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Teaching Faculty
We bring together faculty from different colleges and schools in NTU, including the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CoHASS), College of Science (CoS), Nanyang Business School (NBS), and leading practitioners from the industry to give you a holistic and interdisciplinary learning experience.
NTU Faculty
Assoc Prof Premchand Varma Dommaraju
School of Social Sciences [email protected]I am an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the MSc in Applied Gerontology programme at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I earned my PhD in Sociology from Arizona State University and completed my post-doctoral fellowship at ...
Appointments:
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences
Keywords: Research/Studies on Asia | Sociology
Asst Prof Shannon Ang
School of Social Sciences [email protected]Shannon Ang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University. He uses primarily quantitative methods to pursue his research interests in life course sociology, focusing on the health and social lives of older adults. So far, he ...
Appointments:
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences
Assistant Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (Courtesy Appointment)
Keywords: Sociology
Prof Ho Hau Yan Andy
School of Social Sciences [email protected]Dr Andy H. Y. Ho is a multi-awards winning psychologist, social scientist, and educator who specializes in thanatology, gerontology, psychotherapy, digital health, and community empowerment. He is the Past President of the Association for Death Educa ...
Appointments:
Professor of Psychology and Medicine, School of Social Sciences
Provost's Chair in Psychology
Professor, School of Social Sciences
Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Head, Psychology, School of Social Sciences (SSS)
Keywords: Ageing | Art, Design and Media | Mental Health | Politics and Public Administration | Psychology | Research/Studies on Asia | Sociology
Dr Fabian Lim Chin Leong
[email protected]Team • Ms Margaret Yap, Research Fellow • Ms Rachel Soh, Research Assistant • Mr Nicholas Keong, Research Assistant • Dr Serena Low, PhD student • Dr Michael Yam, PhD Student Dr Fabia Lim obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from the Un ...
Appointments:
Director (Academic Affairs), PaCE
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Professional and Continuing Education
Senior Lecturer, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Keywords: Ageing | Nutrition, Metabolism and Health
Asst Prof Sabrina Luk Ching Yuen
School of Social Sciences [email protected]Dr. Sabrina Ching Yuen LUK joined School of Social Sciences in July 2017. Prior to this, she was Adjunct Associate Professor at the Open University of Hong Kong (January-June 2017), Visiting Lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University SPEED (Jan ...
Appointments:
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences
Keywords: Ageing | Smart Cities | Sustainable Health Financing
Dr Kumaran Rajaram
Nanyang Business School [email protected]Dr Rajaram is a Senior Lecturer with the Leadership, Management and Organization Division at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University. He specializes in Global Leadership and International Management, where he lectures, leads a t ...
Appointments:
Senior Lecturer
Keywords: Business and Management | Chinese Culture & Language (Chinese Studies) | Info-Communication Technology | Internet & Communications | Research/Studies on Asia
Asst Prof Akshar Saxena
School of Social Sciences [email protected]Dr Akshar Saxena is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Nanyang Technological University. His research interests are in applied economics and econometrics with a focus on health, demography, and behavioral economics. His research covers econom ...
Appointments:
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences
Keywords: Ageing | Economics | Mental Health | Nutrition, Metabolism and Health | Population Health | Sustainable Health Financing
Assoc Prof Navin Kumar Verma
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) [email protected]Team • Dr Erfan Rezvani Ghomi, PhD, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow • Mr James Tan Chia Wei, Research Assistant • Mr Wong Han Siang Brandon, IGP PhD student • Mr Zhi Sheng Poh, LKCMedicine PhD student Associate Professor Navin Kumar ...
Appointments:
Associate Professor, Immunology and Cell Biology, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Postgraduate Tutor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
Keywords: Cancer Research | Microbiology and Immunology | Skin Diseases and Wound Repair
Assoc Prof Zhan Shaohua
School of Social Sciences [email protected]I received my doctoral degree in sociology from the Johns Hopkins University in 2013. My research interests include international migration, land politics, food security, social policy, comparative historical research, with a focus on China, Singapor ...
Appointments:
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences
Keywords: Chinese Culture & Language (Chinese Studies) | Research/Studies on Asia | Sociology | Water & Sustainability
Dr Zhao Yan
School of Biological Sciences [email protected]Education BSc. in Chinese Medicine from Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China MSc. in Chinese Medicine from Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China Ph.D. in Chinese Medicine from Beijing University of Ch ...
Appointments:
Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences
Keywords: Traditional Chinese Medicine
Assoc Prof Linda Zhong
School of Biological Sciences [email protected]Education Bachelor of Chinese Medicine (Shanghai University of TCM, 2002) MD (Shanghai University of TCM, 2007) PhD (Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, 2012) Qualification Certificate of Medical Practitioner (Ministry of Health (PR ...
Appointments:
Director, Biomedical Sciences and Chinese Medicine, School of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Director of Biomedical Sciences and Chinese Medicine, School of Biological Sciences (SBS)
Keywords: Ageing | Artificial and Augmented Intelligence | Cancer Research | Mental Health | Microbiome Medicine | Neuroscience | Nutrition, Metabolism and Health | Population Health | Traditional Chinese Medicine
NIE Faculty
Dr Lee Boon Ooi
Senior Lecturer, National Institute of Education
Dr Lee Boon Ooi obtained his Ph.D. & B.A. from National University of Singapore, M.Sc. from McGill University, Canada, and M.A. from University of Keele, UK. His research interests include relationship between culture and mental health, particularly, cultural psychiatry, indigenous healing systems, culture and psychotherapies, cultural psychopathology, cultural syndromes, health beliefs/illness representations/symptom attributions, and phenomenology of the body.
Asst/P Ong Pei Ling Jennifer Isabelle
Assistant Professor, National Institute of Education
Dr. Isabelle Ong received her Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, M.Sc. from University of North Texas, and M.Ed. from National Institute of Education. Her research interests include Domestic Violence, Expressive Art Therapy, Integrative Treatment Modalities including Yoga and Mindfulness, Multiculturalism, Play Therapy, Religion and Spirituality, Sandtray Therapy, Social Justice and Advocacy, Trauma and Abuse.
Dr Tan Soo Yin
Senior Lecturer, National Institute of Education
Dr Tan Soo Yin obtained her Ph.D. from University Putra Malaysia, B.Ed (Hons) from University Putra Malaysia, and Certificate in Education from Lembah Pantai Teachers' Training College, Kuala Lumpur. Her research interests include Substance-abuse counselling (individual and group), Counselling process, Counsellor self-efficacy and Counselling clinical supervision.
Industry Partners, Collaborators & Practitioners
Mr Chern Siang Jye
Assistant Chief Executive Officer
Agency for Integrated Care
Mr Chern holds a Masters of Economics from McGill University, Quebec, Canada and a Bachelors of Economics from the London School of Economics, UK. He currently oversees AIC’s engagement efforts with partners in the Community Care sector. Previously, he oversaw strategy and corporate functions, sector leadership development, grant making and research and data. He also speaks regularly on healthcare and ageing policy, integrated care and community care sector development.
A/Prof Kenny Tan
Chief Executive Officer
St Luke’s ElderCare
He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of St Luke’s ElderCare (SLEC) in August 2016. Leading in the areas of organisational development, healthcare management and education, he has steered SLEC to sustained growth in corporate strategy and development, operational excellence, service delivery and partnerships alliance. Under his leadership, SLEC’s foundation as a day care and rehabilitation provider has expanded to enrich more lives in the community, providing a full suite of community care services including home care, nursing care, a residential care facility and emerging active ageing hubs.
Dr Michael Tan
Dean, Research & Knowledge Exchange, Research Division
University of the Arts Singapore
Dr Michael Tan's research interest explores art and design practices in relation to health & well-being, care, ageing, and human flourishing. Inspired by assemblage theory, he is interested to explore the role of creative practice in shaping culture of care in various care settings and the wider context of medical/ health humanities and health communication.
Dr Tew Chee Wee
Joint Faculty Member
Geriatric Education and Research Institute (GERI)
Dr Tew is a specialist doctor in Geriatric Medicine, specialising in clinical management of the elderly. Her areas of interest include community geriatrics, long term care, dementia and health professional education. Her current projects include evaluation of a hospital-based community nursing curriculum and development of a curriculum for long term care facility nursing.