{"id":3693,"date":"2021-11-08T12:58:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2022-10-13T10:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T02:32:01","slug":"a-special-tribute-to-mrs-teo-poh-yim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/a-special-tribute-to-mrs-teo-poh-yim\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Tribute to Mrs Teo Poh Yim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-02-at-23.40.53-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3696\" width=\"487\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-02-at-23.40.53-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-02-at-23.40.53-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-02-at-23.40.53-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-02-at-23.40.53-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-02-at-23.40.53-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-02-at-23.40.53.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>Patron of Mind Science Centre<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The song ends but the melody lingers on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We are deeply saddened by the passing of Mrs Teo Poh Yim, Patron of the Mind Science Centre on 31 Oct 2021. Our condolences and prayers go with Senior Minister Mr Teo Chee Hean and his family during this time of bereavement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/DSC04785--scaled-e1636347418180.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3695\" width=\"363\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/DSC04785--scaled-e1636347418180.jpg 1286w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/DSC04785--scaled-e1636347418180-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/DSC04785--scaled-e1636347418180-911x1024.jpg 911w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/DSC04785--scaled-e1636347418180-768x864.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mrs Teo mooted the idea of translational research for dementia prevention in August 2014.\u00a0 She became our Patron in October 2017 and was instrumental in shaping and leading the Mind Science Centre to achieve various crucial milestones during its formative years, raising from a NUS School of Medicine academic research centre to a NUHS Centre of Excellence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/P1044522b-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3694\" width=\"419\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/P1044522b-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/P1044522b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/P1044522b-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/P1044522b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/P1044522b-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nmsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/11\/P1044522b-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Her passion and commitment to help the community enabled Mind Science Centre to persevere in the development of population-based intervention programmes that will better manage the rising rates of dementia and depression, improve quality of life of seniors and reduce disease burden on families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>She touched many lives and her absence will be profoundly felt by Chairman, Dr Cheong Choong Kong, Professor Kua Ee Heok, Associate Professor John Wong Chee Meng, Board of Advisors and Staff of Mind Science Centre.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patron of Mind Science Centre The song ends but the melody lingers on\u2026 We are deeply saddened by the passing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8976,"featured_media":3696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-upcoming-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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