What drives our passion for Academic Medicine?

Prof Ivy Ng, Group CEO, SingHealth 
"Academic Medicine will change the way we deliver care to patients. As thought leaders in care innovation, we will meet our patients' needs for the future."


Prof Ang Chong Lye, DCEO (Clinical Services & Informatics), SingHealth 
CEO, Singapore General Hospital
"We have in our midst great clinicians, great teachers and great researchers."


Prof Soo Khee Chee, DCEO (Research & Education), SingHealth 
Director, National Cancer Centre Singapore
"Our strengths in research will enable us to differentiate the care we deliver to patients. By partnering with Duke-NUS, we will be able to access a network of world-class research resource to help advance medicine and achieve the best clinical outcomes for patients."


Prof Ranga Krishnan, Dean, Duke-NUS
"The SingHealth and Duke-NUS partnership is envisioned as an integrated working enterprise that guides and promotes the future of medicine, tapping on and combining the collective strengths of SingHealth's clinical expertise and Duke-NUS' biomedical sciences research and medical education capabilities." 


Prof Patrick Casey, Senior Vice Dean, Research, Duke-NUS
"Advances in medicine are driven both from discoveries made in basic science and from pursuing questions that first arise from a doctor's assessment of a patient. In an academic medicine environment, the researchers and medical practitioners working together in teams greatly accelerates the pace at which medically-important discoveries are made and actually applied for the benefit of the patient." - 


Prof Robert Kamei, Vice Dean, Education, Duke NUS
"There has always been great teachers in the Singapore public hospitals. Academic Medicine provides additional incentives for faculty to become more skilled as teachers. It also recognises those who come up with ways to better educate our students through innovative curriculum or improved pedagogical approaches." 


Prof John Rush, Vice Dean, Clinical Sciences, Duke-NUS
"Merging clinical care, education and the development of new knowledge in Academic Medicine means medicine is taken beyond clinical care. Academic Medicine means 'clinical care plus'. It means educating others to provide state-of-the art personalised medicine and to develop new knowledge that improves the quality of care by challenging and changing conventional wisdom by finding better ways to screen, diagnose, and treat medical disorders."