Inspire Issue 6 2019

featuredDriving healthcare innovation through philanthropy

Philanthropists are sometimes better placed to address healthcare issues than governments, says Mr Laurence Lien, Chairman, Lien Foundation. Speaking to SingHealth staff recently, Mr Lien shared why this is so and the difference philanthropy can make to healthcare.

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Giving ＆ Philanthropy

Unlocking the potential of Genomic Medicine

Genomic Medicine is already making a difference to patients’ lives and changing the way Medicine is practiced, and now the newly established SingHealth Duke-NUS Genomic Medicine Centre will further advance the potential of this field through medical research and education.

Giving ＆ Philanthropy

Festive art from the heart

Students from the Methodist Girls' School are using art to help patients at Sengkang General Hospital.

Giving ＆ Philanthropy

SGH Run & Jump for Hope 2019

SGH nurses set two Singapore Book of records to raise funds for patients in need. The records they broke were “most number of star jumps performed by a group in 24 hours” and “most number of laps in an 800m relay run in 24 hours”.

Giving ＆ Philanthropy

VisionSave: A light in the darkness

When Mr Steven Seow lost his leg to diabetes, he didn’t want to lose his eyesight next. Find out more about his journey, and how VisionSave made a difference in his life.

Save the date!

A Night to Remember

Date: Friday, 13 December 2019

Time: 7pm – 9.30pm

Venue: Auditorium, Academia

Join us for an evening of the arts as SingHealth clinicians, allied health professionals and medical students share their experiences and inspirational stories through poetry, music, dance and more. Concert highlights include Megan Loy’s story of hope as a Taipei fire survivor, A/Prof Tan Ban Hock’s recount of his experience as an Infectious Diseases specialist when Singapore was hit by the SARS outbreak and Prof Woo Keng Thye’s poem recital. The concert is organised by a group of SingHealth Residents together with the Medicine ACP Medical Humanities Office. Net proceeds of ticket sales will go to the SGH Needy Patients Fund.

Tickets are from $20 to $200. To reserve your tickets, please click here, or scan the QR code.