The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national research university based in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in Singapore. According to most rankings, it is considered to be one of the best universities in the Asia-Pacific and in the world. NUS is a comprehensive research university, offering degree programmes in a wide range of disciplines at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including in the sciences, medicine and dentistry, design and environment, law, arts and social sciences, engineering, business, computing, and music.
The Singapore General Hospital is a tertiary referral hospital in Singapore, located next to Bukit Merah and Chinatown and serviced by Outram Park MRT station. It is the largest and oldest hospital in Singapore, with the foundation of its first building laid in 1821. SGH was ranked as the third best hospital in the world by Newsweek in 2019.
Changi General Hospital is a 1000-bed hospital located in Simei, eastern Singapore. It is Singapore's first purpose-built general hospital to serve communities in the east and north-east regions.
The National University Hospital (NUH) is a tertiary referral hospital in Singapore, located in Kent Ridge. It is a 1,160-bed tertiary hospital serving more than 670,000 outpatients and 49,000 inpatients, and serves as a clinical training centre and research centre for the medical and dental faculties of the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Singapore Health Services is Singapore's largest group of healthcare institutions. The group was formed in 2000 and consists of four public hospitals, three community hospitals, five national specialty centres and a network of eight polyclinics. The Singapore General Hospital is the largest hospital in the group and serves as the flagship hospital for the cluster.
Alexandra Hospital is a hospital in Queenstown, Singapore. On a 110,000 square metres (1,200,000 sq ft) plot of land, the hospital's colonial style buildings were constructed in the late 1930s. Under British rule, it was known as the British Military Hospital and was the site of a massacre during the World War II Japanese occupation. After the liberation of Singapore, the hospital was returned to its British administration, before being handed over to the Singapore government on 11 September 1971. Since then, it has gone through four changes of administration, most recently on 1 June 2018, to a team of long-term stewards under the National University Health System.
University of Malaya Specialist Centre (UMSC) is the private arm of the University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), and one of the top private hospitals in Malaysia. It is a tertiary medical centre with super-specialty services located along Jalan Universiti, Petaling Jaya. Established in 1998, UMSC was initially located at UMMC and in 2007 shifted to UMSC's own building. It is adjacent to the largest teaching hospital in Malaysia, UMMC and Malaysia's oldest medical school, the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya founded in 1962 which shares its roots with the National University of Singapore's Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. UMSC is part of an integrated regional healthcare hub with UMMC, The Faculty of Medicine and The Faculty of Dentistry. Consultants from UMMC are permitted to conduct the private specialist clinic in UMSC after their usual consultation hours, and the facilities at UMMC are shared with UMSC.
The National Healthcare Group (NHG) is a Singapore group of healthcare institutions. The group was formed in 2000 and operates several hospitals, national specialty centres, and polyclinics. Tan Tock Seng Hospital is the largest hospital in the group and serves as the flagship hospital for the cluster.
Healthcare in Singapore or the Singapore healthcare system is supervised by the Ministry of Health of the Singapore Government. It largely consists of a government-run publicly funded universal healthcare system, delivered through schemes such as Medisave, Medishield Life and Medifund, while also including a significant private healthcare sector. In addition, financing of healthcare costs is done through a mixture of direct government subsidies, compulsory comprehensive savings, a national healthcare insurance, and cost sharing.
Master of Medicine (MMed) is a postgraduate Professional clinical degree awarded by medical schools to physicians following a period of instruction, supervised clinical rotations and examination. The degree is usually three years, but maybe four years in some countries and is awarded by both surgical and medical subspecialties and usually includes a dissertation component. The degree may complement an existing fellowship in the chosen specialty or be the sole qualification necessary for registration as a specialist.
Edison T. Liu, M.D., is the former president and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory, and the former president of Human Genome Organization, HUGO from 2007 to 2013.
Tan Chorh Chuan is a former president of the National University of Singapore (NUS), serving from December 2008 to December 2017. Tan is currently a University Professor at the National University of Singapore. Tan was recognised for his leadership contributions to overcoming the Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003, while serving as the Director of Medical Services in Ministry of Health (MOH) from 2000 to 2004. Since January 2018, he has been the Chief Health Scientist at MOH and Executive Director of MOH's new Office for Healthcare Transformation, driving transformation of Singapore's healthcare system.
Stephen Kevin Smith is an academic and health executive who led the creation of the United Kingdom's first Academic Health Science Centre at Imperial College London.
AMRI Hospitals is a private hospital chain which is headquartered in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The company's head office is in Kolkata, West Bengal, with 3 units in Kolkata, 1 clinic in Kolkata and 1 unit Bhubaneshwar in the Indian State of Odisha. The hospital had also opened a health center in Dhaka for its Bangladeshi patients.
The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, established in 1905, is the first institution of higher learning in Singapore and the genesis of the National University of Singapore. The School is one of many who offer medical programmes in the Asia Pacific region. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019 by subject and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject 2019 list NUS Medicine as the leading medical school in Asia. Its distinguished alumni include cabinet ministers of Singapore, well-known doctors and a Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Saw Swee Hock HFLSE was a Singaporean leading expert in statistics, population, and economics, and was a noted philanthropist.
University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) is a premier and multi-specialty healthcare service provider in West Africa. The hospital is located in Ugbowo, Benin City and got established on May 12, 1973 following the enactment of an edict of the Nigeria National Health Act.
Lim Wee Kiak is a Singaporean politician and ophthalmologist. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is a Member of the 14th Parliament and has been representing the Canberra ward of Sembawang Group Representation Constituency (GRC) since 2006. Lim also sits on the Public Accounts Committee in Parliament. Lim co-founded and is currently the group vice chairman of Eagle Eye Centre.
Paul Anantharajah Tambyah, is a Singaporean doctor and professor of infectious diseases, a politician, and a writer.
