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Social Prescribing Speakers

Bookmark this page for regular updates as we announce our speakers lineup for the Asia Pacific Social Prescribing Conference!


Keynote Speakers




Prof Sir Sam Everington
MBBS, MRCGP, Barrister, OBE
Pioneering GP at the Bromley by Bow Centre
United Kingdom


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Prof Cheong Koon Hean
Chairman
Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities
Singapore University of Technology and Design


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Prof Thomas Astell-Burt
Professor of Cities and Planetary Health,
School of Architecture, Design and Planning
University of Sydney, Australia


Programme Speakers (Social Prescribing)

Roles of Clinicians in Social Prescribing





Prof Sir Sam Everington
MBBS, MRCGP, Barrister, OBE
Pioneering GP at the Bromley by Bow Centre
United Kingdom

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Dr Ng Wai Chong
Head, Clinical Development, Home Nursing Foundation 
(HNF)




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Dr Gilbert Tan Choon Seng
Director of Regional Clinical Services (South East), Family Physician and Senior Consultant of SingHealth Polyclinics


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Dr Valerie Teo Hui Ying

Family Physician, Senior Consultant; Head, Kallang 
Polyclinic, National
Healthcare
Group
 Polyclinics

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Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca
Medical Doctor
Clinical Lead and Global Director of the National Academy for Social Prescribing




Education and Workforce Development





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Ms Pearline Lee
Deputy Director, Health &
Social Integration,
SingHealth Office of  
Regional Health (SORH) 


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Ms Sonia Hsiung
Director, Community
Health and the Candian
Institute for Social
Prescribing, Canadian
Red Cross

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Dr Bogdan Chiva Giurca
Medical Doctor
Clinical Lead and Global Director of the National Academy of Social Prescribing 

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Asst Prof Suzanne Goh
Associate Dean, Student Affairs, Duke-NUS Medical School



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Prof Feng Xiaoqi
Professor of Urban Health and Environment
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia



 

Social Prescribing in Asia Pacific 






Dr Michael Wong
Group Director
Regional Health System
Singhealth





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Prof Naoki Kondo
Professor and Chair
Department of Social
Epidemiology
Graduate School of
Medicine and School of 
Public Health, Kyoto
University

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Prof Dr Tan Maw Pin
Professor Of Geriatric
Medicine, Department Of Medicine - Faculty Of Medicine, Universiti
Malaya & President,
Malaysian Society Of
Geriatric Medicine

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Dr Elsa Lee
Executive Director
Wong Tai Sin District Health Centre, Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council

Hong Kong



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Mr Sean Tan
Director, Health and Senior Care, AWWA Ltd

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Arts for Wellbeing






Prof Daisy Fancourt
Professor of Psychobiology
and Epidemiology, UCL & Director, WHO Collaborating
Centre on Arts & Health

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​Dr Michael Tan Koon Boon
Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore 

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Evaluation of Social Prescribing





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Dr Caroline Lim
Head of Organisation and Leadership for Non-Profits Programme,
S R Nathan School of
Human Development, SUSS

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Prof Marcello Bertotti
Professor of Public Health at the Institute of Connected Communities,
University of East London, UK


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Prof Mary Lynch
Executive Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland


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​Prof Feng Xiaoqi
Professor of Urban Health and Environment
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia





Lunch time talk by Julia Hortz




Julia Hortz
Journalist



Person-Centered Care






Ms Esther Lim
Chief Allied Health Professional, Singapore General Hospital
Group Chief Allied Health Professional (Workforce Planning), SingHealth
Director of Centre for Person-Centred Care, SingHealth




Ms Ng Tzer Wee
Trainer, Clinical Supervisor,
Consultant, Social Worker












Ms Sim Yu Xuan
Medical Social Worker, National Heart Centre Singapore, SingHealth











Dr Wendy Lawrence, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS
Associate Professor of Health Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK
Global Lead and Co-Developer of Healthy Conversation Skills