Mr Tan Cheow Hung

Cheow Hung is the founding director of Beacon Law Corporation, a small law firm that has a strong pro bono ethos. In the last few years, the firm's pro bono focus has been to assist a particularly vulnerable group of people - migrant workers; both in criminal defence and in making civil claims for compensation. In recognition of his pro bono work, the Law Society of Singapore appointed him the Law Society Pro Bono Ambassador in 2016.

Mr Desmond Wong

Desmond is a clinic volunteer with HealthServe, and a Research Associate in NUS doing research on cell therapy of cancer in the Department of Paediatrics. He has recently graduated from the Master of Public Health programme from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in NUS. As part of the MPH, he did a practicum looking at how Singapore's policy on migrant workers may affect the access to healthcare of male migrants workers when they are here.

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Mr Stanley Tan

Stanley is a proud and happy father of two daughters, a businessman and a committed humanitarian. A firm believer in building a strong civil society, promoting strategic philanthropy and supporting platforms of advocacy; he has placed an equal emphasis on business and volunteering since the age of 35 and devotes half his time to community causes both in and out of Singapore. He currently chairs the South Central Community Family Service Centre, co-founded and is the Vice-President of MILK (“Mainly I Love Kids”) Fund and is Chairman of the Asia Philanthropy Circle. He has previously also served as Vice-Chairman of Singapore Red Cross Society, founder of The Hope Fund, member of the Charity Council, member of the Advisory Council of the Asia New Zealand Foundation, Board Member of Babes, Chairman of Bukit Ho Swee Family Service Centre, Chairman of Beyond Social Services, as well as Chairman of the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre where he was responsible for launching the Community Foundation of Singapore and the Centre for Non-Profit Leadership.

Stanley was conferred an Honorary Officer to the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002 and received the Singapore National Day Award in 2011. He has also been commended by the Singapore Red Cross Society; the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports; the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth; as well as National Council of Social Service for his efforts; in addition to the New Zealand High Commission in 2015 for his contribution to Singapore and New Zealand’s 50 year partnership; as well as New Zealand and ASEAN’s 40 year partnership.

A/Prof Anette Sundfor Jacobsen
Senior Consultant, Paediatric Surgery
KK Women’s and Children Hospital

Associate Professor Anette Jacobsen is currently a Senior Consultant in Paediatric Surgery. She has surgical experience in both General Paediatric Surgical and Paediatric Urology. She spearheaded the development of Minimally Invasive Surgery in KKH and have trained several surgeons. She also developed the Urodynamic Service in Paediatric Urology and with the Paediatricians, a dysfunctional voiding clinic. Her experience as a Paediatric Surgeon is on par with International Centres.
Currently she is also the Clinical Educator Lead (Medicine) in KKH. She oversees the undergraduate medical students from NUS YLLSoM and NTU LKCSoM during their clinical posting.
She served on many academic and professional societies. She was elected as the President of AAPS on November 2004. She has since moved to being a Secretary General for AAPS. She was also appointed by the Ministry of Health as the Panel of Experts for Subordinate Court Mediation and also is also a Chairperson for Advisory Committee on Transplantation (ACT).
She has a strong and continuing interest in Surgical Outreach. She travels regionally to treat patients, teach and train local doctors. She also run KKROK programme whether disadvantaged kids needing surgery are brought to KKH to receive treatment financed under KKROK fund.

Charis Chan
Associate Director - International Services
Singapore Red Cross

At Singapore Red Cross, the International Services team supports communities in Asia to recover from natural disasters and build resilience during peacetime. Charis Chan has been with the Singapore Red Cross since 2012 and currently leads the International Services department. She has participated in countless overseas missions to help rebuild and bring aid to affected communities.

Mr Victor Ng
Singapore Red Cross
Volunteer

Mr. Victor Ng is an active volunteer with the Singapore Red Cross. He has been deployed for relief missions in Vietnam and Myanmar, and is trained as Health Emergency Response Unit (ERU); Regional Disaster Response Team (RDRT); Emergency Water and Sanitation, Hygiene Promotion (eWASH); Psychological First Aid (PFA).

He has experience as an Interim Operations Coordinator with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), where his role was to oversee the coordination of IFRC support to National Societies in responding to sudden and slow-onset disasters and crises.

Dr Pang Wee Yang
Singapore Red Cross
Volunteer

Dr. Pang Wee Yang is a Volunteer Doctor with Singapore Red Cross, specialising in Geriartic Medicine. He has been deployed by Singapore Red Cross on medical missions to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and Vavuniya, Sri Lanka.

Mr Nigel Kow
Founder of Manaslu Foundation,
Partner of Singapore Red Cross

Mr. Nigel Kow is the founder of the Manaslu Foundation that has helped to build schools and healthcare facilities in the villages of Nepal affected by the 2015 earthquake.

In 2014, Mr. Nigel Kow was third year NUS undergraduate leading a climbing expedition to Nepal when he met with a life-threatening experience. The guides with him saved his life.

When Mr Kow heard of the death of one of these guides in the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal in 2015, he founded a non-governmental organisation (NGO), named Manaslu Foundation, to help the benefactors that saved his life, partnering with Singapore Red Cross and using his knowledge of the local community to fulfill their needs.

Dr. Carolina Casini, MD, PhD
Italian Red Cross
Volunteer

Dr. Carolina Casini is a pediatrician from Roma Italy. A specialist in pediatrics for over 10 years, her main role entails treating patients in the ER. She is a volunteer of Italian Red Cross since 2009. Since then, she has been involved in national and international missions, providing her experience as a medical doctor and as a pediatrician. She has been involved in missions in Palestine, Kenya, Tunisia, Mediterranean sea (SAR mission), Bangladesh, Mozambique. In Italy, she is dedicated to providing humanitarian aid for refugees.

Shaun Kang Wei Hsiang
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Legal Adviser

Mr. Shaun Kang Wei Hsiang a Legal Adviser with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). As head of the legal department, he represents the organization in providing legal support to governments and academic institutions in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

Gwendolen Eamer
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Senior Officer for Public Health

Gwendolen Eamer is a senior officer for public health in emergencies for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). She is a multidisciplinary humanitarian professional with field experience in response, recovery, and long-term programming in the context of natural disasters, epidemics and protracted conflict. She is a key personnel involved in the IFRC’s response in the Ebola Outbreak in Western Africa.

Dr Mausam Bohara
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Regional Emergency Medical Services Delegate

Mr Pascal Bourcher
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Operations Coordinator – Recovery

Pascal holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering from the Aix-Marseille University. He started his career in Disaster Management with the French Red Cross during the Tsunami response in Thailand and then continued his career with IFRC both in disaster response and resilience programming in Southeast Asia. Recently, he has worked in ICRC Headquarters as the Movement Adviser as part of the Health Care in Danger Initiative (HCiD). Pascal is currently the Operations Coordinator for the Pacific sub-region in the IFRC Asia-Pacific Regional Office (APRO) in Kuala Lumpur where he is also responsible for the Recovery portfolio.

Mr Benjamin William
Secretary General / CEO
Singapore Red Cross

Mr Benjamin William has been the Secretary General of the Singapore Red Cross Society with effect from 1 March 2012.

Mr William joined the Foreign Service in October 1981 and served in the Regional and Economics Department and subsequently as the Country Officer for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from 1986 to 1988. Between 1988 and 1993, he first served as First Secretary in the Singapore High Commission in Bandar Seri Begawan and later as First Secretary in the Singapore Embassy in Manila.

On his return to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Headquarters, Mr William was assigned to the Management and Personnel Directorate and subsequently served as its Deputy Director. Between 1995 and 1997, he served as Deputy Director-General in the ASEAN Directorate. He was then appointed Deputy Chief of Mission in the Singapore Embassy in Washington where he served from 1997 to 2000. On his return to Ministry HQ, he was appointed Senior Deputy Director covering North America and Europe, from 2000 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2004, Mr William was Director-General for ASEAN Singapore. He then served Director of Consular Directorate from February 2004 to August 2007.

In October 2007, he was appointed Singapore's Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic and served in Vientiane, Lao PDR from October 2007 to January 2011. Mr William was awarded the Friendship Cross by the Lao Government in January 2011 for his efforts in promoting Lao-Singapore relations.

On his return to Singapore, Mr William joined the Singapore Red Cross in April 2011 as Director/Special Duties, and was subsequently appointed Deputy Secretary General/Administration. In March 2012 he was appointed Secretary General of the Singapore Red Cross. Besides providing humanitarian services in Singapore, especially targeted at the disabled, the elderly and the disadvantaged, SRC also responds to humanitarian crises abroad. Mr William has provided leadership for Singapore Red Cross humanitarian responses in Japan, China, Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Vanuatu, and Nepal.

Dr SAHARI ANI
Dean – Singapore Red Cross Academy
Senior Director – Red Cross Youth

Sahari’s diverse background in various industries - particularly in healthcare, nursing and the non-governmental field - has positioned him as an experienced humanitarian practitioner. He is a strong advocator for strengthening characters and nurturing youth leadership through humanitarian work. This is often achieved by providing opportunities for youth to participate in Overseas Humanitarian Programmes (OHPs). He has spearheaded and/or assisted in 20 disaster response missions as well as more than 50 recovery, reconstruction and sustainable development projects in 16 countries since 2003. He was featured by the Asian Development Bank in the “Water Champion” series in 2009. He has twice been recognised for his efforts in going above and beyond the call of duty in the humanitarian sector. The Healthcare Humanity Award was awarded to him for his active participation in healthcare volunteerism and the Courage Star Award for his valuable contribution in the response to the 2003 SARS outbreak in Singapore.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL HO WAN HUO
Deputy Director

Changi Regional HADR Coordination Centre (RHCC) is established by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) in Sep 2014 to help the Affected State’s Multinational Coordination Centre (MNCC) coordinate Foreign Military Assistance (FMA). To achieve this, Changi RHCC utilises their internet-based OPERA Computer Information System (CIS) for information sharing and to provide responders in the MNCC with a Comprehensive Situation Picture.

LTC Ho joined Changi RHCC in 2016 as the Head Analysis & Information. Currently the centre’s Deputy Director, LTC Ho continues exploring opportunities for Changi RHCC to collaborate with HADR-related organisations and militaries to strengthen resilience and build capacity in the region, provide better coordinated response to natural disasters, as well as share crucial information in a timelier manner. Some of these HADR-related organisations include, Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM), Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), as well as ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre).

LTC Ho has participated in various HADR-related exercises such as the recent Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange (DREE) in Bangladesh. He has knowledge of MNCC operations based on either the Multinational Force (MNF) Standing Operating Procedures (SOP) or the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) MNCC SOP. As part of Changi RHCC, LTC Ho has also conducted multinational table-top HADR exercises such as Exercise Coordinated Response (Ex COORES) to build regional capacity and knowledge in MNCC operations and Military-to-Military coordination.

An Infantry Officer by vocation, LTC Ho’s professional military trainings include graduating from Singapore Armed Forces’ Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College as a “Distinguished Graduate”. His academic qualifications include Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Mass Communication from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. LTC Ho’s command tours include Commanding Officer of a Division ISTAR Battalion, Officer Commanding of a Brigade Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Company, as well as a Battalion Scout Platoon Commander.

Mr Deculan Goh

Mr Deculan Goh is the Singapore Police Force’s (SPF) Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Commander. As the DVI Commander, he oversees the various workstations that are working in tandem to positively and expeditiously identify deceased victims of a mass fatality incident. He is also a key driver in developing and enhancing the capability and competencies of DVI officers so that they are kept abreast of the developments and attuned to an activation.

Dr Hassan Ahmad

Hassan Ahmad is a veteran humanitarian, who has held numerous senior and top management positions across private and people sectors over the last two decades.

Today, he is the Chief Executive of Aquayana, a water solutioning and innovation firm which focuses on the vulnerabilities and requirements of rural, coastal and disaster-prone communities. His immediate past appointment was the Director of Sustainability at HSL Constructor, a Temasek-linked engineering and construction firm.

From 2001 – 2016, Hassan conceptualised, operationalised and spearheaded three Singapore-born and regionally-recognised humanitarian organisations – Mercy Relief (MR), Lien Aid (regional arm of Lien Foundation) and Corporate Citizen Foundation (CCF), as their Chief Executive and Technical Adviser. His extensive field experience includes planning, coordinating and leading Singaporean relief missions, including cross-sector co-operations, maintaining a 72-hour response time throughout, across 25 countries and territories in Asia (including Afghanistan, Palestine, DPR Korea, China, Japan, India, Sri Lanka and SE Asia), extending aid of over S$30 million.

Hassan currently serves as Special Advisor to Humanity Matters, a regional interfaith humanitarian movement conceived recently in Singapore.

Mr Justin Paul
Mental Health Program Manager HealthServe

Justin is currently overseeing the operations of the Mental Health Services in HealthServe.
Having switched careers from corporate, Justin has been serving in the Social Service sector for nearly 11 years. With a background in social work, community leadership and social development, he has worked with foreign spouses for 4 years before coming to HealthServe in 2019. This has sparked a passion for understanding the perspectives of mental wellbeing and social inclusion through the lens of different cultures.

Ms Chan Chiew Yong

Chiew Yong was the typical Singaporean - went to University, worked in an MNC for countless years, raised a family with 2 grown up kids. She discovered her passion in TCM and boldly took up TCM course.
It turned out to be a life changing decision. She is very grateful to leverage her TCM skill, to help the less fortunate and sick people when in need.
In 2012, Chiew Yong started to volunteer in Tzu Chi TCM Free Clinic.
In 2015 she began participating in Tzu Chi's overseas medical missions. Showing dedication and leadership, she was subsequently tasked to help lead and coordinate all the TCM physicians and volunteers to serve the needy community.
Chiew Yong has been instrumental in promoting and driving acceptance of TCM services in overseas missions, leading TCM Physicians, not just from Singapore, but from other countries as well, in offering an alternative to traditional medical services, with care and compassion.

Dr Chiang Li Wei

Dr Chiang Li Wei first joined Tzu Chi when he was a second-year medical student in University of Sydney. Acting as a volunteer in Tzu Chi hospital, he learned the true meaning of compassion and empathy through action. Ever since then, he vowed to become a Tzu Chi volunteer. This has granted him many chances to widen his horizon through participation to various medical missions. Over the rest of his medical school years as well as junior surgical trainee, he took part in medical missions in Philippine, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Cambodia. There were great learning experiences in every mission, with every patient being a great teacher. It was the disaster relief mission for Yogyakarta Earthquake in 2006 that lead him into the life changing decision. Still determined to be a life-time Tzu Chi volunteer, Dr Chiang is currently looking ways to bring surgical science into Tzu Chi medical missions.

Dr Shalini

COL(DR) Shalini has been a Regular Medical Officer with the Singapore Armed Forces since 2004. She has held previous appointments in the Navy Medical Service and was the Commanding Officer of the Medical Classification Centre in CMPB, MINDEF, before being seconded to SCDF in July 2018 as its Chief Medical Officer. She was previously deployed to the Arabian Gulf with the Navy in 2006 as part of the UN-led security forces, has participated in regional socio-civic medical missions in Indonesia and was also involved in the planning and operational support for Operation Flying Eagle for the Asian Tsunami in 2004. She is a Consultant ENT Surgeon at Singapore General Hospital, and has 3 children.

Dr Lo Hong Yee

COL(Dr) Lo Hong Yee joined the Singapore Armed Forces in 1997 and graduated from National University of Singapore in 2002 with a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery. He was awarded the Masters of Medicine in Surgery in 2005, the Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeon (Edinburgh) in 2012 and holds a Master of Public Health (Harvard) in 2013.

After his commissioning in 2002, COL(Dr) Lo joined the Army, where he held key appointments including Division Medical Officer, Head of General Staff in the Headquarters SAF Medical Corps, Deputy Commander and Commander of the SAF Medical Training Institute. COL(Dr) Lo participated in the disaster relief missionin Banda Aceh during the Indian Ocean Tsunami and the peace support mission in Afghanistan as part of the Coalition Medical Facility.

From 2017 to 2019, COL(Dr) Lo held the appointment of Chief Army Medical Officer. He was appointed the Chief of Medical Corps in Oct 2019. COL(Dr) Lo is an Associate Consultant General Surgeon in the Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

Dr Gabriel Chong

MAJ (DR) Gabriel Chong is a Dental Officer serving in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), where he also serves as a Consultant in Dental Public Health and Forensic Dentistry. He is currently the Division Medical Officer of the 2nd People’s Defence Force (2 PDF). His former appointments include Head Dental Officer, and Head Dental Operations/ Doctrine/ Training and Plans.

MAJ (DR) Chong is the key forensic odontologist involved in a multi-ministerial agency effort (involving the Singapore Police Force and Health Sciences Authority) to develop the national Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) response capabilities and plans. As part of the SAF’s overall Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) efforts, he was deployed to assist in the DVI efforts in the aftermath of the AirAsia QZ8501 crash (Feb 2015) and Nepal Earthquake (Apr 2015). He has represented Singapore as a member of the INTERPOL’s DVI Forensic Odontology Sub-Working Group.

MAJ (DR) Chong is a Distinguished Graduate of the SAF’s Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College. He obtained his undergraduate Dental degree at the National University of Singapore, and went on to pursue speciality training in Dental Public Health at the University of Sydney (Australia), and Forensic Dentistry at the University of Dundee (UK).

Dr Law Zhi Wei

SLTC(DR) Law Zhiwei David joined the SAF in 1999. He completed his medical degree in 2004, and commissioned as a Medical Officer prior to completing the U.S Navy Diving Medical Officer course in 2006. He has previously held the appointments of Head Diving Medicine Section, Head Hyperbaric Medicine Section, Head Medical Doctrine and Training Branch, Head Naval Medical Operations Centre and Head Healthcare Cluster East, Military Medicine Institute. SLTC(DR) Law completed his training in Ophthalmology in 2017, sub-specializing in Oculoplastic Surgery. He is an appointed SAF Consultant in Underwater Medicine and Ophthalmology. In July 2019, SLTC(DR) Law assumed command of Navy Medical Service as its Chief Naval Medical Officer (CNMO).

Dr Lee Wei Ting

Dr Lee Wei Ting joined the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) in 1998 where he received the Local Study Award (Medicine). He then went on to pursue Medicine and graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery.

After his graduation from medical school, Dr Lee went on to hold numerous ground and staff appointments in the SAF. These appointments included Battalion Medical Officer in 1ADF Battalion, Division Medical Officer in 6 Div and Head Exercise Planning and Control Branch in SAF Medical Training Institute. In addition, COL(Dr) Lee held two key appointments in HQ Army Medical Service: Head General Staff Branch, and Head Plans Branch. As the Head General Staff Branch, COL(Dr) Lee was responsible for the medical support of numerous local and overseas missions and exercises and the emergency medical care of overseas SAF servicemen. Lee’s last appointment was the Head General Staff, Joint Medical Operations Branch, HQ Medical Corps, where he served as the concurrent national board member to the ASEAN Centre for Military Medicine. COL(Dr) Lee is currently the Chief Army Medical Officer , and Commander of SAF Medical Training Institute.

COL(Dr) Lee completed his training in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2014 and was awarded the College of Surgeon Gold Medal for Orthopedic Surgery. He went on to complete a fellowship in foot and ankle surgery in 2015. COL(Dr) Lee has a keen interest in the reconstruction of foot and ankle deformity and sports injury. He is current a Visiting Consultant with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Ng Teng Feng General Hospital, and the National University Hospital.

Apart from his clinical and military work, COL(Dr) Lee is actively involved in pre-hospital emergency care in Singapore. He is the Director of the SAF Advanced Trauma Life Support(ATLS) Centre and a member of the National ATLS Committee. He is also a member of the National Pre-hospital Emergency Care Training Committee and the Singapore First Aid and Resuscitation Council.

Major General Pramote Imwattana

Major General Pramote Imwattana has been Director General of Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Royal Thai Army Medical Department since October 2018. He earned Doctor of Medicine from Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand and then served Royal Thai Army as a medical doctor at Support Company, 5th Medical Battalion in Nakorn Si Thammarat province for 5 years, from 1985 to 1990.

He performed official duty on mission of communist suppression in 1986. Then he worked as an obstetrician at Phramongkutklao Hospital and got Obstetrics and Gynecology Board Certification of the Medical Council of Thailand in a year later. He was Engineer Battalion Surgeon supporting the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia: UNTAC mission. He also was Chief of Royal Thai Army Medical Team in many memorable missions such as Southern Border Provinces mission, evacuation of Tsunami victims in 2003, Thailand Mega Floods in 2011, ASEAN HADR Table-Top Exercise (AHX) Brunei 2013 as well as Thai cave rescue in 2018.

Major General Pramote completed many courses including Command and General Staff Officer, Class 73, Military Medical Executive Course, Class 3, Training Program for Medical and Public Health Executives Course, Praboromarajchanok Institute, Class 24 and Certificate Course in Good Governance for Medical Executives, King Prajadhipok’s Institute and the Medical Council of Thailand, Class 4.

He became Deputy Commandant of Royal Thai Army Medical Field Service School in 2016. Afterwards, he was promoted to be Chief of Staff, Phramongkutklao Medical Center, Royal Thai Army Medical Department in 2017. He has also been Secretariat of ASEAN Center of Military Medicine: ACMM from 2016 till now. Major General Pramote Imwattana has received numerous decorations including the prestigious Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand.

Dr Eugene Tang

Dr Tang Kok Weng, Eugene, obtained his BDS(S’pore) in 1981 under the Singapore PSC Merit Scholarship. Earlier, he was awarded the ASEAN scholarship during his tenure of study at Hwa Chong Junior College. He obtained the DGDP, RCS (UK) through examination in 1997. In 2005, he completed an advance oral implantology training program at University of Michigan, USA and was awarded Fellowship by the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI) through accreditation. He is a Fellow of the International College of Dentistry(FICD) as well as Fellow of Academy of Dentistry International (FADI). More recently, he was examined and conferred the MSc (Implantology ) with Disctinction, by the University of Warwick, UK (2010).

Kok Weng served 2 terms as President of Singapore Dental Association from 2002-2004. He was also a member of the Ministry of Health Oral Health Task Force from 2003-2005. He was also one of the founding members of the College of General Dental Practitioners (Singapore) and served as its Vice President from 2000-2002. His other voluntary work includes his involvement in dental mission trips to Bintan Island (Indonesia), Rote Islands(Indonesia), Kathmandu (Nepal), Pontianak (Kalimantan), Sri Lanka during and after the Asian Tsunami , Chiang Mai (Thailand), Cambodia, Tacloban ( Philippines) . Laos, as well as Kenya (Africa). He has been actively involved as a volunteer in Tzu Chi International Medical Association ( Singapore Branch) since 2004, and is the Dental Convener for Tzu Chi Singapore Chapter.

He was awarded 1st Prize in Singapore Police Week Essay Competition while studying in Hwa Chong Junior College, and conferred Second Prize in the Young Investigator’s Award in APDSA 4th General Assembly, and has spoken and presented papers at meetings and conventions both local and abroad. He was a part-time teacher at the NUS GPM course from 1999 to 2005. He was awarded the MOH Healthcare Humanity Award in 2019 for his voluntary work both local and overseas. He is now a Precedant Partner in a Group Dental Practice in the Central Business District of Singapore Shenton Way, and is also a Clinical Director at Advanced Dental Implant Research & Education Center (AIC).

Dr Edwin Lim

Dr Edwin chanced upon Tzu Chi in 2003, and thus embarked on the journey of volunteering with them ever since, beginning with their medical missions to neighbouring countries, as well as regularly at their local Free Clinic. In 2011, he was approached to join Tzu Chi full-time, to help lead and develop their local medical outreach.

A Family Physician by training, Dr Edwin now heads the Medical Services of Tzu Chi Singapore. He also continues to lead a gathering of local healthcare volunteers to overseas medical missions, up to 3-4 times a year. This Tzu Chi International Medical Association, or TIMA, champions the Foundation's endeavour of healing sickness, healing persons and healing hearts, through a culture of humanistic healthcare that goes beyond medicine.

Mr Christopher Wilson

Christopher is a Singapore citizen, originally from England. He moved to Singapore in1990. Christopher co-founded Water and Healthcare Foundation, (WAH), a Cambodia NGO, in 2009, to improve the lives and conditions of rural communities in Cambodia, through delivery of clean water and healthcare. The foundation delivers clean water to schools, health centres and hospitals, and runs midwife and paediatric medical training programs in collaboration with KK women’s and children’s hospital, and Mount Alvernia Hospital. WAH has recently started running cataract missions in collaboration with Tilganga hospital in Nepal, and A New Vision in Singapore. The foundation’s priority is the well-being of women and children.

Christopher started his career with ten years in the British Army, serving with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. He studied at Manchester University and The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst through a military scholarship. He served in Germany, UK, Northern Ireland, and the Sultanate of Oman. In 1990 Christopher moved to Singapore with a fund management group. He then moved to Hong Kong in 1993 with a Swiss private bank, and moved back to Singapore in late 1996 with a British private bank. From 2002 Christopher has been an entrepreneur, consulting on banking, fund management, and technology. He now balances his time between running the foundation and his consultancy business.

Dr Koh Tieh Leong

Dr Koh graduated in1992 from The National University of Singapore with a degree in Bachelor Of Dental Surgery and Graduate Diploma from the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners, Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1997.

He received his Fellowship in oral implantology from ICOI in 2006.

He had served in Jurong Health Services as Director of Dental services, Jurong Medical Centre and Clinical Director (Dental) of Healthway Medical Corp. He was the Principal Dental Surgeon at Alexandra Hospital and currently Visiting Clinician for the Ng Teng Fong General hospital. He is also a Singapore Traditional Chinese Medicine Board registered acupuncturist.

Dr Koh has been a volunteer dentist involving in both the planning and execution of Dental section of Tzu Chi overseas medical mission since 2014.

Ms Jianping YOU

Main field of research or working: Nursing management and infection control
Achievement:
Worked in ICU for 9 years and transfored to infectious diseases department for 18years. published 20 papers
participated in editing 19 books
hosted and participated 5 scientific projects
participated in international military exercises twice and as the CHN in two medical rescue team
won the 46th " Florence Nightingale Medal" in 2017

Dr Loon Seng Chee

Dr Loon specialises in performing laser and surgery for glaucoma, as well as complex cataract surgery. He also specialises in the epidemiology of eye diseases, using the research of eye disease in applying the latest technologies whilst ensuring safety and efficacy in treatment.

He received his basic training in Singapore, with specialist degrees conferred from the National University of Singapore and Edinburgh. He underwent further fellowship and training in Sydney University, where he obtained a second Masters of Medicine (Merit) in Clinical Epidemiology.

He is also keen in medical outreach, and has done medical mission work in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia and Nepal with like-minded friends and colleagues. In 2011, he was conferred the Humanity Award by President Nathan for his work in medical mission work.

Assoc Prof Samuel Rajadurai
Senior Consultant and the Head of the Department of Neonatology
KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore

Assoc Prof Samuel Rajadurai is a Senior Consultant and also the Head of the Department of Neonatology at the KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore.

He is a Clinical Associate Professor in Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Adjunct Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and also a visiting Professor of Tianjin Central Hospital, China. He has had extensive experience in Neonatology for more than 25 years and he continues to learn.

Ms Alfrina Hany
Lecturer and Acute Care Nurse

She is an Acute Care Nurse and now works as a lecturer in Nursing School of Universitas Brawijaya in East Java, Indonesia. She hold Master of Nursing (Acute Care) from Flinders University, South Australia. During the past 12 years, She has experiences in humanitarian project on several disasters in Indonesia. She also involve in several projects collaboration with Health Crisis Centre Ministry of Health of Indonesia and World Health Organization Indonesia. The recent National project that she work on are the Post Disaster Need Assessment in Indonesia Setting and National Guidance for Emergency Medical Team of Indonesia. She also participate in the upcoming of the 4th Regional Collaboration Drill (RCD) ASEAN Regional Capacity Development on Disaster Health Management (ARCH) Project in Bali at the end of this year.

Dr Nomal Chandra Borah

Stage I – The arduous journey of a marginal farmer’s son to become a doctor

• Dr. Nomal Chandra Borah was born to a family of a marginal farmer in a small village named Dubia in the Sonitpur district of Assam on August 15, 1950
• Early life spent farming, herding cattle, selling vegetables at the village market. He took private tuitions to earn money to meet his education expenses and passed his Higher Secondary Examination with flying colours
• Admitted to the MBBS course at Guwahati Medical College on merit list. An educational loan from Govt. of Assam and a state merit scholarship assisted him to complete his degree. He scored the highest marks in the University in Medicine, upon passing out in 1975 • He joined the Guwahati Medical College as a demonstrator in Pathology and completed his Diploma in Clinical Pathology in 1979, again securing the 1st position in the University.
• After completing MD in Internal Medicine from Guwahati in 1981, Dr. Borah joined the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi as Senior Resident, where he completed three years’ training in Neurology, leading to DM degree.
• In 1992, he attended the Graduate Summer Course in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Michigan, USA and in 2003, he was awarded the Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN) for his contribution to neurological services.
• Dr. Borah has published 15 papers in national and international journals, has attended 19 international conferences and has supervised DNB training programme in Neurology with close to 100% success rate. He is a member of the Medical Ethics Committee of the Indian Medical Council, Assam State Branch.

Stage II – A gifted doctor becomes a successful healthcare entrepreneur

• In 1980s, moved by the plight of the people in North East India due to lack of access to quality healthcare, Dr. Borah decided set up his own facility to provide the population healthcare and cure. His own capital of Rupees 5,000/-, unsecured loans from his friends and a term loan from the Bank of Baroda was harnessed eventually to bring to fruition the Guwahati Neurological Research Centre (GNRC) Hospital Dispur – which evolved from a clinic to North East India’s premier multi-specialty hospital.
• During this period, Dr Borah’s entrepreneurial spirit and social consciousness was guided by Dr. K V Mathai, the legendary neurosurgeon from Vellore, who came forward to join Dr. Borah in his endeavour. In 1985, GNRC was converted into a Limited Company.
• In 2004, Dr. Borah established Asian Institute of Nursing Education with the vision to provide quality education in nursing. It presently offers courses in BSC Nursing, Post Basic Nursing and MSC Nursing.
• In 2006, Dr. Borah established Medishop Retail Chain to facilitate employment for local youth
• In 2008, Dr. Borah set up another facility of GNRC in Guwahati – GNRC Sixmile. It was inaugurated by a patient in presence of legendary singer Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, Gyanpeeth awardee littérateur Dr. Mamoni Raisom Goswami and eminent journalist Mr. Homen Borgohain on February 3, 2008.

Stage III – A successful healthcare entrepreneur’s attempt to serve the society which nurtured him

• Concerned that most private healthcare facilities, including those set up by him, were unaffordable for the majority of the population, while public healthcare facilities were over-burdened, Dr. Borah initiated determined efforts to formulate a model that enabled access to quality, affordable healthcare for majority of the population. He conducted numerous conversations with members of the local communities, in the attempt to understand the challenges they face in accessing affordable, quality healthcare. These conversations led to the formulation of an operating and service delivery model, which found its expression in GNRC Institute of Medical Sciences, a 1200-bedded facility which commenced operations in early 2014 at North Guwahati.
• GNRC’s new initiative was recently recognized by the World Bank Group (WBG), through its India Development Marketplace (IDM) initiative, to receive a grant of US$150,000 to help scale its operating model. This campus, popularly known as GNRC Medical, provides affordable access to quality healthcare services through an ultra-low-cost model.
• GNRC Medical provides ultra-low-cost services which include doctors’ consultation for free; blood sugar test for Rupees 21, Thyroid Profile for Rupees 181; CT Scan for Rupees 900 and MRI for Rupees 2500. We provide free medical care to all accident and emergency patients for the first 24 hours after an emergency. The free facility covers doctors’ consultation, bed charge, essential medicines and tests, oxygen, CT Scan, ECG and X-Ray. In order to extend these services to the rural poor who cannot afford to come to the hospital, 85% of their health problems are treated free at their doorstep through a hospital-on-wheels – a concept we have named ‘Medireach’. The vehicle is fitted with ECG, X-Ray, Ultrasonography, Lab and Pap Smear test facilities. GNRC Medical has achieved operational break-even, within a very short span of time, thanks to the tremendous response that it has received from the population of this area which is under-served by medical facilities.
• GNRC, on August 17, 2014 signed a MoU with Pawan Hans for air ambulance and medical outreach programme using helicopters to remote areas of North-East India. The service will facilitate treatment at their doorsteps by doctors from GNRC for members of communities populating difficult-to-access locations across the region.

Dr See Hooi Geok
MBBS, FANZCA
Associate Consultant
Specialty: Anaesthesiology
Sub-specialties: Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine

Dr See Hooi Geok is an Associate Consultant with the Department of Anaesthesiology at SGH. Her sub-specialty is in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine.

Dr Desai Suneel Ramesh
MMBChB, MA (medical education), FRCA, EDIC, FFICM, TEE accreditation (EACVI)
Senior Consultant
Department of Surgical Intensive Care
Singapore General Hospital

Dr Desai Suneel Ramesh is a senior consultant in the Division of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, specialising in Intensive Care Medicine and Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia. Academic interests include echocardiography and acute care sonography, as well as medical education, particularly simulation training, global health training, and microlearning-based training.

He was recently a member of a team involved in a capacity enhancement training programme for burns management in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as part of a SingHealth and Temasek Foundation sponsored collaboration with the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery. Specific areas of teaching included perioperative and acute care management of burns patients, including inhalation injury, fluid management, ICU triage and early recognition of shock and respiratory failure, and safe analgesia and sedation for burns dressings changes.

Ms Vijaya Rao

Ms Vijaya Rao is Director of the International Collaboration Office at SingHealth. She has a Masters degree in Social Service and Health Administration with over twenty five years of experience in applied social service, healthcare policy and planning, community healthcare management and strategic service development, with a forte in direct stepdown care and geriatric care.

She piloted case management services from acute hospital settings through community settings and implemented nation-wide case management services. She is also actively involved in regional healthcare strategic development activities, working with various healthcare providers in the region. She has developed strong regional networks working with government ministries and other stakeholders.

Col (Dr) MP Cariappa
MBBS (AFMC), MD

Col Cariappa is an ex- military Public Health Specialist and an alumnus of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India, with a MD degree from the University of Poona, India and has received Fellowship training in infectious diseases in the USA.

His areas of interest and expertise in Public Health are Mass Gathering Medicine, Environmental Medicine, Health and Behaviour Change Communication. Through his military career, he has been an avid proponent of the multi-disciplinary ‘team approach’ in achieving synergy to solving health problems faced by communities and organizations. Over his career, in India and in the Southern Africa Development Community (whilst in Botswana), he has consistently sought to adapt to the local context and adopt ‘best practices’ in public health from across the globe.

While in the Indian military, he has held various Public Health administrative, staff and instructional appointments at different levels in the military hierarchy including the prestigious post of Director Medical Services (Training & Coord) and (Professional Services) for the entire Indian Army Medical Corps. He has also been privileged to be an Associate Professor at the Department of Community Medicine at the AFMC Pune and also at the Army College of Medical Sciences New Delhi, India.

After 26 years of service with the Indian Armed Forces Medical Services, he has now set up Delta Zulu Consultancy, and has positioned himself in an advisory capacity in translating technological advances to Health, Environmental Health, Health Safety, Health Education and Training. He is also working with the Tata Trusts, a leading philanthropic agency in India, as their Technical Advisor for Health Initiatives.

Dr Claudia Tien

Dr Claudia Tien is an anesthesiologist and intensivist working in the Department of Surgical Intensive Care under the Division of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Sciences at Singapore General Hospital. She has an interest in global health and specifically with regards to the development of critical care in lower- and middle-income countries (LMIC) in the region. One of the projects She has been working on for the past 2 years focuses on capacity building and improving maternal and child health in Madhya Pradesh.

Dr Goh Wei Leong

Wei-Leong, a general practitioner, co-founded and chairs HealthServe, an NGO that reaches out to under-served foreign workers in Singapore. HealthServe and Wei-Leong were awarded the ‘Singaporean of the Year 2017’.

Given his personal mission to be a ‘Catalyst Bringing Life!’, Wei-Leong is passionate about social justice and connecting people to one another. He also thoroughly enjoys engaging millennials over a good cappuccino.

Wei-Leong cares deeply about life and keeps a regular rhythm of rest, reflection and work to constantly calibrate true north.

Dr Lim Chin Siah

• MBBS: University of Melbourne, 2004
• DTMH: Gorgas
• MMed (Emergency): Singapore
• MCEM: UK

Dr Lim Chin Siah is a Consultant with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital. He received an award in 2008, Young Investigator Award at 9th SEMS (Society for Emergency Medicine in Singapore), Annual Scientific Meeting 2008.

Ms Junaidah Binte Nawi

Nurse Clinician KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Junaidah sees nursing as a science and an art. It allows her to put into practice her professional knowledge to provide quality nursing care to her patients. As a lactation consultant, she once travelled to the home of a patient almost every day for two weeks because the patient was having difficulty breastfeeding her baby and was depressed. To her greatest satisfaction, the patient went on to breastfeed her baby for three years and later, her two other babies too.

“Sees nursing as a science and an art.”

Ms Goh Hui Jin

Senior Staff Nurse Goh Hui Jin has been on several mission trips around the region as part of a team of eye care professionals to bring the gift of sight in rural areas.

Her first overseas volunteering assignment was at Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2016. Since then, she has been on six mission trips to places such as Okpho, Myanmar and several regions in Cambodia.

She learned that cataracts are easily treatable with surgery in Singapore, but in those rural areas, she saw patients who have completely lost their vision. As most of them are low-income farmers, the loss of vision affects their livelihoods.

During each trip, they have 60 to 70 operations scheduled each day. Her role was to screen patients for pre-op preparations, assist during surgery and care for them post-op. The days were long and hectic during the volunteer assignments, but she has played a part to make lives better, which motivates her to go on more trips.

Dr Ali Haedar

Following graduation from medical school, Dr. Ali Haedar was successful in becoming a lecturer in Faculty of Medicine, and then he decided to pursue post-graduate training in Emergency Medicine in Universitas Brawijaya commenced in 2005. His admirable willingness to learn in the particular interest of Emergency Medicine has made him granted by the Singapore Medical Council to attend Postgraduate Clinical Fellowship in Emergency Medicine in Singapore General Hospital. Graduated as Emergency Medicine Specialist in 2010, he joined the Department of Emergency Medicine as Clinical Lecturer and Emergency Medicine Physician. Only 1 year later, he has been awarded as Outstanding Lecturer of the Year 2011. Until current time, Dr. Haedar has received 8 international awards. And he is most honored that he has become the South-East Asia Vice-Chair of the Asian Association for Emergency Medical Services (AAEMS).

Dr. Haedar holds some licenses as international instructors. Two of them are as an instructor of American Heart Association (AHA) for Basic Life Support & Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Course and Advanced Hazmat Life Support. And in April 2018, he has been entitled as Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA). To focus with his interest in the field of prehospital emergency care and disaster medicine, in 2017 he continued his study by taking fellowship in Prehospital Emergency Care in Singapore General Hospital and in 2018 he took fellowship in Emergency Medical Service & Prehospital Emergency Care at National Taiwan University Hospital.

He has many experiences working as emergency medical team for disaster reliefs in some natural disaster in Indonesia. His success stories from his experience have led him to be the disaster medicine expert for the Health Crisis Center – Ministry of Health Republic Indonesia and WHO Indonesia.

Dr Tan Lai Yong
Director for Outreach & Community Engagement / Resident Fellow
Senior Lecturer
College of Alice & Peter Tan
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

Upon graduation from NUS in 1985, Dr TanLai Yong worked as a doctor in Singapore. In 1996, he and his wife, and one year old daughter moved to Yunnan, China, and joined a community development team, working with the poverty affected in remote villages, caring for orphans, disabled children and leprosy affected.In his 15 years on Yunnan, he had to cycle about 30 km daily, create innovative ways to teach health and hygiene to the different Minority Ethnic groups and villages, plan for “surgery camps” for cleft palate babies and other disabled people, and also initiated tree planting (eg walnut) efforts that led to thousands of trees being planted to help raise farm income and also reduce soil erosion.As part of the China National Day celebrations in 2004, Lai Yong was given the Friendship Award for Foreign Experts at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, an event that was graced by Premier Wen Jia Bao. Lai Yong was also given the Singapore International Foundation (SIF Award) presented by Mr. Lee Hsien Loong and the 2005 Singapore MILK Fund (Mainly I Love Kids) Award for Outstanding Youth and Children’s Worker by President Nathan. In 2007, the Yunnan Provincial TV Station ran a series on people in Yunnan and the viewers voted Dr Tan Lai Yong as one of the “Good Citizens of Kunming”（昆明好人）Lai Yong has written several books and his first book, “Biting the Bamboo” – Experiences of Work and Life in Yunnan, is in its 5th printing. He also wrote the book , “Two Ears But Only One Mouth – Reflections on Wisdom in Rural Yunnan” and “Pilgrims” – A Photo journal of life in a Dai Village in Xishuangbanna ( a joint publication with photographer Andrew Chew). He is married to Lay Chin and has 2 teenage children.

Ms Chua Wee Lian
Nurse Clinician
Singapore General Hospital, Singapore

Ms Chua Wee Lian is a Nurse Clinician in Singapore General Hospital. She has been in nursing for 43 years. She was awarded for INFJ scholarship to pursue Advance Plastic Nursing course in Japan and also awarded to Royal Perth, Australia for 6 weeks Burn Nursing clinical attachment. Wee Lian has great interest in Burns and Plastic Surgery nursing. She plan, coordinates patient care and provides quality nursing care to all patients. She is actively involved in Hainan Smile Medical Mission trip since 2015. She enjoyed volunteering work and looking forward to the medical mission trip yearly as it gives her a great sense of satisfaction and fulfilment whenever she see comfort and a smiles on the faces of her patients and their parent/relatives.

Adjunct Associate Professor Rupesh Agrawal
MD (Research, UCL, UK),
MMed (NUS, Singapore),
FRCS(Glasgow, UK),
FAMS (Singapore),
Diplomate National Board (New Delhi, India),
Diploma in Ophthalmology (Sankara Netralaya, Chennai, India)
MBBS (Nagpur University, India)

• Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist (Uveitis, Ocular Trauma and General Ophthalmology), National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
• Assistant Professor, Duke NUS Medical School, Singapore
• Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Material Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Adjunct Research Faculty, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore
• Honorary Consultant, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom
• Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Ophthalmology and Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom
• Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Clinical Tutor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dr Rupesh Agrawal, is practising as Consultant Ophthalmologist at National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. After completing his medical studies from Nagpur, he did his post-graduation and fellowship in Uveitis and Ocular trauma from Sankara Netralaya, Chennai. He was subsequently working as Consultant Ophthalmologist (Uveitis, Ocular Trauma and Cataract) at Shri Ganapati Netralaya, Jalna. He also worked briefly at L V Prasad Eye Institute before migrating to Singapore in 2009. Subsequently he is working in Singapore and has been involved in significant translational and basic science research projects. He completed his overseas research training fellowship – awarded by National Medical Research Council Scholarship, Ministry of Health, Singapore at University College London on retinal imaging using retinal leukogram and erythrogram projects. He is also working on mechanical properties of the red blood cell and its implications in microvascular disorders. As a visiting Professor, he also had an opportunity to work with Prof Carlos Pavesio and accomplished numerous research projects at prestigious Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK. He has done Global Scholars Research Training from prestigious Harvard Medical School. His areas of interest are Ocular inflammatory disorders including cytokines, ocular tuberculosis and HIV, complex cataract, ocular trauma, ocular nanotechnology, blood corpuscular abnormalities in context of microvascular disorders and retinal imaging. He is also trying to look at ‘Choroidal Vascularity Index’ based on choroidal imaging using optical coherence tomography. He has published extensively on ocular inflammation and ocular trauma in peer reviewed journals and has presented numerous free papers and delivered lectures on Ocular trauma and Uveitis both nationally and internationally. He has to his credit 170+ peer reviewed publications and 50+ book chapters. He is actively involved in numerous collaborative projects on uveitis. He is recipient of many grants for numerous basic science projects pertinent to ocular inflammation. He is currently secretary of International Society of Ocular trauma. He has been recipient of many awards and research grants. He was also conferred with Healthcare Humanity Award by President of Singapore in 2011 and President Volunteerism Philanthropy Award (PVPA) award in 2018 for his humanitarian and probono projects in remote areas of the world. He is also involved heavily in charity projects across Asia.

Ms Il Fan
Advanced Practice Nurse
NNI, Neurology Department, SIngapore

Il Fan is an Advanced Practice Nurse from NNI, Neurology Department, SIngapore. She has been nursing neuroscience patients for past 16 years. She joined NNI in 2010 and has special interest in caring for stroke patients. She completed her Master of Nursing in 2015 and became an APN in 2016. She continue working closely with the clinicians in NNI@SGH Campus and NNI@TTSH Campus to harmonise and improve stroke care across campuses.
Through her clinical practice, Il Fan identify gaps and carry out quality projects and audits. She is leading a project to improve ASU utilization rate in TTSH, and had submitted a few poster to various local and oversea conferences too.
Through her clinical practice, she highlighted one of the gap was the lack of standardised training for nurses working in the ASU. To address this the gap, she has been awarded Team Human Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) in 2016, for her to focus on stroke nursing training. Besides, she also strongly believes in inter-professional learning. She is the co-lead for (STRoke InterProfessional Education) programme.The programme has organised multiple inter-professional education activities and has developed stroke e-learning platform and curriculum for stroke core skills over past one and half year.

Ms Fu Li Qing
Nurse Clinician
National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore

LiQing is a Nurse Clinician at the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore. She has over 10 years’ experience of nursing patients with neurological conditions. She joined NNI as a stroke nurse clinician in 2017. Her role include managing of stroke patients across the continuum. She is part of the acute stroke activation team and attends to acute stroke activation. She ensures that the patients in acute stroke unit receive quality care and ensures that care is evidence-based. She is the one of the lead trainers for NIHSS and hyperacute stroke simulation workshop. Ms Fu also assesses patients in the outpatient to monitor for stroke complications and risk factor management.
LiQing has a Degree in Nursing from Curtin University and completed her Advanced Diploma in Neuroscience from Nanyang Polytechnic.

Ms Rajammal P Kaliappan
Nurse Clinician
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

As a neonatal nurse, empathy and compassion are two paramount qualities that helps Rajammal provide quality care on a daily basis. She has strong commitment to provide holistic care to premature and full term neonates. She is compassionate to parents and patients, helping them feel at home during their stay in NICU. She embraces the need for continuous self-improvement, always keeping herself updated and well-informed on the evolving nursing trends. She volunteers in community to make a difference to the lives of others.

Ms Lim Lee Ngoh
Nurse Manager
Ward 65 High Dependency Unit
KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital

Ms Lim Lee Ngoh is the committe member of Nursing Quality Improvement, KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital, Chairperson of Community Outreach Council, MAGNET and Member of Community Outreach Council, MAGNE.

She has memberships on the basic Cardiac Life Support Chief Instructor, basic Resuscitation in Children Instructor, Advanced Resuscitation in Children Instructor, Instructor in Paediatric Simulation Training Centre and CPR + AED Instructor.

Ms Kuah Poh Kah
Medical Student
NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Ms Kuah Poh Kah together with her co-speaker Ms Ong Yan Ling are the project directors of TriGenerational Homecare and were previously volunteers of the project. They have served the project for over 3 years and are currently final year medical students from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Ms Ong Yan Ling
Medical Student
NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Ms Ong Yan Ling together with her co-speaker Ms Kuah Poh Kah are the project directors of TriGenerational Homecare and were previously volunteers of the project. They have served the project for over 3 years and are currently final year medical students from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Datuk Dr Mohamed Alwi bin Abd Rahman

The Key Programme Director for Topcom, Datuk Dr Mohamed Alwi bin Abd Rahman, is the first Malaysian emergency consultant to have a sub specialised training in disaster management. He has been involved nationally and internationally within this field of medical relief and response for many years. Among his notable relief efforts include Aceh, Indonesia; Tacloban, Philippines; Japan,New Zealand,India,Myanmar, Nepal,,Africa, and the recent Bangladesh crisis.

Currently He is the Consultant Trainer for Disaster Medicine and CBRNE, Ministry Of Health ,Malaysia.He has been trained in CBRNE by Canadian team since a decade ago.He is the Adjunct Professor at KLE-USM University in India.He is also a CO founder for World Conference in Emergency Medicine,representing Malaysia and Chairman for Malaysian Red Crescent incharge of Disaster Management and Ambulance service

In 2013 with support from Ministry of Health, Malaysia ,he founded the TOPCOM Table Top Exercise and Communications.Today Topcom is a favourite Disaster conference event in Asia, which has good collaboration with Malaysian agencies like fire and hazmat, national disaster management agency ,police and APMM.

Ms Fiona Chuah
Medical Research and Analysis Officer
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Fiona holds a Masters of Public Health (MPH) from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore. She has worked in health programming for refugees and in public health research on areas of forced migration and refugee health, health systems, global health architecture, and community participation in health initiatives. In her current role, Fiona supports MSF operations by carrying out research, trend monitoring and analysis on medical dossiers relevant to MSF in the Asia-Pacific region.

Dr Natarajan Rajaraman
Head of Medical Services
Healthserve

Dr Natarajan Rajaraman (Raj) will be overseeing the operations of the medical and dental clinics, as well as the development of community-based health programmes, research, education, and health-related external collaborations.

Raj has a background in medicine, global public health, and education. His specific interests are in the health of vulnerable populations and post-conflict health systems strengthening. Since joining the team at HealthServe, Raj has been inspired by the resilience of our migrant brothers and the generosity of our volunteers and partners.

Dr Dennis Chia
MBBS (Singapore), MRCEM
Associate Consultant
Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Dr Dennis Chia completed his medical undergraduate studies at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2010. He subsequently completed his training with the NUHS Emergency Medicine Residency Programme in 2017.

Dr Chia joined the Department of Emergency Medicine, Sengkang General Hospital as an Associate Consultant in 2017.

Dr Chia is currently serving as a clinical faculty for the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and is an instructor for the HAZMAT Medical Life Support Course and the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course.

Mr James Quek
MyHelper maid agency
Social enterprise / Founder

James Quek was previously the Executive Director of World Vision Singapore, an international Christian humanitarian organisation. World Vision Singapore has long-term poverty alleviation projects in 16 countries.In his travels to the projects, he saw that women were the standard bearers in taking care of the family. When things became untenable, many had to make sacrifices by becoming maids overseas or by sending their daughters to work as maids overseas to support the family. In many instances they risk being the victims of exploitation and human trafficking rings. James Quek hopes to make life a little easier for these hardy women who have left the safety and comfort of their homes in search of work opportunities in Singapore.

Asst Voo Teck Chuan
Assistant Professor
BA (hons, First Class) in Philosophy, NUS; MA in Philosophy, NUS;
PhD in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence, University of Manchester

Dr Voo Teck Chuan was appointed Assistant Professor at the NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) in 2015. His academic background is in Philosophy and Medical Jurisprudence.

Teck Chuan is Co-Director of CENTRES (Clinical Ethics Network and Research Ethics Support), a CBmE-led initiative funded by the Ministry of Health to serve as a networking and ethics support resource for ethics committees and institutional review boards in Singapore.

Prof Celia Tan Ia Choo
Group Director, Allied Health,
SingHealth, Singapore

Prof Celia Tan started in healthcare as a physiotherapist but soon developed a passion for capacity-building and service expansion to meet the increasing healthcare needs of her patients and fellow colleagues. With over 30 years in the healthcare sector, she has started many new clinical services, educational institutes and research units in the Singapore General Hospital and in SingHealth. She is currently the Group Director for Allied Health at SingHealth and holds adjunct positions with the University of Melbourne and Curtin University in Australia, as well as the London South Bank University in the United Kingdom. She is also an external examiner for Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman in Malaysia. Her research interests are in biomechanical rehabilitation devices, and her patents and publications are focused on rehabilitation and spine care.

Prof Celia Tan’s passion is to enable healthcare professionals to rise to their highest potential as clinicians, educators and researchers, so that patients are well cared for with the highest quality and state-of-the-art treatments.

Dr Iyer Jayant Venkatramani
MBBS, M Med(Ophth), FRCOphth, FAMS
SNEC Consultant
Specialty: Glaucoma, General Cataract ＆ Comprehensive Ophthalmology
Sub-specialties: Glaucoma, General Cataract ＆ Comprehensive Ophthalmology

Dr Jayant V Iyer is a Consultant with the Glaucoma department in the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor with Johns Hopkins USA and Duke-NUS School of Medicine. He completed his Fellowship examinations at the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (FAMS), with a Gold Medal in 2014. He was subsequently awarded the MOH HMDP award in 2016 to pursue a post-doctoral matched clinical Glaucoma Fellowship at the Wilmer Eye Institute in Johns Hopkins.

He has been regularly involved in the training and education of residents, nurses and ophthalmic technicians at SNEC since 2011 and was SNEC's nomination for the Singhealth Golden Apple Young Educator Award in 2019. He co-authored a textbook for general practitioners across Singapore titled Essential Ophthalmology in 2012 and has won awards for research including the ARVO International Travel Grant and the Merit Award at the International Ophthalmology Congress.

He is passionate about Global Ophthalmology and runs his own non-profit organization – The Vision Mission – that is involved in setting up sustainable eye care programs in various developing countries. For many of his local and international eye care initiatives, he was awarded the international eXcellence in Ophthalmology and Vision Award - XOVA 2019 - and the Distinguished Service Award 2019 from the local fraternity.

In addition to his clinical and research work in SNEC and CGH, Dr Jayant is actively involved in establishing a new Global Ophthalmology office for SNEC.

Dr Sudha Sharma
MBBS, DGO, FRCOG, MPH

Dr Sudha Sharma is an obstetrician gynecologist and a public health expert with major experiences in clinical care, health systems and quality of care. She is former Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Population. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, UK and holds a master’s degree in Public Health. She has served as President of the Nepal Medical Association, President of Nepal Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, President the South Asian Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chair of Education Committee of the Asia Oceana Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has received many national and international awards including woman of the year award from FIGO for her contributions to women’s health.

She has served as advisor to various UN agencies, WHO and international NGOs. and also held important positions including Professor and Director of Propakar Maternity and Women's Hospital. More recently she served as Chief of Health and Nutrition in UNICEF Tanzania during which she also served as the Chair of the Development Partners Group and contributed to develop Health Sector Strategic Plan, National Nutrition Strategy, Big Results Now initiative and Investment case for GFF, among many others. Currently she is working as Co-Director in CIWEC Hospital and Travel Medicine Centre , and as a consultant supporting MOHP to develop Maternal and Newborn Health Roadmap to 2030.

Dr Sudha Sharma is an obstetrician gynecologist and a public health expert with major experiences in clinical care, health systems and quality of care. She is former Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Population.

She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, UK and holds a master’s degree in Public Health. She has served as President of the Nepal Medical Association, President of Nepal Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, President the South Asian Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chair of Education Committee of the Asia Oceana Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has received many national and international awards including woman of the year award from FIGO for her contributions to women’s health.

She has served as advisor to various UN agencies, WHO and international NGOs. and also held important positions including Professor and Director of Propakar Maternity and Women's Hospital. More recently she served as Chief of Health and Nutrition in UNICEF Tanzania during which she also served as the Chair of the Development Partners Group and contributed to develop Health Sector Strategic Plan, National Nutrition Strategy, Big Results Now initiative and Investment case for GFF, among many others. Currently she is working as Co-Director in CIWEC Hospital and Travel Medicine Centre , and as a consultant supporting MOHP to develop Maternal and Newborn Health Roadmap to 2030.