Professor Ng Wai Hoe is the Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer (Strategy & Planning) of SingHealth, Chief Executive Officer of Changi General Hospital (CGH) and Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. He was previously Medical Director of the National Neuroscience Institute, Academic Chair of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Neuroscience Academic Clinical Programme and Deputy Chair of the SingHealth Medical Board. He has present and past national administrative responsibilities as Member of the Medical Device Advisory Committee (MDAC) with the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) Singapore, Member of the Medical Technology Advisory Council (MTAC) of the Ministry of Health (MOH), Member of Expert Panel on Human Potential Optimisation (Prenatal/Early Childhood Development) with the National Research Foundation (NRF), Co-Chairperson of the Workgroup to Review the Taking of Informed Consent and Singapore Medical Council Disciplinary Process with the MOH, Panel of Chairmen of Disciplinary Tribunal with the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) and Member of the Governing Board for the Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science with Ministry of Education/Nanyang Technological University (MOE/NTU).
His clinical practice focuses on neurosurgical oncology, epilepsy surgery and stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. He has interests in advanced neuro-imaging, intra-operative imaging, brain mapping and awake surgery. He is a member of the Neuro-oncology Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) and is a member of the Editorial Boards of several major neurosurgery journals such as the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, and CNS Oncology.
He is Chairman of the Neurosurgery Residency Advisory Committee (RAC) and past Chairman of the Chapter of Neurosurgeons (Singapore).
He graduated with MBBS from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) and Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore (FAMS). He also has a Doctor of Medicine (MD) by research from NUS and executive MBA from INSEAD.
Presentation Synopsis
HM1: Thinking Both/And
Dualities and tensions are around us everyday in our lives. How do we balance the demands of today with the needs of tomorrow? How do we adhere to strong compliance and yet have a system that drives innovation? How do we balance shareholder value with social purpose?
Healthcare is no exception and many of these dilemmas appear as paradoxes and contradictions on the surface. For example, how can we deliver population health well and continue to develop tertiary and quarternary capabilities and how can we achieve the balance between patient safety and patient experience?
We will look at the paradoxes, dive into the contradictions and explore alternatives so that we can think both/and.