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Adj Prof (Dr) Raymond Chua
Chief Executive Officer, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore; Deputy Director-General of Health, Health Regulation, Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore
Profile
Adjunct Professor (Dr) Raymond Chua is the Chief Executive Officer of the Health Sciences Authority responsible for safeguarding and advancing public health through securing the national blood supply, administering national justice through its forensic medicine and scientific testing capabilities and regulating the health products. He is also the Deputy Director-General of Health (Health Regulation) at the Ministry of Health overseeing the regulations of healthcare services and information. With these 2 concurrent positions, he will better synergize regulatory policies, operations and enforcement across healthcare services, information and products in Singapore. He has extensive regulatory, management and operational experience in both the public healthcare and private pharmaceutical sectors in the past 25 years, contributing to the advancing developments of the healthcare landscape.
Adjunct Professor (Dr) Raymond Chua holds adjunct professorships at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, and the Centre of Regulatory Excellence in Duke-NUS. He also holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, a Master of Science in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Nottingham.
Keynote Title
Is Ethics an Important Component of Regulations in Tomorrow’s Healthcare?

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
Profile
Prof. Cohen is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has spoken to NATO on biotechnology and human enhancement, addressed the OECD and members of the US and the Korean Congress on medical AI policy, and advised then- U.S. Vice President Harris on reproductive rights. He has provided bioethical advising and consulting to some of the largest healthcare companies. He is an author of more than 250 articles and author or editor of more than 22 books.
Keynote Title
Legal, Regulatory, and Ethical Issues in Healthcare AI

Prof Julian Savulescu
Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics and Director, Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE), NUS, Singapore
Profile
Professor Julian Savulescu is an award-winning ethicist, medical doctor and moral philosopher. He trained in neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy. He is currently and has been Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford since 2002. He currently also holds Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics, and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (from August 2022).
In 2003, he founded the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and was responsible for attracting a GBP100 million donation from the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education to evolve the Centre into the Uehiro Oxford Institute (the largest single donation Oxford has received). He is also responsible for enabling a gift of GBP 10 million to St Cross College from the Uehiro Foundation for scholarships in practical ethics.
Keynote Title
How to Form Ethical Policy: Collective Reflective Equilibrium – Three Examples
Speakers

Dr Hilary Bowman-Smart
Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Precision Health, University of South Australia, Australia
Profile
Dr Bowman-Smart is an empirical bioethicist with a background in both genetics and philosophy. Her areas of focus are genomics, reproduction, and the philosophy of medicine. Her research approach involves ethical and philosophical analysis that is informed by various types of empirical research, such as surveys, statistical analysis, and qualitative interview studies.

A/Prof Li DU
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Macau, China
Profile
Dr. Li Du is an associate professor and PhD Program Coordinator at the University of Macau Faculty of Law, Macau SAR. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in both clinical medicine and law (Wuhan University, China) and a Ph.D. in law (University of Alberta, Canada). His teaching and research interests include international law, food law, biotechnology law and policy, and data protection law. Dr. Du has led many research projects on legal and ethical implications of novel and emerging technologies, e.g., synthetic biology, AI-enabled biomedical research, bio-agricultural products. He presents his research at international conferences frequently and publishes articles regularly in leading academic journals.
Talk Title
Ethical Challenges in Developing AI for Biological Research: Risks, Governance, and Responsible Innovation

A/Prof Michael Dunn
Associate Professor and Co-Director of Education, CBmE, NUS, Singapore
Profile
A/Prof Michael Dunn is an Associate Professor and the Co-Director of Education at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Reflecting his varied academic background and interests, his scholarship spans healthcare ethics, medical law, socio-legal studies and health/social care services research.
Michael’s current research projects focus predominantly on the ethical aspects of community-based and long-term care practice, policy and law. For the past 20 years, he has also been critically examining the ethical and legal dimensions of decision-making within adult caregiving relationships. Michael has written more than 100 peer reviewed papers, authored or edited 5 books, and obtained over S$6m in competitive research grants.
Michael leads CBmE’s undergraduate programme in health ethics, law and professionalism, now responsible for educating 2,700 medical, dental, pharmacy and nursing students at any one time. He also teaches postgraduate courses in bioethics to PhD students and refresher workshops in ethical skills to health professionals. Michael is an associate faculty member at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, and has held visiting academic positions in Japan, Hong Kong, the USA, the Netherlands and Norway. He obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Cambridge in the UK.

A/Prof Brian D. Earp
Associate Professor and Director of the Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics and Society (OCNS) and the EARP Lab (Experimental Bioethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Relational Moral Psychology Lab), CBmE, NUS, Singapore
Profile
A/Prof Brian D. Earp, PhD, is director of the Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics and Society (OCNS) and the EARP Lab (Experimental Bioethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Relational Moral Psychology Lab) within the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). Brian is also an Associate Professor of Philosophy and of Psychology at NUS by courtesy. Brian holds degrees from Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities and is a Research Associate of the Uehiro Oxford Institute at the University of Oxford. Brian is also Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, and is an elected member of the UK Young Academy under the auspices of the British Academy and the Royal Society.

Prof Aye Aye Khin
Director-General, Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Myanmar
Profile
Professor Aye Aye Khin is currently the Director General of Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Myanmar. She is a medical doctor and senior consultant pathologist (M.B,B.S 1988; M.MED.Sc(Pathology 1995) and medical educationist (Dip.Med.Ed 2005) and Ph.D (Pathology 2010). She is an Executive Committee Member of South East Asia Regional Association of Medical Education (SEARAME), Management Board & Advisory Council Member of ASEAN Association of Schools of Medical Technology (AASMT), Professional Member of Australian Institute of Medical & Clinical Scientists (AIMS). She is a member of the Implementation Research grant selection committee, Ministry of Health and reviewer of Myanmar Health Sciences Research Journal. Her previous positions were Rector of University of Medicine, Yangon, Myanmar (2021-2024), University of Pharmacy, Yangon (2021-2024), Rector of University of Medical Technology, Yangon from (2019-2021). She was the Head of Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, University of Medical Technology, Yangon (2006 -2019), Deputy Director (Training) from (2004 -2006), and Assistant Director (Training) from (2000-2004) at the Department of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Health. She was Lecturer/Head, Pathology Department, University of Nursing (Mandalay) (1998-2000), and Assistant Lecturer & Demonstrator of Pathology Department, University of Medicine from (1991 -1998). She has been the Assistant Surgeon, Department of Health., Ministry of Health since 1991.

Prof Ilhak Lee
Professor in Medical Ethics, Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Yonsei University, South Korea
Profile
Prof Ilhak Lee is Professor of Medical Law and Ethics at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, Korea. He holds degrees in Medicine and in Medical Ethics from Yonsei University. His research bridges clinical practice and bioethical theory, focusing on ethical decision-making in end-of-life care, emergency medicine, and intensive care settings. He has served as Chair of the Department of Medical Law and Ethics at Yonsei, Chair of the Education Committee of the Korean Society for Medical Ethics, and Vice President of the Korean Bioethics Association. A former visiting professor at the University of Bristol, UK (2016–2018), Professor Lee has led national projects on advance care planning and hospital ethics support systems. His recent publications examine the phenomenology of life-sustaining treatment decisions and international comparisons of end-of-life legislation. He also advises the government on health law and bioethics policy.

A/Prof Hannah Yee- Fen Lim
Associate Professor, College of Business (Nanyang Business School), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Profile
Prof Hannah Yee-Fen LIM is uniquely qualified with double degrees in Computer Science and Law with Honours from the University of Sydney. She is an internationally recognised legal expert on all areas of technology law, including AI, Blockchain, Fintech, Cryptoassets, health technology, AI ethics, data protection, cybersecurity, and intellectual property law.
She was an appointed External Expert Reviewer for the WHO Guidance on Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health. She has also been appointed as a legal expert advising international legal bodies such as the United Nations (UNCITRAL), UNIDROIT (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law), HCCH (Hague Conference on Private International Law) and the Law Commission of England and Wales on areas such as AI and crypto-assets.
She has authored hundreds of academic papers and 6 scholarly books on law and technology published by internationally established publishers such as Oxford University Press. She wrote pioneering books on Cyberspace Law; data protection law including the GDPR; and on AI law and Autonomous Vehicles in 2018. Her research has been cited by the High Court of Australia and the Singapore Court of Appeal.
Hannah is a sought-after speaker and has presented at 145 international meetings and has been interviewed by the media 80 times.
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Prof Ngiam Kee Yuan
Head, Artificial Intelligence Office, National University Health System; Head, Division of Biomedical Informatics, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Profile
Professor Ngiam Kee Yuan leads the AI office at NUHS and the immediate past Group Chief Technology Officer at NUHS. He is the winner of the Singapore Computing Society Tech Leader of the Year Award 2025. In his role at NUS, he is a clinician scientist with 138 publications and 4439 citations, ranging from clinical science to artificial intelligence. He was awarded the NMRC CIDA award in 2021, which resulted in the development of new AI tools, a patent, and high impact publications in Lancet Oncology [IF 36.418] and Nature Digital medicine [IF=15.2]. He is among the world's top 2% of highly cited researchers by Stanford University-Elsevier survey in 2023. His professional interests are innovations in surgery and artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. He has founded numerous platforms and programs, including the DISCOVERY AI, ENDEAVOUR AI, the NUHS Holomedicine and MiSSi cloud robotics program. He is a recipient of multiple grants including the Ministry of Health Innovation grant, HOIC Enterprise Singapore grant, and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) 5G grant. He holds multiple patents in surgery and AI technology.

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
Profile
Prasit Palittapongarnpim received his M.D. (1st class honor) from Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, the Certificate of Proficiency in Pediatrics from Chiangmai University. He also earned BSc in both Medical Sciences and Mathematics. His main scientific interest is on molecular biology and genomic epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as well as AMR. He founded and leads the Pornchai Matangkasombut Center for Microbial Genomics at Mahidol University. He also worked on antituberculous drug discovery. He serves as editorial board members and reviewers of several journals and funding agencies both in Thailand and abroad. He has published about 120 papers with over 3000 citations and h-index of 26. He was awarded as a top 1% researcher of Mahidol University in 2022 and 2023.

Asst Prof Leander Penaso Marquez
Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines Diliman, The Philippines
Profile
Leander Penaso Marquez is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman where he earned his master’s degrees in philosophy and in education. He also obtained his Master of Health Research Ethics (MOHRE) degree from Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Apart from serving as Co-chair of the Working Group on Bioethics of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Global Health Program, Leander is also the Founding President of the Philosophical Inquiry in Schools Initiative Philippines, Inc. (ISIP Pinas), and a member of the Southeast Asia Bioethics Network (SEABioN). He has extensive experience as a researcher, author, and editor. Currently, he is one of the co-editors in a book project that will be published by Springer in its “Collaborative Bioethics” series.

A/Prof Sonny Rosenthal
Associate Professor, Sustainability Communication, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Profile
A/Prof Sonny Rosenthal is Associate Professor of Sustainability Communication in the College of Integrative Studies at Singapore Management University. He earned his PhD in advertising at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was part of an NSF-funded interdisciplinary research team studying indoor environmental risks. He took a postdoctoral position and later a tenure-track position in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he conducted research on climate change communication. In his current position, he works with urban sustainability experts from diverse disciplines. He also conducts research on health risk perception and protective behaviors in the contexts of the COVID-19 vaccine, dengue prevention, and longevity interventions. His work appears in over 50 journal articles and book chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals, Science Communication, Environmental Communication, and the Journal of Environmental Psychology.

A/Prof Michael Stanley-Baker
Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore
Profile
Assoc Prof Michael Stanley-Baker is Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine from Nanyang Technological University. He is an award-winning historian of Chinese Medicine and Religion, with a focus first in the early Imperial period, and in the modern Sinophone diaspora. He received his PhD from the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Indiana University, Bloomington, and also has a clinical degree in Chinese medicine.
His research concerns the diverse intersections of Chinese medicine with different knowledge cultures, whether religion, botany, trade or modern pharmacy and policy. He uses close reading, participant interview, and digital humanities. He has held research positions at leading institutions around the world, including the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Academia Sinica, Taipei; the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge; the Forschungs Kolleg for Multiple Secularities at Leipzig University and the Asian Studies Centre at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr Alice Yong
Senior Consultant Endocrinologist, Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha (RIPAS) Hospital, Brunei Darussalam
Profile
Dr Alice Yong is a Senior Consultant Endocrinologist at Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha Hospital in Brunei Darussalam, where she provides specialist care in diabetes and endocrine disorders. Her clinical interest is in obesity and weight management, an area she is passionate about due to its growing public health importance and impact on long-term outcomes.
From 2010 to 2023, she led the Ministry’s Medical and Health Research Ethics Committee, playing a key role in shaping national review processes for research ethics. In line with her broader efforts to strengthen ethical research capacity, she was also involved in the development of the Biomedical Research and Ethics Unit (BREU), which supports research governance and policy guidance across Brunei. She currently serves as Chair of Bioethics at the Ministry of Health.
Her work in bioethics centers on developing governance frameworks, ethical review processes, and policy guidelines that uphold transparency, accountability, and respect for human dignity; while balancing scientific integrity with the values of local communities. She continues to be actively involved in initiatives that bridge clinical practice, research ethics, and policymaking.
Across all areas of her professional life, she brings a steady and values-driven approach to advancing healthcare systems that are not only effective, but also principled and inclusive.

Asst Professor Faizah Zakaria
Assistant Professor, Department of Southeast Asian Studies and Department of Malay Studies, NUS, Singapore
Profile
Faizah Zakaria is an assistant professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies and Malay Studies. She holds a PhD in history from Yale University, an M.A in Southeast Asian Studies and a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics from NUS. Her research centers on religion and ecology and environmental justice. Her first monograph The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia (2023) was published by the University of Washington Press which won the Harry J. Benda Prize for best first book in Southeast Asian Studies in 2025. She co-coordinates a digital humanities project comparing Malay and Chinese heritage medicine (https://www.polyglotasianmedicine.com) with Michael Stanley-Baker and Christopher Khoo.
Talk Title
Traditional Malay Medicine as Modern: Heritage and Science in Pursuit of Health in Singapore
Abstract
The paper surveys Singapore’s traditional Malay medicine (TMM) sector, which comprises a range of practitioners - from shops offering herbal remedies to individuals specialising in Malay massage to spiritual healers at the periphery of commercial space. It analyses how these practitioners negotiate present-day demands for transparent standards for health and safety and leverage on science to validate past historical practice. Traditional medicine, as noted by Yang and Stanley-Baker (2020), is a term that is retroactively applied as a static category to contrast with the innovations of modern biomedicine, obscuring dynamism within tradition itself. The transition in TMM’s position from the centre of the Malay community’s healing system to the periphery of the formal healthcare system parallels the process of authoritarian modernisation in Singapore and compels practitioners to make their practices legible to sceptics steeped in science. Highlighting the interplay between consensus and coercion in driving such social change, I show that far from being a set of static practices, TMM operates in historically adaptable market. This can be seen in both the supply and demand side. Practitioners who promote their products along quasi- biomedical lines, and consumers, who conceptualize the ‘healthy body’ by utilising tradition and biology, demonstrate this adaptability.
Panellists

Prof Angus Dawson
Professor of Bioethics, CBmE, NUS, Singapore
Profile
Professor Angus Dawson is Professor of Bioethics at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE). He has held previous professorial appointments at the University of Sydney in Australia (2015-2022) and the University of Birmingham in the UK (2011-2015). His main research interests are in public health ethics, research ethics, and methodology in bioethics. He was the joint founder of the journal Public Health Ethics and has been its joint Editor-in-Chief since it began in 2008. He has been editor or co-editor of six collections of original papers mainly on topics in public health ethics, including Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health (2007), Public Health Ethics: Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice (2011), and Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe (2016). The latter collection contains background material and cases from public health policy and practice with contributions from twenty-three different countries. The whole book is available for free and has been downloaded in full or in part over 1.8 million times.
Angus has been heavily involved in ethics and policy work over the last twenty years with many different committees and organisations, including the World Health Organization, the UK’s Department of Health, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Australian Federal Government, and Médecins Sans Frontières. He is a past President of the International Association of Bioethics and has taught and given research talks all over the world. He is the Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics based at CBmE.

Prof Kazuto Kato
Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Public Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan
Profile
Professor Kato has a Ph.D. degree in developmental biology from Kyoto University. After finishing postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge, he started to work on ethical and social issues related to life sciences. He has served as a member of various international projects and committees to include the International Panel of Experts of the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) of Singapore government. He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Group on Genomics (TAG-G) of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Prof Kenneth Mak
Director-General of Health, Ministry of Health, Singapore
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Professor Kenneth Mak is Director-General of Health at the Ministry of Health Singapore.
In this role, Professor Mak is the principal medical adviser to the Singapore Government and provides professional input and guidance to other Ministries and public agencies on health and healthcare related issues.
Professor Mak oversees the provision of all health services in Singapore. Within the Ministry of Health, he ensures that clinical services are delivered seamlessly across multiple settings by the public healthcare system. He leads in developing and implementing national healthcare policies in areas such as population health, healthcare regulation, communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases, healthcare professional standards as well as the development and enhancement of the performance of the nation’s healthcare system and services. Professor Mak works closely with Singapore’s Regional Health Systems and healthcare institutions on care integration as well as on Singapore’s long-term healthcare transformation strategy.

Dr Kathryn Muyskens
Research Fellow, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore
Profile
Dr Kathryn Muyskens is a Research Fellow with CBmE, with a focus on Asian Bioethics, Elder Care, and AI. Originally from Colorado in the U.S., she came to Singapore in 2015 to pursue her PhD in Philosophy from Nanyang Technology University, graduating in 2019. She is a political philosopher and applied ethicist by training, and has research interests in human rights, and healthcare justice, and cross-cultural bioethics, with particular interest in trust, information, and inequality in access to healthcare.

Prof Jing-Bao Nie
Professor, Bioethics Centre, Faculty of Medicine
University of Otago, New Zealand
Profile
Professor Jing-Bao Nie is a Professor at the Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Faculty of Medicine, New Zealand, and a 2025 fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Trained in Chinese medicine in China, sociology in Canada, and medical humanities in the US, he is a leading scholar in transcultural and global bioethics. His over 150 peer-reviewed publications include such books as Medical Ethics in China, Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion, Japan’s Wartime Medical Atrocities, and (forthcoming) Confucian Ethics vs. Biomilitarism. His hobbi
Chairpersons

A/Prof Chan Mei Yoke
Senior Consultant, Haematology/Oncology Service, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
Profile
Associate Professor Chan Mei Yoke MBBS, MMed (Paeds), MRCP, FRCPCH, MBE graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. She trained in Paediatrics in Singapore and subspecialised in Paediatric Haematology/Oncology in Royal Marsden Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, United Kingdom. She has an interest in Paediatric Palliative Care and helped set up a comprehensive paediatric palliative care service in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) in Singapore in 2004. She also has a keen interest in medical ethics due to the nature of her work and obtained a Masters in Bioethics from Harvard University, USA in 2022.
She is currently a Senior Consultant in Paediatric Haematology/Oncology and is the Chair of the Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee in KKH.

Prof Chin Jing Jih
Deputy Group CEO (Clinical and Academic Development), National Healthcare Group, Singapore; Senior Consultant Geriatrician, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
Profile
Professor Chin Jing Jih is Chairman, Medical Board and Senior Consultant Geriatrician at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). He is also the Advisor to TTSH Institute of Geriatric and Acting Ageing. He chairs the NHG Research Ethics Committee and holds teaching responsibilities at both NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Professor Chin serves in several committees in the Ministry of Health and the community, including the Board of Directors for the Agency for Integrated Care, DT Chair Panel of the Singapore Medical Council and the Singapore Bioethics Advisory Committee, and the National Medical Ethics Committee. He also chairs the HSA Complementary Health Products Advisory Committee and the Medical Advisory Board of Ang Mo Kio-THK Hospital.

A/Prof Anantham Devanand
NMEC Deputy Chair, Singapore; Head, SingHealth Duke-NUS Lung Centre, Singapore; Senior Consultant, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Profile
Dr Devanand was trained in interventional bronchoscopy and clinical ethics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School and Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg. He has clinical interests in advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy, sarcoidosis and medical thoracoscopy. His research interests include lung nodule evaluation, pleural diseases and medical decision-making.

Emeritus Prof Lee Eng Hin
Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) Chair, Singapore;
Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Consultant
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore
Profile
Dr Lee is an Emeritus Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery at the National University of Singapore and Emeritus Consultant in Orthopaedic Surgery at the National University Hospital. He was former Dean of the NUS Medical School and former Director of the Division of Graduate Medical Studies, NUS.
Prof Lee is the current Chair of the Bioethics Advisory Committee, Singapore. His involvement with the BAC started in 2005 when he was appointed a member of the BAC. He currently chairs the Human Nuclear Genome Editing (HNGE) Review Group.
Prof Lee has also been actively involved with medical ethics in the Singapore Medical Council since 2000. He was a member of the SMC Ethics Committee which developed the SMC Ethical Code and Ethical Guidelines for doctors in 2016. He was appointed President of the Disciplinary Commission to oversee the disciplinary processes for doctors in Singapore in 2022. On an international level, Prof Lee is a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee since 2020 and has been elected Vice Chair representing the Asia Pacific region for 2022-23. In this role he is involved in developing guidelines and contributing reports on current bioethics issues of global importance.

Emeritus Prof Roy Joseph
National Medical Ethics Committee (NMEC) Chair, 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
Profile
Emeritus Prof Roy Joseph is Emeritus Consultant in the Department of Neonatology, National University Hospital and chairs the Paediatric Ethics and Advocacy Centre in the Department of Paediatrics. Roy also chairs the National Medical Ethics Committee, the Health Ethics Capability Committee and the Institutional Review Board (HBR) at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Bioethics Advisory Committee.
His current research interests are in harnessing technology for improving education in ethics and professionalism and understanding the local empirical basis of Ethical End of life Care and Clinical Innovation. Past research activities aimed at improving medical education, preventing mental and developmental retardation through providing a safe transition into the extrauterine environment and in universal newborn screening for selected congenital conditions.
Roy was the Acting Director of CBmE from 2017-2018 and the Director of its Undergraduate education programme from 2017 to 2022. He served as Chairman of the Clinical Bioethics Committee at the National University Hospital from 2006 to 2019 and as Chief, Department of Neonatology from 1997-2005. In 2003, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

A/Prof Lai Poh San
Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, Singapore
Profile
A/Prof Poh-San LAI heads the Human Molecular Genetics Lab of the Dept of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). She is Deputy Chair of the NUS Institutional Biosafety Committee and Chair of the MD1 Tahir Foundation Building Research Safety Committee. She is an adjunct Faculty of the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and sits on the Institutional Review Board of Nanyang Technological University (NTU). She is a member of Singapore’s Bioethics Advisory Committee (Ministry of Health) and is Chair of the Genetic and Genomic Testing and Research (GGTR) Review Group. She also serves as President of the Biomedical Research & Experimental Therapeutics Society of Singapore, Executive Board member of the International Federation of Human Genetics Societies (IFHGS) and President Emeritus of the Asia-Pacific Society of Human Genetics. She has previously served as Director of HUGO (Human Genome Organization International) and Co-chair of the Policy & Ethics Review Board of the HUGO – Pan Asian SNP Initiative (HUGO-PASNPI) as well as co-Chair of the Ethics of Gene Modifying Technologies Working Group under the Science, Health and Policy-relevant Ethics in Singapore (SHAPES) initiative of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, NUS.

Asst Prof G. Owen Schaefer
Assistant Professor, Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Profile
Dr. G. Owen Schaefer was appointed Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in 2020. He is currently Director of the Phase II Health ethics, Law and Professionalism (HeLP) curriculum. Owen’s research interests cover ethical issues raised by the development of novel biotechnologies.
Before beginning his graduate work, Owen spent two years at the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health in the US as a pre-doctoral fellow. There, he received training in research ethics, was involved in the department’s ethics consultation service, and published several academic articles. He then went on to read for BPhil and DPhil degrees in philosophy at Oxford, writing a dissertation on moral enhancement. Immediately prior to joining the CBmE, he spent a year as a post-doc at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics researching the implications of various novel biotechnologies.

Prof Patrick Tan
Dean (Designate) and Provost’s Chair, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Profile
Prof. Patrick Tan is Dean (Designate) and Provost’s Chair in Cancer and Stem Cell Biology at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. He is also Executive Director of PRECISE (Precision Health Research Singapore) coordinating Singapore’s National Precision Medicine program, and Professor (adjunct) at Duke University, USA. He received his B.A. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University and MD PhD degree from Stanford University, where he received the Charles Yanofsky prize. Other awards include the President’s Scholarship, Loke Cheng Kim scholarship, Young Scientist Award (A-STAR), Singapore Youth Award, Chen New Investigator Award (Human Genome Organization), President’s Science Award, Japanese Cancer Association International Award, Public Administration Medal (Silver), Exemplary Public Service Award, and NUS University Research Recognition Award. He has received the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Team Science Award as Team Leader, and Genome Valley Excellence Award by the Government of Telangana (India). He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), Association of American Physicians (AAP), the Singapore Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC), a Board Member of the International Gastric Cancer Association, Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), Board of Editors for Science and Cancer Discovery, and an advisory member for Qatar Precision Health Institute.

Mr Gregory Vijayendran SC
BAC Deputy Chair; Senior Counsel and Partner, Rajah and Tann Singapore LLP
Profile
Gregory Vijayendran is a Senior Counsel practising law in dispute resolution (litigation, arbitration and mediation) in Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP. A former President of the Law Society of Singapore, Gregory was appointed to the Ethics and Professional Committee set up in 2023 in response to Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon’s Opening Legal Year Speech 2023.
Gregory has a keen interest and deep passion for ethical issues in broader capacities. In the bioethics sphere, he has been serving on the Bioethics Advisory Committee since December 2010, now serving as Deputy Chair. He also serves as a member of the Ethics Review Committee of the National Council of Social Services since 2022.
In community service, Gregory has had a unique, longstanding and direct involvement in various charities and SSAs in Singapore. Among others, he now serves on the Board of the National Council of Social Services as Honorary General Secretary and is a Charity Council member.
In the health sector, his more recent highlights of service are on the Board of Agency for Integrated Care and now chairing the Rare Disease Fund. He was a founding director of the Singapore Cord Blood Bank.

Dr Voo Teck Chuan
Head, Office of Ethics in Healthcare, Innovation and Research Advisor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Medical Humanities Institute, Singapore
Profile
Dr Voo Teck Chuan heads the Office of Ethics in Healthcare (OEH) at SingHealth and chairs the SingHealth Ethics Network Council, which works with OEH to advance ethical best practices across the cluster. As a bioethicist with the SingHealth Duke-NUS Medical Humanities Institute, he contributes to the Institute’s Bioethics and Health Professions Education programs.
He has published over 60 articles and book chapters across various areas of bioethics and has co-edited three books. He has also played a key role in the development of undergraduate medical ethics education and in the training of clinical, research, and transplant ethics committees in Singapore.
Dr Voo serves on various institutional and national ethics committees in Singapore, including the Singapore Bioethics Advisory Committee and the National Medical Ethics Committee. Internationally, he is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics, where he serves as Communication Officer. He is Co-Principal Investigator/Steering Committee member of the Southeast Asia Bioethics Network and sits on ethics advisory boards for several international biomedical research projects. Additionally, he has contributed to the World Health Organization’s work on integrating ethics into clinical guidelines and on developing ethics guidance for epidemics, public health emergencies, and climate change and health systems.