Ms Chan is a registered nurse and qualified staff midwife. Her past working experience in the clinical settings include medical‐surgical nursing, midwifery and management of the Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Paediatrics units as the Assistant Director of Nursing at the National University Hospital. She is instrumental in advocating for professional and academic advancement of the nurses. Following that, she took on the role of a Senior Lecturer, Course Coordinator and Clinical Manager at Nanyang Polytechnic. She was engaged in developing nursing students and Registered Nurses in the Diploma in Nursing and Advanced Diploma in Nursing – Midwifery courses respectively.

As a strong advocate for personal growth and professional development, Ms Chan continues to embark on her career goal as an educator at the National University of Singapore. She integrates a variety of teaching pedagogies and approach such as team-based learning and peer feedback in the nursing laboratory sessions to encourage and develop self-regulated learners. Additionally, Ms Chan has introduced Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) to better engage and facilitate students’ learning in a course with broad-based content.

Ms Chan’s teaching philosophy is developed and guided by the following learning concept and model:

• Constructive alignment (Biggs, J., 2012) – planning effective and meaningful learning materials for students
• Experiential Learning Cycle (Kolb, 1984) – concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation.
• Providing meaningful and timely feedback to students (Hattie & Timperley, 2007)

Ms Chan has served as an executive member in the Singapore Nurses Association (SNA). She currently remains as an active member of the O&G Chapter in the Singapore Nurses’ Association (SNA). She is also affiliated with the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) since joining NUS Nursing.