Inspire Issue 1 2020

featuredContinuing the medical legacy of Prof Benjamin Sheares

The new Benjamin Henry Sheares Professorship in Obstetrics & Gynaecology has been conferred on Professor Tan Kok Hian, Senior Consultant, KKH. This will support medical research, education and advances in patient care to prevent and manage complications in pregnancy so as to protect mothers and give their babies the best start in life.

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Coming Soon: Precision Medicine for aggressive eye cancer

Frustrated by delays in diagnosing eye lymphoma, Dr Anita Chan decided to find a way to improve the process. The Clinician Scientist and Head, Ocular Inflammation & Immunology and Head, Translational Ophthalmic Pathology at the Singapore National Eye Centre, shares how her research has improved diagnosis of this disease and the role VisionSave has played in personalising Medicine in eye care.

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SGH team helps to halve maternal death rate in Karnataka

The number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth has more than halved in the Indian state of Karnataka, due largely to a training programme conducted by a team from Singapore General Hospital (SGH). This is the third maternal and child health project SingHealth teams have completed successfully in India, but there is still more work to be done.