View the video of the second session that took place on Friday, 13 Nov 2020, 08:00-09:00 SGT

The secret to star investment banker Keith Magnus’ success cannot be found in the numbers, data or a fact sheet. Read about NIC member Keith’s cover page interview in the November issue of The Peak, where he talks about success, leadership and a simple trishaw ride.

NUS Medicine is now ranked 18th in The Times Higher Education (THE) listing of the world’s best medical schools. This is an improvement over our 19th placing in the 2020 rankings.

Most of us will remember what we were doing the day of a significant global event. The day two planes flew into the twin towers. The day the Berlin Wall came down. The day a tsunami hit the shores of Indonesia. As a doctor, I remember one day doing my ward rounds in 2000 when the UK prime minister Tony Blair and then US president Bill Clinton announced that the full human genome was finally sequenced.

“The implementation of new technology not only in digital health, remote health, and precision health, but also in process and supply chain management provides ways to better serve patients and an expected specialisation of services will complement public hospital-based systems.”
– Helmut Schuehsler, NIC member and CEO and chairman of TVM Capital Healthcare

Join NIC member Prof Brian Kennedy and Dr Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer, SENS Research Foundation, for a discussion on “Can damage repair give us indefinite youth?” on 19 November 2020 at 7pm SGT (GMT+8).

Our thanks to NIC members Iqbal Jumabhoy and Rohet Tolani, and all the other friends from within and outside NUHS for sponsoring the weekly boosters to recognise the efforts of NUHS staff for their fight in COVID-19. We appreciate your outpouring of love and support.

NUS researchers have developed an automated system that collates and displays users’ blood oxygen data on an easy-to-read dashboard. It is suitable for use in dormitories and community care facilities to provide frontline staff with regular updates on the health status of residents under their care.

The first of its kind to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), cPass, the COVID-19 antibody test kit can be used to test vaccines, assist in contact tracing, does not require highly specialised equipment or training to use, and produces results in just an hour.

SESSION 2: Pathophysiology and Clinical Management of COVID-19