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.

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 & General Secretary and Treasurer of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). Professor Harden was formerly Teaching Dean & 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 co-author of Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher, The Definitive Guide to the OSCE and Eight Roles of the Medical Teacher.

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. He was recently awarded the Gusi Peace Prize for services to medical education at a ceremony in Manila.

Graham McMahon, MD, MMSc, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®), and Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at Northwestern University. The ACCME assures and advances quality learning for healthcare professionals that drives improvements in patient care. Dr McMahon leads efforts to strengthen the role of accredited CME as a strategic resource to public health initiatives on the national and international level.

Dr. Holmboe is Senior Vice President, Milestones Development and Evaluation at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). He is also Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Yale University, 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 Program Director, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Director of Student Clinical Assessment, Yale School of Medicine and Assistant Director of the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program. 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, honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and honorary fellow of 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.

Professor Kamarulzaman trained as an Infectious Diseases physician in Melbourne Australia and is presently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Yale University. She has played a leading role in the response to the HIV epidemic in Malaysia and globally and has been a member of many international HIV committees including as Co-Chair of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee on HIV and the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel on HIV, and is currently the President-elect of the International AIDS Society. Her achievements have been recognised through several national and international awards including a Doctor of Laws from her alma mater, Monash University for her contributions to medicine and as a health advocate.

John Norcini, PhD is President Emeritus of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER®). Prior to FAIMER, Dr Norcini held a number of positions at the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has more than 200 publications, lectured and taught in more than 45 countries, and is on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Academy of Medical Educators and has received numerous awards including the Karolinska Prize for Research in Medical Education.

Wojciech Pawlina, M.D., is a Professor of Anatomy and Medical Education at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He teaches gross anatomy, histology, and embryology to undergraduate and medical students, as well as residents and fellows. His research interest in medical education is directed towards strategies of implementing innovative teaching methodologies, teaching professionalism, leadership, teamwork and professional identity formation process in early medical curriculum. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Anatomical Sciences Education.

William W. Pinsky is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) and Board Chair of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER), ECFMG’s non-profit foundation. Dr Pinsky graduated from Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and trained at Baylor College of Medicine and at Texas Children’s Hospital. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Paediatrics, the American College of Cardiology, and the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr Pinsky holds an Honorary Professor title from the University of Queensland.

Professor Prabandari is the chair of Professional Behavior Committee and co-chair of the Department of Health Behavior, Environment and Social Medicine at FM PHN UGM. Prof. Prabandari graduated from Faculty of Psychology and master in clinical psychology at UGM. She finished her PhD in community medicine from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Newcastle University, Australia in 2006. Prof. Prabandari has presented papers in several medical education workshops and conferences. She also published medical education and professionalism articles in national and international journals. Prof. Prabandari used to be consultant in medical education and professionalism in several universities in Indonesia.

Yvonne Steinert, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and Professor of Family Medicine and Health Sciences Education, is the Director of the Institute of Health Sciences 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 chairs the AMEE Faculty Development Committee and frequently addresses medical educators in both national and international venues. In addition, she has recently been named to the Order of Canada in recognition of her contributions to the advancement of pedagogical principles, faculty development and new training approaches in Canadian medical education.

Professor Siriwan Suebnukarn serves as Vice Rector for Research and Innovation at Thammasat University, Thailand. Prof. Suebnukarn’s combined background in Dentistry and Computer Science gives her a rather unique set of skills to tackle some important outstanding problems in Medical Informatics and Education. Her research work has included intelligent clinical training systems, virtual reality surgical simulation and clinical decision support systems. She developed an Intelligent Virtual Reality Dental Simulator for which she won the prestigious International Federation of Inventor Association’s (IFIA) Lady Prize for the Best Women’s Invention. Prof. Suebnukarn has over 60 scholarly publications in the fields of Dentistry, Medical Informatics, Intelligent User Interfaces, and User Modeling. She seeks to understand how expert and novice clinicians perform decision-making and provide interventions. She has explored strategies for optimal control and accuracy to carry out the surgical procedure which has, in turn, become a model for development of automated surgical training systems.

Dr Abdelrahman is a Senior Paediatric Gastroenterologist, holding a Master in Medical Education and he is interested in the field of postgraduate medical education together with his clinical commitments. He has special interest in the area of research in medical education. He graduated from Khartoum University, Sudan, got the Arab Board of Paediatrics, MRCP and FRCPCH, UK and the JMHPE.

Dr Abdel-Razig is a clinician educator with expertise in educational policy development, health systems regulations, and graduate medical education. She received her M.D. from the University of Connecticut, completed her internal medicine training at New York University, and holds a master’s in education of health professionals from Johns Hopkins University. She served as the founding internal medicine program director at Mafraq Hospital, UAE, from 2007-2010. She served as the head of medical education at the Health Authority Abu Dhabi from 2010-2015. She currently serves as a hospitalist and the Director of Medical Education at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

Dr Eman A.Rahman Senan Al Maslamani is a Senior Consultant of the Paediatric Infectious Disease at Sidra Medicine. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Paediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar and the Program Director for the Transitional Year Residency Program and Paediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship Program. Administratively, she is the chairman of Infection Prevention & Control Committee of Hamad General Hospital, Chairman of the Exam Committee ACGME-I and assistant Program Director of Paediatric Residency Program. She also represents Qatar in the Arab Board of Health Specialization (Paediatric). Dr Eman obtained her medical degree from Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain. She had her Paediatric Residency Training and Paediatric Infectious Disease 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. Dr Eman had a role in the establishment and implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in Hamad Medical Corporation and Sidra Medicine. She also contributed in the development and implementation of Paediatric Sepsis Program at Hamad Medical Corporation and Sidra Medicine.

Dr Hatem Faraj Al Ameri is the Manager of the of Medical Education and Assessment at Department of Health Abu Dhabi, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the United Arab Emirates University. Through his work at the Department of Health, Dr Al Ameri has overseen the development of multiple regulatory standards in Graduate Medical Education (GME) and he leads the Abu Dhabi Medical Education Strategy 2019-2022. He is a board member of several national medical education and workforce planning taskforce including accreditation, certification and licensing committees. Dr Al Ameri completed his Pulmonary Medicine fellowship training and Internal Medicine residency training in Canada from McGill University in 2002 and 2000 respectively. He has received several academic awards and has authored multiple publications in the field of both clinical medicine and in Medical Education.

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.

Anbarasi is an accomplished teacher with 13 years of teaching experience in Dentistry and awarded the first PhD in India in Dental Education field for her thesis titled “Competency-based Clinical Dental Education”. She focuses on ensuring the best possible educational outcome of dental students. As taken teaching as her passionate profession, she was awarded “Teaching Excellence award” in 2019 by her institution. Her research interest includes designing innovative curriculum, teaching-leaning practices and workplace-based assessments.

Prof Cécile Badoual is Full Professor (PU-PH) at Paris Descartes School of Medicine Paris Descartes Faculty of Medicine. She is the head of the Department of Pathology at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital (HEGP), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) and the director of the tissue biobanking in the HEGP hospital. She is currently Vice Dean (Education) of the Paris Descartes University of Medicine and is mostly involved in the fusion between Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot health universities (Paris University). Her research is mostly focus on head and neck pathology and most specifically about immune microenvironment modification due to HPV infection in squamous cell carcinoma.

As the Associate Dean, Student Affairs Service Quality (SASQ), A/Prof Bishop ensures that all students reach their potential and are supported when required. What does support mean to her? It all too often encompasses an array of complexity for the individual and as SASQ they provide a confidential, personalised triage opportunity to ensure students feel safe and listened to. The current stats around mental health are daunting but together we can support our own wellbeing and those around us to live fulfilled lives.

Dr Boulet is Vice President, Research and Data Resources, for both the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG®) and the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER®). Dr Boulet holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Western Ontario and both a M.A. and Ph.D. in Education from the University of Ottawa. He is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine and a Fellow of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. He is currently a site visitor for the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) Accreditation Agency Recognition Programme.

Timothy P. Brigham, MDiv, PhD, is the Chief of Staff and Chief Education and Organisational Development Officer 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 Campbell is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Ottawa and Principal Senior Advisor, Competency-based Continuing Professional Development in the Office of Specialty Education, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr Campbell’s research interests focus on developing and implementing tools and strategies to promote the use of external data and feedback to enhance competence and performance of individual physicians, groups or health care teams. Dr Campbell is a Fellow of the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) and member of the editorial board for the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions.

Dr Chappell is SVP, Accreditation, Certification, Measurement, and the Institute for Credentialing Research and Quality Management. She is responsible for certification of registered nurses and advanced practice registered nurses; accreditation of organizations that provide continuing nursing education and inter-professional continuing education; and accreditation of residency and fellowship programs for nurses. She directs the Institute for Credentialing Research and the quality management department. She holds a baccalaureate in nursing with distinction, a Master’s 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 & Fellow in the National Academies of Practice.

Mathew Chow is a third-year medical student studying at the University of Hong Kong. He is currently undertaking an MSc Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Mathew also serves as the General Assistant for the Asia-Pacific Region for the International Federation for Medical Students’ Associations, which is one of the world’s oldest and largest student-run organisations representing 1.3 million medical students from across the globe. He strongly believes in a student-centric approach in developing a robust medical curriculum, and the challenge of implementing the “good” medical education in a heterogenous landscape both within and across regions.

Lisa Cover is Senior Vice President for Business Development and Operations at ECFMG. Ms. Cover’s expertise and experience focus on institutional strategy, new business development and operations management. Before joining ECFMG in 2015, she held a number of leadership roles over more than a decade at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), including Senior Director of International Medicine and Assistant Vice President of Planning and New Business Development. Prior to her time at CHOP, Ms. Cover held management positions at a number of academic medical centres, including Columbia University in New York and BJC Health System in St. Louis.

Peter de Jong is a staff adviser and assistant professor in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in The Netherlands. Peter has a Master degree in Medical Technology from Eindhoven University and a PhD in Biophysics/Physiology from Maastricht University. At LUMC he leads a team for the development, implementation and support of learning materials and he provides strategic advice in the field of technology enhanced learning. His scientific research interest is in the field of Blended Learning in medical education, especially the integration of Massive Open Online Courses into regular classroom teaching. 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. Peter is past chair of the AMEE Committee on Technology Enhanced Learning. Since 2007 Peter is involved in the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE). He has served the organization as Board member and Vice President, and as the 2009 Program Chair and Site Host for the first IAMSE Annual Meeting outside of North America. Since 2010 he holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of Medical Science Educator, the online journal of IAMSE. From that position he also oversees the review process of oral and poster presentation abstracts submitted for the IAMSE Annual Meetings.

Associate Professor Dr. Dimla has been teaching Pharmacology and Research Methods for more than ten years in the College of Medicine, UERMMMCI, Philippines. Drawing from her experience as a general paediatrician, she integrates values-formation and tips on patient-doctor relationship when interacting with students. She is currently serving in the Admissions Committee of the College of Medicine. A staunch believer of contextualising quality standards, patient-centred care and evidence-based medicine through proper staff orientation, engagement and empowerment and as Director for Quality and Patient Services in the UERM Memorial Medical Center, she would like to help strengthen collaborations between the administration, academia and the hospital staff to promote both meaningful client care and student experience.

Professor Alec Ekeroma is the Head of Department, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Otago Wellington New Zealand and is the Founding Professor of the School of Medicine, National University of Samoa where he led a team funded by WHO to develop a contextualized curriculum. He has been appointed Vice Chancellor of the National University of Samoa and is due to start in this role in two weeks’ time. He was an academic at the University of Auckland for 22 years and one of his research interests is in interventions to increase research capacity an activity by clinicians in low resource settings.

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.

Michael Field is a retired academic nephrologist. He was formerly the Associate Dean (Curriculum) at the Sydney Medical School, and was active in the reform of medical education in Australia through the introduction of graduate-entry programs based on PBL and IT infrastructure. He has had a long interest in quality assurance in medical education and was the Chair of the Medical School Accreditation Committee of the Australian Medical Council from 2004-2010. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of AMEWPR/WPAME since 2006, was elected President in 2014, and is now Past President.

Ardi Findyartini is a medical doctor graduated from Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia (FMUI) in 2002. She completed the 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, the Head of Medical Education Unit and the Coordinator of Medical Education Cluster at Indonesia Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI) at the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia. She has been teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate program in medical education and mentoring students and graduates in conducting research in medical education. With her team, she’s been very active in conducting workshops for faculty development in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in the FMUI and in other institutions in Indonesia for the past 12 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, inter-professional education, faculty development, curriculum development, 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’.

Dr Futaba graduated from Medical School at University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. She completed her training in General, Colorectal and Minimally Invasive Surgery in the West Midlands and obtained Master’s degree in Clinical Education from the University of Nottingham, UK. Dr Futaba has an interest in medical education and is always looking for new ways to make learning fun for students. She is currently developing new, interactive on-line learning tools for Chinese University of Hong Kong Medical students in General Surgery, in order to maximise their learning experience during their clinical attachment.

Dr Gaynor is the Academic Director of Admissions and Senior Lecturer in the Foundation Year at the School of Medicine, RCSI Bahrain. After completing his degree in University College Dublin and PhD at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, he took up a faculty position at the new medical school of RCSI Bahrain in 2004. His research interests include approaches to learning of science subjects, medical school admissions and physical activity & student well-being.

An Oncologist and General Practitioner by specialty, Trevor is now President of AMEE and Director of the AMEE Networking Centres in China, Russia and Georgia. He is also Associate Editor of the journals Medical Teacher and MedEdPublish. He has been responsible for re-designing several medical and health professional curricula and has been involved with many innovations in Primary Care, in the UK and overseas. His main areas of interest are faculty development (particularly in resource-constrained countries), primary care development, equity and equality in education and the Social Accountability of Health Professional Schools.

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.

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.

Dr Manasik Hassan is general paediatric consultant 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. DrManasik’s areas of practice and interest includes 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 programs. 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.

A/Prof Henning is an associate professor and post-graduate academic advisor at the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education at the University of Auckland. The Centre provides a suite of post graduate clinical education courses. He has facilitated numerous workshops to clinical teachers in New Zealand in relation to developing pragmatic clinical teaching skills. He is actively engaged in research and his specific interests include: quality of life, the motivation to teach and learn, assessment, organizational behaviour, conflict management, and professional integrity. His background is in psychology, education and mathematics teaching. His PhD was in the area of educational psychology.

Julie Hewett is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s 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. In her role within IAMSE she is also responsible for the social media strategy and outreach. Julie has led numerous workshops and presentations on the topic of the use of social media within Medical Education and Publishing, and for the purpose of professional community building.

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 Hui is a Clinical Microbiologist and is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Dr Hui believes that a good medical doctor should also be a good teacher. A good teacher explains, demonstrates, and inspires. A good doctor not only possesses the best skills and knowledge, but also understands human suffering and believes in humanity and ethics. She is both a supportive, and a demanding teacher. Dr Hui received the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award from the Chinese University in Hong Kong in 2016. She is also the recipient of multiple ‘Teacher of the Year’ awards in the Faculty of Medicine.

Dr Halah Ibrahim has served in many residency program leadership roles in Abu Dhabi, UAE, including core faculty, Program Director, Designated Institutional Official and Chair of Academic Affairs. She was actively involved in the transition to competency based medical education and ACGME-I accreditation. Prior to moving to Abu Dhabi in 2008, Dr Ibrahim was a clinician-educator in NYC. She is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed her residency training at The New York Hospital- Cornell Medical Center. Her research interests include international GME reform and gender issues in international academic medicine.

Professor Jacobs is the inaugural Head of the Department of Medical Education and Clinical Sciences at Washington State University (WSU). His department provides the entire program leading to the MD degree and includes roughly 600 faculty members from multiple disciplines and specialties (physicians (all specialties), scientists, nurses, etc). Medical student teaching is distributed across the state of Washington (pop 7.54M, land mass 184,830 km2) in collaboration with over 75 affiliate clinical sites. Previous positions include Senior Director at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Assistant Dean, Education, at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and others.

Dean Jenkins is a physician and an innovator in medical education. He is the founder of onexamination.com, the founding editor of BMJ Case Reports, the course director for the launch of University of South Wales’s MSc in Medical Education, and a member of GAME. At UCB he is part of the global medical affairs team developing learning strategy, has worked on quality in lifelong learning for EFPIA and iPACME, and is a member of UCB’s future thinkers network that advises corporate strategy. He is an enthusiast for social learning, active learning design, and digital habitats.

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.

Kang Yew Beng is currently the International Medical University Associate Dean Technology Enhanced Learning, the Director of Learning Resources and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He is interested in synthetic preparative chemistry, He had been involved in catalytic, organometallic, and surfactant chemistry dealing with highly ring-strained molecules.

The past 18 years was spent in education and technology-related areas in enhancing education. Of current interest is how information in the curriculum can be mapped and used to derive data-informed decision making for academic administration.

Dr Rani Kanthan is a consultant Anatomical pathologist, with a focused interest in surgical oncology including breast and gastrointestinal tract.in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She has published more than 125 peer reviewed manuscripts that are indexed in PubMed /Google scholar and serves as an editorial board member in various journals. She is an active medical educator with a passion for teaching and continues to participate and present at various national and international meetings with more than 140 conference abstract presentations to her credit.

Dr. Jean Klig is a Paediatric Emergency Medicine specialist and the Director of Undergraduate Education in the Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She has been actively involved for years in medical education focused on clinical skills development, and faculty development in clinical teaching. Dr. Klig currently leads the Clinical Skills Coaching Faculty at Harvard Medical School. She is a longstanding faculty member in the Harvard-Macy International Program for Educators in the Health Professions.

Robert Klitzman, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health, and the Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University. He is the author or co-author of over 140 academic articles, and has written 9 books, including Designing Babies: How Technology Is Changing the Ways We Create Children, Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing, The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe, and When Doctors Become Patients. He has received several awards for his work, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, and is a gubernatorial appointee to the Empire State Stem Cell Board and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

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 President-elect of Japan Association for Medical Education from 2020, 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.

Shekhar Kumta is an orthopaedic surgeon and the Assistant Dean (Medical Education), Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the Director of the Education Resources at the Faculty. He is a member of the Central Internship Committee that looks after Intern placement, intern training and intern support. He involved with the supervision of intern education and provide mentorship, counselling and guidance so that interns are able to make the best of their training and in-service opportunity. He also actively engages in delivering workshop and teaching of ethics and professionalism in clinical settings to local medical students/ practitioners and international medical educators. He received multiple teaching awards in recognition of his outstanding devotion in the field.

Professor Lau Chak-sing is President of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, having previously served as Vice-President (Education and Examinations). He is Head of Department of Medicine and Chair and Daniel CK Yu Professor in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong. He also serves as Honorary Chief of Service of the Department of Medicine at Queen Mary Hospital. Lau has been at the forefront of undergraduate and postgraduate medical training. Prior to his current positions, he was Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Chairman of the Examinations Committee and Chairman of the Specialty Board in Rheumatology/Immunology & Allergy of the Hong Kong College of Physicians, and President of the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology.

A/Prof Michelle Lazarus is a member of the Monash Centres for Human Anatomy Education (CHAE) and Scholarship in Health Education (MCSHE). She is a Monash Education Academy Fellow and anatomy education discipline lead within the medical curriculum. Her research group explores ways of improving basic science teaching to enhance students’ professional identity development and knowledge competency. A/Prof Lazarus also runs a monthly science literacy podcast accessible through www.AskAnatomist.com which focuses on the anatomy underpinning medically interesting topics.

Dr. Lomis is Vice President of Undergraduate Medical Education Innovations at the American Medical Association. She guides the Accelerating Change in Medical Education (ACE) consortium of 37 US medical schools impacting over 25,000 students. Themes of consortium collaborations include: competency-based medical education, training in health systems science across the continuum, development of master adaptive learners, coaching for health professionals, promoting inclusive environments and diversity of the physician workforce, addressing learner & faculty wellbeing, advancing educational technology, and managing change. Dr. Lomis previously served as associate dean and professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Dominique is Associate Professor in Bioethics and Professionalism in the School of Medicine at Deakin University. She studied Medicine and Arts and completed a PhD in Applied Ethics at the University of Melbourne in 2011. Dominique has extensive teaching experience in the areas of health ethics and professionalism at the undergraduate and postgraduate level including in online learning environments. Her current research explores ethical issues in nephrology, organ and tissue donation and transplantation, and a range of professionalism issues relating to healthcare practice.

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. Mladenovic is President, FAIMER. She has spent her 38-year career in various academic administrative roles, most recently serving as Executive Vice-President and Provost at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), an academic health centre with five schools, 120 degree‐granting programmes, several research institutes, and an integrated health system. During this time, she founded a campus in Thailand in partnership with Mahidol University. An internist and haematologist, she has held leadership roles in several national medical organisations. She also founded The Center for Women in Academic Medicine and Science (CWAMS).

Rita Mustika, senior lecturer of medical education Universitas Indonesia, serving as head of medical education collaboration cluster (MECC IMERI-UI). Under her leadership, MECC has piloting the collaboration model. Her other responsibilities include faculty development and professional formation curriculum. She’s also involved in national mentoring-coaching program. Recently, she explores humanistic climate in medical education for her PhD project.

The establishment of several new medical schools in Indonesia has been assisted under her coordination as head of partnership unit. She earned medical degree from Gadjah Mada University, master of clinical epidemiology from UI and received training in dermatology at Kobe University.

Dr. Jagan Mohan Rajaram is a Pharmaceutical Physician, Pharmacologist and a Medical Informatician with interests in Medical Education. He was part of India’s first competency-based postgraduate medical education programme implemented using EPA-based structured ePortfolios at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth in 2017. Dr. Jagan Mohan is a proponent of Adaptive Agile methodology for curriculum planning and delivery that adopts agile principles for measurable, outcomes-oriented teaching-learning-assessment processes. He contributes to OpenEHR and consults on implementation planning and support. Dr. Jagan Mohan heads the department of Medical Informatics at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Pondicherry, India.

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 obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge in the field of biochemistry (2000) and is also a graduate of the Masters in Health Professionals 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. Her areas of research in health professions education is in Faculty development, Assessment and Innovative Teaching Learning methods.

Prof Ng is a medical educationalist with an interest in bioethics. At the Chinese University of Hong Kong, they delivered a comprehensive bioethics course for medical students in conjunction with Columbia University, USA. He is the convenor of the Asia Pacific Bioethics Education Network (APBEN) (http://www.ome.cuhk.edu.hk/apben/). He was also the past Chair of the Examination Committee of Hong Kong Medical Council. Prof Ng make his living mostly as a pathologist/neuropathologist and was part of the WHO classification consensus group of 2007 and 2016. Last but not least, he is an Associate Editor of Laboratory Investigation and Neuro-oncology Advances.

Olivia Ngan is Lecturer, Course Co-coordinator of Bioethics Curriculum (Pre-clinical) and a Fellow at the CUHK Centre for Bioethics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has interdisciplinary training in neuroscience, public health, and bioethics. Her primary work focuses on bioethics curriculum planning and development, as well as ethical issues in emerging technologies. She is co-leading an initiative with students in developing a student-centred newsletter hoping to seed some bioethics interests among the future doctors.

Osamu Nomura is a pediatric emergency physician/ clinician educator in Japan. He works as an assistant professor of Emergency and Disaster Medicine and a core member of Centre for Medical Education at Hirosaki University. He is interested in measuring emotions of medical trainees and completed the Master’s degree of Health Professions Education at McGill University in Canada.

Hirotaka Onishi, MD, MHPE, PhD, graduated Nara Medical University in 1992 and was trained as a general internist in Tenri General Hospital and Saga Medical School Hospital. After taking master of health professions education in University of Illinois at Chicago in 2002, I worked for International Medical University in Malaysia for two years and moved to the current work place. My research strengths are clinical reasoning, learner assessment especially psychometric analysis, curriculum development and evaluation, international cooperation for developing countries, etc. In Japan, I am working for family medicine specialist program.

Dr. Neil Osheroff is Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and currently holds the John G. Coniglio Chair in Biochemistry. He has been a medical school course director since 1990 and co-leads the pre-clerkship phase. He also directs the Academy for Excellence in Education. He is a Past-President of the Association of Biochemistry Educators and currently is the Treasurer of the International Association of Medical Science Educators. Dr. Osheroff has received a number of educational awards and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published >250 papers and has presented >300 scientific and educational talks in 32 different countries.

Prof. Gominda 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. He 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.

Wojciech Pawlina, M.D., is a Professor of Anatomy and Medical Education at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. He teaches gross anatomy, histology, and embryology to undergraduate and medical students, as well as residents and fellows. His research interest in medical education is directed towards strategies of implementing innovative teaching methodologies, teaching professionalism, leadership, teamwork and professional identity formation process in early medical curriculum. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Anatomical Sciences Education.

Greg Radu is Student Affairs Dean 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 Chair of the European Psychiatric Association’s Section of Psychotherapy.

Subha Ramani, MBBS, MMEd, PhD, FAMEE, a general internist and educationalist, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and a faculty member in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, MA, USA. She completed a Master’s in Medical Education at the University of Dundee in 2005 and a PhD in Health Professions Education at Maastricht University in the Netherlands in 2018. The focus of her doctoral research was to explore institutional feedback culture and enhance the learning culture to support feedback aimed at professional growth. She is a seasoned clinical teacher, has led several faculty development initiatives and actively engages in educational scholarship.

Ms Reeks is a driven, dynamic and highly successful business leader, working with organisations across International Markets and APAC. She demonstrates extensive experience in driving strategic learning solutions to increase professional competencies and performance. She achieves this through her innate ability to lead, coach, design and facilitate sales and medical training ensuring professionals achieve their best and deliver exceptional results. Throughout her career she have built a reputation in identifying new business opportunities and leading teams to exceed sales targets, growing the business and exceeding market share expectations, while ensuring customer facing excellence. She is passionate about enhancing the quality of the customer experience to drive tangible business outcomes. She is recognised as an effective communicator and engaging facilitator who is resourceful, action oriented with a big picture approach.

Prof Gandes currently serves as the Vice Dean for Academic and Student Affairs at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Faculty of Medicine in Indonesia. Before her appointment as Vice Dean, she was Head of the Department of Medical Education and Director of the Master Programme in Medical Education. From 2010 until 2016, she was selected to serve as an executive committee member for the LINQED international educational network, based in Belgium. She is also ambassador for the Indonesian region for the Association of Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). After completing her Medical Doctor degree at UGM in 1997, Prof Gandes earned her Master degree in 2001, graduating with distinction from the Centre for Medical Education, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. She later earned her PhD in Medical Education from the same institution. Prof Gandes began her career in Medical Education as a lecturer and went on to become the head of the Committee of Student Assessment at the UGM Faculty of Medicine. She also served as Chair in the division of Examination Development, National Committee of Competency Examination for Indonesian Medical Students. Prof Gandes is a speaker at hundreds of national seminars, workshops, and conferences. In 2008, she was awarded an Endeavour Executive Fellowship from the Government of Australia. She is a 2013 Fellow of the FAIMER Institute and a member of the editorial board of the Indonesian Journal of Medical Education. She has supervised and served as examiner for numerous Master and PhD theses.

Dr. Reyes is an Emeritus Professor in Pharmacology from the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, Inc. where she also earned her medical degree. She served as Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology for 15 years and as Dean of the College of Medicine from 2007 to 2016. She was a visiting fellow in Clinical Pharmacology at Northwestern University Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois and was a Josiah Macy – Harvard Scholar on Programme for Leaders in Medical Education at the Harvard Macy Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. For over the past 25 years she has been involved in reforms in undergraduate and postgraduate internship medical education programme in the Philippines. She was the President of the Association of Philippine Medical Colleges, Inc. and a member of the Commission on Basic Medical Education of the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities. She has been a speaker on medical education and accreditation, and has written and published articles.

She is currently engaged in quality assurance of the medical education programme offered by Philippine medical schools as an evaluator and accreditor. She is the incumbent Chair of the Technical Committee for Medical Education, Philippine Commission on Higher Education. They conduct monitoring and evaluation visits to medical schools together with the Professional Regulatory Board of Medicine, Professional Regulation Commission to ensure that the basic standards of quality of the medical programme set by the Philippine regulatory authority are met by medical higher education institutions.

She is currently a member of the Advisory Board and the country representative to the Western Pacific Association for Medical Education.

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. His current projects are on leader developmental readiness, leader identity, resilience and well-being.

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 and her PhD at Dundee. 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. She is deputy director of the globally-renowned Masters in Medical Education at Dundee and lead for the PhD programme.

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.

Professor Mairi Scott is Professor of General Practice and Medical Education and Associate Dean (International) at the School of Medicine, University of Dundee. She is the Director of the Centre for Medical Education which offers consultancy support and post-graduate development programmes on all aspects educational governance, management and leadership.

In addition, she is the Director of the Kuwait Scotland Health Innovation Network which has, since 2011, supported a transformational change programme in Kuwait through the delivery of a Masters level programme in Diabetes Care, Education and Management. She continues her clinical practice as an Honorary Consultant and General Practitioner with NHS Tayside. In recognition of her significant contribution to the development and promotion of excellence in teaching she was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal in 2016. Mairi is also a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, former Chair of RCGP Scotland and a former GMC Council member.

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, clinical pharmacology and simulation-based medical education. Conducting simulation-based teaching for undergraduates. Vice president of the Sri Lanka Association of simulation in health care and the social secretary of the Sri Lanka Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Currently conducting studies in formal introduction of simulation in the teaching of Pharmacology and integrating pharmacology and therapeutics with clinical teaching.

Lawrence Sherman FACEHP, CHCP holds an International Development position with the Association for Medical Education in Europe. Lawrence is also Principal, Meducate Global, LLC, a US-based organisation involved in the assessment of global healthcare education systems worldwide, faculty development for educators of healthcare professionals, and support of continuing professional development in healthcare worldwide. Lawrence has been involved in medical and interprofessional education, with a concentration in continuing education, for over 25 years, and has authored numerous scholarly publications and delivered hundreds of presentations worldwide on topics related to medical education. Lawrence is active in the continuing education profession worldwide, with key involvement and participation in organisations, societies, and academic institutions globally. Some of the organisations include Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference and Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions. Lawrence is the Social Media Editor for the Journal for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, and is a reviewer for the following journals: Journal of European CME, Medical Teacher and The Asia Pacific Scholar. He often moderates consensus panels and curriculum development meetings and also leads the podium skills training sessions and faculty development workshops. He has also hosted an internet radio show focusing on key topics in medical education that is broadcast on the ReachMD platform.

Lawrence has also been an Educator in Emergency Medicine for the Emergency Medical Institute and Center for Learning and Innovation of the Northwell Health System in Long Island, New York, and has lectured in the Healthcare Communications programme at the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, also in New York.

Dr Mini Singh is a Senior Lecturer and Dermatologist at the University of Manchester. As Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy she has a passion for medical education. She is Associate Director for Teaching and Learning for University of Manchester Medical School supporting over 2000 students a year. Dr Singh is responsible for curriculum development strategy, design and implementation across the programme. Her national work includes Chair of the Undergraduate Workstream for the British Association of Dermatology and committee membership of the UK Clinical Reasoning in Medical Education Group (UK CReME). She is regularly invited to deliver talks and workshops in Clinical Reasoning and broader areas of education across the UK and abroad.

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. Since 2018, she is appointed as the vice director of medical education of the Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI). Her research interests are student assessment, reflection and feedback, interprofessional education and collaborative practice, and professionalism development.

Dr Stadler is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar (WCM-Q) and a staff physician at the US Embassy in Vienna, Austria. She has served as Assistant Dean for Continuing Professional Development and the Medicine Clerkship Co-Director at WCM-Q. Dr. Stadler is active in curriculum and simulation program development on the undergraduate and postgraduate level, and has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences. Dr. Stadler received her MD from WCM-Q and completed her residency in the Internal Medicine - Primary Care Track at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Her clinical interests include preventive and travel medicine.

Georgina C Stephens is a PhD student in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University. She completed her MBBS at Monash University in 2011 and worked in hospitals in Australia and New Zealand, before returning to Monash to work as an Assistant Lecturer in the Centre for Human Anatomy Education in 2017. Her PhD research is exploring how Australian medical students experience tolerance of ambiguity.

Dr Suhoyo graduated as medical doctor on 2005 and Master of Medical Education on 2008 from UGM, Indonesia. On 2018, he finished his PhD in Medical Education in Groningen University, the Netherlands. He was also 2014 Fellow of the FAIMER Institute, USA. In his medical school, he is the chairman of students’ assessment committee of medical school, and coordinator of educational development for clerkship program. In national level, from 2014-2019, he was the chairman of division for examination management in National Committee for Exit Exam of Indonesian Medical Students. His works has been published in national and international journal.

Lisa Sullivan is the founder and Managing Director of In Vivo Academy Limited, an Australian registered not-for-profit education charity dedicated to the development and deployment of independent, accredited continuing education across the Australasian region and beyond. Lisa has a Masters from the University of Queensland, Australia, evaluating the effectiveness of online, face-to-face and blended learning in the delivery of CME/CPD to health care professionals, she is accredited by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners as a provider of Quality Improvement and Continuing Professional Development (QI&CPD), and is a recent past president of the Global Alliance for Medical Education (GAME).

Professor Nakapi Tefuarani is currently the Executive Dean, School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG). He is the Academic Head and Professor of Child Health Discipline, Clinical Sciences Division, SMHS and UPNG. He is an Honorary Paediatric Consultant, Paediatric Cardiologist at Port Moresby General Hospital (PMGH). He is the President of the Medical Society of Papua New Guinea (MSPNG), Chairman of the Medical Board of Papua New Guinea (MBPNG), Member of the PNG Research Science and Technology Council and a Member of the PNG Medical Research and Advisory Council. He has done research and published in the field of infectious diseases and other areas such as malnutrition and congenital heart diseases.

He was awarded the Order of Logohu (OL) in 2010, the Latter Day Saint in 2011, the PNG 30th Independence Anniversary Medal in 2005 and the Queens Silver Jubilee Medal in 2012 for his services to Education and Health to the people of Papua New Guinea.

Antoine Tesniere is a full professor specialized in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at European Georges Pompidou Hospital, APHP, the most recent hospital group in Paris and Vice President of Université de Paris.

He is the co-founder and director of iLumens, a university-based simulation center at Université de Paris. iLumens is an innovative simulation department that develops new training and research programs using all simulation modalities and virtual environments (serious games) for every healthcare professional. iLumens is expanding internationally through a wide variety of training and research programs.

Antoine is also Advisor for the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and is in charge of leading the Education aspects of the Healthcare reform “MaSanté2022” in France.

he has been Vice dean for Medical Education at Paris Descartes, the largest French medical school and Vice Director of the Doctoral Program « Frontiers in Life Sciences » at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University Paris Descartes, one of the most innovative PhD programs based on interdisciplinarity and was trained at University Paris Descartes and Harvard Medical School. He holds an MD, from University Paris Descartes, and a PhD in tumor immunology, from University Paris Sud.

Dr Harish Thampy, PFHEA is a GP and Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester Medical School. He is the Academic Lead for Assessment on the MB ChB Programme and leads on the Assessment and Feedback unit on the Manchester postgraduate diploma in Medical and Healthcare Education. He also chairs a UK-wide special interest group in near-peer teaching in primary care. He has particular interests in OSCE assessments and how they can be best designed and delivered to assess learners’ clinical reasoning abilities.

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 specialized in pediatrics (1990-1993) and later in pediatric 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), Program for Leading Innovation with Harvard Macy Institute (2013), and Leadership Development Program (2016). His research interest is pain imaging, pediatric 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 recognized institution in the region. He actively involves in medical education reform in Vietnam.

Marianne Mak is a medical educator and educational scientist at the Faculty of Medicine VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has a background in general practice. Marianne established a longitudinal educational theme ‘Professional Behaviour’ at her school. Since the evidence on how to remediate unprofessional behaviour among medical students was not yet concrete, she chose to generate such evidence through conducting PhD research. In March 2019, Marianne defended her thesis ‘Learning from lapses: How to identify, classify and respond to unprofessional behaviour in medical students’, for which she received her PhD with distinction.

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.

As Research Scientist for FAIMER, Marta van Zanten is involved in various research projects related to international medical graduate issues, including accreditation processes of international medical schools and impact of accreditation on student outcomes. Additionally, Dr van Zanten assists in the advancement of research activities related to the FAIMER goal of better understanding the educational experiences and migration patterns of international physicians and their impact on world heath. Dr van Zanten holds a B.A. from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and a M.Ed. and a Ph.D. in Health Studies from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jo is a medical learning and communications professional with more than 15 years’ experience working for agencies in the creative and healthcare industries in London. An ardent believer in lifelong learning, Jo graduated from the University of Oxford in 1995 with a degree in Biological Sciences before going on to obtain a degree in the History of Art, followed by a master’s. Jo has experience in designing and delivering evidence-based learning and behaviour-change programmes. Her career to date has encompassed a wide spectrum of healthcare-related work including medical learning, public relations, stakeholder engagement, patient support solutions and corporate communications

Paediatric surgeon by training, administrator by profession and educator by passion describes Prof Venkatesan Natarajan. Her journey into medical education began with assessment - including Introduction of Item Marking, Objectification of Examinations, and critical analysis of performance by doing post validation and sharing evaluation outcomes to all stakeholders. Her special areas of interest include Formative OSCEs as a learning tool and Development of Personalised Competency Maps. She is a Harvard Macy scholar and Course faculty. She has won the prestigious prize for oral presentation at 5th SEARAME conference, Indonesia and the International Bioethicon Conference 2019. A repeat visitor to APMEC, she had conducted a post conference workshop at APMEC 2019 also.

Dr. Magda Wagdy received her medical training at Cairo University –Egypt and she has worked as a senior general paediatrician at Hamad Medical Corporation since 2006 till 2017, then moved to Sidra medicine. 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 author and co-author of different workshops including; communication, and professionalism.

Theanne Walters is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Medical Council, Australia’s accreditation and standards body for medical education and training. Since 1993, she has been responsible for the accreditation of medical programs, and the AMC’s national and international collaborations on standards setting and accreditation. Theanne is a senior adviser for the World Federation for Medical Education, and a founder and member of Australia’s Health Professions Accreditation Collaborative Forum. In June 2019, Theanne was made a Member of the Order of Australia, for her services to medical education and accreditation.

Dr Craig Webster is with the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education and the Department of Anaesthesiology at the University of Auckland, and has degrees in psychology and a PhD in medical human factors. He has extensive experience in clinical and human factors research projects, including work on the redesign and ergonomic evaluation of medical equipment, compliance with safety initiatives, patient safety and the better understanding of the patient experience. He has taught many workshops on various clinical education topics to postgraduate and healthcare audiences, and has a particular interest in the methodology of study design.

Dr. Wai-Tat Wong is a specialist in internal medicine and critical care medicine. He is now working in the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Dr. Wong is responsible for undergraduate teaching in acute care, anaesthesia, communication skills, professionalism and medical ethics in the Faculty of Medicine, CUHK. Most of his courses are in flipped classroom format combining pre-class e-learning and face to face teaching. One step further he has been flipping classes in other specialties in clinical medicine in the past two years. He is also teaching post-graduate intensive care courses.

Toru Yamada M.D., Ph.D. graduated from Toyama University school of medicine in 2003 and Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in 2019. He trained at department of internal medicine and gastroenterology in Iizuka hospital. He worked as a programme director of internal medicine and gastroenterology from 2010 to 2013 in Iizuka hospital and from 2013 to 2019 in Tokyo-bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical centre. Then he moved to current work place. His research area is interview method, resident selection and simulation training.

Dr. Jen-Hung Yang graduated from National Yang-Ming University (NYU) School of Medicine (MD) in 1985 and Institute of Clinical Medicine (PhD) of NYU in 1994. He completed his dermatology residency training at Veterans General Hospital Taipei (1985-1991). He was the Chairman of Department of Dermatology at China Medical University and Hospital in Taichung, Taiwan (1991-1995). Then he served as Director of Centre for Faculty Development (2006-2009), Vice-Director of School of Medicine (2006-2008), and Director of School of Medicine (2009-2010), and the Dean of College of Medicine of Chung Shan Medical University (CSMU), and the vice-Superintendent of CSMU Hospital (2010-2011). Subsequently, he was invited as the Dean of Tzu Chi University College of Medicine for 8 years (2011-2019), and as the vice-Superintendent of Tzu Chi General Hospital in Hualien Taiwan (2011-13). Therefore, he is a senior consultant dermatologist, and has extensive experiences in medical education in aspects of curriculum innovation, medical professionalism, identity formation, faculty development, and medical programme accreditation. He has been recruited as the Member of Taiwan Medical Accreditation Council (TMAC) since 2012 and the senior Member of Joint Commission of Taiwan (TJC) since 2010.

He is currently the Chief Education Director of Changhua Christian Hospital (CCH), one of the leading medical centre of central Taiwan (2019). His research interests are focused mainly on medical education in the areas of curriculum design, work-based assessments (mini-CEX, OSCE, EPA/Milestone), faculty development, professionalism and humanities. In addition, his research interests on dermatological science are to investigate the effects of mitochondrial mutations on human skin aging, and to study the inflammatory mechanism of α–hydroxy acids (AHAs) and other herbal-derived compounds on human skin cells. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles in areas of dermatological science and medical education.

Dr Devanand is the head of the Singhealth Duke-NUS Lung Centre and director of interventional pulmonology at Singapore General Hospital. He was trained in therapeutic bronchoscopy at Thoraxklinik, Heidelberg University and in pleural diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School. His research interests include the utility of navigational bronchoscopy, management of lung nodules and diagnostic innovations in pleural disease. His other interests include medical ethics and humanities. He is currently serving as the deputy head of the Singapore Medical Association Centre of Medical Ethics and Professionalism, director of the SingHeath Medicine ACP Office of Medical Humanities, and Associate Program Director of the SingHealth Internal Medicine Residency.

Emily is the Professor and Head of Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies (ALCNS), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. As Head of Department, Emily has transformed ALCNS from an unstable department to one we can be extremely proud of. Dr Emily Ang is the Deputy Director at the National University Cancer Institute Singapore (NCIS), National University Health System. She collaborates with the multi-disciplinary team and plays a lead role in coordinating the development of Psychosocial Oncology. She is internationally recognised for her work in evidence-based practice. She received several national awards including the President Nurse Award.

Dr Sophia Archuleta is an associate professor and clinician educator in the Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine of the National University of Singapore, and Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the National University Hospital. She received her Bachelor of Science from Yale University in 1994 and her M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1998. She completed her internal medicine and infectious disease training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and is board certified in both specialties. In 2003, she joined the faculty at Weill Medical College of Cornell University where her educational activities focused on fellow supervision and teaching basic clinical skills. Dr Archuleta joined the Division of Infectious Diseases of Singapore’s National University Hospital in 2008 and has since served in various educational leadership roles and national committees. She is currently serving as Vice Chair of the ACGME-International Medicine-based Review Committee.

Dr Aw is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine), National University of Singapore and a Consultant Paediatrician in the Department of Paediatrics, National University Hospital (NUH). Her area of clinical expertise is in paediatric gastrointestinal disease, hepatology and liver transplantation. She is a member of the National Liver Transplant Programme. After completing paediatric training in Singapore, she spent 2 years with the Paediatric Liver Unit at King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom. Her MD thesis (University of London) is based on clinical and research work done whilst she was there. Her interest in feeding difficulties in children led her to start the Feeding and Nutrition Multi-disciplinary clinic at NUHkids in 2012. Dr Aw is actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. She has served on the Assessment Committee, YLL SoM, and was Chair of the Final MBBS OSCE committee for a number of years. She is currently an Assistant Dean (Education) for the Medical School, as well as the Education Director at NUH, overseeing all pre-employment placements and training (medical, nursing, allied health). She currently serves on the Graduate Medical Education Committee as Chair of the Physician Health and Resilience Subcommittee.

Having been through three years of studies at NUS Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Cheryl has experienced first-hand the challenges faced by young students who have chosen to take on this path at varying stages in this journey. Given the different learning environment that current students are placed in, learners’ expectations and learning styles have changed drastically. She will be sharing her perspective on her learning experience, the gaps between theoretical knowledge and clinical experience, and how educators can come in to address the changing needs of nursing students.

Yiong Huak received his PhD in Mathematics from University of Newcastle, Australia and is currently the advisor of the Biostatistics Unit in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is actively involved in conducting research and statistical courses to help researchers in their aims of publication and to enhance their understanding of reading published articles. He serves as the Specialty (Biostatistics) editor for the Singapore Medical Journal.

Dr. Chen Zhi Xiong is the Deputy Education Director (Health Professions) and Principal Investigator of the Neurodevelopment and Cancer Laboratory at the Department of Physiology, and an Associate at the Centre for Medical Education. He is also Chairperson of the Asia-Pacific Biomedical Science Educators Association (APBSEA), Joint Scientist at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and an Affiliate Member of the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore. In addition, he is a Resident Fellow of King Edward VII Hall where he lives among students including those from health professions 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 health professions education, medical education technology and faculty development.

Adj. A/Prof Angie Chew is the principal mindfulness teacher at Brahm Centre, a charity dedicated to promoting happier and healthier living. She is a qualified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher who has conducted mindfulness courses and workshops for more than 10,000 people. The corporate clients include Institute of Mental Health, Singhealth, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Agency for Integrated Care, Goldman Sachs, DBS Bank and GIC. She teaches mindfulness in the course "An Undefeated Mind" offered at the National University of Singapore. She is also a certified teacher for dot.b and paws-b courses for children. Prior to this new career, she held senior positions in Singapore Airlines, Visa International and Accenture.

Pei Kiang was an Endocrine Nurse specialised in Children and Adolescent Diabetes before she joined Alexandra Health in year 2003. She came on board as a Nursing Officer in the Health-For-Life Clinic and assisted in the management of Preventive Healthcare. In year 2006, she embarked on the teaching journey with passion, and through engaging training activities using elements of art and science nurses will be able to deploy knowledge and skills to deliver a high level of comfort and safe care for patients. Asides her role as a Senior Nurse Educator, she was appointed as the Clinical Educator Lead for Nursing in planning training and create innovative curriculum for pre-registered nurses when the Education Development Office was officially commissioned in year 2013. Since 2014, she has shown great interest in nursing research work and had guided a group of junior nurses embarking on research projects focusing on student nurses’ perception on their learning in the clinical environment and student nurses’ perception on feedback provided to them in the clinical area, etc. She was reappointed in 2017 as teaching faculty by National Healthcare College involving teaching and curriculum review in Clinical Instructor course. She serves in Singapore Nursing Board and Singapore Resuscitation and First Aid Council as an active member in curriculum development and audit activities.

Chia Wan Ying, Elisha is a final year medical student at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore. Since 2017, she has been involved in an undergraduate research mentoring program helmed by A/Prof Lalit Krishna and Dr Toh Ying Pin. Research projects that she has undertaken include topics on mentoring culture, how to implement effective mentoring programs, communication, and professionalism. Aside from being a mentee herself, she is currently guiding other students in the program as a near-peer mentor.

James is Senior Consultant in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore. He holds academic appointments at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is Chair of the Core Curriculum and Education Committee at International Federation for Emergency Medicine. He was the Academic Lead in Emergency Medicine and Assessment at the School of Medicine at Western Sydney University, Australia, prior to his move to Singapore. James is passionate about medical education and has led curricular development in undergraduate medical and postgraduate training programmes at national and international levels.

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 Chong has also just been appointed as Assistant Dean (Enterprise) at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine with effect from 1 November 2019.

Dr Edmund Chow is an applied theatre practitioner who was instrumental in establishing Prison Theatre at Kaki Bukit Centre in Singapore, volunteered in arts rehabilitation programmes in New York, worked in psychiatric hospitals, and managed a national radio drama in Afghanistan for women’s empowerment. He received his M.A. from New York University and a Ph.D from the University of Manchester. He completed his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at INSEAD where he used storytelling for leadership training in MBA. Dr Chow has been featured on TV, newspapers and radio. A prolific scholar, he now heads MA Arts Pedagogy and Practice at LASALLE.

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.

Associate Professor M Kamala Devi has extensive experience as a registered nurse, trained oncology clinician and nursing educator. She obtained her basic nursing education and post-basic Oncology training in Singapore and completed her Bachelor of Health Sciences (Nursing) with University of Sydney in 1996. Kamala obtained a post-graduate Diploma in Higher Education, holds a Master of Science degree in Advanced Practice (Cancer Care) and completed her PhD with National University of Singapore.

Kamala Devi has over 20 years of teaching experience in nursing. She is actively involved in both undergraduate and post-graduate nursing programmes offered by Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies. Her research involvement lies in guiding and supervision of Honours students research projects as well as her own interest in educational pedagogy, ethics and professionalism, women’s health and quality of life, cancer and palliative care and psychosocial issues. Since 2018, as the Director of Education (Continuing Education and Training) (CET), Kamala Devi has been playing a significant role in the development and offer of CET programmes in the endeavour to support life-long learning.

Kamala Devi is a reviewer in local, regional and international journals. She also holds the position as the Editor-in Chief of the Singapore Nursing Journal and is a Board Director of the Singapore Nurses Association. As a member in the Education Committee of the Singapore Nursing Board, she is actively involved in the accreditation of nursing programmes offered in Singapore as well as the accreditation of clinical areas that support students’ clinical learning.

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.

Assoc Prof Kelvin Foong is the Discipline Director of Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry at the Faculty of Dentistry, NUS. He is also the Director of the Orthodontics Residency Programme and is a Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy. His educational research interests focus on understanding (i) the novice to expert progression in learning and (ii) how technology contributes to this progression.

Fun Man graduated from NUS and Technical University of Munich. He is a recipient of the YSEALI Fellowship in 2019. Fun Man is passionate about making an impact on youth around the world through education and mentorship. He is a beneficiary of inspiring mentors who have helped him along the way in his academic and professional career. He sees himself as a global citizen in today’s increasingly connected world and aspires to be a champion for education and youth empowerment. He was conferred important education accolades in 2018, including the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning (T&L) by the Canada Society of T&L.

Associate Professor Denise Goh is a paediatrician who is a teacher, module leader as well as the chair of the Faculty Assessment committee at the National University of Singapore. She is the co-editor of the textbook Paediatric Differential Diagnosis – Top 50 problems. When she is not teaching, she practises as a senior consultant who provides dedicated and holistic care to children and adults with, or at risk of, genetic disorders. She is involved in committees that help patients who are in need of financial assistance. She also provides genetic expertise to other organisations such as the Ministry of Health.

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 cumulative 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. He focuses his efforts on the challenge of transfer to practice, in the widest possible settings, through use of reusable comprehensive digital content, iterative low cost proof of concept implementation combined with collaborations and partnerships to scale, all anchored on a solid foundation of theory and evidence.

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Professor Gwee is currently an Emeritus Professor 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 as well as 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 a 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.

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/panellist 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.”).

Jia Min graduated from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2019 and is now a House Officer. She has a deep interest in medical education and is passionate about mentoring to nurture medical students. She has engaged in education research on the topic and is continuing to explore the subject under the guidance of her mentors.

Derek is an Emergency Physician with a passion for teaching, which led him to many teaching engagements with nurses, students, doctors and other allied healthcare staff. He currently serves as the Undergraduate Education Director in NUH Emergency Medicine Department and in various Emergency Medicine postgraduate examination committees.

Dr Intekhab Islam is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry NUS. He is also a Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at NUH. He graduated with B.D.S. from India in 2001. He pursued specialty training in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery from NUS in 2008. He went on to complete a PhD in Bone Tissue Engineering from NUS in 2017. Dr. Intekhab has been the recipient of the NUS Annual Teaching excellence award in 2016 and has won the award numerous times at the Faculty Level in Dentistry. His research interests include using Virtual and Augmented reality for Simulation Training and for Undergraduate Dental Education.

Adj A/Prof Fareed graduated from NUS in 1995, completed his orthopaedic training in in 2002. Further subspecialty clinical fellowship training was obtained in Leeds, UK; in Hannover, Germany and in Lucerne, Switzerland. Surgery for complex injuries and fractures including multiply injured patients is his major area of interest. He performs reconstruction surgery for infections, non-union, malunion of the bone, as well as limb lengthening. Additionally, he practices general adult orthopaedics which includes joint replacements and knee arthroscopic surgery. One of Fareed’s passions is teaching and training as exemplified by his teaching awards. He currently holds/has held various leadership positions in postgraduate orthopaedic training. This includes the Residency Advisory Committee (RAC) for orthopaedics, the Staff Registrar Scheme (SRS) Diploma in Orthopaedic Surgery, Masters in Medicine Orthopaedics (MMed Orth) Committee with the Division of Graduate Medical Studies (DGMS), NUS and the Orthopaedic Surgery Exit Examinations Committee, JCST. He is involved in setting standards and curriculum; and regularly organizes multiple post-graduate examinations in orthopaedics. AOTrauma is the leading international nonprofit foundation for the improvement of orthopaedic trauma care in the world. As chair for the Singapore Council of AOTrauma, he coordinates AOTrauma teaching activities in Singapore. He lectures and teaches at AOTrauma workshops for postgraduates regularly in the region. While he was Chair of the Chapter of Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Surgeons Singapore (CSS), he focused on expanding and coordinating regular standardized low cost cadaveric training workshops for orthopaedic residents nationally.

Predeebha [MBBS, NUS), MMed(Public Health, NUS), PGDHE(NTU), MHPE(Maastricht) is currently an Educator/Trainer at the Primary Care Academy, NHGP. Her teaching interests include Communication in Healthcare including Health Literacy, Workplace-based and Interprofessional Education / Collaborative Practice. She had previously conducted a study exploring interprofessional collaboration amongst members in teamlets and currently involved in teamlet training in NHGP.

Dr Lalit Krishna is a Senior Consultant at the Division of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Centre. He holds a Masters in Medical Ethics and Masters in Medical Education as well as a PhD in Medical Ethics. Dr Lalit Krishna also holds the appointments of Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, and Clinical Senior Lecturer at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He actively mentors both in the undergraduate, postgraduate and interdisciplinary setting and has won multiple education awards including the WHB Society–SMA Outstanding Mentor Award in 2013 and 2019. He is actively involved in teaching and presently undertaking a PhD in Medical Education.

Dr Amitabha Lahiri is involved in undergraduate as well as postgraduate education. His areas of interest are development of simulation tools and integration of simulation in surgical training. He is the co-inventor of a computer assisted microsurgery training system, and holds a patent for the same.

Dr Lai is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. He is also Senior Consultant at the Department of Anatomical Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, and served as pioneering Residency Director for Anatomic Pathology at SingHealth. He is currently Academic Vice-Chair for Education for Pathology at SingHealth. Outside of the institution, he is President of the Medico-Legal Society of Singapore, and Board Member and faculty of the Centre of Medical Ethics and Professionalism, Singapore Medical Aassociation.

Dr Lydia Lau Siew Tiang (RN, MHS, PhD), is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Education (Clinical) at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She oversees the clinical education programme for the undergraduate nursing students. Her areas of interest are in clinical education and optimizing students’ clinical learning experience. She has implemented the Entrustable Professional Activities framework in Singapore for the undergraduate nursing students focusing on person-centric care management. Her teaching contributions have been recognised through receiving research grants and teaching excellence awards from NUS.

Dr Lau Tang Ching is a Senior Consultant Rheumatologist in the Division of Rheumatology, University Medicine Cluster in the National University Health System. He has been appointed as the Vice-Dean (Education) of NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in June 2017 and Group Director of the National University Health System Education Office in February 2018. He graduated in 1991 from the National University of Singapore and obtained his Membership of the Royal College of Physician in United Kingdom and the Master of Medicine (internal medicine) degree in 1997. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore since 2001. He also holds a Master of Medical Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology (University of Newcastle, Australia), a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and a graduate diploma in acupuncture (Singapore). His main research interests are in Osteoporosis, Pharmacoeconomic Evaluation, Medical Education and Evidence Based Medicine. He has helped to coordinate the Health Service Development Programme for osteoporosis (HSDP) in 2003 to 2007 in the NHG cluster, which was successful in improving adherence and reducing the recurrent fracture rates of patients who were at high risk of recurrent fractures. He is helping to coordinate the Osteoporosis Disease Management Programme (OPTIMAL), which is an extension of the previous HSDP osteoporosis programme. He is currently the chairman of the National Arthritis Foundation. His hobbies include photography, singing, cooking, jogging and taichi.

Dr Lyn Li Lean is an Anaesthesiologist at National University Health System (NUHS). She has an interest in undergraduate medical education research that stems from a background of an Advanced Diploma in Medical Education. She won the NUS Teaching Enhancement Grant in 2013, which facilitated recent medical education publications in journals such as Advances in Health Sciences Education and Singapore Medical Journal.

A/Prof Liaw Sok Ying is Associate Professor and Director of Education at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies (ALCNS), National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research interests focus on improving quality and safety in healthcare and could be summed up using the acronym TRICE: (1) Technology-enhanced education; (2) Rescuing a patient in deteriorating situations; (3) Inter-professional education; (4) Career in nursing; (5) Educational research. She uses simulation training to build competencies in the healthcare workforce. Her research methodology expertise includes intervention study design and mixed methods designs.

Ziliang completed his Basic Specialty Training in Family Medicine in 2013 and was awarded as Fellow of the College of Family Physicians in 2017. He was the lead for the first teamlet in Yishun Polyclinic in 2016, and also facilitated the expansion of the teamlet model of care delivery in the clinic. With a keen interest in collaborative and patient-centered care, he continues to explore ways to improve primary healthcare delivery in the polyclinic setting and guide new teamlets in NHGP to become high-performing teams to achieve better patient outcomes.

Dr Victor Loh is Assistant Professor and Education Director of Family Medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and a Senior Consultant in the Department of Family Medicine, National University Health System. As member of the YoC (Year of Care) accredited training team, he trains care and support planning (CSP) practitioners for PACE-D (Patient Activation and Care Empowerment for Diabetes) at the National University Polyclinics (NUP). He is intrigued by how doctor-patient interactions may both empower or disable patient self-care, thinks about how family physicians can do better to support the health of adolescents and young adults, and is concerned about how medical training may lead to the formation of more humane medical practitioners.

Naomi Low-Beer is Vice-Dean for Education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), a partnership between Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) and Imperial College London. LKCMedicine was established in 2010 and Professor Low-Beer led the development of the School’s innovative curriculum, co-ordinating collaboration between teams in London and Singapore. Since the first cohort of students was admitted in 2013, Professor Low-Beer has had responsibility for the ongoing development, delivery and quality assurance of the MBBS programme. Prior to relocating to Singapore, Professor Low-Beer combined a career as a Consultant Gynaecologist with medical education at Imperial College.

Dr Lysaght is Phase Director for the Health ethics, Law and Professionalism (HeLP) programme at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine), National University of Singapore. She is responsible for curriculum development, teaching and assessment for the Phase III HeLP programme. She also co-ordinates graduate level course-work at NUS Medicine on bioethics research methods and supervises research students in the area of emergent health and biomedical technologies.

As an Emergency Physician, Ian sees many patients at their most vulnerable and fearful moments. This is understandably a very emotional time for patients and their families, and with limited time for the patient-doctor interaction to build rapport. Healthcare systems are often overwhelmed with heavy patient loads, limited consult times, and long wait times. It is even more imperative, then, that as part of training of the next generation of doctors, we get them to experience empathy. One non-didactic pedagogy that can be utilized is that film and theatre to inspire empathy in the learner.

Shilpa is an experienced medical communicator, with a medical degree, good publication record and therapy area knowledge, an ability to form trusted relationships with key opinion leaders and provide strategic insight, and over 12 years of experience in medical communications. Shilpa has worked across a range of therapy areas in developing and delivering not only pure medical communication initiatives, but also 'independent medical education' programmes supported by global continuing medical education grants.

Shilpa holds a bachelor’s in Medicine and Surgery from India and dual master’s degrees in Health Administration and Health Informatics from the USA.

David is a Consultant Family Physician and Clinic Head of Toa Payoh Polyclinic. He was conferred Fellow of the College of Family Physicians in 2014. He was the lead for the first teamlet in Toa Payoh Polyclinic in 2014, and continues to use the knowledge and experience in managing a teamlet and the clinic to coach newly formed teamlets in NHGP to work better as a team.

Dr Nicholas did his undergraduate medical training at Imperial College London, where he obtained his BSc and MBBS honours degrees, and was awarded the University of London Gold Medal (proxime accessit). He subsequently joined the Department of Paediatrics at National University Hospital Singapore and obtained his MMed (Paediatrics)/ MRCPCH. Nicholas is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and has a strong interest in medical education research. He is particularly passionate about the use of critical reflection in professional development and cultivating resilience among junior doctors through the art of reflective practice. He has won numerous teaching awards, including the NUHS Young Clinician Mentor Award (2018, 2019), YLLSOM Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2018), Dean’s Special Recognition Award (2019), NUS MedSoc Outstanding Tutor Award (2017, 2019) and various departmental teaching awards.

Chooi Peng practices in a community hospital and a polyclinic. Over the course of the past thirty years, she has been fortunate to have been influenced by a few wise men who have made her a better physician. She has been even more privileged to have met others who have shown her how to be a richer person.

Dr Ong Eng Koon is a consultant palliative care physician at the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore. His interests are in medical education and research, particularly in the field of medical humanities to promote humanistic and patient-centered care. He teaches doctors and allied health professionals at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and is adjunct tutor at the 3 local medical schools, module leader and tutor for the Specialist Diploma in Palliative Care Nursing and the Graduate Diploma in Palliative Medicine.

Dr Ong is the Programme Director, Post Graduate Year 1 Programme, National University Hospital, for the past 3 years. He headed the Transitional Year Residency for 5 years prior. He leads a team of committed core faculty members across 5 PGY1 disciplines who advocates for and supervises the training of the PGY1s in NUH. As an Emergency Physician with a strong interest in trauma and medical education, he contributes actively as part of the Advanced Trauma Life Support fraternity in Singapore and teaches on the Emergency Airway Management Course. He is a core faculty member of the Emergency Medicine Residency NUHS. His other passions include safety and quality in healthcare, particularly the interprofessional interactions between doctors and nurses. He also tries to impart the practices of ethical medical care to undergraduate students in Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Associate Professor Shirley Ooi has been the Designated Institutional Official of the National University Health System (NUHS) Residency program since 2009. She was the former Chief of the Emergency Medicine Department (EMD) National University Hospital (NUH). She is co-chairing the annual Asia-Pacific Evidence-based Medicine and Nursing workshop and the NUHS Residency Medical Education Distinction track and was formerly chairing the Emergency Medicine Specialist Training Committee. She is a member of the Specialist Accreditation Board in Singapore, National Postgraduate Year 1 committee and Medical Education Coordinating Committee. A/Prof Ooi’s passion is in teaching and mentoring. 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”.

Associate Professor Pillai is a specialist Senior Consultant Emergency Physician in the National University Hospital and is also the Director of the Centre for Healthcare Simulation at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSoM). He has been instrumental in reviewing medical simulation training in YLLSoM by developing new simulation programmes that integrate into existing curricula. Over the past few years, he has developed and introduced simulation training as an integral part of medical undergraduate training in YLLSoM. He has also developed international award-winning Virtual Reality Simulation training modules for medical undergraduates and runs the Virtual Reality Simulation Laboratory in the Centre for Healthcare Simulation, NUS. He is also actively involved in undergraduate medical education at several other levels and formulated the first Undergraduate Emergency Medicine Programme. His pet interests are in competency and procedural skills training, crisis resource management, patient safety simulation, Professionalism training and Life Support training for which he serves as the Basic Cardiac Life Support Director. He is also a Core Faculty of the Emergency Medicine Residency Programme in the National University Hospital, Singapore. His clinical interests are in Toxicology and Management of Poisoning and he provides consultations in various aspects of management of a poisoned patient. He is also a consultant to the Ministry of Health (MOH) and is involved in planning and policy making in Emergency Preparedness and Mass Casualty Incident Management. He has formulated national protocols for the medical management of radiation casualties and serves as an expert advisor on radiation injuries to MOH. He has also been actively involved in several overseas humanitarian disaster relief missions.

Dr Inthrani is a lecturer at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Her interests revolves around understanding how organizational cultures and behaviours can shape staff motivation and development, and how policies and programs can be developed to augment staff and student support.

Dr Jai Prashanth Rao is a Consultant Neurosurgeon in the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) and the Head, Division of Neurosurgery in Changi General Hospital. He was awarded his FRCSEd (SN) in 2013 and a Master of Science (Health Professions Education) from the MGH Institute of Health Professions in 2015. Dr Rao is the Programme Director of the Singhealth Neurosurgery Residency Programme and the Co-Course Director of the Brain and Behaviour programme in Duke-NUS Medical School. His education interests are in online learning, simulation and interprofessional collaboration.

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 and 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. He is the co-chair for faculty development in the residency programme and a member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Graduate Medical Education Committee, Faculty Assessment Committee and Curriculum Steering Committee at the School of Medicine and National University Health System. At 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 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, Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 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 the Academy of Medicine Singapore, Academy of Medicine Malaysia, Academy of Medical Educators in the United Kingdom, Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and the fellowship of Medical Educators Europe.

Dr See completed Advanced Specialty Training in both Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine in Singapore. He is competent in bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, ultrasound-guided pleural procedures and thoracoscopy (pleuroscopy). His medical education-related interests include clinical reasoning, teaching of complex tasks and physician wellness.

Annushkha is a Paediatrics Senior Resident working at the National University Hospital, Singapore. She has had an interest in medical education since she was a student, and is currently in the National University Health System’s Medical Education Residency Programme. She has a personal interest in inter-professional education as well as mentoring undergraduate students from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Adj Assoc Prof Andrew Tan is Chief Risk Officer at Changi General Hospital (CGH) and a Senior Consultant in the Department of Radiology.

He is an experienced clinical radiologist whose sub speciality interests are in body imaging as well as interventional radiology. Besides clinical and administrative duties, he is heavily involved in radiology education, and is now the current chair of Radiology Advisory Committee for Radiology Residency Training in Singapore and a Clinical Faculty in the SingHealth Residency Program. He is a regular examiner in Radiology’s intermediate and exit examinations. As a clinical teacher, he won the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2013 and CGH Best Teacher Award in 2009.

He is the current vice-president at the College of Radiologists, Singapore and was the immediate past Deputy Chairman Medical Board for Ambulatory Disciplines and immediate past Chief of Radiology at CGH.

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 Programme, and Longitudinal Patient Programme 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.

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.

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 interprofessional education.

Tay Kuang Teck is a final year medical student from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore. He has been involved in an undergraduate research mentoring programme since 2017, under the guidance of his mentors, A/Prof Lalit Krishna and Dr Ann Toh. Within the programme, he has contributed to research projects on mentoring, communication, professionalism and ethics in Medicine. Apart from this, he also supports and guides other students in the programme as a near-peer mentor. Grateful for all that he has received, he strives to serve others whenever possible, in his best capacity.

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, clinical governance and healthcare leadership. 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 (since 2007). He has retired from the position of Group Chief Medical Officer of IHH healthcare in December 2019.

Through her various roles at LKCMedicine (Student wellbeing, clinical communication teaching and medical humanities teaching) Dr Tierney encourages students to practice with their hearts as well as their heads, be passionate about their work and aware of their own wellbeing. As head of student wellbeing, she was instrumental in the design and implementation of the LKCMedicine House system, which provides holistic pastoral care and student support. She is an advocate for mindfulness practice as a way to attend to one’s own wellbeing and demonstrate mindful presence when interacting with others (patients, learners or colleagues).

Ying Pin is a family medicine resident with an interest medical humanities and humanism. She is passionate about mentoring and nurturing medical students under the supervision of her mentors and has also published education research pertaining to this area. With the help of the NUHS Junior Pitch For Funds and the Medical Education program for residents, Ying Pin has conducted a qualitative study pertaining to the use of humanities in local medical training. Poetry and creative art have been a means for her to process her experiences as a doctor and she hopes that others might find these modalities useful too.

Fan Shuen is a fourth-year NUS medical student, and President of the 71st NUS Medical Society Executive Committee. As the Head of the Education and Training Cluster, he has a keen interest in medical education and firmly believes in the importance of imparting both hard skills and soft skills to ensure the holistic development of future doctors. His philosophy in medical education follows NUS Medical Society’s motto: “Not Pride of Knowledge, But Humility of Wisdom”. He is also a Public Service Commission (PSC) Medicine Scholarship recipient, and has chaired flagship community service projects in NUS Medicine such as Neighbourhood Health Service and Project NamJai.

Prof V. Anantharaman is Senior Consultant, Department of Emergency Medicine at the Singapore General Hospital. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School. He concurrently chairs the Examinations Committee for the M Med (Emergency Medicine) at NUS. He is also an elected member of the Singapore Medical Council, which he represents at the MSS Workgroup. Professor Anantha was previously Head, Emergency Medicine, SGH. He has held many other appointments at SGH and MOH and was previous President of the College of Emergency Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He was also the previous Chairman, National Resuscitation Council, Singapore.

Dr Sabrina Wong works as a Family Physician – Consultant and Assistant Director of Clinical Services Division at the National Healthcare Group Polyclinics. She has accumulated more than a decade of experience in the field of Family Medicine, having worked in both the community and primary care settings. More recently, she led a team in developing the NHGP Teamlet care model, a team-based, relationship-focused model of care for managing the chronic conditions in the local population. To strengthen team dynamics within Teamlets, the team developed a team-based training course that has trained more than 20 teamlets. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy to further her interests in chronic disease care.

Teck Yee is a Family Physician, Senior Consultant, in TTSH and Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Year 4) 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 Training 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.

Vivian is a registered (AThR) art therapist with a master’s degree in Art Therapy from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore / Goldsmiths University, London. Currently a full-time art therapist in Assisi Hospice, her main role is journeying with adults in the last stages of life and supporting children who are losing / have lost their parents through illness. She stands by a person-centred approach that is flexible and integrative and upholds dignity-conserving care for patients up to the end of life. Vivian believes in the far-reaching power of art and is interested to explore deeper the role of art in medical education.

Celestial Yap is Associate Professor and Physiology Programme 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 Programme Director, she is actively involved in medical, dental and pharmacy education, where she services in committees overseeing examinations as well as curriculum revision and implementation. She co-leads the Respiratory System-Block 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, which focuses on cytoskeletal derangements and signalling pathways that promote tumour invasion and recurrence. The laboratory is committed to education in research, having trained clinician-researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate research students.

Celestial loves the wonder of the teaching-learning experiences that unfolds at each class. Her encounters with fellow educators, researchers, students and patients have been instrumental in bringing to life her interests in contributing to a culture of holistic professionalism.

A/Prof Mabel Yap is currently Director, Professional Training and Assessment Standards Division, MOH, where she oversees training and assessment standards for healthcare professionals, from pre-employment to specialist training. She is part of the international faculty for EPAs and is responsible for incorporation of EPAs into training of doctors, nurses, pharmacist and allied health professionals. She has a special interest in issues related to burnout among healthcare professionals and obtained her MBSR (mindfulness based stress reduction) teacher training from Brown University.

A/P Yap is currently Adjunct Associate Professor at the Office for Education, Duke–NUS Graduate Medical School, and the Centre for Medical Education, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She received her PhD (Nutrition) from Wageningen University in Netherlands and her Postgraduate 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.

Loo See graduated as a registered nurse in 1985 and attained her Bachelor of Health Science (Nursing) in University of Sydney and Master in Public Health in University of New South Wales respectively. She is a Deputy Director (Nursing) working with the nurses and care coordinators in chronic care. She oversees their professional development and the nursing service areas related to chronic care. She is involved in the development and implementation of the teamlet model in NHGP.

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. He has received numerous accolades from for excellence in teaching: Best Teacher Award (2014), Special Recognition Award (2016), Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2017) from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National Healthcare Group Education Leadership Award (2019). 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.

Wentao is an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) who is currently working as the programme director for Master of Nursing programme at Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies (ALCNS). She has a joined appointment with the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) to provide care to Parkinson patients in the community. She is actively involved in APN development and education in Singapore, and she also involves in the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nurse research group to better understand the APN development internationally.