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About the Speaker
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Dr Rena DHARMAWAN
Senior Resident, General Surgery, SingHealth
• Speaker, Residency Symposium |
Rena strongly believes that with the right innovation, one can improve the lives of millions. She is currently a General Surgery Senior Resident at SingHealth. She participated in a medical device innovation fellowship in 2014 with Singapore-Stanford Biodesign. A one-year medtech innovation fellowship that aims to develop medical devices and technology for unmet clinical needs.
She is also the co-founder of Singapore-based start-ups, Privi Medical and JagaMe. Privi Medical is developing a simple home-based solution for millions of haemorrhoid sufferers world-wide. JagaMe is an app and online platform that hopes to be the “Uber of HomeCare” by providing on-demand quality nursing services and care coordination to patients in the comfort of their homes. Prior to medicine, Rena graduated summa cum laude with a BSE in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She then joined the inaugural batch and completed her medical degree at Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore) in 2011.
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