Research, Research Grants and Research Contracts

GIS-based Epidemiologic Modeling of Acute Disease Outbreaks (Pilot Project) Funding sources:  Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) Amount:  S$100,000.00 Duration: 2004-2005 Medical Informatics Programme Funding sources:  National Science & Techology Board / Ministry of Education Amount:  S$6,600,000.00 Duration: 1996-2000 Health ONE multilingual health information web portal on Singapore ONE Funding sources: National Computer Board / Ministry of Education Amount: S$570,000.00 Duration: 1997-99   Telemedicine in Singapore: An adoption model for hospitals and healthcare providers Funding source: MOE Grant: S$180,000.00 Duration: 1998-2001

• Telecare Programme in Chronic Disease Management

  • Funding source: Biomedical Research Council, NSTB/MOE
    Grant: S$823,720
    Duration: (Grant awarded in 2001 but project not taken up due to resignation from NUS to join NTU in July 2001)

• Contract to develop software for 'Sample Size Estimation for Health Studies'

  • Funding source: World Health Organization
    Grant: US$5,000.00
    Duration: 1998-1999

• Work on development of medical information resources on the Internet has earned several firsts for Singapore:

  • First virtual hospital, the "Cyberspace Hospital",  on the World Wide Web, launched on 1 May 1995

  • First 3-D virtual hospital, the "3D Cyberspace Hospital", on the World Wide Web, launched in 1995

  • Health ONE project won first prize in the scientific poster category at INET ’98, the International Conference on the Internet in Geneva 1998, for its multilingual and multimedia approach to dissemination of health information on the World Wide Web

  • Development of Windows-based software for ‘Sample Size and Power Estimation in Health Studies’ for the World Health Organization.  Software is now widely used by researchers and research organizations and universities throughout the world including CDC, NIOSH, Karolinska Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Swiss Tropical Institute, Hannover Institute of Biometry etc.

Patent
Patent filed with US Patent and Trademark Office (Serial No. 60/227,602) on 24 Aug 2000 for a 'networked virtual reality system for remote monitoring of cognitive and physical rehabilitation'.

Professional Activities

National Appointments
- Member, Customer Advisory Committee on Healthcare, SingTel (2008-2010)
- Healthcare & Biomedical Sciences Subcommittee,iN2015("Intelligent Nation 2015"), Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), Singapore (2005-6)
- President, Association for Informatics in Medicine, Singapore (2000-2002)
- Co-chair, Tech Scan Panel (Engineering in Medicine), SERC, A*STAR (2004-5)
- Advisor, Department of Medical Informatics, Singapore General Hospital (2002-4)
- Member, Temasek Polytechnic Engineering School Advisory Committee (2002-5)
- Visiting Consultant (Medical Informatics), Singapore Armed Forces (2001-2004)
- Member, User and Education Committee, BioMedical Grid Project of the BioMedical Research Council, A*STAR (2001-4)

International Appointments
- Honorary Fellow, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) (2004- )
- President, International Medical Informatics Association (2001-2004)
- President, Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (1994-1997)
- Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Health Informatics (1990-2001)

Membership, Editorial Boards of Internationally-Refereed Journals
- Editor (Asia, Australia and New Zealand), International Journal of Medical Informatics (1998-2001)
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Medical Informatics
- Editorial Board, Methods of Information in Medicine

Grant Review and External Examiner Appointments
- Expert Referee for the Expert Subcommittee on Grant Applications and Awards (ESGAA), Health Services Research Committee of Hong Kong
- Expert Referee on Research Proposals for Grant Applications, National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore
- External examiner, Institute of Post-Graduate Studies, Universiti Sains, Malaysia, 1997 - M.Sc. candidate
- External examiner, Institute of Post-Graduate Studies, Universiti Sains, Malaysia, 1998 - M.Sc. candidate
- External examiner, Centre of Medical Informatics, Monash University, Australia, 2001 - Ph.D. candidate
- External assessor, School of Mechanical & Production Engineering, NTU, Jan 2002 - conversion of M.Sc. to Ph.D. candidature
- External assessor, Dept of Computer Science, School of Computing, NUS, Feb 2002 - M.Sc. candidate 

Major Conference Organization
- IMIA Vice-President i/c MEDINFO 2001, 10th World Congress on Health and Medical Informatics, London 2-5 Sept 2001
- Member, SPC, 6th International Conference on the Medical Aspects of Telemedicine, Uppsala, Sweden, 18-21 June, 2001
- Member, SPC, APAMI-MIC 2000, Hong Kong, 27-29 September 2000
- Member, SPC, Nursing Informatics 2000, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 Apr-1 May 2000
- Member, SPC, MEDINFO 98, 9th World Congress of Medical Informatics, Seoul, Korea, 18-22 August 1998
- Member, Organising Committee, 6th Int'l Conf on Health & Med Informatics Ed, Newcastle, Australia, 14-16 Aug 1997
- Member, Jt Conference Executive Committee, APAMI-HIC Joint ’97 Conference, Sydney, Australia,11-13 Aug 1997
- Member, Adv Board, 3rd Int'l Conf on the Medical Aspects of Telemedicine, Kobe, Japan, 30 May-1 June, 1997
- Chairman, OC, MIP Inaugural Forum, 24 September 1997
- Chairman, MEDWEB ’96, first Singapore Medical World Wide Web Conference, Singapore, 1996
- Chairman, OC, Inaugural Forum of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics, Singapore, 1994
- Chairman, Editorial Committee, MEDINFO 92, 7th World Congress on Medical Informatics, Geneva, 1992
- Chairman, OC, MEDINFO 89, 6th World Congress on Medical Informatics, Singapore, 1989

Conference Invitations as keynote/plenary speaker - 3rd Annual Asia Pacific/Japan Turning Science into Caring (TSIC) Symposium hosted by Abbott Laboratories, 7-9 November 2010, Ho    Chi  Minh City, Vietname (plenary speaker) - National Health IT Summit, Workshop on Change Management, 16-17 July 2010, Singapore (Workshop Panelist) - 3rd Middle East Conference on Health Informatics, 30 March - 1 April 2010, Beirut, Lebanon (keynote speaker) - AMIA Forum on International Distance Learning in Biomedical and Health Informatics, 9-11 December 2008, London (invited participant) - Turkish 3rd e-Health Congress, 5-9 November 2008, Antalya, Turkey (plenary speaker) - 2007 Pan-Pacific Medical Informatics and 2nd e-Health Summit, Beijing, China, 17-18 April 2007 (plenary speaker) - Health InfoTec 2007, Singapore, 28-30 March 2007 (Opening Keynote Speaker) - Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) 2006 Conference, Taipei, 27-29 October 2006 (closing speaker) - Inaugural eHealth Forum, Hong Kong, 15-16 September 2006 (keynote speaker) - First Annual Summit on Healthcare Informatics Asia Pacific, Beijing, China, 19-20 April 2006 (plenary speaker) - LIGHT (Leadership in Global Health Technology) Summit, London, 26-28 Sept 2005 (invited speaker) - 7th Annual NTU-SGH Symposium 2005, Singapore, 11-12 August 2005 (invited speaker) - International Joint Meeting of the European Center for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (EuroMISE) 2004,   Prague, Czech Republic, 12-16 April 2004 (invited speaker) - eHealth Asia 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 6-8 April 2004 (plenary speaker) - Health Informatics Asia 2003, Singapore, 4-6 November 2003 (keynote speaker) - Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) & CJKMI-KOSMI (Korean Society for Medical Informatics) Conference 2003,   Daegu, Korea, 20-22 October 2003 (plenary speaker) - Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), USA Conference 2003, San Diego, 10-14 Feb 2003 (plenary speaker for   International Symposium) - Medical Informatics Symposium of Taiwan 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, 5-6 Oct 2002 (plenary speaker) - Health Informatics Conference (HIC) 2002, Melbourne, Australia, 4-6 Aug 2002 (keynote speaker) - 26th International Congress of Internal Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, 26-30 May 2002 (invited speaker) - 3rd SAF Military Medicine Conference, Singapore, 8-9 Feb 2002 (plenary speaker) - Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong Telemedicine Association, 26 Jan 2002 (invited speaker) - via video conference - Interoperable Medical Registry Systems 2002 Conference, Singapore, 19 Jan 2002 (keynote speaker) - Vietnam-Japan Medical Imaging/Informatics 2001 Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam, 24-25 Nov 2001 (keynote speaker) - Pacific and Asia Conference on Intelligent Information Systems (PAIS), Seoul, Korea, 16-17 Nov 2001 (keynote speaker) - Medical Informatics Symposium of Taiwan 2001, Taipei, Taiwan, 26-28 Oct 2001 (keynote speaker) - Inaugural Address, IMIA Presidency, MEDINFO 2001, London, 2-5 Sept 2001 - "Cutting Edge in O&G" Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 17-19 Aug 2001 (invited speaker) - SingHealth Nursing Conference, Singapore, 13 July 2001 (plenary speaker) - First International Conference on Human Society at Internet, Seoul, Korea, 4-6 July 2001 (plenary speaker) - 1st National Conference on Telemedicine, Lucknow, India, 23-27 April 2001 (plenary speaker) - Philippine Pediatric Society 38th Annual Convention, Manila, 1-4 April 2001 (plenary and symposium speaker) - IV Spanish Congress on Medical Informatics Special Session on 'International Perspectives in Medical Informatics',    Madrid, 29 March 2001 (invited speaker) - 'Challenges in Medical Informatics' Workshop, Madrid, 29-31 March 2001 (invited speaker) - Internet Workshop 2001 on Next Generation Internet and its applications, Tokyo, 21-23 Feb 2001 (invited speaker) - Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Second International Congress, Hong Kong, Nov 2000 (Invited speaker) - International Society of Telemedicine Conference, Montreal, Oct 2000 (Invited speaker) - International Symposium on Information Technology and Diabetes, Mayo Clinic, Sept 2000 (Invited speaker) - 34th Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine, Singapore, Aug 2000 (Invited speaker) - 30th Annual Convention of the Philippine College of Physicians, Manila, May 2000 (Plenary speaker) - University Surgeons of Asia 4th Scientific Congress, Singapore, May 2000 (Invited speaker) - 15th Fall Conference of the Korean Society of Medical Informatics, Taegu, Korea, 1999 (keynote speaker) - WHO 1st Int'l Conf on the Western Pacific Diabetes Information Network, Kobe, Japan), 1999 (plenary speaker)   - 1999 Wonca Asia Pacific Regional Conference, Taipei, 1999 (plenary speaker)   - Medical Informatics Symposium of Taiwan ‘99, Taipei, Taiwan (plenary speaker) - Interact 99 Asia Pacific Multimedia Festival Health & Tech Conf, Melbourne, Aust, 1999 (keynote speaker) - Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education ’99, Macau, 1999 (keynote speaker) - 112th Anniversary Academic Sessions, Sri Lanka Medical Association, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 1999 (keynote speaker) - Health IT Australia ’98, Sydney, 1998 (keynote speaker) - Medical Informatics Symposium of Taiwan ‘98, Taipei, Taiwan (keynote speaker) - International Telemedicine Symposium, Moscow, 1998 (plenary speaker) - 4th Hong Kong (Asia Pacific) Medical Informatics Conference, Hong Kong, 1997 (keynote speaker) - 2nd Asia Pacific Assoc for Medical Informatics (APAMI) Conf, Sydney, 1997 (keynote speaker-APAMI President) - Telemedicine Asia ’97, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1997, (plenary speaker) - 3rd International Conference on Medical Aspects of Telemedicine, Kobe, Japan, 1997 (plenary speaker) - Toward an Electronic Patient Record ’97, Nashville, USA, 1997 (plenary speaker) - Medical Informatics Symposium of Taiwan ‘97, Taipei, Taiwan (keynote speaker) - Health Informatics Conference ’94, Gold Coast, Australia (keynote speaker) - 7th Computer Conf, Royal Aust College of General Practitioners, 1993, Melbourne, Australia (keynote speaker) - UNICEF Symposium on child survival, population and development, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1987 (plenary speaker)

Third Middle East Conference on Health Informatics, 30 March - 1 April 2010, Beirut, Lebanon

Consultancies to International Organizations - World Health Organization International Consultation on Telemedicine, Geneva, 12-14 Jan 2000 - WHO Intercountry Workshop on Health Informatics, Seoul, Korea, 1998 - WHO Intercountry Workshop on Management Information Systems, Manila, Philippines, 27-31 October 97   - WHO Technical Review Committee on Financial Resource Allocation Procedure, Geneva, 17-21 Feb 98 - UNDP/WHO consultant for data management course for Pyongyang Maternity Hospital, DPRK, 1995 - WHO Int'l Consultation on Int'l Center for Health Applications & Software Evaluation (CHASE), Geneva, 1990-2 - WHO Sci & Tech Review Committee to review Statistical and Data-Processing activities at WHO    Collaborating Centers for Human Reproduction in China, Singapore and Indonesia, 1991-2 - IDRC (Canada) consultant for  Impact Evaluation of Mobile Nursing Clinic, Philippines, 1985-6 - IDRC biostatistical consultant for Environmental & Health conditions of small-scale industries in Asia, 1984-5 - IDRC biostatistical consultant for Asian Association for Occupational Health project on pesticide poisoning    among agricultural workers in countries of SE Asia, 1985-6 - IDRC biostatistical consultant for Multicentred Collaborative Fertility Proj (S'pore, Malaysia & Indonesia), 1978-80 - Resource person, UNICEF symposium on Child survival, population and development, Indonesia, 1987

World Health Organization International Consultation on Telemedicine, Geneva, 12-14 Jan 2000

Research interests
- Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Outbreaks using Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
  (funded by A*Star grant)
- Clinical bioinformatics
- Intelligent search and retrieval of medical information on networked resources
  (funded by NSTB/MOE grant as a Strategic Research Project under the MIP)
- Goal-based techniques for diagnosis of foetal abnormalities using ultrasonography
  (funded by NSTB/MOE grant as a Strategic Research Project under the MIP)
- Telemedicinal virtual reality for physical rehabilitation
  (funded by NSTB/MOE grant as a Strategic Research Project under the MIP)
- Delivery of distance learning using WWW technologies

Publications
Papers in Internationally Refereed Journals - 48
Papers in Locally/Regionally Refereed Journals - 38
Papers in Non-Refereed Journals - 6
Papers delivered at Conferences - 142
Monographs - 4
Editorial Work on Books - 1
Editorial Work on Journals - 3     
Chapters in Books - 6
Published Scientific Reports - 4
Theses/Dissertations - 2

Entrepreneurship - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gateway Consulting Pte Ltd (since October 2006) – a consulting company   specializing in professional training in the areas of biostatistics and health informatics.  - In 2009, Gateway Consulting   collaborated with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the Department of Medical Informatics   and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to bring the AMIA 10x10 Medical Informatics   Certificate Training Program to Asia.

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