Dr Tay Khoon Hean is a general surgeon currently practicing at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. He specialises in treating liver, pancreas, gall bladder and bile duct diseases, with a focus on minimally invasive surgery for gall bladder removal.

Dr Tay’s sub-speciality training was done under the tutelage of two world renowned surgeons. He was awarded a Travelling Fellowship Scholarship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow to understudy Prof Alfred Cushieri in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Scotland for advance laparoscopic surgery. Dr Tay also spent a year of his HMDP training with Prof Bernard Launois at the Pontchaillou Hospital, University de Rennes, Brittany, France for hepatobiliary surgery. Dr Tay has also worked on various medical committees both locally and internationally, including the Academy of Tropical Surgery, World Health Organisation.

Dr Tay’s areas of expertise are in advanced laparoscopic (minimally invasive surgery) surgery and surgery of the liver, pancreas, gall bladder and bile duct, with particular emphasis on difficult gallbladder and bile duct operations, laparoscopic Nissen’s fund oplication, lap banding for obesity, and major liver resection utilising the French techniques. He also uses the latest techniques in pancreas resectional operations - the pylorus preserving pancreatoduodenectomy (PPPD) for pancreas cancers. Conditions that Dr Tay treats include gall bladder cancer, liver cancer, and other general hepatobiliary diseases that affect the liver, pancreas, gall bladder and bile duct.

Dr Peter Eng obtained his medical degree from the National University of Singapore in 1988 and his post-graduate medical degree from the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom in 1994. He then trained as a specialist in endocrinology at the Singapore General Hospital from 1994 to 1997 and was subsequently awarded a fellowship to train at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston for 18 months from 1998 to 1999. He received his Specialist Accreditation in Endocrinology in 2000 and was inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. In 2006, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom.

Dr Christopher Lien Tsung Chien is a senior consultant with the department of Geriatric Medicine at Changi General Hospital (CGH). He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1988 and trained across local hospitals in Singapore. In 1995, he continued specialty training in Scotland and worked at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, the Royal Victoria Hospital in Dundee, Ashludie Hospital in Angus and the Perth Royal Infirmary in Perthshire.

He then returned to Singapore in 2001 after obtaining his Certificate of Completion of Speciality Training (CCST) in general internal medicine and geriatric medicine, and has been at CGH ever since. He also has a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University (2012 - 2013).

Dr Lien has been director of Community Geriatrics since 2006 with an interest in the development of transitional, intermediate and long term care services for the elderly, and in Parkinson's Disease in Older People. He is also the current chair of the Chapter of Geriatricians, College of Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore and a governor of the Lien Foundation.

Associate Professor Eric Yap Peng Huat, a medical geneticist and a former Rhodes Scholar, spent his earlier career as a defence scientist. He was one of the pioneers in the Defence Medical & Environmental Research Institute, now part of DSO National Labs. As one of the few local researchers with dual backgrounds in medicine and science, his professional interest is in molecular genetics and genomics and its application to medicine, biotechnology and security.

A/Prof Yap’s laboratory seeks to explore the patterns and effects of variation in human, bacterial and viral genomes, and to exploit these differences for more accurate and rapid disease diagnosis.

Jorming is a Research Assistant Professor with the Healthy Longevity Translational Research Program and the Department of Physiology at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He also holds a joint appointment as Head of Clinical Sciences (Integrative Physiology) with the NUHS Centre for Healthy Longevity, and joint research appointment with the Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS).

Jorming is an exercise physiologist by training and obtained his BS and MS in exercise science from Indiana University Bloomington and Washington State University Spokane respectively. Jorming received his PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, where he focused on the role of exercise on cancer and inflammation in pre-clinical animal models. He spent his post-doctoral training years at the Defense Science Organization (DSO) in Singapore, where he delved into exercise and inflammation. He also spent time at the Lee Kong Chian (LKC) School of Medicine, NTU, where he worked with Prof. Fabian Lim on developing a physiological profiling platform for older adults.

Jorming’s current research emphasis is on understanding how exercise slows biological aging in middle-aged adults, particularly as it pertains to damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) signaling.

Ms Tay Toh-Sin is currently the managing director of Nova Stella Capital Pte. Ltd., a business consulting firm providing the following services to multinational companies:

- Streamlining cross-border group structure and shareholding structure to meet business needs;

- Advising on business strategy and growth solutions, corporate governance matters, etc;

- Streamlining business operations to meet operational and cost efficiency targets;

- Advising on fund raising strategy (covering both equity and debt) to optimize company’s capital structure for business expansion, etc.

Her clientele includes companies headquartered in China, Japan, UK, EU, Australia, etc.

She is concurrently the managing partner of Alva Investment LLP, an investment fund which focuses on investing in technology sector globally, spanning from seed stage to late stage investments.

Toh Sin spent the first 10 years of her career in the areas of audit and business consulting. She joined KPMG at the start of her audit career and subsequently moved to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). She became the manager of the Information System Audit and Consulting Department and later the manager in the business consulting arm at PwC. In 1996, she joined the investment banking industry working in various financial institutions until 2016. During her twenty-year banking career, she advised both government-linked and private corporations in their fund raising and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Her last role was acting as the Head of Corporate Finance (Investment Banking Division) in OCBC. Prior to that, she was the head of corporate finance (South East Asia region) in Cazenove Singapore, a subsidiary of one of the oldest merchant banks founded in UK.

After assuming various leadership roles, Toh Sin became interested in understanding human psychology in the business and work context. This led her to pursue a masters in counselling at Monash University (Australia).

An accountant by training, Toh Sin is a Singapore registered Chartered Accountant under The Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, and a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, London.

Dr Jonathan Pang has been in private general practice and family medicine practice for 22 years. He developed special interest in skin, aesthetics and aging issues in the last 15 years!

He strives to improve and upgrade himself with the latest medical knowledge and advances in technology by regularly attending seminars and conferences locally as well as overseas.

He also continues to use our passions to help share and educate medical students to expand his medical knowledge which he will be able to tap health-services oriented skills in the medical education fields in Singapore & Australia.

Dr. Jeremy Lim is a Partner in the Health & Life Sciences practice of the global consulting firm Oliver Wyman. He also writes regularly for both the scientific and popular media and authored Myth or Magic: The Singapore Healthcare System, a book on the Singapore health system.

Jeremy chairs the steering committee of NIHA (NUS Initiative to Improve Health in Asia), s a Member of the International Advisory Board, Indonesia International Institute for Life Sciences, and sits on the Advisory Council Behavioural Sciences Institute, Singapore Management University. He is the immediate past-President of the Fulbright Association (Singapore) and convener for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Singapore alumni.

Dr Anne Tan Kendrick is currently Consultant Radiologist, Radlink Diagnostic Imaging (S) Pte Ltd., and Visiting Consultant, Raffles Hospital, Singapore. She was Head, Paediatric Radiology & Nuclear Medicine Services KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, from 1999-2004.

She is Principal Member (General Medical Council, UK, Specialist Register), Member (Singapore Medical Council, Specialist Register), Fellow (Academy of Medicine, Singapore), Fellow (Royal College of Radiologists, UK), Member (Singapore Radiology Society), Member (Society for Pediatric Radiology), Member (European Society for Pediatric Radiology),

She was President (Association of Women Doctors, Singapore, 2000-2004), and Executive Committee Member (PAP Women’s Wing, 2005).

She has published extensively in the field of pediatric and general radiology.

She was the recipient of the President's Scholarship (Republic of Singapore, 1982), Queens’ College Foundation Scholar (Cambridge, 1986), Overseas Graduate Scholarship (Oxford University, 1986), Caffey Award (Society for Pediatric Radiology, North America, 1999).

She is an accomplished musician (Licentiate of the Royal School of Music, Pianoforte Performing) and Flamenco Dancer, and has been involved in competitive athletics and swimming since her early school days, at Asean level, and has been a gold and silver medallist recipient for track and field events at the Asian Masters Athletic Championships from 2004 – 2016.

Dr Millicent Chee graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty for Medicine in 1988. In the early years, she worked in the government-run Polyclinic’s Outpatient and Maternal and Child clinics from where she developed a particular interest in women’s health and paediatric healthcare. Since 1997, Dr Chee has been the Medical Director of her own general family practice clinic, Pro-life Medical Associates.

​​Erin Lee is Founder and Mindfulness Coach of Mindful Moments Singapore. She is a mindfulness practitioner and advocate of mindfulness as a way of life. It is her personal vision to help more and more people learn mindfulness skills and incorporate mindfulness practice into their daily lives to improve their well-being.

Erin is a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher as recognized by the Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Center for Mindfulness. Erin has completed the UCSD School of Medicine's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Training Intensive as well as Advanced Teacher Training Intensive for MBSR and MBCT Teachers in California. Erin is trained to teach the .b mindfulness program to teenagers and young adults as recognized by the Mindfulness in Schools Project. Erin holds a Master of Science in Studies in Mindfulness with the University of Aberdeen, UK. She is a Professional Certified Stress Management Consultant as recognized by the Institute of Motivational Living.

​Erin conducts mindfulness training for corporate clients and organizations in both English and Chinese, and is also an experienced polytechnic lecturer.