Learning Fiesta Speakers 2023

	Organising Chairman Prof Tan Hak Koon Opening Address Prof Tan Hak Koon is the Designated Institutional Official, SingHealth Residency and the Academic Chairman of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Academic Clinical Programme, SingHealth Duke-NUS. Prof Tan is also the Chairman and Chief of Obstetrics, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, KKH. He was the President of the College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists Singapore (COGS) from 2013 to 2015.
1 November 2023, Wednesday (Patients. At the Heart of All We Do.)
	Assoc Prof Anantham Devanand The Role of Humanities in Medical Education Assoc Prof Anantham Devanand was trained in interventional bronchoscopy and clinical ethics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School and Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg. He has clinical interests in rigid bronchoscopy, advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy, sarcoidosis and medical thoracoscopy. His research interests include lung nodule evaluation and navigational bronchoscopy.

	Ms Josie Liow Looking through the (Patient) Glass: Finding Light at the End of the Rabbit Hole Ms Josie Liow is a dedicated caregiver to her daughter, who was on the Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD mechanical heart pump) for more than eight years before her heart transplant in 2021. To care for her daughter, Josie quit her job as a regional director and worked closely with the healthcare team to achieve the best outcome. She received the Singapore Health Inspirational Caregiver Award in 2014. As Co-Chair of the SingHealth Patient Advocacy Network (SPAN), Josie actively represents the voice of patients and caregivers through initiatives aimed at improving care quality. Some of the key projects she has been involved in include being part of the Singapore General Hospital’s biennial management retreat – SGH Advance 2020 – where she shared perspectives and insights to help shape the envisioned concepts of tomorrow’s hospital. She also co-led and presented the survey on the “Concerns of Patients and Caregivers through COVID-19” to SingHealth senior management together with Kim Soon and has shared her caregiving story with healthcare professionals at various platforms as part of staff education, amongst many others.

	Mr Chew Kim Soon Looking through the (Patient) Glass: Finding Light at the End of the Rabbit Hole As a dedicated caregiver to his late mother who suffered from multiple conditions including Parkinson Disease, Mr Chew Kim Soon actively shares his experience and knowledge with the healthcare team and fellow caregivers with a keen interest in the improvement of patient safety and care quality. Currently retired, he has over 32 years of experience in marketing communications, relationship management and analytics within the corporate banking sector. As Co-Chair of the SingHealth Patient Advocacy Network (SPAN), Kim Soon taps on his skills and expertise to bring forth the patient’s voice in initiatives aimed at improving healthcare. His key contributions include the Plain English Glossary which helps healthcare workers "speak the patient's language" amidst the prevalent use of jargons, co-leading a survey on the “Concerns of Patients and Caregivers through COVID-19” to evaluate how the experience of patients and/or caregivers may have changed through the pandemic, concerns, and how options such as medication delivery and telehealth may impact the experience. Results of the survey were presented to SingHealth senior management. His passion to amplify the patient’s voice is also evident in his commitment to share his perspectives with new nurses at onboarding sessions.

	Ms Wan Ching Ming Back to the Accreditation 3.01 Ms Wan Ching Ming joined SingHealth Graduate Medical Education (GME) office as a Programme Executive for SingHealth Diagnostic Radiology Residency Programme and is currently the Institutional Coordinator for SingHealth Residency. She hopes that her personal experience as a residency administrator who went through initial and continued accreditations under ACGME-I framework will guide fellow administrators to a successful continued accreditation under APMES framework.

	Ms Tan Jia Qing Back to the Accreditation 3.01 Ms Tan Jia Qing is currently the Assistant Institutional Coordinator overseeing Programme Accreditation and Oversight. Her work in graduate medical education began when she joined SingHealth as a Programme Executive for Emergency Medicine Residency Programme. With first-hand experience of programme and institutional accreditations, these would come in handy as Residency programmes seek continued accreditation under APMES framework.


2 November 2023, Thursday (Innovation)
	Assoc Prof Lim Si Ching Managing the Elderly Patients with Behavioural Symptoms of Dementia without Restraints Assoc Prof Lim Si Ching graduated from University of Bristol in 1992. After her membership from the Royal College of Physician in 1996, she worked as a renal physician in Brunei until 2003 when she and her young family moved to Singapore to start a new career in Geriatric Medicine. A/Prof Lim joined Singapore General Hospital in 2006 to set up a new Department of Geriatric Medicine and worked with the orthopaedic surgeons for the Orthopaedic Geriatric service. She returned to Changi General Hospital (CGH) in 2013, where she is one of the leads for the dementia taskforce and heads the dementia ward. She also worked with the Department of General Surgery to take care of the older peri-operative surgical patients. A keen teacher, A/Prof Lim is the Director of Education at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Disease Centre (SDDC), and a faculty at Duke-NUS Medical School, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Lee Kong Chian Medical School, Singapore University of Social Sciences and Nanyang Polytechnic.

	Prof Alexander Chung Yaw Fui Navigating SG IPs without being SG IPs: SIG Residency Perspective Prof Alexander Chung Yaw Fui is a Senior Consultant at the Department of Hepato-pancreato-biliary and Transplant Surgery at the Singapore General Hospital. Prof Chung has a Specialist Accreditation in General Surgery and is a Senior Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

	Dr Benjamin Chung Zhi Wei Navigating SG IPs without being SG IPs: SIG Residency Perspective Dr Benjamin Chung was a SIG resident (AY21 cohort) and has recently graduated from SIG Residency.

	Ms Alicia Goh Hui Peng Navigating SG IPs without being SG IPs: SIG Residency Perspective Ms Alicia Goh started her graduate medical education journey in 2011 as an executive in the Office of Faculty Affairs. In 2013, she joined the programme office and was in charge of the Surgery-in-General (SIG) and Urology Residency Programmes. Subsequently she relinquished her role in the latter in 2021, to focus on the SIG Residency Programme which was undergoing exponential growth. Throughout her years with Residency, Alicia submitted 4 abstracts and was accepted on various platforms, including AMEE, APMEC, Urological Association of Asia (UAA), Singapore Healthcare Management Congress (SHMC), as the first author for these abstracts: (a) Building Confidence and Competency in Surgical Residents Taking the Membership of Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) Exam Through an In-House Preparatory Course; (b) Enhancing Singapore Urology Residents’ Training with Cross-cluster Videoconferencing: A Pilot Study ( c ) SingHealth Urology Residents Bootcamp (SURB), Transitioning Junior Residents (JR) Confidently into their Senior Residency (SR); (d) SingHealth Surgery-in-General (SIG) on Residents’ Perceived Value on Cross-cluster Rotations and Satisfaction of Programme Support. Alicia hopes to continue playing an essential role as an administrator in Medical Education.

	Assoc Prof Sashikumar Ganapathy Tips in Creating a Medical VR Game - Sharing of Experience Assoc Prof Sashikumar Ganapathy is a Senior Consultant and Head of Department at the Children’s Emergency, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. His areas of interest are in Medical Education and innovation, primarily in the field of designing and planning learning, teaching and facilitating learning, educational research and scholarship. Recently, he has been involved in enhancing education using technology and optimising educational and work output using technologically enhanced programmes and human factors analysis. He is involved in building education programmes using Virtual Reality games as a teaching platform.


3 November 2023, Friday (Education Excellence)
	Assoc Prof Melvin Chua Peng Wei Our Residents: Are They Future-Ready? Assoc Prof Melvin Chua Peng Wei, accredited in both Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine, is a Clinician Educator leader who believes strongly in the nurturing and building the capabilities of younger colleagues. A strong education advocate, A/Prof Melvin Chua has contributed significantly to medical education through his active involvement in undergraduate and postgraduate education. He is currently serving as the SKH Associate Designated Institutional Official, SingHealth Residency. He has instituted many education initiatives including the setting up of the SKH Education Office, accreditation of the Postgraduate Year 1 Programme in SKH and helming the SingHealth Residency Programme in SKH.

	Assoc Prof Low Lian Leng Growing Up Quickly from a Chief Resident to a Cluster Clinician Leader Assoc Prof Low Lian Leng currently leads the population health efforts in SGH, Outram Community Hospital and population health research for SingHealth. He completed his Master of Clinical Investigation at the National University of Singapore and has a deep interest in health services research, especially in the areas of population health, innovative integrated care delivery models, value-based care and data analytics. He has been the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator of close to 12 million in competitive research funding, with recent successful grants in the Ministry of Health Innovation Challenge for Chronic Diseases, and AI Singapore Grand Challenge. Assoc Prof Low received the SHEA Distinguished Young Researcher Award at the SingHealth Excellence Awards 2023.

	Prof Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna Mentoring and You Prof Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna is a Senior Consultant at the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care at the National Cancer Centre Singapore. Prof Krishna holds faculty appointments with the Centre for BioMedical Ethics, Duke-NUS Medical School and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

	Dr Huang Xiaoting Resident Plus - My Journey in Education Dr Huang Xiaoting is currently a final year Senior Resident and Chief Resident of the SingHealth Geriatric Medicine Programme. She has a keen interest in medical education and in furthering research in the medical education field. She has received several teaching awards for her work in medical education thus far. In her free time, she enjoys chatting with like-minded individuals and a good cup of coffee.

	Dr Mervyn Lim Jun Rui Resident Plus - Charting the Course: Navigating Scientific Training as a Resident Dr Mervyn Lim Jun Rui received his MBBS and MPH (Valedictorian) from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is currently a Neurosurgery Senior Resident and Clinician-Scientist Resident under the Singapore Integrated Programme for Neurosurgery, as well as an adjunct research fellow at the Memory, Ageing, and Cognition Centre (MACC) in the Department of Pharmacology, NUS. He is also reading his PhD at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine investigating the role of the default mode network in human episodic memory. Mervyn's long-term career goal is to become a functional neurosurgeon that (1) utilises connectomics and intracranial electrophysiology to map human cognition; and (2) apply medical devices for neuromodulation to prevent decline, improve recovery, and restore cognition in humans. Mervyn is the Principal Investigator of the FUNC-SICH Cohort Study, a prospective cohort of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (SICH) aimed at investigating the pathophysiological mechanisms of post-stroke cognitive impairment and dementia after incident SICH. He won the National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Resident Award by the Ministry of Health, Singapore in 2022 for his outstanding achievements in scientific research. In his free time, Mervyn plays board games, watches anime, and enjoys recreational underwater scuba diving.

Learning Fiesta 2023 - Speakers