Dr Sophia Ang National University Hospital Biodata is not available for webview |
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| | Dr Chow Mun Hong SingHealth Polyclinics Dr Chow Mun Hong graduated in 1990 and attained his Masters degree in Family Medicine in 1998. This was followed with a Fellowship by assessment of the College of Family Physicians, Singapore in 2002. In 2004, Dr Chow completed a Fellowship in Integrated Chronic Disease Management at Kaiser Permanente, Southern California with a focus on organisation and systems perspectives in patient care. He is currently Consultant Family Physician and |
| Director, Quality Management in SingHealth Polyclinics, a public sector Primary Care Institution with nine Polyclinics serving the eastern part of Singapore. After spending a number of years working in and managing a Polyclinic as Clinic Director, Dr Chow is now focusing on enhancing the framework, culture and capacity for continuous improvement in SingHealth Polyclinics, both at the strategic and technical levels. He is also a Facilitator in the SingHealth Clinical Practice Improvement Programme, and works closely with colleagues in SingHealth to improve and integrate patient care across different institutions in the cluster. |
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| | Professor Fock Kwong Ming Board Advisor on Clinical Governance, Singapore Health Services Senior Consultant, Dept of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Changi General Hospital Prof Fock Kwong Ming is currently a professor at the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is also a Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist with the Changi General Hospital (CGH), where he served as Chief of Medicine from 1993 to 2006, and only recently stepped down as its Medical Board Chairman. In his role as Chairman, he successfully introduced evidence-based clinical |
| pathways for the management of diseases, and delivered a lecture on this subject at the 1st International Healthcare Quality Conference held in Hong Kong in 2006. A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh & London), Royal Australian College of Physician, and Academy of Medicine, Singapore, Prof Fock is a Senior Consultant with Singapores Ministry of Health (MOH) and sits on the Ministrys Steering Committee for Active Health Management and the Integration of Care. In addition, he also serves as an advisor to the Performance Improvement and Audit Committees of CGH as well as the Singhealth Board of Directors on clinical governance. Previously, he was Project Director for the Joint Commission International (JCI) Accreditation of CGH and led the hospital to successful accreditation in June 2005. Prof Fock is member of various International Editorial Boards, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, editor of Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Diseases and Digestive Endoscopy, and Chinese Journal of Gastroenterology. |
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| | Associate Professor Goh Lee Gan National University of Singapore A/Prof Goh Lee Gan is an academic staff in the Department of Community, Occupational, & Family Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He obtained his MMed (Internal Medicine) Singapore in 1977. He is also a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians, Singapore, Royal College of General Practitioners, Australia, Royal College of General |
| Practitioners, United Kingdom, the Academy of Family Physicians, Malaysia, and also a Fellow of World Organisation of Family Doctors (Wonca). He is a past president of Wonca Asia Pacific Region, and past president of the Singapore Medical Association. He is also active in voluntary and community organisations namely, the Singapore Red Cross, the Singapore International Foundation, and the Feedback Unit. For his work as the Chairman of the AIDS Task Force of the Ministry of Health, he was awarded the Public Service Star in the 2004 National Day Awards. He teaches family medicine and public health at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His academic interests are in family medicine, healthcare management, professionalism, ethics and law, healthcare quality and patient safety. His interest in healthcare quality is from the perspectives of principles, innovations, applications in healthcare, and adoption in healthcare delivery. |
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| | Dr Goh Ping Ping Changi General Hospital Dr Goh Ping Ping is Acting Head and Senior Consultant of the Division of Cardiology in Changi General Hospital. Her subspecialty is Echocardiography. She is the main co-ordinator of the Changi General Hospital Acute Myocardial Infarction Program which was the fi rst of its kind to be awarded Disease-Specific Certification by the Joint Commission International in 2007. Besides patient care, she is actively involved in clinical quality improvement projects. She |
| has led and facilitated several cardiology-related projects under the Singhealth Clinical Practice Improvement Programme. |
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 | Dr Joseph Manuel Gomez KK Womens and Childrens Hospital Dr Joseph Manuel Gomez is a Senior Consultant and Head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the KK Womens and Childrens Hospital (KKH). He is a Neonatologist by training but has a keen interest in the area of patient safety and clinical quality improvement. He was awarded the Ministry of Healths Healthcare Quality Improvement Fund (HQIF) to undertake two Clinical Practice Improvement Projects (CPIP). The fi rst project that he undertook was to reduce medication errors in KKH. The second project that he is currently working on is to |
| reduce hospital-associated infection in the Neonatal Intensice Care Unit (NICU). He is also the Chairman of KKHs Medication Safety Committee (MSC), which adopts a multi-pronged approach of prevention strategies, feedback and education and training to reduce medication errors in the hospital. |
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| | Mr Mark N Grieves Overseas China Banking Corporation Mr Mark Grieves joined the OCBC Bank as Senior Vice President, Head of Customer Experience in 2005. Prior to that he was Senior Partner and Head of Consulting at Beyond Philosophy, the leading UK- and US-based Customer Experience consulting fi rm. A physicist by education and an engineer by training, Mr Grieves holds an MBA from Cranfi eld School of Management in the UK and is currently sweating through his PhD dissertation and his first solo book. |
| A career building the soft side of customer engagement had a very unlikely beginning as Mr Grieves had served as an officer in the Parachute Regiment, the famous Red Berets after leaving school. Retiring as a Major, Mr Grieves became a customer relationship manager with the mobile phone company ORANGE before moving on to be a Principal with Gemini Consulting, where he implemented the customer experience and customer management strategies for wireless and wireline telcos in Europe, India and South Africa. He was briefly with the dot.com company Cognexos as Head of Customer Experience. After the bubble burst, he joined Colin Shaw to help grow Beyond Philosophy as a professional services and advisory business. |
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| | Ms Jasmine Heng Singhealth Polyclinics Geylang Ms Jasmine Heng has 22 years of nursing experience and is currently an Acting Nurse Clinician in Singapore Health Services, Polyclinics (SHP). She obtained her Bachelor in Nursing from University of Southern Queensland, Australia in |
2005 and a Diploma in Coronary Heart Disease Prevention in Primary Care in the United Kingdom in 2006. Ms Heng has vast experiences in the healthcare industry, having worked in the acute setting of restructured (Tan Tock Seng Hospital) and private hospitals (Thomson Medical Centre) as well as Voluntary Welfare Organisations (National Kidney Foundation) in Singapore. In SHP, Ms Heng provides nursing services and health education sessions to patients with chronic diseases. She also conducts training in retinal photography and contributes actively in quality improvement projects research. She has won several awards such as the Nursing Excellence Award (Singhealth Lee Foundation) in 2007; Healthcare Manpower Development Programme Award in 2006; Superstar Excellence Service Award, 2006; Star Excellence Service Award, 2006 and Gold Excellence Service Award, 2005. Several of her papers were published in the Singapore Nursing Journal. |
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| | Dr Hwang Chi Hong National Healthcare Group Polyclinics Dr Hwang Chi Hong graduated from the National University of Singapore School of Medicine in 1992. In the process of completing his various postings, his interest for primary care was cultivated and he completed his MMed (Family Medicine) in 1999. Dr Hwang has been working in National Healthcare Group Polyclinics (NHGP) |
since 2000, and in this time he was Head of Choa Chu Kang Polyclinic and Clementi Polyclinic. In May 2005, an attachment with the National Patient Safety Agency in England led him to have a great interest in the quality and patient safety movement. In February 2006, the Quality Management Office (QMO) was set up in NHGP and Dr Hwang was given the opportunity to Head the office. QMO acts to oversee frameworks in NHGP for continuous improvement, risk management, service quality and patient safety. |
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| | Dr Lee Chien Earn Ministry of Health, Singapore Dr Lee Chien Earn is currently the Senior Director of the Healthcare Performance Group in the Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore. His current portfolio includes Healthcare Information Management, Health Services Research and Technology Assessment and Clinical Quality Improvement. Dr Lees past appointments in MOH have included Director Health Regulation, Head Health Services Finance and Head Casemix Project Office. He also had previous appointments in |
Singapore General Hospital as Manager Operations and subsequently Director Corporate Affairs where his responsibilities included Corporate Planning, Corporate Communications and Corporate Process Review. Dr Lee was awarded the Commendation Medal in 2003 and the Minister of Health Award for Public Health in 2006 for his contributions in tackling the SARS and Fusarium Keratitis outbreaks respectively. He currently sits on the Board of the Health Sciences Authority, the Joint Commission International Asia Pacific Advisory Group and the Specialist Training Committee for Public Health. He was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Family of International Classifications (FIC) Morbidity Reference Group as well as the Joint Commission Resources Standards Subcommittee that was involved in the the development of the 3rd edition of the JCI Standards for Hospitals. |
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| | Dr Lee Heow Yong Assistant Director, Clinical Quality Improvement Division (CQI) Ministry of Health, Singapore Dr Lee Heow Yong is currently the Assistant Director (Clinical Quality Improvement) at the Ministry of Health, Singapore. His current portfolio includes the clinical quality analysis of the national Chronic Disease Management Programme, clinical quality improvement, clinical process design, patient safety and healthcare associated infections. Dr Lee graduated from the National |
| University of Singapore School of Medicine in 1991. He completed his Master of Medicine (Public Health) at the National University of Singapore in 2004 and Master of Arts (Counselling Psychology) at the Nanyang Technological University in 2002. He spent 6 years in full-time clinical practice and patient care mainly at the acute hospital settings. He spent 4 years of his public health specialist training at the Health Promotion Board (School Health Division and Research and Evaluation Division) and was the acting head of National Myopia Prevention Programme in 2002-2003. During his work at Singapore General Hospital's Occupational Health and Epidemiology Unit in 2005-2006, he was active in disease outbreak surveillance, epidemiological investigations of healthcare associated infections, avian flu/pandemic flu preparation work and care of the occupational health of health care workers. Besides his professional work, he also volunteers as a counsellor and conducts talks on topics in marriage preparation courses organised by community groups. |
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| | Mr Peter Lee Assistant Director, Clinical Quality Improvement Division (CQI) Ministry of Health, Singapore Mr Peter Lee graduated from the Sloan Program, Cornell University in 2005 under the Ministry of Health Postgraduate Scholarship and chose to be posted to the Clinical Quality Improvement Division, Ministry of Health (Singapore) to participate and spearhead the quality and patient safety movement. He currently manages |
| an annual S$1 million Health Quality Improvement Fund to seed and support Quality Improvement Projects to be initiated by the public acute hospitals to improve the standards of patient safety and care. In addition, he overesees the development of clinical performance measures, analysis and reporting of outcomes of care in the public acute hospitals. As Secretariat to the Electronic Medical Records Exchange (EMRX) Clinical Committee, he coordinates the strategic development and enhancement of the EMRX system to facilitate the sharing of critical medical information and essential investigative reports across the healthcare delivery points in the healthcare ecosystem. Mr Lee was one of the pioneer architects in the strategic development and implementation of a casemix based funding system for the public acute hospitals in Singapore in 1998. He had also served as Assistant Director (Health Services Management) where he managed the Ministry's operating and development budget for the public healthcare sector. He was awarded the Commendation Medal in 2003 for his contribution in tackling SARS outbreak. Peter was invited to served as a member of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare annual conference International Review Team. |
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| | Mr Lek Siang Pheng Rodyk and Davidson LLP Mr Lek Siang Pheng is a partner in the Singapore law firm of Rodyk & Davidson LLP. He has been a Honorary Legal Advisor to the Singapore Medical Association since 1996, and is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore. Mr Lek also specialises in medical law work. He started in this area in 1989, |
| working on behalf of hospitals and other healthcare institutions; and this has continued to this day. He has acted for various medical defence organisations, and is currently counsel for The Medical Protection Society Limited and also NTUC Income Insurance for doctors malpractice cover. Mr Lek has advised doctors and nurses as well as restructured and private hospitals on various legal, regulatory and ethical issues. He has also defended them in malpractice lawsuits and other legal proceedings like Coroners inquiries and Singapore Medical Council disciplinary inquiries. He currently sits on the Parkway Independent Ethics Committee, the 15 local speakers National Healthcare Group Research Ethics Committee and the NHG Domain Specific Review Board C. |
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| | Dr Ling Moi Lin Singapore General Hospital Dr Ling Moi Lin received her medical education at the National University of Singapore. She obtained her postgraduate training in Microbiology at the Victoria University of Manchester, is a member of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, and is a certified professional in healthcare quality (CPHQ). For the past five years, Dr Ling has played a key role as Director of Quality Management at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and contributed to building up and |
improving quality awareness and implementing clinical quality programmes in the hospital. She is currently the Director of Infection Control at SGH where she developed the infection control programme. Her interests are in infection control, antimicrobial resistance, molecular epidemiology as well as quality improvement. She is an experienced trainer in infection control, quality improvement and root cause analysis. Dr Ling is the President of the Infection Control Association (Singapore), and President-Elect of the Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control (APSIC). She is a Director on the Healthcare Quality Certification Board (HQCB) and its Asia Pacifi c representative. In 2007, she helped to set up the Healthcare Quality Society of Singapore and is its founding President. |
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| | Dr Lo Tong Jen Ministry of Health, Singapore Dr Lo Tong Jen graduated with Bachelors of Medicine and Bachelors of Surgery (MBBS) from the National University of Singapore in 2002. He completed his Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health under the Ministry of Health Postgraduate Scholarship. During his MPH stint in the US, Dr Lo was a Sommer Scholar and participated in the Fulbright Singapore Student Programme. Dr Lo is currently Assistant Director |
| with the Health Services Research Branch at the Ministry of Health. His interests are in translating health services research into policies that improve the health care system in Singapore. |
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| | Dr Loke Wai Chiong National Healthcare Group Dr Loke Wai Chiong graduated with an MBBS in 1995 from the National University of Singapore on its Deans List, and received his MMed (Family Medicine) in 2000. He was conferred Fellow of the College of Family Physicians, Singapore (by assessment) in 2004. He spent 11 years in full-time clinical practice, six of those years as Director |
of two separate community-based primary care polyclinics in Singapore. It was during those years that he developed his skills and passion in general management, operations, training, quality improvement and project management. In 2006, he joined National Healthcare Group (NHG) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), and helped to oversee quality improvement initiatives at both cluster as well as hospital levels. He is local faculty and facilitator for the NHG Clinical Practice Improvement Programme (CPIP). In 2007 he took on an additional portfolio, and is now concurrently Director of Quality as well as Clinical Manpower in NHG. |
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| | Ms Georgiana Low Mui Lang The Salvation Army, Peacehaven Nursing Home Ms Georgiana Low is currently the Assistant Executive Director with the The Salvation Army, Peacehaven Nursing Home. She graduated as a registered nurse in 1983 and since then, she has obtained a Diploma in Business Efficiency and Productivity (Personnel Management) and Masters in Health Care Management from the University of Wales, Swansea, England. |
Ms Low has had a vast experience in various medical disciplines but she majors in stroke management care and dementia care. Since 1991, she has been actively involved in the set up and managing of St Andrews Community Hospital, NGO nursing homes, private nursing home, community setting home medical and nursing care, case management service and day rehabilitation centre. She has been with The Salvation Army, Peacehaven Nursing Home since 2001, and in this role, she has been pivotal in the re-modelling of nursing care, setting standards and extending skills by operating a new programme for persons with dementia in a hostel environment a first in Singapore. Ms Low has spoken extensively on various topics such as Philosophy of Care in Nursing Home, dementia care, and problem-solving techniques. |
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LTC (Dr) Robin Low Hd, Republic of Singapore Airforce, Aeromedical Centre LTC (Dr) Robin Low graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1993, and signed on with the Singapore Armed Forces to pursue Aviation Medicine and Occupational Medicine in 1995. He holds a Diploma in Aviation Medicine from the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine in RAF Farnborough, as well as a MMED (Occupational Medicine) from NUS. As part of aviation medicine and working in the aviation arena, Dr Low has been extensively exposed to and developed a strong interest in aviation safety, as well as aviation accident investigation. He has undergone a course in Human Factors in Aviation and is also trained to facilitate Crew Resource Management Courses. Dr Low lectured in the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Human Factors Course which was conducted in the late 1990s to every RSAF personnel, and has participated as a medical member in various Accident Investigation Teams. Dr Low was appointed consultant in Aviation Medicine to the SAF in June 2007. |
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| | Ms Susan Mende Tsao Foundation Ms Susan Mende is the Vice President of Programmes of the Tsao Foundation - a not-for-profit Singapore organisation involved in ageing and ageing issues. The Foundations work includes community-based health services for older people, training and policy support in ageing and ageing issues. Ms Mende has been involved in the field of health and ageing for over 20 years. With a background in nursing and a Masters in Public Health, she worked at the New |
| York City Health and Hospitals Corporation in Risk Management and Quality Improvement and has served as consultant to international organisations including the United Nations and the World Health Organization. She moved to Asia 15 years ago. |
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 | Dr Sandhya Mujumdar Senior Manager Medical Affairs, National University Hospital Dr Sandhya Mujumdar is a Senior Manager in the Medical Affairs department of Singapores National University Hospital (NUH), the tertiary flagship hospital of the National Healthcare Group. She is an MD in Paediatrics and has a Masters |
| degree (MSc) from UK in Healthcare Management. Dr Sandhya is responsible for clinical quality, patient safety, clinical service, utilisation management, and case management in NUH. She played a pivotal role in preparing NUH to attain Joint Commission International Accreditation in 2004 and for recertification in 2007. She has a rich experience in the similar and research fields from other hospitals in Singapore. |
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| | Ms Farhana Nakhooda Asia Pacific IBM Singapore Ms Farhana Nakhooda is the IBM AP Healthcare Solutions Manager for the IBM AP Health and Life Sciences team. She is responsible for the healthcare solutions business across Asia Pacific and her key areas of focus have been public health, hospital informatics, clinical decision support systems, healthcare analytics and overall clinical solutions. She has more than ten years of experience in the healthcare and life sciences industry. |
Prior to joining IBM in 2001, Ms Farhana spent six years in BioMedical research with the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the National University of Singapore, specialising in neurophysiology and clinical embryology research. Shortly after her years in BioMedical research, she completed her MBA course, specialising in the management of information systems. Ms Farhana has a degree in Bachelor of Science (with Honors), in which she majored in Biology and Biochemistry, at the University of British Columbia. She completed her MBA at Monash Mt Eliza Business School in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2000. |
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 | Mrs Ruth Quek Group Assistant Vice President Clinical Risk Management, Quality Division Parkway Health, Singapore Mrs Ruth Quek is a Registered Nurse, Certified Midwife and also completed a Trauma Surgery Nursing Course in Birmingham, UK. She has a post-graduate degree from Wales in Healthcare Management and is a certified professional in healthcare quality (CPHQ) by the Healthcare Quality Certification Board, USA. |
| She has been in the private sector since 1982. Mrs Quek played a major role in developing and implementing the Hospital Occurrence Reporting for the Parkway Health and is responsible for the Clinical Safety and Risk Management Program. She is currently the Group Assistant Vice President, Clinical Safety and Risk Management, Quality Division. |
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| | Dr Seow Wan Tew KK Womens and Childrens Hospital Dr Seow Wan Tew is a practising paediatric neurosurgeon and currently Senior Consultant and Head of the Neurosurgery Service at the KK Womens & Childrens Hospital, Singapore. He is also a senior consultant neurosurgeon with the National Neuroscience Institute and was previously the Head of the |
Department of Neurosurgery at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Singapore General Hospital. He graduated MBBS from the National University of Singapore and completed his neurosurgical training in Australia under the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He has a law degree from the University of London and is currently completing his LLM at the University of Melbourne, specialising in Medical Law. Dr Seows other current appointment is as Director of Medical Risk Management in KKH, and is involved in all the potential medico-legal cases encountered at the hospital. He conducts a series of medical risk management programmes for the doctors in the hospital. He is also an associated mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre. |
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| | Dr Celia Tan Singapore General Hospital Dr Celia Tan is the Deputy Director of the Allied Health Division and the Director of Postgraduate Allied Health Institute and Lifestyle Improvement and Fitness Enhancement Centre of the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). Since completing her PhD, she has also been appointed Adjunct Senior Clinical Fellow, School of Physiotherapy, Curtin University, Australia in 2005 and |
Adjunct Research Consultant with Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore in 2006. She has published 13 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals. Dr Tan is involved in training Physiotherapists in Cambodia, Vietnam and China. An active member in the community, Dr Tan provides Physiotherapy consultation to the Ministry of Heath, National Council of Social Service, Singapore International Foundation, Nanyang Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and the Singapore Physiotherapy Association, where she has been the President from 2001 till now. |
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| | Associate Professor Kelvin Tan Kok Hian KK Womens and Childrens Hospital Clinical A/Prof Kelvin Tan is Senior Consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist in the Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine, KK Womens and Childrens Hospital (KKH). He is also Head of Perinatal Audit & Epidemiology, KKH and is Deputy Chairman, Division of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, in charge of training and quality portfolios. He also serves as KKH Director of Clinical Quality. As Director of Clinical Quality, he is involved in the monitoring, prioritisation, sentinel event |
reviews, medical reviews and audits of adverse outcome cases as part of risk management in KKH. A/Prof Tan chairs the KKH JCI Core Committee which helped the hospital achieve the USA-based JCI accreditation in 2005, and also chairs KKH PIP/CPIP committee which spearheads quality improvement in the hospital. He chairs the weekly High Risk Consult for problematic high risk obstetric cases in KKH Delivery Suite (which takes care of about 14,000 obstetric deliveries every year as one of the largest maternity units in the world). |
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| | Dr Mary Ann Tsao Tsao Foundation Dr Mary Ann Tsao is the President of the Tsao Foundation, a Singapore-based - but regionally-oriented - nonprofit operational foundation dedicated to aged care and ageing issues. Until June 2007, she was also its Chief Executive Officer. |
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Dr Tsao is a US-trained physician specialising in primary care planning and social medicine, with a special interest in community development, and has extensive experience working with disadvantaged communities in USA and Singapore. A paediatrician, she practised medicine in New York City prior to moving back to Asia as the Founding Director of the population ageing-focused Tsao Foundation. For her work on ageing in Singapore, she received the Public Service Medal in 2000 and Public Service Star in 2004. She is a frequent invited speaker at conferences and seminars on ageing, civil society and philanthropy both in Singapore and internationally. As a member of CAFO (Conference of Asian Foundations and Organizations), Dr Tsao just completed a seven year term as a Executive Committee member and has been involved in regional work on the development of philanthropy and civil society in Asia. |
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| | Dr Wee Shiou Liang Singapore Health Services Dr Wee Shiou Liang currently runs disease management programmes to provide integrated care for patients at SingHealth and beyond. He has an advanced degree in education as well as a PhD in physiology and nutrition. His research interests are in the areas of health outcomes, disease management and preventive medicine. He has also taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in nutrition and exercise physiology. |
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| | Dr Edwin Wu Changi General Hospital Dr Edwin Wu is the head of Medical Information Management (MIM) in Changi General Hospital (CGH), responsible for ensuring cost-effectiveness in providing healthcare without compromising clinical performance and quality. Also under his wing are consultancy services provided to various healthcare organisations in health information management and decision analysis. His main interest is data mining applications in healthcare setting, predictive modelling, clinical |
quality improvement and promoting patient safety. With ample experiences in quality improvement and clinical data analysis, he assisted in setting up Casemix Office in CGH in 2003. Dr Wu graduated from MBBS (Yangon) in 1990 and his qualifications include Diploma in Family Practice Dermatology (Singapore) and Master of Health Science in Management (Sydney). His research includes Clinical Data Mining in cost effectiveness and patient safety. He is a regular presenter at conferences focusing on evidence-based approach in healthcare provision and patient safety. |
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