Prof Tay Boon Keng’s area of professional interest is in Knee Surgery. His expertise is sought after in local and overseas hospitals, and medical centres. He has held numerous professional and academic appointments both in Singapore and abroad.
Dr Jason Yap is a public health physician with over 36 years of experience in the public and private healthcare sectors with diverse responsibilities across public policy, health informatics, healthcare marketing and health professionals education, he is now a practice track Associate Professor and Vice Dean (Practice) in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in the National University of Singapore.
Ms Lee Lai Hiang graduated from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 1995 with a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and has been with Ernst & Young since then. She started with the Singapore office in 1995, transferred to Palo Alto office, USA in December 2003 and returned to the Singapore office in October 2007.
Chairman
Prof Tay Boon Keng’s area of professional interest is in Knee Surgery. His expertise is sought after in local and overseas hospitals, and medical centres. He has held numerous professional and academic appointments both in Singapore and abroad.
Prof Tay’s scholarly interests extended to attending the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program – Governing for Non-Profit Excellence: Critical Issues for Board Leadership in 1999, the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program in 2000 and the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Leaders in Medical Education.
As Chairman, Medical Board (International) in SingHealth from 2007-2014, Prof Tay frequently led teams of doctors, nurses and allied health specialists for medical and academic exchanges with overseas medical institutes with the aim of identifying and nurturing both local and overseas staff to excel in their field of expertise, as well as to establish good working relationships with these institutes.
He was also Visiting Consultant to Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Medical Corps and Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital, a Honorary Consultant & Council Member of Dover Park Hospice, a member for the Panel of Examiners for Master of Medicine (Ortho) Examinations and Medical Advisor for National Panel of Medical Experts for Mediation at the Primary Dispute Resolution Centre of the Subordinate Courts. His overseas faculty positions held included Visiting Professor to Ningxia College and Taishan College, and Senior Visiting Consultant to Liaocheng Affiliated Hospital in China.
Vice-Chairman
Dr Jason Yap is a public health physician with over 36 years of experience in the public and private healthcare sectors with diverse responsibilities across public policy, health informatics, healthcare marketing and health professionals education, he is now a practice track Associate Professor and Vice Dean (Practice) in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in the National University of Singapore. His Practice Office supports policy formulation and programme implementation for various agencies like the Ministry of Health and the Health Promotion Board. After serving as Programme Director of the National Preventive Medicine Residency from 2015 to 2022, he continues to support the programme as Associate Programme Director.
His academic interests are in integrated care, healthcare management and health professionals education. He has taught on a wide range of other topics including health policy and systems, research and evaluation, strategic planning, systems thinking, healthcare marketing and medical tourism/travel, and information security. He has been on the teaching faculty of the Centre for Medical Ethics & Professionalism since 2004.
He is a Fellow in the College of Public Health & Occupational Physicians and the College of Clinician Educators of the Academy of Medicine (Singapore). He serves on the Board of Directors of SATA CommHealth; the Board of Directors, Medical Advisory Committee and Institutional Review Board of St Luke’s Hospital; and the International Advisory Committee of the Central Coast Research Institute in Australia. He was on the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Integrated Care from 2014 to 2022. In 2008, he stepped down as Commanding Officer of 6th Direct Support Medical Battalion in the Singapore Armed Forces.
He was Chief Knowledge Officer and senior public health physician in the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) where he supervised knowledge management, analytics and information resources, research and evaluation, education in Public Health and Integrated Care, and the development of research and innovative technology in community care. He was also Associate Programme Director for Preventive Medicine, Chief Data Protection Officer, and the Chief supervising the Central regional integration team. Before AIC, he was Adviser (Business Development) at Singapore HealthPartners on a project to create a hospitality-healthcare complex combining an acute tertiary hospital, a specialist medical centre and a luxury hotel. Prior to this, he was at Regency Specialist Hospital, a start-up hospital in Johor, Malaysia, and Director for Hospital Marketing, Raffles Medical Group. From 2005 to early 2009, he was Director (Healthcare Services) in the Singapore Tourism Board, where he headed international branding and marketing for SingaporeMedicine, a government-industry partnership to develop and promote Singapore as an international medical hub. He expanded the global reach of Singapore’s international healthcare services for both consumer and corporate medical travel, and positioned Singapore as the model healthcare destination, winning the TravelWeekly Best Medical/Wellness Destination Awards 2007 and 2008.
From 1999 to 2005 in the National Healthcare Group, he worked first in hospital health information management and then in 2001 developed NetCare (the first comprehensive personalised patient portal in Singapore), an online pharmacy and the Integrated Care Information System, the national stepdown care electronic referral system. In 2002, he joined the core team to consolidate NHG’s multiple IT departments, serving as IT Director for corporate planning, quality management, finance, human resource, and security. He conceptualised NHG’s ONE Vision for IT and its proposal of the Electronic Medical Record eXchange (EMRx) for public sector patient information, the precursor of today’s National Electronic Health Record system. As a clinical epidemiologist at Tan Tock Seng Hospital during the SARS outbreak in 2003, he led the development of SARSWeb, a patient contact information exchange platform for the Ministry of Health, public and private healthcare providers.
Prior to this, he had a broad range of experience in the Ministry of Health, including stints in medical manpower planning, medical audit and accreditation, medical technology assessment, hospital operations in the then Woodbridge Hospital, national health information, and as Press Secretary to the Health Minister.
Treasurer
Mrs Lim Siew Koon holds a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the National University of Singapore and is a Chartered Accountant and fellow member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.
She joined Ernst & Young LLP (then known as Ernst & Whinney) in April 1982 and was a partner of the firm from July 1998 to June 2019.
Mrs Lim has 37 years of experience in providing audit and business advisory services to clients in a wide range of industries including banks. Her clients ranging from local companies to major public listed companies and also multi-national conglomerates with well-diversified operations. Her role as an audit partner includes the coordination of multi-disciplined services to a number of global accounts.
She has led initial public offerings of companies in the retail and lifestyle, manufacturing, construction and property development industries.
From 2002 to 2005, Mrs Lim was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Ernst & Young LLP, responsible for the firm’s financial and management accounts, reporting to the partners of the firm.
Currently, she is an independent director of Nanofilm Technologies International Limited (NTI). [NTI was listed on the Mainboard of SGX on 30 October 2020.] At NTI, she is the Lead Independent Director and Chairperson of the Audit Committee. She also sits on the Board Risk Committee and Nominating Committee at NTI.
She is also an independent director of Karooooo Limited (Karo). Karo is a Singapore company listed on the Nasdaq on 1 April 2021 with a secondary listing on the JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange). At Karo, she is the Lead Independent Director and Chairperson of the Audit and Risk Committee. She also sits on the Remuneration Committee at Karo.
Recently, she is appointed as an independent director of Maribank (Singapore) Pte Ltd. At Maribank, she is the Lead Independent Director and Chairperson of the Audit Committee. She also sits on the Risk Committee, Remuneration and Nominating Committee at Maribank.
Member
Ms Lee Lai Hiang graduated from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 1995 with a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and has been with Ernst & Young since then. She started with the Singapore office in 1995, transferred to Palo Alto office, USA in December 2003 and returned to the Singapore office in October 2007.
Lai Hiang is a Partner in the Assurance practice at EY since 2012. She is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of Singapore, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Singapore (ISCA), California Board of Accountancy and America Institution of Certified Public Accountants.
She has vast experience in external audits of private and listed enterprises, MNCs, as well as government/quasi-government organizations and non-profit organizations across diverse sectors. These include manufacturing, trading, retail and wholesale, professional services, agriculture, logistics, educational institutions and charities.
She has more than 20 years of experience in financial accounting reporting, consolidation work and group accounts, financial auditing, and accounting systems and controls and familiar with Singapore,
International and US reporting requirements.
She is also familiar with the audit of non-profit organisations including review of operational and reporting processes and controls and compliance requirements and grant certifications. Her past and present clients in such industry include:
– World Wide Fund for Nature (Singapore) Limited
– Arts House Limited
– Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry
– Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Foundation
– Singapore Management University
– Nanyang Polytechnic
– Temasek Polytechnic
– LASALLE College of the Arts
I spent 11.5 years at the National Neuroscience Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Singapore performing duties from neuro-research (neuro-genetics and MR spectroscopy of Alzheimer’s Disease, fMRI in reading disability, pre-operative neurosurgical motor and sensory fMRI) to research administration, and hospital management.
In 2010 I decided to put on hold my career advancement, after much deliberation to balance between work and family, to devote more time and care for my mother who was (still is) going through rehabilitation, readjusting to aging with cardiovascular and orthopedic problems (hip replacements), and glaucoma. Nonetheless, in 2013 with my 79 years old mother and our keen interests in wholesome foods, I pursued my interest in bread making, food processing, and Asian traditional pastries at the China Grain Products Research and Development Institute in Taiwan for 8 months.
I spent as much active fruitful time exploring my interests and passion at the same time; remained an active volunteer at a residential social care service I helped started in 2001 for the care and protection of disadvantaged female adolescents and juvenile delinquents. And I learned to cope and support my family through the sudden loss of young, loved ones.
Educational Qualification:
Bachelor of Science (Double Majors: Psychology and Computer Science), 1990-1993.
Undergraduate Senior Research Thesis in Psychology on children’s emotional responses: “A Mood Induction Procedure Using Film Clips From Animated Features To Rate Children’s Emotional Responses.”
Thesis Supervisors: Professor Richard Davidson and Dr Maureen Rickman
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Vocational Training at Taiwan China Grain Products Research and Development Institute, 2013-2014.
中華穀類食品工業技術研究所
– 烘焙组,麵包全修班,新廿二期。
– 传统组中式,麵食之馒头包子班, 新五期。
– 传统组中式,点心之酥糕类与豆馅调理月饼班, 新五期。
– 手工糖果专班, 新十期。
– 肉品加工调理专班,新八期。
– 米制品加工专班,新六期。
My Career Path:
National Neuroscience Institute, National Council of Social Service, National University of Singapore, Marymount Centre, Pathlight School, Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital & Nursing Home, Home-based Baker.
Volunteer Experience:
Singapore: The Tent [Residential Social Service for Disadvantaged Female Adolescents]
India: Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta.
USA: [Madison, WI.] First United Methodist Church Food Pantry, Title V Indian Education for Native American children, Respite Centre for children and emergency childcare, Parental Stress Centre; [Chicago, IL.] St. Thomas of Canterbury Food Pantry/Soup Kitchen
Co-Founder/ Manager
Since 2010, Krystle has been working with educational institutions, government agencies, ministries and various voluntary welfare organizations within Asia, supporting people of different ages in situational and developmental crisis.
After graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours), Krystle continued to pursue her Masters in Art Therapy in LASALLE College of the Arts, under the Lien Scholarship for Social Leaders.
As a clinician, Krystle is informed by the science of psychology and expressive arts therapies. Through creativity, warmth and compassion, she is passionate about reconnecting adults and children alike with their ikigai, and to bring about meaning, purpose and a sense of fulfilment to their lives. At Total Well-Being SG, Krystle is committed to creating enriching experiences that inform and transform lives, with the hopes that people can access their strengths and capacity for growth.
Krystle also takes a keen interest in volunteering for humanitarian causes. With a non-profit organization, Krystle coordinated and led 2 trauma-relief and disaster response works in Asia to help the community recover from the aftermath of a natural disaster.
Krystle enjoys the great outdoors and she practices Muay Thai to keep active. As someone who also believes in lifelong learning, she remains steadfast in her learning of the Spanish language which she picked up during the COVID-19 pandemic as she continues to improve her skills.
Chairman
Prof Tay Boon Keng’s area of professional interest is in Knee Surgery. His expertise is sought after in local and overseas hospitals, and medical centres. He has held numerous professional and academic appointments both in Singapore and abroad.
Peof Tay’s scholarly interests extended to attending the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program – Governing for Non-Profit Excellence: Critical Issues for Board Leadership in 1999, the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program in 2000 and the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Leaders in Medical Education.
As Chairman, Medical Board (International) in SingHealth from 2007-2014, Prof Tay frequently led teams of doctors, nurses and allied health specialists for medical and academic exchanges with overseas medical institutes with the aim of identifying and nurturing both local and overseas staff to excel in their field of expertise, as well as to establish good working relationships with these institutes.
He was also Visiting Consultant to Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Medical Corps and Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital, a Honorary Consultant & Council Member of Dover Park Hospice, a member for the Panel of Examiners for Master of Medicine (Ortho) Examinations and Medical Advisor for National Panel of Medical Experts for Mediation at the Primary Dispute Resolution Centre of the Subordinate Courts. His overseas faculty positions held included Visiting Professor to Ningxia College and Taishan College, and Senior Visiting Consultant to Liaocheng Affiliated Hospital in China.
Co-Founder/ Manager
At HealthierSG, Dr Seah Betsy advocates for the practice of upstream health-promoting mindsets and behaviours prior to disease onset and management. To her, health is a process and is generated from our everyday actions, and interactions with our internal and external environment. Through HealthierSG, she hopes to inspire seniors to be consistent and proactive in their everyday health actions, and nurture them to develop healthier mindsets and personal capacity in self-care.
Dr Betsy is a registered nurse and she holds Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Bachelor of Science (Nursing) with honours degrees from the National University of Singapore (NUS). HealthierSG’s core programme, SHAPESG, was developed and inspired from her PhD project. Dr Betsy is currently a research fellow at Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, NUS, and she has been teaching various academic modules for pre-registration undergraduate nursing students since 2016. Dr Betsy’s research interests include community care and health promotion for older adults, salutogenesis, sense of coherence and health resources, and behavioural health interventions. Her clinical experiences included a stint at Tan Tock Seng Hospital emergency department.