Singapore General Hospital; Singapore

Member of Parliament in Singapore. She served as an elected Member of Parliament in Singapore from 2006 till 2020, participating in three General Elections. She is Senior Consultant, Director of Patient Safety and Quality at the Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital. She is also Adjunct Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Yong Loo Lin Medical School, National University of Singapore and Lee Kong Chian Medical School at NTU. She teaches part-time at the School of Health Sciences, Nanyang Polytechnic and Singapore Institute of Technology. She is also the Director of The SingHealth Duke NUS Institute of Medial Simulation. Her area of sub-specialisation include Prehospital Care Medicine, Cardiovascular and Neurovascular Emergencies. She is passionate about Patient Safety, Medical Education, Leadership training, Communications, International Humanitarian Medicine and Simulation/ Technology-driven Education. She has worked in various countries, conferred numerous awards, including The Master Academic Clinician Award 2025 by Duke NUS Medial School.

Project Director, Joint Commission International; Singapore

Dr Wijayanti helps healthcare organizations around the world to improve quality of care, patient safety and service excellence. With a strong background in acute and primary care, Dr Wijayanti brings over ten years of experience in Asia, America and Europe to deliver results. Dr Wijayanti currently oversees the Ensure Safer Systems (ESS), a bespoke collaboration between the Singapore Ministry of Health, 19 public healthcare institutions in Singapore, and Joint Commission International (JCI)–the world’s largest healthcare accreditor based in the United States. Prior to that, Dr Wijayanti led the quality and allied health divisions at a tertiary cardiac center in Brunei, member of IHH Healthcare, Asia’s second-largest private healthcare operators. Highlights included achievement of initial JCI accreditation and establishment of Brunei’s value-driven outcome programs for interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery. As a physician leader, Dr Wijayanti serves as a bridge between clinical, business and policy arms at organization and health system levels

Changi General Hospital; Singapore

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Changi General Hospital; Singapore

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Community representative; Singapore 

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Director, Quality, Safety and Risk Management (QSRM) and Senior Consultant, Department of Neonatology, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital; Singapore

Dr Chang is Director, Quality, Safety and Risk Management (QSRM) and Senior Consultant, Department of Neonatology, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital(KKH). He is a Clinical Asst Professor in Paediatrics at the DUKE-NUS School of Medicine and the National University of Singapore. In addition, he is an Adjunct Asst Professor in Paediatrics at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He Chairs the Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Standards and Co-chairs the Patient Safety and Risk Council, KKH. He contextualised the Joint Commission International standards in KKH leading to changed mindsets in using standards for continuous improvement. He conducts regular Root Cause Analysis and Speak Up for Safety seminars. His interest include safety culture and contributes in crafting materials and workshops in TeamSPEAK, TeamSTEPPS and TeamCHOICE. He is a faculty of the SingHealth Institute for Patient Safety and Quality (IPSQ) graduate programmes in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality.

He led a team using quality improvement tools to reduce the incidents of chronic lung diseases of infancy in 2013 that won awards. He is President- Singapore Paediatric Society, Standing Committee- Asia Pacific Paediatric Association and Council of Delegates- International Pediatric Association. He had published in peer-reviewed journals, including Cochrane reviews, in quality, safety and neonatal topics. He served as Faculty of Singapore Healthcare Improvement Network, a collaborative program to reduce harm nationally. He is one of few Instructor-Mentors based in Singapore of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Neonatal Resuscitation training.

KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital; Singapore

Ms Pang is a Registered Nurse, specialised in Critical Care Nursing, she headed Quality, Safety and Risk Management for more than 13 years before moving to her current role as the Director for Special Projects.

She initiated the Safety and Reliability- Target Zero Harm Program in 2014 and is instrumental in the establishment Patient Safety Network, Speaking Up for Safety, and Promote Professional Accountability and Civility.

Ms Pang is also a Certified Enterprise Risk Manager and Institution Risk Officer since 2013, was appointed as Chief Risk Officer from 2017 to April 2023. She has initiated the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) program in KKH in September 2011 and has successfully incorporated ERM as part of the operational practices throughout the hospital within 3 years of the roll out.

At the cluster level, she was appointed as the Deputy Group Director of the Institute for Patient Safety and Quality (IPSQ), SingHealth DukeNUS for 2 terms. Within her tenure, she co-convened the TeamSPEAKTM and TeamCHOICETM (Just Culture) programmes. She is also the Principal Faculty for Clinical Governance and Risk for the Graduate Certificate, Diploma and Master Programmes conferred by NUS, and Honorary Senior Faculty in IPSQ. She is contributory to the initiation of Career Progression track for staff who are passionate in specializing in the field of Patient, Safety and Quality.

At the national level, Ms. Pang was a faculty to Singapore Healthcare Improvement Network (SHINe) and Consultant for National Improvement Network, MOH. Given her extensive clinical experience in quality, and risk management she also contributes her expertise as Clinical Lead in the National Facility Management and Safety Workgroup.

Under the Regional Collaborative Training Programmes, Ms Pang led and conducted the Quality Improvement Train-the-trainer Workshop in India, Patient Safety and Quality Management Master Trainers Program for Myanmar, and Healthcare Leadership & Clinical Governance Project in Malaysia.

National University of Singapore; Singapore

Dr Tan Wee Hian is a senior consultant family physician in the National University Polyclinics. He has strong interests in advancing person-centred and empowering patients to take on an active role in managing their own health. He is also an accredited UK Year-of-Care Partnerships PCSP practitioner and trainer in Singapore.

National University of Singapore; Singapore

Adjunct Assoc Prof/Dr Victor Loh is a senior consultant family physician. He is also education director for undergraduate Family Medicine at NUS Medicine. His research interests include shared decision making (SDM) in family medicine, professional identity formation, youth mental health.

Singhealth; Singapore 

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