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A/Prof Tan Soo Yong |
A/Prof Sunil Sethi
A/Prof Tan is one of the pioneer faculty members in Duke-NUS where he received the Best Teacher Award for several years, as well as the Pioneer Award for being a founding co-Director of the Body & Disease Course. His research on miRNA profiling of tumours is supported by grants from NUS and MOE, as well as the NMRC Large Collaborative Grant. In 2019, he became the PrincipaI Investigator (PI) of the IMCB-Indivumed Joint Lab, established with $12M of industrial funding and $5M from an IAF-ICP grant; and is also the recipient of A*STAR’s Exploit Technologies (ETPL) Gap Funding ($1.5M) to develop new diagnostic solutions in prostate cancer.
He has more than 90 publications to-date with 2,363 citations, and sits on the editorial board of 3 pathology journals. He has a field-weighted citation impact (FWCI) of 1.48 and 44.4% of his publications are in the top 10% of highly cited journals; and a researcher H-index ranking of 28.
Given his training in medical jurisprudence and experience in biobanking, A/Prof Tan is the MOH spokesperson on the Human Biomedical Research Act. He is Chairman of the Biobanking Committee, ANRRC, and in this capacity conducted biobanking workshops in Malaysia and Thailand. He is an author of the WHO Classifications of haematolymphoid neoplasms, and digestive tract tumours. He is one of only 25 haematopathologists in the International Lymphoma Study Group.
Under his watch as Chief Examiner and Chairman of the RAC for Pathology, Singapore Residents achieved 100% pass rate at the ABMSI examination. As the International Advisor (West Pacific) of the Royal College of Pathologists, A/Prof Tan initiated a Pathology Educational Program in Yangon, and has taught in China, Malaysia and Indonesia as Visiting Professor.
As the administrative head, A/Prof Sethi was instrumental in establishing the NUH Department of Laboratory Medicine, and helped set up NUH’s regional referral laboratory. He led in the consolidation of laboratory services across NUH and the entire NHG. A/Prof Sethi has had numerous under-graduate and post-graduate teaching appointments at NUH, NUS and sat on the Biotechnology Advisory Panel of Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
A/Prof Sethi pioneered the development of the profession and involvement of clinical pathologists in direct patient care. He conducts regular General Medicine/Lipid Outpatient Clinics and provides clinical consultation for laboratory results in Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Biochemistry and new biomarkers for clinical service.
During his 5-year term as VCMB (Outreach), he was involved in numerous programmes supporting outreach in many of the less developed regional countries. On a personal level, he has contributed immensely through medical missions to treat the poor in Indonesia, Nepal and Thailand, and established a chronic disease management programme in some of these areas.
For his leadership in the projects to consolidate the NUH-NHG Laboratory Automation System (LAS) and the NUH-NHG Laboratory Information System (LIS), he received the NHG Outstanding Citizen Award in 2015. He is currently on the Executive Board of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) as the elected President of the Asian and Pacific Federation of Clinical Biochemistry & Laboratory Medicine (APFCB). Prior to this, he had served as President in various councils including the Singapore Association of Clinical Biochemists (SACB) and Asian and Pacific Federation of Clinical Biochemistry & Laboratory Medicine (APFCB).
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