SPEAKERS

Local Speaker

A/Prof Ngiam Kee Yuan

Group Chief Technology Officer and Chief Advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Healthcare, National University Health System, Singapore;
Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer, National University Hospital, Singapore;
Head and Senior Consultant, Division of Thyroid and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, National University Hospital, Singapore;
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

National University Health System, Singapore

A/Prof Ngiam Kee Yuan is the Group Chief Technology Officer of the National University Health System (NUHS) overseeing technology deployment in the Western Healthcare Cluster of Singapore. In this role, he implements new technologies throughout NUHS and serves as the Chief Advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Healthcare at NUHS. A/Prof Ngiam is concurrently the Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer at the National University Hospital of Singapore with a special focus on artificial intelligence research and implementation in healthcare. He has certification training from the American Medical Informatics Association and has published in computing and medical journals on topics related to healthcare AI applications and technology. A/Prof Ngiam is also Head and Senior Consultant at the Division of Thyroid and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, National University Hospital, Singapore. He specializes in thyroid oncology and minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic thyroid surgery.

A/Prof Ngiam obtained his undergraduate degree from the Royal Free and University College Medical School, London (now University College London). He entered Advanced Surgical Training in General Surgery and was awarded a fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh upon completion of his training. He is accredited as a general surgery specialist by the Specialist Accreditation Board, Singapore and received the Higher Manpower Development Award to complete a fellowship in Metabolic Surgery in Taiwan. He received further training in robotic thyroid surgery at the Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea.

In his capacity as Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), A/Prof Ngiam engages in research into endocrine and metabolic surgery as well as artificial intelligence applications in healthcare. He promotes interdisciplinary collaboration throughout the NUS campus, particularly between the schools of medicine, engineering, and computer science for various healthcare applications. He was awarded the ExxonMobil-NUS Research Fellowship for Clinicians and numerous teaching awards for his work in research and education.

A/Prof Ngiam is also active in volunteerism and is the Mission Chief for a number of ground-up surgical missions to regional countries such as Myanmar and Indonesia, under the auspices of the Surgical Outreach to Underserved Localities (SOUL) program with the NUH Department of Surgery.