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Editorial Board

EDITOR
Raymond CS Seet

DEPUTY EDITOR AND TREASURER
Deidre Anne De Silva

DEPUTY EDITOR
Beng Yeong Ng

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Brian Goh
Li Yang Hsu

EMERITUS EDITORS
Vernon MS Oh
Eng King Tan

BOARD MEMBERS
Ling Ling Chan | Roger CM Ho | Ravindran Kanesvaran | Felix YJ Keng | Mariko SY Koh | Alfred Kow | Jan Hau Lee | Tchoyoson CC Lim | Anselm Mak | Joseph SY Ng | Dujeepa Samarasekera | Mythily Subramaniam | Clement WT Tan | Tjun Yip Tang

IMMEDIATE PAST EDITOR
Erle CH Lim

Raymond CS Seet
Dr Raymond Seet is a Senior Consultant at the Division of Neurology, National University Hospital, and an Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. With an advanced fellowship in stroke and neurocritical care at the Mayo Clinic, his clinical and research interests focus on acute reperfusion treatment and the neurocritical care of stroke patients; stroke prevention strategies, application of advances in stroke biology and technology; and SARS-CoV-2 biology, diagnosis, thrombosis and interventions. He is actively involved in medical education.
Deidre Anne De Silva
Dr Deidre De Silva is the Head of Neurology at the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore General Hospital campus and an Associate Professor with the Duke-NUS Medical School. She is a board member of the World Stroke Organization and chair of the Ministry of Health’s Stroke Services Improvement team. She is also Programme Director of the Clinician Investigator Development Programme. Her stroke research covers grant-supported studies and industry-backed clinical trials, while her education interests include interprofessional education in stroke and research mentorship.
Beng Yeong Ng
Dr Ng Beng Yeong is a Consultant Psychiatrist in private practice at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Dr Ng’s areas of interest include anxiety, depression, neuropsychiatry, sleep disorders and chronic pain. His recent contribution in co-editing the book Mental Health of a Nation, 19932015 captures the historical developments of mental health services in Singapore.
Brian Goh
Dr Brian Goh is a Clinical Professor and Senior Consultant at the Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, Singapore General Hospital. He is also Clinical Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School and Senior Clinical Lecturer, National University of Singapore. He is accredited by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and Ministry of Health in liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation. He is a thought leader in the field for his clinical and academic work on laparoscopic and robotic surgery, liver cancers and pancreatic cystic neoplasms.
Li Yang Hsu
Dr Hsu Li Yang is an infectious diseases physician who has spent the past decade researching and treating patients with antibiotic-resistant bacterial and invasive fungal infections. He is currently Vice Dean of Global Health and Programme Leader of Infectious Diseases at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore (NUS), Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS and Associate Director, NUS Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering. His research focuses on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and bacterial antibiotic resistance.
Vernon MS Oh
Prof Vernon Oh is a Senior Consultant in the Division of Advanced Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Health System. He teaches internal medicine and clinical pharmacology. An examiner for the MBBS, and MMed (Internal Medicine) degrees of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore; and for the MRCP (UK) diploma of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Prof Oh also chairs the Exit Examination panel for Advanced Internal Medicine, Ministry of Health, Singapore. He is an active reviewer for journals of internal medicine and clinical pharmacology.
Eng King Tan
Prof Tan Eng King is a Senior Consultant Neurologist and Deputy Medical Director at the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore. He is also a Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He has served in various committees in the International Movement Disorders Society and International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, and is heavily involved in education in the Asian Oceanic region. Prof Tan’s primary research interests are in clinical and functional genomics and experimental therapeutics in movement disorders.
Ling Ling Chan
Dr Chan Ling Ling is a Senior Consultant Radiologist, Clinician Scientist and Director of Research at Diagnostic Radiology, Singapore General Hospital. She leads a neuroimaging research lab focusing on chronic neurological diseases. She also serves on the Ministry of Health, Singapore research accreditation panel, Neuroradiology Subsection of the Singapore Radiological Society and Singapore Chapter of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Roger CM Ho
Dr Roger Ho is a Professor and Senior Consultant of the Department of Psychological Medicine and Institute of Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech), National University of Singapore. He is also Research Director at the department. His research interest is in global mental health and functional neuroimaging. Deeply involved in medical education, Dr Ho disseminates psychiatric knowledge through the publication of 6 academic books and as well as more than 500 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Ravindran Kanesvaran
Dr Ravindran Kanesvaran is a Senior Consultant and Deputy Chair of the Division of Medical Oncology at National Cancer Centre Singapore. An Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, he is also Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Dr Ravindran is the President of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology and Vice-chairman of the Singapore Cancer Society.
Felix YJ Keng
Dr Felix Keng is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and Duke-NUS Medical School. He is also a Senior Consultant and Director, Nuclear Cardiology at the National Heart Centre Singapore. As a specialist in non-invasive cardiac imaging and clinical cardiology, Dr Keng’s interests include nuclear cardiology, cardiac computer tomography, clinical teaching and cardiac imaging research.
Mariko SY Koh
Dr Mariko Koh is a Senior Consultant at the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, and the current Director of Clinical Trials and Research Centre at the hospital. She is also Clinical Associate Professor, Office of Clinical & Academic Faculty Affairs, Duke-NUS Medical School. Actively involved in clinical research and clinical trials, Dr Koh’s key clinical and research interests include severe/difficult-to-treat asthma and airway diseases.
Alfred Kow
Dr Alfred Kow Wei Chieh is the Assistant Dean (Education) of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and Undergraduate Medical Education Director at the Department of Surgery, National University of Singapore. A Hepatobiliary Surgeon at the National University Hospital, his research interests include clinical outcomes in liver, gallbladder and pancreas diseases/ malignancies and liver transplantation. He champions minimally invasive surgery in these areas. He is also actively involved in scholarly and academic work involving teaching pedagogy in Medicine and Surgery.
Jan Hau Lee
Dr Lee Jan Hau is a Senior Consultant in the Children’s Intensive Care Unit in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore. He is an Associate Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. His research interests include paediatric critical care epidemiology, paediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome and critical care nutrition. He is the current Chairperson of the Pediatric Acute & Critical Care Medicine Asian Network (PACCMAN).
Tchoyoson CC Lim
Dr Tchoyoson Lim is a Senior Consultant Neuroradiologist at the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore and Adjunct Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. His portfolio includes Academic Vice-Chair Education, Radiology Academic Clinical Program; Chief Examiner, Diagnostic Radiology Exams Singapore Certifying Exam; as well as various external examiner and visiting professor positions. Dr Lim’s research interests are in clinical/translational neuroimaging research using CT and MR imaging techniques. He sits on several journal editorial boards and has co-authored 6 book chapters.
Anselm Mak
Dr Anselm Mak is a Senior Consultant, Division of Rheumatology, National University Hospital and Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore. As a Clinical Rheumatologist and Clinician Scientist, his main research focusses on the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus, particularly in the neuropsychiatric aspect. Dr Mak has been representing Singapore since 2017 as a Full Member of the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC)—an international organisation that formulated the SLE Disease Damage Index and SLE Classification Criteria.
Joseph S Ng
Dr Joseph Ng is a Senior Consultant and Gynaecologic Oncologist with the Division of Gynaecologic Oncology of the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore. He is also an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. With special interest in robotic surgery, he chairs the National University Health System’s Comprehensive Robotic Surgery programme, as well as the Gynaecologic Robot Assisted Cancer & Endoscopic Surgery programme at the National University Hospital.
Dujeepa D Samarasekera
Dr Dujeepa D Samarasekera is the Senior Director of Medical Education, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Senior Consultant, Ministry of Health, Singapore. He is a Visiting Professor in Medical Education at Tzu Chi University, Taiwan and Semey State Medical University, Kazakhstan and external faculty Maastricht University, The Netherlands. The current President of Western Pacific Association for Medical Education and the inaugural President of the College of Clinician Educators Singapore, his main interests are in Quality Assurance and Accreditation of medical education.
Mythily Subramaniam
Dr Mythily Subramaniam is the Research Director at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), as well as the Assistant Chairman, Medical Board Research at IMH and Woodbridge Hospital, Singapore. She concurrently holds teaching positions at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. She also consults with the Ministry of Health Singapore. Dr Mythily’s research focus is on psychiatric epidemiology, psychosis and addiction. She was the Co-Principal Investigator of three nation-wide studies in Singapore involving mental disorders prevalence, well-being of the elderly and dementia.
Clement WT Tan
Dr Clement Tan is an Associate Professor and Consultant Ophthalmologist at the National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore. He is presently Cluster Director for Ophthalmology, National University Health Services and Head, Department of Ophthalmology, National University Hospital and National University of Singapore.Dr Tan’s particular clinical interests are neuro-ophthalmology and cataract surgery. His other abiding interest is in Medical Education, and is Associate Designated Institution Official for NUH. He is currently Chief Examiner for the Masters of Medicine (Ophthalmology).
Tjun Yip Tang
Dr Tang Tjun Yip is a Senior Consultant and Vascular & Endovascular Surgeon at Singapore General Hospital. He has active subspecialty clinical interests in diabetic foot salvage, superficial and deep venous surgery and renal access. His research focuses on endovenous surgery and outcome modelling in vascular surgery. Regionally, he has helped run multiple endovascular lower limb revascularisation workshops, serves as an expert proctor for superficial and deep endovenous surgery devices.
Erle Lim Chuen Hian
Dr Erle Lim is Associate Professor and Vice Provost (Teaching Innovation & Quality) at the National University of Singapore. A Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National University Hospital, he is also Associate Provost (Undergraduate Education). Dr Lim’s interest is in movement disorders. He lectures on Neurology, Movement Disorders and Education, and teaches techniques of botulinum toxin injection using electromyographic guidance to neurologists and physiatrists. He sits on the specialist training committee in Neurology and the Neurology MCQ Committee of the Royal College of Physicians, London.