Faculty


COURSE DIRECTOR


Associate Professor Tan Soo Yong
Head, Department of Pathology, National University of Singapore
Head and Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology, National University Hospital
Group Director, Pathology, National University Health System, Singapore

Dr Tan Soo Yong obtained his medical qualifications from the National University of Singapore and thereafter underwent postgraduate training in Forensic Pathology and Histopathology in Singapore and in the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Qualifying in both forensic and histopathology, he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (UK) and a Diplomate of the Society of Apothecaries of London. Dr Tan obtained his PhD from Oxford University, working in the field of haematopathology.

His current research interest is in the pathology of NK/T cell lymphoma and Type II Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (Type II EATL). He is a member of the International Lymphoma Study Group (ILSG) and a member of the team responsible for updating the WHO Classification of haematolymphoid neoplasms. Dr Tan sits on the Editorial Board of two pathology journals (Journal of Clinical Pathology, Biobanking and Biopreservation). He is currently Associate Professor in the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Senior Consultant in the Department of Pathology, National University Hospital.

Dr Tan holds multiple concurrent appointments as Senior Consultant to the Ministry of Health Singapore, Visiting Consultant to the National Skin Centre, Head of the Advanced Molecular Pathology Laboratory (AMPL) and Senior Principal Investigator at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB).

An educator at heart, he is also Chief Examiner in Pathology, Chairman of the Residency Advisory Committee for Pathology, Visiting Professor to University Malaya, Guangdong General Hospital and the Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, China.


GUEST FACULTY


Professor Cerroni Lorenzo
MD PhD
Professor of Dermatology and Venereology, University of Graz, Austria
Head, 'Research Unit Dermatopathology', Medical University of Graz, Austria

Prof Cerroni Lorenzo received his M.D. and his residency training in Dermatology and Venereology at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy. He is an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals and a member of many international affiliations. In 2005, he was awarded the Elson B Helwig Memorial Lecture Award 'In recognition of excellence in the realm of diagnostic Dermatopathology and for significant contribution to the Dermatopathology literature and the education of fellows and colleagues' by the American Society of Dermatopathology. He has published over 250 scientific papers and is a co-author of four dermatopathology texts.


LOCAL FACULTY



Associate Professor Ng Siok Bian
MBBS, FRCPA
Associate Professor and Senior Consultant
Department of Pathology, National University Health System, Singapore

Dr Siok-Bian Ng graduated in 1995 with MBBS from National University of Singapore (NUS) and obtained Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in 2002. She subsequently completed her HMDP specialty training in haematolymphoid pathology in 2003 at National Cancer Institute / National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA, under the supervision of Dr ES Jaffe. Dr Ng joined NUS in 2007.

Dr Ng is a member of several national and international professional pathology societies such as the Society of Haematopathology and European Society of Haematopathology. She is in the international editorial board for the American Journal of Hematology. She is also the research director of the department of Pathology in National University Health System (NUHS) and a member of the National Healthcare Group Domain Specific Ethics Review Board.

Dr Ng's diagnostic expertise is in haematolymphoid pathology and molecular pathology. Her research focus is on EBV-associated T/NK-cell lymphoproliferative disorders using a combinational analytical approach via gene and miRNA expression profiling on paraffin embedded tissue samples and multi-chromogenic and multiplexed staining platform to study novel biomarkers in this group of lymphoma.




Dr Wang Shi
MBBS, FRCPA
Senior Consultant
Department of Pathology, National University Health System, Singapore

Dr Wang Shi is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Pathology NUHS with a subspecialty interest in haematolymphoid pathology. Dr Wang Shi was awarded the AMDA Award to train at the Department of Haematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer center in year 2013. He is actively involved in postgraduate residency teaching of haematolymphoid pathology to both pathology and haematology-oncology residents. Dr Wang Shi regularly reports haematopathology cases and bone marrow biopsies in the department.




Dr Susan Hue
MBBS, FRCPA
Associate Consultant
Department of Pathology, National University Health System, Singapore

Dr Susan Hue Swee Shan was awarded the MBBS-PhD Scholarship by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in 2000. She obtained her medical qualifications from the National University of Singapore and her PhD from Imperial College London, Department of Immunology. She underwent further postgraduate specialty training and qualified as an anatomical pathologist in 2015. She is a Fellow of The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (FRCPA).

She currently holds dual appointments, serving her clinical role as Associate Consultant in the Department of Pathology, National University Hospital (NUH) and as a Research Clinician in Advanced Molecular Pathology Laboratory (AMPL)/Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB). She has active interests in lymphoma and soft tissue pathology and her research interests centre around exploring the role of microRNA expression profiles as novel biomarkers for tumour classification.



Dr Joyce Lee Siong See
MBBS, MRCP (UK), M.Med (Int. Med), FAMS (Dermatology), Dip.Dermatopathology (ICDP-UEMS)
Senior Consultant Dermatologist
Head, Dermatopathology and Laboratories Division, National Skin Centre, Singapore

Dr Joyce Lee is a Senior Consultant Dermatologist at the National Skin Centre (NSC), Singapore, and currently heads the Dermatopathology and Laboratories Division there. She is also the Consultant-in-charge of the Hair and Nail clinic. Dr Lee is the course organizer for the Dermatopathology National Training Program (for Dermatology residents) in Singapore, and oversees the Dermatopathology Fellowship program at NSC since it became an ICDP-UEMS accredited specialty training centre in 2015. In 2016, she became the recipient of the National Healthcare Group (NHG) Education Leaders Award. Dr Lee is an active reviewer for various regional and international journals including the American Journal of Dermatopathology and Journal of Cutaneous Pathology, and is an editorial board member of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. She has published 100 peer-reviewed journal articles to date.




Dr Lee Shir Ying
MBBS, MRCP (UK), FRCPath (UK)
Senior Consultant Haematologist
Department of Laboratory Medicine, National University Hospital, and National University Cancer Institute, Singapore

Dr Lee Shir Ying is senior consultant haematologist in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, National University Hospital (NUH), and National University Cancer Institute, Singapore. Her interests are in diagnostic haematology, flow cytometry and transfusion medicine, and she has received advanced training in flow cytometry from the University of Salamanca, Spain. Besides her clinical commitments, she also serves as core faculty of the National University Health System haematology residency program, assistant professor in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine of the National University of Singapore, and current chair of the hospital transfusion committee.