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Introducing Our Medical Advisory Panel
 Professor Feng Pao Hsii - Chairman,
Medical Advisory Panel,
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Professor Feng Pao Hsii - Chairman, Medical Advisory Panel, Silver Tsunami Asia
Professor Feng Pao Hsii is presently Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore; Emeritus Consultant in the Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital; a visiting consultant to a number of public and private hospitals; and also has his own part-time private practice. Professor Feng is Chairman of the National Arthritis Foundation of Singapore. He obtained his basic medical degree (MBBS) from the University of Malaya (Singapore) and subsequently earned his MRCP in the United Kingdom on a Colombo Plan Fellowship from the British Government. He was awarded a World Health Organization Research Fellowship, and completed his training in rheumatology under the Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) of the Singapore Government. Upon his return to Singapore, Professor Feng established the first Department of Rheumatology at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital and became its Founding Head.
For his services to medicine, teaching and the public, Professor Feng was awarded the Public Administration Medal Gold by the Singapore Government, the Gold Medal of the Academy of Medicine, and the NHG-Lee Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. The Singapore Society of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology also established the annual Feng Pao Hsii Lecture in his honour. Professor Feng has authored more than 120 publications in local, regional and international journals and books.
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Dr Carol Tan-Goh Yean Eng
Specialist in Geriatric Medicine
Raffles Hospital
Dr Tan is a geriatrician by training and has been active in the development of geriatric medicine services in Singapore where she headed geriatric medicine units in both Changi General Hospital and Singapore General Hospital. She was also with the Ministry of Health, Singapore and held concurrent appointments in the Epidemiology and Disease Control, Integrated Health Services and Health Finance Divisions. She also served as served as Deputy Director (Elderly and Disability Policy), Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and worked on the Prime Minster Office (Ageing) portfolio.
She has been involved in direct patient care across the entire continuum including acute hospitals as well as in the intermediate and long term care sector and has worked with many VWOs.
Dr Tan’s interests are in developing a person-centred, integrated, multispecialty, evidence based approach in the area of healthcare provision incorporating both the clinician as well as administrative and policy planning perspectives. Given the fast ageing population and increased prevalence of disease and disability, Dr Tan is also interested in working in partnership with her fellow healthcare professionals and other stakeholders including employers, insurance providers to promote active ageing, promoting better health, follow-up care and management to minimise disability.
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Dr Victoria Chan-Palay
Dr. Victoria Chan-Palay, has been widely honored for her academic achievements, medical research and accomplishments as teacher, writer,
scholar and expert in brain function, aging and dementia. She has held high academic and clinical positions on three continents, and senior
executive positions in the pharmaceutical industry in the United States and in Switzerland. She has served in the public sector in the
US government as White House Fellow to the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon, Washington DC. As a young athlete she represented her native Singapore in international swimming competitions. She was the first woman to receive the MD degree with highest honors at Harvard Medical School and has received the prestigious Alexander Von Humboldt Prize for medical research from Germany. She has won numerous other prizes for her work on disease mechanisms in the brain, and is a world authority on Alzheimer’s disease. She founded the leading
international journal Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. She has authored several books, numerous articles and book chapters. She
speaks several languages including German and Chinese, and lives in Switzerland.
Dr. Chan-Palay has been included in the Esquire magazine register of “The Best of the New Generation: Men and Women Who are Changing
America”, “ Remarkable Women: A Smith Continuum” and has been called a true global and Renaissance woman. She is a distinguished collector of the work of contemporary Japanese artists and potters.
B.A. Smith College, 1965
M.D. Harvard Medical School.1975, summa cum laude
Ph.D. Tufts University School of medicine, 1969
D.Sc. (honorary) Smith College, 1978
Habilitation Faculty, University of Zurich Medical School 1989
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A/Prof Mak Koon Hou
MBBS, MRCP (UK), M Med (Internal Medicine), MD,
FAMS, FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Glasg), FACP, FACC, FESC
Dr. Mak Koon Hou was awarded the Public Service Commission Scholarship to read Medicine at the National University of Singapore. In 1985, he was first in his final year class and graduated with distinctions in Medicine and Microbiology. Since then, he has been working in various
hospitals of the Ministry of Health and undergone specialist training in Internal Medicine and subsequently Cardiology. Under the Ministry of Health Human Manpower Development Programme, he was further trained in Cardiology, particularly in the field of Coronary Care
and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention at the world-class Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Upon returning to Singapore, he was the Director of the Coronary Care Unit at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Subsequently, he proceeded to establish the Clinical Trials Unit at the National Heart
Centre and developed it into a key regional centre.
Dr Mak is a Visiting Associate Professor of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. His clinical interests
include clinical cardiology, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, acute coronary syndromes and percutaneous coronary intervention. He has published about 150 articles, papers and book chapters, including those in top-tier cardiology journals, and has been awarded 2 patents.
From 2001 to 2006, he served as the Editor of the ASEAN Heart Journal, which is the official publication of the ASEAN Federation of Cardiology. He also served actively in the International Editorial Board of the European Heart Journal and the website, theheart.org, a reviewer
for numerous journals, including the Lancet, British Medical Journal and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. On World Heart Day 2010, Dr Mak launched the Revised and Expanded version of Your Heart Matters, a book to help individuals to know more about their
heart and to maintain in good health.
While serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Singapore National Heart Association (currently known as Singapore Heart Foundation) in 1997, he established the Healthier Choice symbol to help consumers make informed food choices. Dr Mak continues to serve on the Board of the Singapore Heart Foundation. Currently, he is practising as a cardiologist with clinical interest in interventional cardiology at the Gleneagles Medical Centre.
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Ms Louisa Zhang
Louisa Zhang is a Nutritionist who has co-written several books on health and nutrition, and is actively involved in educating the public on nutrition. She provides consultancy services for multinational food companies, and also conducts health improvement programmes at government ministries, schools, private clubs, hotels, multinational companies, polytechnics and hospitals.
Louisa is a Member of the Singapore Nutrition and Dietetics Association and is a member of the Working Group for Clinical Practice Guidelines on Osteoporosis. As Secretary of the Osteoporosis Society of Singapore, she trains Society members to be Health Ambassadors and also specialises in training Health professionals.
She is also known as Mama Miranda, on the popular children’s television programme, Watch Eat.
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