St. Andrew’s Mission Hospital; Singapore 

Dr Angel Lee is trained as a geriatrician in Tan Tock Seng Hospital with a sub-specialty in Palliative Medicine. As a young registrar and the quality review officer in Geriatric Medicine, she was progressively exposed to quality control and clinical governance through membership in the hospital quality assurance committees, medical record review committee, pharmacy and therapeutic committee. In the partnership with community care organizations, she was involved in quality improvement work through the Kaizen Office. In 2009, she was seconded from Tan Tock Seng Hospital to Dover Park Hospice to be the Medical Director, where she helped to helped to set up the quality framework. She was involved in drafting the National Strategy for Palliative Care in 2011 and subsequently chaired a Ministry of Health workgroup responsible for the drafting of the National Palliative Care Guidelines. In 2014, she was seconded to St. Andrew’s Community Hospital to set up an in-patient Palliative Care Service. She became the medical director in 2018 and went about revising the quality framework and revamping the quality office to make it more responsive to the needs of a growing organization.