NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

📣 Dr Keri McCrickerd appointed Executive Director of CHILD

Dr McCrickerd has taken on the helm at the Centre for Holistic Initiatives for Learning and Development (CHILD), effective 1 April 2026. Dr McCrickerd is a research psychologist and Principal Scientist at the Institute for Human Development and Potential (A*STAR IHDP). Since joining CHILD in April 2024, she has led the growth of the Centre’s research team and developed programmes for caregivers and families across Singapore.

She succeeds Prof Nick Sevdalis, who served as Executive Director from October 2023 to March 2026 and advanced the Centre’s strategy, partnerships, and outreach. He continues as Academic Director of the Centre for Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI) at NUS Medicine.

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🧬 Can we extend healthy lives without compromising ethics? 🌍

Join Assoc Prof Michael Dunn, Director of Education at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, , as he explores the ethical questions emerging alongside advances in healthy longevity research and practice, and how bioethics can help shape responsible decision-making in healthcare, research, and society.

Hosted by Prof Brian Kennedy, this session examines how healthy longevity initiatives can remain equitable, person-centred, and socially responsible.

📆 Thursday, 18 June 2026, 7pm to 8pm SGT
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📄 Continuing the dialogue and collaboration on heat health

🌏 NUS Medicine is proud to launch “A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Urban Heat Resilience: Singapore's Experience”, launched today at the World Cities Summit 2026 CLC-IPCC Senior Leaders Roundtable on the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.

Co-written by the Global Heat Health Information Network Southeast Asia Hub with National Environment Agency, Ministry of Manpower, and Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment, to support a more heat-resilient region, the report documents Singapore’s approach to urban heat resilience, from whole-of-government coordination and science-policy partnerships to industry collaboration and community empowerment. While there is no one-size-fits-all pathway, Singapore’s experience offers an approach shaped by its unique context.

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🌟 NUS Medicine established the Aileen Wee Professorship in Liver Diseases 🔬

On 11 June, announced the Aileen Wee Professorship in Liver Diseases, honouring Emeritus Professor Aileen Wee, Department of Pathology at NUS Medicine and the National University Hospital - NUH, for her contributions to pathology, research and medical education over a distinguished career spanning five decades.

An internationally recognised authority in hepatobiliary pathology, Prof Wee has shaped clinical practice, research and medical education through her pioneering work in liver cytopathology, transplantation pathology and chronic liver disease.

She shared, "As a multidisciplinary approach is the way to go, this professorship is not confined to any discipline, and I hope it will benefit scholars who are actively pursuing any aspect of research to uncover some of the many unknowns in the diseased liver for the betterment of patients."

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🏥 Healthcare leadership today is being redefined by data, AI, and real-time decision-making.

As systems strive to improve patient outcomes while managing cost and complexity, leaders must move beyond awareness of AI to understanding its real-world application.

The AI for Healthcare programme by NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine equips professionals to integrate AI into clinical, operational, and strategic workflows—while ensuring responsible and effective adoption.

✨ What you’ll gain:
• Practical insights into AI-driven diagnostics, drug discovery, and hospital operations
• The ability to embed AI into clinical decision-making and care delivery
• A strategic roadmap for AI adoption aligned with regulatory and organizational goals

📅 Starts: 30 June 2026 (Final Intake)
⏳ Duration: 13 weeks | Live online 💻
💵 Fee: USD 2,750 + GST

Lead healthcare innovation with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
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🧠 Calling all neuroscience researchers!

Singapore will take centre stage in global neuroscience from 26 to 30 April 2027, as NUS hosts the EMBO Global Workshop on Cellular and Systems Mechanisms of Memory in Health and Disease.

✨Led by Assoc Prof Sreedharan Sajikumar from the Department of Physiology at NUS Medicine, the workshop is co-hosted by the Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme (TRP), Neuroscience TRP and the Life Sciences Institute Neurobiology Programme, bringing together leading experts to advance research on memory, brain function, and neurological health.

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🩸 As blood demand continues to increase, traditional approaches alone to encourage donation may not be enough to sustain a safe and reliable supply.

Prof Julian Savulescu, Head, Centre for Biomedical Ethics at NUS Medicine, highlights why Singapore's approach to award donors Healthpoints incentivizes blood donations to save lives, while keeping donations safe and voluntary.

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📢 We are pleased to announce the launch of the Neuroscience Translational Research Programme (TRP) at NUS Medicine, and the appointment of Prof Rickie Patani as the inaugural Programme Chair.

👨🏽‍🔬 A distinguished physician-scientist with over two decades of experience in neurodegenerative research, Prof Patani has made significant contributions to the field, particularly through his work using human iPSC models to advance understanding of neurological diseases. His achievements have been recognised with numerous accolades, including the Lister Research Prize and the Goulstonian Lectureship, and most recently, his election as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2025.

Join us in congratulating Prof Patani as he spearheads efforts to transform neuroscience research and drive new breakthroughs in neurological care. 👏🏼

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