his undergraduate training in medicine in 1981. He then went on to complete his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology and Immunology. He has been active in medical education for almost two decades and has been the Vice-Dean (Education) from 2001 to 2010, driving medical education reforms in the school. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Visiting Senior Consultant in the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, National University Health System (NUHS). With PTAS, Ministry of Health, he is leading the development of a common medical school standards as well as a quality improvement framework for undergraduate medical education in Singapore. His current interests are in curricular reforms, quality assurance and student learning.

Shan is an assistant professor with the Office of Education and Director of Student Academic Development for Student Affairs at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. She is a trained medical doctor, and an alumnus of Duke-NUS. Her work focuses primarily on developing clinical reasoning skills in medical students at all levels of training within medical school, as well as remediation of the struggling medical student. Before this, Shan worked for the Departments of Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore. She is still in active general practice. Shan earned her BA in Biology from Pomona College, California.

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 programme. Her research areas of interest are patient safety and quality and educational technology.

Dr Amitabha Lahiri is a senior consultant at the Department of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery, National University Hospital, Singapore, and the current director of the microsurgery training lab. He is involved in both, undergraduate and post graduate training programmes. His interest lies in development of simulation models for microsurgery and simulation based training programmes. He has made original contributions in the field and has presented his work in national and international forums.

Dr Lahiri is a full time clinician, and a Senior Consultant Rheumatologist and General Internist at the National University Hospital, a 1300-bedded teaching hospital. She is the Programme Director of the Rheumatology Senior Residency training programme.Dr Lahiri is especially interested in rheumatic disease epidemiology, and health care quality and services research. She leads the “High Value care” initiative for the department of Medicine, looking at the outcomes and cost of healthcare delivery, and coordinating departmental efforts towards quality improvement and value driven outcomes. Since 2016, she also developed, and is the director of, the distinction track in quality and innovation, which aims to mentor residents hospital-wide, in quality initiatives.

Dr. Lee Shuh Shing is a medical educationalist in the Centre for Medical Education (CenMED), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Prior to joining NUS, she was a Medical Educationalist attached to the Medical Education Research and Development Unit (MERDU) in University of Malaya, Malaysia. After obtaining her PhD in education, she has been actively involved in MBBS curriculum planning and provide staff training in University of Malaya. Her main research interests are in teaching and learning approaches, technology in teaching and learning, student learning and qualitative research.

Besides enjoying working with the geriatric population, Sin Yi is passionate about education and professional development. Grooming younger mentors and students has always been a fulfilling and rewarding journey for her. She is actively involved in research that aims to promote exercise and physical activity for older adults. Sin Yi’s other research interests include areas of interprofessional collaboration, reflective practice and professional identity. As part of the curriculum development team for the National Healthcare Group Interprofessional Leadership Programme, Sin Yi began to develop greater interest in the field of education and leadership. She strongly believes that being an educator at heart is the core of being an effective leader.

Assoc Professor Lim Boon Leng is the Deputy Group Director, Education (Graduate), SingHealth from 2015 and SGH Chief Risk Officer from 2018. He is also Associate Professor of Duke-NUS Medical School, Clinical Associate Professor of YLL School of Medicine, NUS, Co-Chair of the Professional Development Committee of Academic Medicine Education Institute (AM.EI).

A/Prof Lim’s portfolio includes - Director, Surgical ICU (1996-2002); Head, Department of Anaesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care (2004-2009); Chairman, Sub-Division of Anaesthesiology (2009-2011); President, Society of Intensive Care Medicine (1999-2001); President, Singapore Society of Anaesthesiology (2002-2003). He was member of the Specialist Training Committee (Anaesthesiology) from 2006-2011 and Subspecialty Training Committee (Intensive Care Medicine) from 2006-2014. His other works are in Bioethics and Transplant Ethics where he serves as member of SGH Transplant and Bioethics Committee Member since 2005 and MOH National Transplant Ethics Panel since 2009. He was ADIO SGH from 2010-2012 and DIO SingHealth Residency from 2012 to 2018.

Mr Lim is a Principal Medical Social Worker and Chief Education Lead of Department of Care and Counselling, in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He overseeing the department’s education strategising and development. His clinical interests are healthcare education and supervision, systemic psychotherapy, geriatrics care and gerontology, palliative and end-of-life care. He is also the core member of Education Taskforce under Allied Health Services Division, Adjunct Faculty with National Healthcare Group College and designated Health Professions Educator with National Healthcare Group Education. He was one of the curriculum development team members and faculty for Inter-Professional Leadership Program (IPLP) under National Healthcare Group. He was also recognised for excellence in education and was recipient of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) Allied Health Services Clinical Educator Outstanding Award for three consecutive years from 2012 to 2014 and National Healthcare Group (NHG) Teaching Award for Allied Health Educators in 2014 and Education Leaders Award in 2017. He received Allied Health Clinical Educator Honour Roll in 2015 in recognition of sustained outstanding performance and passion to Allied Health Education. He was also recipient for National Healthcare Group (NHG) Education Leaders Award, 2017.

Dr Ruth Lim a Family Physician is a senior consultant with SingHealth Polyclinics (SHP). As Director Education at SingHealth polyclinics, and Academic Vice-Chair of Education in the SingHealth Duke-NUS Family Medicine Academic Clinical programme (ACP), she plays a key role in educating the next generation of healthcare staff. On the National level, she is the Chief Examiner for both the Family Medicine Examination (ABMS) and the Masters of Medicine (Family Medicine). Ruth is also the secretary for the Family Physician Accreditation Board (FPAB) and a member of the Joint Committee of Family Medicine Singapore (JCFMS).

Dr. Lim is a Senior Consultant at the Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children’s Medical Institute, NUHS. He graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine, London, in 2000. Dr. Lim is dually-accredited in Paediatrics and Paediatric Respiratory Medicine in the UK, and gained specialist accreditation in Paediatric Medicine in Singapore in 2012. He is active in undergraduate medical education, and is a core faculty member in the postgraduate residency programme for paediatrics at National University Hospital. He is a member of the NUS IPE Committee and a core member of the NUH IPE Committee.

Professor Lim was Head of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, NUHS from 1999-2012. He implemented the Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia and Non-Invasive Ventilation for life-threatening COPD Programmes for which he received National Medical Excellence awards in 2010 and 2014. He received the Master Clinician Award from the NUHS in 2011. As Chair of the Singapore National Asthma Programme he has won international recognition from the World Health Organization's GINA (2015). He also chaired the Ministry of Health workgroup on COPD integrated care and clinical practice guidelines (pub 2018).

A/Prof. Lim is Senior Consultant at Department of Geriatric Medicine, Institute of Geriatrics and Active Ageing, Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He is faculty advisor to National Healthcare Group Health Outcomes Medical Education Research (NHG-HOMER); 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. He was co-course lead for the Atelier Wilson Centre@HOMER Course in Qualitative Research Methods. Awarded the outstanding alumni award 2016 from the MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, USA, his enthusiasm in his role as “Geriatrician Educator Researcher” is evidenced by his comprehensive track record of scholarly work, including close to 100 peer-reviewed publications, reviewer for major grants and international journals, and research and teaching awards in the fields of Geriatric Medicine and Health Professions Education. His research interests in health professions education include interprofessional teams and leadership; outcomes-based programme evaluation; and mixed methods research.

Professor McGrouther graduated from the University of Glasgow in Medicine in 1969, the University of Strathclyde in Bioengineering 1975, and gained his MD (honours) Glasgow 1988. In 1989 he was appointed to the first established United Kingdom Chair in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at University College London (UCL). Professor McGrouther moved to the University of Manchester in 2001 to focus his research on wound healing, tissue repair and tissue engineering, with laboratory programmes in tendon repair, peripheral nerve repair and scar formation. Since 2014, he has been Senior Consultant Hand Surgeon at Singapore General Hospital and Adjunct Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School.

For his research he was awarded a Wolfson Royal Society merit award, and has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom. Elected to the Royal College of Surgeons of England Council (2010-2014), Professor McGrouther chaired numerous committees concerned with Surgical education and standards. He has delivered many public lectures (on 3 occasions attended by His Royal Highness Prince Phillip) communicating the surgeon’s art to a wider audience.

Krithikaa Nadarajan graduated from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2010. She subsequently trained in Internal Medicine and Advanced Internal Medicine in Singhealth. She is currently a Consultant in Internal Medicine at Singapore General Hospital. Her special interests include medical education and perioperative medicine. She is the Associate Programme Director for the PGY1 Programme in Singhealth. She received the Inspiring Educator Award in 2015 and Outstanding Faculty Award in 2016.

Ms Yvonne Ng is the Senior Director (Education) of the National Healthcare Group (NHG) and Executive Director of NHG College. She oversees residency training, pre-employment health profession education, and education development in NHG, as well as the group’s training arm - NHG College. Working closely with the Group Chief Education Officer and NHG educators, Yvonne plays a pivotal role in setting up and growing the quality health professions education system in NHG.

Dr Ngiam Kee Yuan is the Group Chief Technology Officer of the National University Health System (NUHS) Singapore overseeing technology deployment in Western Healthcare Cluster of Singapore. The cluster incorporates one large academic medical centre, 3 national centres of excellence, 2 acute hospitals, one community hospital, 6 polyclinics and 4 schools under the National University of Singapore. In this role, he assists the Chief Executive to implement new technologies throughout NUHS and serves as the Chief Advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Healthcare in NUHS. Dr Ngiam is concurrently the Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer at the National University Hospital of Singapore with a special focus on artificial intelligence research and implementation in healthcare. He has certification training by the American Medical Informatics Association and has published in computing and medical journals on topics related to healthcare AI applications and technology.

Dr Ngiam is a Consultant Thyroid and Endocrine Surgeon at the Department of Surgery, National University Hospital, Singapore specialising in thyroid oncology and minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic thyroid surgery. Dr Ngiam obtained his undergraduate degree from the Royal Free and University College Medical School, London (now University College London). He entered Advanced Surgical Training in General Surgery and was awarded a fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh upon completion of his training. He is accredited a General Surgery Specialist by the Specialist Accreditation Board, Singapore and received the Higher Manpower Development Award to complete a fellowship in Metabolic Surgery in Taiwan. He received further training in robotic thyroid surgery at the Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea.

In his capacity as Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Dr Ngiam engages in research into endocrine and metabolic surgery as well as artificial intelligence applications in healthcare. He promotes interdisciplinary collaboration throughout the NUS campus, particularly between the schools of medicine, engineering and computer science for various healthcare applications. He was awarded the ExxonMobil-NUS Research Fellowship for Clinicians and numerous teaching awards for his work in research and education.

Dr Ngiam is also active in volunteerism and is the Mission Chief for a number of ground up surgical missions to regional countries such as Myanmar and Indonesia; under the auspices of the Surgical Outreach to Underserved Localities (SOUL) programme with the NUH Department of Surgery.

Dr Nicola Ngiam graduated from the National University of Singapore and subsequently attained higher academic qualifications in the Masters of Medicine in Paediatrics (NUS) and MRCPCH (UK). She received postgraduate training in the field of Paediatric Critical Care at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. She is currently the Director of the Standardized Patient Program, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore as well as a senior consultant in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Khoo Teck Puat – National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Health System. She is actively involved in undergraduate paediatric education as well as programs for paediatric postgraduate students and nurses in the field of paediatric acute care. She has a special interest in the field of standardised patient training, communication skills and the use of simulation-based teaching methods.

Associate Professor Shirley Ooi is the former Head of NUH EMD. She is currently co-chairing the annual Asia-Pacific Evidence-based Medicine and Nursing workshop and Residency Medical Education distinction track. She is currently serving in the Specialist Accreditation Board, National Postgraduate Year 1 committee, Medical Education Coordinating Committee, Singapore Specialist Training Standards Standing Committee and Workplace-based Assessment Committee. Her passion and educational research interest is in teaching and mentoring. She believes in lifelong learning and has just obtained her Masters of Health Professions Education (Maastricht-Singapore) in 2017. She has won multiple teaching awards, the most prestigious being the 2013 National Outstanding Clinician Educator award. She has written 3 books entitled “Guide to the Essentials in Emergency Medicine 1st and 2nd eds” and “Medicolegal Issues in Emergency Medicine and Family Practice: Case Scenarios”.

Ms Poh Chee Lien is the Assistant Director of Nursing at the National Healthcare Group Education Office, Singapore. 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. Chee Lien 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. Chee Lien has a strong passion for education, research, evidence-based practice, gerontology and mental health nursing. She has been the Principal Investigator of several research studies, published and presented in local and international arena.

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.

Dujeepa Samarasekera is the Director, Centre for Medical Education (CenMED), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Senior Consultant (Health Professions Education) at the Ministry of Health Singapore. Dujeepa has been involved in curriculum development, quality assurance and accreditation and faculty development at both undergraduate and postgraduate level health professional courses. He is the Course Director of the Masters in Health Professions Education - Singapore which is a collaboration with the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. He is the Chair Faculty Teaching Excellence Committee (FTEC) for Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. In addition Dujeepa leads the School of Medicine Continuous Quality Improvement team at the deanery and is the co-chair for faculty development in the residency programme. He is also a member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and Graduate Medical Education Committee, Faculty Assessment Committee and Curriculum Steering Committee at the School of Medicine and NUHS.

At the MoH level, Dujeepa is part of the Professional Training Assessments and Standards (PTAS) division and provides expertise in the following areas - Undergraduate Medical Schools and Postgraduate speciality training accreditation; development of Postgraduate Year 1 training and assessment framework; Nursing curriculum framework (Nursing Executive Education Committee); Pharmacy and Allied Health programmes to refine their training and evaluation programmes.

At the regional and international level Dujeepa is a member of the ASPIRE for Excellence panel at the European Association for Medical Education to evaluate medical schools that have achieved excellence in specific areas of faculty development, assessment etc and Co-chair the Asia Pacific Scholar Network (APMENet) in medical education. He is the present President of the College of Clinician Educators at Academy of Medicine Singapore and also the President of the Western Pacific Association of Medical Education which is the regional branch organisation of the World Federation of Medical Education in charge of global medical school standards and accreditation. Dujeepa is the Editor-in-Chief of The Asia Pacific Scholar (TAPS) journal and serves on the editorial advisory boards of Annals of Academic Medicine Singapore, South East Asian Journal of Medical Education (SEAJME), Korean Journal of Medical Education, BLDE Medical Journal and AMEE online journal MedEd Publish. He serves in many international medical education organisations and has published widely in peer-reviewed medical education journals as well as authored book chapters relating to Medical and Health Professional Education. Dujeepa holds the fellowships of Academy of Medicine Singapore, Academy of Medicine Malaysia, Academy of Medical Educators in the United Kingdom and the fellowship of Medical Educators Europe.

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 Programme, 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.

Dr Seow graduated from Aberdeen University and undertook research and specialist training in general surgery in Glasgow. After his fellowship training in Singapore, he has worked in England (Manchester and Bristol) prior to return to Singapore. He holds the Director of Colorectal Service in Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS. He is an adjunct assistant professor with the Yong Loo Ling School of Medicine, NUS. He is the associate program director of the NUHS General Surgery Residency Program. He teaches anatomy to the first year medical student in NUS and ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) at a national level.

Dr Soh Jian Yi completed his Paediatric training as well as Allergy and Immunology subspecialty training in Singapore. His clinical work encompasses general paediatrics as well as various aspects of allergy, such as the immunotherapy treatment programme for food allergies in children in Singapore. His research interests span education as well as allergy and immunology. He is heavily involved in postgraduate and undergraduate medical education. On the side, he is a volunteer with TOUCH community services. He also writes for the Straits Times on doctor-patient issues, and is the author of The Ownership Cycle.

Maleena’s career spans four domains: food science, aviation, education, and healthcare. In her current role, she oversees Education and Training in an academic healthcare system. Undergraduate, postgraduate & Residency, continuing medical education, and inter-professional programmes are run concurrently. One of her interests lies in the well-being and welfare of healthcare professionals. To that end, fostering the development of individual coping mechanisms, building resilience, and engaging institutional and system leaders to help reduce stressors in the workplace is key.

Esther graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2001 and obtained her Masters in Health Science from the University of Sydney in 2007. She has worked as an occupational therapist in Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Singapore. She is a training leader and expert level “Developmental, Individual difference and Relationship based” (DIR) floortime provider under the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning (ICDL). She has taught DIR floortime professional courses in Singapore and overseas. Esther has been actively involved in clinical teaching, as well as promoting Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) at National University Hospital. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Clinical Education at the University of Edinburgh.

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 in Curriculum Review, Problem-Based Learning and Feedback. She worked closely with other medical educators in 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 2017. She has been named the National University of Singapore Faculty Outstanding Educator in 2016.

Clement Tan is Associate Professor and Consultant Ophthalmologist at the National University Hospital, Singapore. His particular clinical interests are Neuro-ophthalmology and cataract surgery. He is presently Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, National University Health System. Dr Tan’s other abiding interest is in Medical Education. Besides completing a Masters programme in medical education, he was till recently, Programme Director of the Ophthalmology Residency Programme and is still active in postgraduate medical education as the Associate Designated Institution Official for the National University Hospital. He is also Chief Examiner for the Masters of Medicine (Ophthalmology).

Dr. Kevin Tan is a Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) 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 Education Director, NNI. His medical education interests are team-based learning, innovations in teaching and assessment, clinical reasoning and nudge theory.

Dr. Tan graduated with an MBBS from the National University of Singapore in 2010 and was part of Singapore’s inaugural batch of National University Hospital’s Internal Medicine residents. Graduating from three different training programmes (Internal Medicine, Advanced Internal Medicine, and Intensive Care Medicine) has conferred her with a keen appreciation of the utility of “non-technical skills”, an active interest in medical education for learners from all walks of life, & the realisation that as medical professionals, we will always be students in some form.

Ms Winnie Teo graduated from the School of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. 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. Winnie is excited about being in health professions education and research, and much of her current work at the National Healthcare Group revolves around developing capabilities for grooming the Professionals for Tomorrow's Healthcare.

Dr. Teoh is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He underwent postgraduate training in the United Kingdom before joining the National University Hospital in Singapore as a consultant physician. He was a Programme Director for Core Medical Training in the UK and is currently a Core Faculty member for the Internal Medicine Residency Programme and the Phase V medicine posting director for undergraduates at the National University Hospital.

Dr Thiru is a dermatologist by clinical training and was the Founding Director of the Singapore General Hospital, Department of Dermatology (2002). He has spent more than 20 years of his medical career learning and teaching in the areas of professionalism, professional governance and development, clinical ethics, clinical communications, health law, patient safety, risk management, and clinical governance. He is privileged to be the Founding Director of the Singapore Medical Association Centre for Medical Ethics and Professionalism. He currently holds a position as Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore where he was a Pioneer Founding Faculty (2007).

Arpana Vidyarthi is a Senior Consultant and Head of the Division of Advanced Internal Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore and an Associate Professor of Education and Health Systems and Services Research at Duke-NUS Medical School. Her Quality and Safety background includes scholarship, operational expertise, and education. She is an Associate Editor for the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Quality and Safety and has published numerous articles in the arenas of transitions of care and quality and safety education. She has spoken widely within these arenas, testifying before the United States Institute of Medicine on the role of duty hour reduction in improving patient safety, and has been quoted in the New York Times, SF Business Times, Today’s Hospitalist, and Health Business Blog. She has substantial operational experience which she gained during her tenure as Director of Quality and Safety for UCSF’s Division of Hospital Medicine, through her national role in the United States based Society of Hospital Medicine’s BOOST program to improve the discharge process, and as the Head (Chief) of the Division of Advanced Internal Medicine at the National University Hospital in Singapore. Dr. Vidyarthi has extensive experience in clinical teaching and GME programme administration. She is the Director of the Ministry of Health Singapore Chief Residency Programme. Previously at UCSF, she was the Director of the Health Systems and Leadership residency track, and the Director of Quality and Safety Programmes for Graduate Medical Education.

Teck Yee is a Family Physician, Senior Consultant, in TTSH and Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Year 4 and Family Medicine) in LKCMedicine. He also holds the appointment of Education Director for NHG Pre-Professional Education Office and Academic Director for NHG College. He obtained his MBBS (1995), Masters in Family Medicine (2001), MPH (2009) and Masters in Health Professions Education (2013).

After completing his Family Medicine residency training, he worked in Choa Chu Kang Polyclinic as a Family Physician and later as Head/Senior Family Physician. He was awarded the Human Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) scholarship to the Department of General Practice in Monash University, Melbourne and later joined Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor, holding the post of FM Undergraduate Education Director. He is 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. He remains active in clinical practice and has contributed articles in numerous peer-reviewed journals. He also actively participates in both local and international conferences, with numerous oral and poster presentations.

Celestial Yap is Associate Professor and Physiology Program Director at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). Graduating with an MBBS degree from NUS, she was engaged in hospital and primary healthcare practice, and subsequently awarded the NUS Overseas Graduate Scholarship to pursue a PhD degree in biomedical research at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. As Physiology Program Director, she is actively involved in medical and dental education, where she services in committees overseeing examinations as well as curriculum revision and implementation. She co-leads the Respiratory System-Based Workgroup which aims to foster the integration between basic science education and clinical practice in respiratory medicine. She also set up the Cytoskeleton and Tumour Biology laboratory at NUS in 2006, which focuses on cytoskeletal derangements and signaling pathways that promote tumour invasion and recurrence. The laboratory is committed to education in research, having trained clinician-researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate research students.

Her experience in clinical medicine as well as biomedical research has sparked her interests in integrative approaches to medical and research-related education. Working closely with clinicians and scientists, she hopes to contribute to a culture of holistic professionalism.

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.

Adj. A/Prof Yip is the Education Director, Education Development Office; 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. His received numerous accolades from for excellence in teaching: Best Teacher Award (2014), Special Recognition Award (2016) and Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2017) from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. 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.

Doris Young graduated from Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne and completed Family Medicine training in Australia. Over the last 35 years, Doris has been involved extensively in educating and training medical students, registrars, general practitioners and other health professionals in adolescent medicine, general practice and primary care research. Over the last 10 years, she has been actively building General Practice /Family Medicine education and research capacity in Hong Kong and in China. Doris Young has published widely in the area of General Practice integration models with the wider health care system and her research focussed on trialling innovative models of care in the primary care setting to improve health outcomes for people with chronic diseases in culturally and linguistically diverse and disadvantaged communities. Doris moved to Singapore in January 2015 and in 2016 took up a part time role as research advisor to National Healthcare Group Polyclinics. She joined National University of Singapore January 2017 as Professor in the Division of Family Medicine.