Professor James Colquhoun Petrie died from a brain tumour in Scotland on 31 August 2001. With the passing of Jim Petrie, the Academy of Medicine, Singapore has lost a great friend, counsellor, supporter and an eminent fellow academician. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download...

Professor Heng-Leong Chan, Professor of Medicine in the National University of Singapore and Emeritus Consultant at the National Skin Centre, died on 26 May 2003 at the age of sixty-two. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF” on top to view the full article.

On 22 April 2003, a brilliant star was eclipsed on earth. But somewhere in Heaven, a new beacon of light begun to shine forth for all eternity. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF” on top to view the full article.

Mr Choo Jim Eng, or Jimmy as he was fondly known by his friends, colleagues and students, had a very illustrious career. He dedicated his whole life to the service of medicine in general and surgery in particular. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download...

Much can be written of a great and noble surgeon, and to try to summarise the lifetime achievements of a dear friend, mentor, guide and humanist into a few paragraphs leaves one anguished for the incompleteness of the tributes due to one who sacrificed much in the pursuit of...

Dr S Doraisingham (friends knew her as Mathy) graduated from the University of Malaya with MBBS in 1961. I came to know her well after she was transferred from Tan Tock Seng Hospital to the Department of Pathology, Singapore General Hospital (SGH) in the late sixties. This article is available...

Professor Guan Bee Ong, who passed away on 10th January 2004 at the age of 82 years old, was a doyen of surgeons in Hong Kong and a world-class surgeon extraordinaire. He was the first ethnic Chinese to hold the position of Professor and Head of Department of Surgery...

I have known Dr Gwee Ah Leng since 1949. We did our housemanship together but he was a few months senior to me. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF” on top to view the full article.

Dr William Chan, formerly Senior Physician and Head, Department of Medicine I, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, died on 26 October 2005. He was born on 16 July 1920, in Labuan, now East Malaysia. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF” on top to...

Dr Wong Heck Sing will be remembered by many for his services to the Public Service Commission; by the family physicians in Singapore for his contribution in setting up the College of General Practitioners, Singapore (now known as the College of Family Physicians, Singapore); and by his patients for...

Dr James MJ Supramaniam passed away on 11 December 2008, aged 87. Dr Supramaniam studied at Anglo-Chinese School. He enrolled in the Singapore Medical College just before the Second World War but his medical education was interrupted for 4 years. In the Japanese shelling of 14 February 1942 which...

On 28 December 2008, the medical profession in Singapore mourned the loss of one of their most prominent paediatricians, Wong Hock Boon, who is also known as the father of paediatrics in Singapore. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on "Download PDF" to view the full...

Sir John Crofton, a world famous expert on the treatment of tuberculosis died in Edinburgh at the age of 97. John Crofton was born in Dublin in 1912, the son of a doctor. His earliest recollection was of hearing the bullets hitting the ceiling of his nursery in the...

Professor Arthur Yau, a fellow of our Academy and College of Surgeons passed away on 13th January 2011 at the age of 81. He left behind a legacy of pioneering work in orthopaedics not only in Hong Kong but also in many parts of the world including Singapore and...

Dr Khoo Oon Teik was born on 30 March 1921 in Penang, West Malaysia. He received his early education in Penang at the Anglo Chinese School and subsequently went on to study Medicine at the King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore. His medical career however began early...

Dr Andrew Chew was a Fellow of the Academy of Singapore since 1965. On 19 August 2004 he was conferred Honorary Fellowship at a ceremony during the Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine where President SR Nathan, President of the Republic of Singapore and Patron of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore...

Although not the first neurosurgeon in Singapore, Dr Tham is acknowledged as the “father” of Singapore neurosurgery. Dr Tham was already a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at “C” Orthopaedic Unit, Singapore General Hospital (SGH), with a special interest in spinal surgery when Dr Tseng Yuen Lin, the first fully trained...

Dr Tan Ngoh Chuan (NC Tan) is a pioneer who contributed greatly to the development of cardiothoracic surgery in Singapore. He was born on July 7, 1931 in Penang, Malaysia and obtained his MBB degree from the University of Malaya in Singapore in 1955. He was awarded a Senior...

It was with much sadness that we learnt of the passing of A/Prof Vijayan Appasamy, or “Prof V” as he was fondly known to all, on 20 March 2015. He was in Chicago, USA, representing Singapore at a surgical educators’ meeting, doing what he liked best, when he suffered...