Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist, National University Hospital; Singapore

Sophia Ang was a graduate of NUS medical school in 1990 and obtained her Master of Medicine Anaesthesia in 1995. She specialised in cardiac anaesthesia and completed a year of cardiac anaesthesia training in Massachusetts General Hospital in 1998 to 1999 and another year in Texas Heart Institute in 1999 to 2000.

Sophia is interested in promoting and teaching patient safety. She is the Vice Chairman Medical Board for National University Health Systems( Clinical Governance and Medicolegal ) with interest in projects promoting patient safety such as critical laboratory test communication, reduction of failure to rescue and proper handover of care. Currently she is a member of the Singapore Medical Council and an advisor to the Ministry of Health . She is also the curriculum lead for patient safety at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She helped to develop interprofessional patient safety workshop and patient safety curricula at the medical school and for new hospital staff at junior and senior leadership level.

Sophia was awarded the Public service excellence Gold award in 2011 and was leader of the team awarded the Singapore National Medical Excellence Team award in 2012 for Communication of critical laboratory tests. She was previously a Patient safety consultant with the Ministry of Health and a representative at in the WHO High 5 Patient Safety Project in which her team in National University of Singapore was awarded best poster for implementation of Correct Site Surgery in 2012 at WHO High 5 Project Seminar. In 2020 she received a Bronze National Day Award for Administration work in the area of Patient Safety.

She was previously the President of Singapore Society of Anaesthesia 2006 and immediate President of the Patient Safety Special Interest Group for AMEE 2022-2023( Association of European Medical Education ). She is currently the lead in the selection track for AMEE for patient safety abstracts for 2025 and also in 2024.