Speakers

Professor Dean Ho is currently Provost’s Chair Professor, Director of The Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM) at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine; Director of The N.1 Institute for Health (N.1), and Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. Prof Ho and collaborators successfully developed and validated CURATE.AI,…

Dr. Kitto is a medical sociologist who has been working in health professions education research since 2002. He is a Full Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Department of Innovation in Medical Education and the Director of Research in the Office of Continuing Professional Development, as well as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Surgery, University of Toronto and…

Associate Professor Michelle Jong obtained her medical degree from Queen’s University of Belfast (United Kingdom) in 1993 and her fellowship with the Academy of Singapore (Endocrinology) in 2002 and with the Royal College of Physicians in 2007. Her clinical interests include Diabetes Mellitus and in particular Diabetes in pregnancy. She obtained her Masters in Health…

Dr Ng Yih Yng is the Director of the Digital and Smart Health Office, Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the Central Health region and the deputy clinical director of the Ng Teng Fong Centre for Health Innovation.He is trained as an emergency and public health specialist and practices emergency medicine at Tan Tock Seng Hospital…

Professor Kenneth Mak is Director of Medical Services at the Ministry of Health Singapore. In this role, he oversees the provision of all health services in Singapore. Since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Mak has been heavily involved in our national efforts to control the outbreak in Singapore. As Director of Medical Services in…

Professor Chun Yan Miao is a Full Professor in the School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Her research focus is on infusing intelligent agents into interactive new media (virtual, mixed, mobile and pervasive media) to create novel experiences and dimensions in game design, interactive narrative and other real world agent systems. She…

May O. Lwin, President’s Chair Professor of Communication Studies at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication (WKWSCI), College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences is the Chair of WKWSCI and also serves as the Director of NTU University Scholars Programme. Professor Lwin’s expertise lies in strategic and health communication. Her work in digitally mediated…

Zhou Lihan is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of MiRXES. Lihan led MiRXES’ growth from a 3-man start-up in Singapore to a leader in RNA technology and disease early detection with operations globally. Prior to founding MiRXES, Lihan led a research team at the Bioprocessing Technology Institute, A*STAR to develop a novel microRNA qPCR…

Professor Chin Jing Jih is Chairman, Medical Board and Senior Consultant Geriatrician at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). He is also the Advisor to TTSH Institute of Geriatric and Acting Ageing. He chairs the NHG Research Ethics Committee and holds teaching responsibilities at both NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and the NUS Yong…

Prof Wong is an ophthalmologist and physician-scientist who completed medical school at the National Prof Wong is an ophthalmologist and physician-scientist who completed medical school at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. In 2022, he took up a new position as Chair Professor and Founding Head…