Main Conference
Keynote addresses, plenary sessions, panel discussions, and parallel tracks held across two full days.
Last updated 21 October 2025
23 Oct 2025 (Thu) - Conference
Day 1 Schedule
23 Oct 2025 - Conference - Day 1 Schedule | ||
Venue: Level 4 Grand Ballroom | ||
Time | Programme | |
0815 - 0900 | Registration | |
Conference Opening | ||
0900 - 0910 | Welcome Address: Mr Gregory Vijayendran SC, Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) Deputy Chair; Senior Counsel and Partner, Rajah and Tann Singapore LLP | |
0910 - 0915 | Welcome Address 2: Dr Sumytra Menon, Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore | |
0915 - 0925 | Opening Address: Prof Kenneth Mak, Director-General of Health, Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore | |
0925 - 0930 | Launch of the BAC’s Human Nuclear Genome Editing (HNGE) Publication | |
0930 - 1010 | Keynote: Prof Julian Savulescu, Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics and Head, CBmE, NUS, Singapore Title: How to Form Ethical Policy: Collective Reflective Equilibrium – Three Examples | |
1010 - 1030 | Tea Break | |
| Plenary Session 1: Ethics in Healthcare Digitalisation and Other Emerging Technologies | |
Chair: Prof Chin Jing Jih, Deputy Group CEO (Clinical and Academic Development), National Healthcare Group, Singapore; Senior Consultant Geriatrician, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore | ||
1030 - 1105 | Keynote: Prof Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Deputy Dean, Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics, Harvard Law School, United States Title: Legal, Regulatory, and Ethical Issues in Healthcare AI | |
1105 - 1140 | Talk 2: A/Prof Brian Earp, Associate Professor and Director of the Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics and Society (OCNS) and the Experimental Bioethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Relational Moral Psychology (EARP) Lab, CBmE, NUS, Singapore Title: Digital "Psychological Twins" In Medicine - Building AI Simulations of Patients' Minds? | |
1140 - 1215 | Panel Discussion Panellists: 1. Prof Glenn Cohen 2. A/Prof Brian Earp 3. Prof IIhak Lee, Professor in Medical Ethics, Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Yonsei University, South Korea 4. Prof Jingbao Nie, Professor, Bioethics Centre, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand | |
1215 - 1330 | Networking Lunch | |
| Parallel Session 1 | |
Venue: Level 4 Grand Ballroom | Venue: Level 2 Waterfront Ballroom | |
| Large Language Models (LLMs) or Digitalisation (ethical considerations in research and clinical applications) | Emerging Technologies in Genomics (ethical considerations in research and clinical applications) |
Chair: Prof Patrick Tan, Dean (Designate), Senior Vice Dean (Research ) and Provost’s Chair, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore | Chair: A/Prof Lai Poh San, Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, Singapore | |
1330 - 1355 | Talk 1: A/Prof Brian Earp Title: If My AI Twin Writes an Essay, Can I Be the Author? | Talk 1: Dr Hilary Bowman-Smart, Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Precision Health, University of South Australia, Australia Title: Ethical Considerations in Precision Medicine Implementation in Healthcare Settings |
1355 - 1420 | Talk 2: A/Prof Hannah Yee- Fen Lim, Associate Professor, College of Business (Nanyang Business School), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Title: Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare | Talk 2: Prof Aye Aye Khin, Director-General, Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Myanmar Title: Ethical Frameworks in Genomic Research - A Perspective from Myanmar |
1420 - 1445 | Talk 3: A/Prof Li Du, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Macau, China Title: Ethical Challenges in Developing AI for Biological Research: Risks, Governance, and Responsible Innovation | Talk 3: Prof Prasit Palittapongarnpim, Executive Vice President for Research and International Relations, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand; Professor, Center for Microbial Genomics, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand Title: Ethical Challenges in Microbial Genomics: A Thai Perspective |
1445 - 1500 | Q & A | Q & A |
1500 - 1520 | Tea Break | |
| Plenary Session 2: Ethics of Longevity | |
Chair: Asst Prof Owen Schaefer, Assistant Professor, CBmE, NUS, Singapore | ||
1520 - 1555 | Talk 1: A/Prof Sonny Rosenthal, Associate Professor, Sustainability Communication, Singapore Management University, Singapore Title: Would You Take the Pill? Public Attitudes Towards Longevity Interventions | |
1555 - 1630 | Talk 2: Prof Johannes Jacobus (Hans) Meij, Co-Founder, NUS Academy for Healthy Longevity, National University of Singapore; Vice- President International Affairs, Amsterdam University Medical Center, The Netherlands Title: “Is this ethical?” - Considerations on Healthy Longevity | |
1630 - 1710 | Panel Discussion Panellists: 1. Prof Julian Savulescu 2. A/Prof Michael Dunn 3. A/Prof Sonny Rosenthal 4. Prof Johannes Jacobus (Hans) Meij | |
End of Day 1 | ||
1800 - 2030 | Gala Dinner (For invited guests only) | |
24 Oct 2025 (Fri) - Conference
Day 2 Schedule
Time | Programme | |
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Venue: Level 4 Grand Ballroom | ||
0830 – 0915 | Registration | |
Chair: Mr Gregory Vijayendran SC, Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) Deputy Chair; Senior Counsel and Partner, Rajah and Tann Singapore LLP | ||
0915 - 0930 | Keynote: Adj Prof (Dr) Raymond Chua, Chief Executive Officer, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore; Deputy Director-General of Health, Health Regulation, Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore Title: Is Ethics an Important Component of Regulations in Tomorrow’s Healthcare? | |
0930 - 1030 | Riverside Dialogue : Guiding Policy Decisions with Moral Clarity Chair: Mr Gregory Vijayendran Panellists: Ethics 1. Prof Zhai Xiaomei, Senior Professor at Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China 2. Prof Kazuto Kato, Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Public Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan 3. Prof Angus Dawson, Professor of Bioethics, CBmE, NUS, Singapore Policy 1. Prof Kenneth Mak, Director-General of Health, MOH, Singapore 2. Dr Roli Mathur, Head, Indian Council of Medical Research Bioethics Unit, India | |
1030 - 1050 | Launch of the BAC's Medico-Legal Casebook | |
1050 - 1110 | Tea Break | |
Plenary Session 3: Ethics in Mainstream Medical Practice and Other Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM) | ||
Chair: Emeritus Prof Roy Joseph, National Medical Ethics Committee (NMEC) Emeritus Advisor, Singapore; Emeritus Consultant, Department of Neonatology, Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, Singapore; and Director of the Paediatric Ethics Program, CBmE, NUS, Singapore | ||
1110 - 1145 | Talk 1: A/Prof Michael Dunn, Associate Professor and Co-Director of Education, CBmE, NUS, Singapore Title: Integrating Traditional Medical Practice and Biomedicine: Policy Priorities and Ethical Uncertainties | |
1145 - 1220 | Talk 2: Asst Prof Faizah Zakaria, Assistant Professor, Department of Southeast Asian Studies and Department of Malay Studies, NUS, Singapore Title: Traditional Malay Medicine as Modern: Heritage and Science in Pursuit of Health in Singapore | |
1220 - 1305 | Panel Discussion Panellists:
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1305 - 1435 | Networking Lunch | |
Parallel Session 3 | ||
Venue: Level 4 Grand Ballroom | Venue: Level 2 Waterfront Ballroom | |
Integrating TCIM with Mainstream Medical Practices | Research Ethics and/or Policy in TCIM | |
Chair: A/Prof Chan Mei Yoke, Senior Consultant, Haematology/Oncology Service, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore | Chair: Dr Voo Teck Chuan, Head, Office of Ethics in Healthcare, Innovation and Research Advisor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Medical Humanities Institute, Singapore | |
1435 - 1500 | Talk 1: A/Prof Chan Mei Yoke Title: Clash of the Titans: Ethical Conflicts when Families Reject Potentially Life-Saving Modern Medicine in Favour of Complementary and Alternative Medicine | Talk 1: Dr Siwi Padmawati Title: Shaping Policy around Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine |
1500 - 1525 | Talk 2: A/Prof Michael Stanley-Baker, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore Title: Situating Practice: How to Build Congenial Epistemic Spaces for Productive Transdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange on Traditional Medicine | Talk 2: Asst Prof Leander P Marquez, Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines Diliman, The Philippines Title: Ethics in Mainstream and Alternative Medical Practices: The Role of Values Education in Shaping Ethical Practitioners |
1525 - 1540 | Q & A | Q & A |
1540 - 1555 | Closing Address: A/Prof Devanand Anantham, NMEC Chair, Singapore; Head, SingHealth Duke-NUS Lung Centre, Singapore; Senior Consultant, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore | |
1555 - 1625 | Tea Break and Networking | |
End of Day 2 | ||