CRIS Connect: Implementation and Adoption for Healthcare Impact

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About the Speakers

Prof Marcus Ong Eng Hock
Senior Consultant and Distinguished Senior Clinician
Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital (SGH)

Director and Provost Chair
Health Services and Systems Research (Signature Research Programme), Duke-NUS Medical School

Prof Marcus Ong is Senior Consultant and Clinician Scientist at the Department of Emergency Medicine in Singapore General Hospital (SGH). He is also the Director for the Health Services Research Center Singhealth. In Ministry of Health, Singapore, he serves as a Senior Consultant at the Hospital Service Division and Director of Data and Analytics for the Unit for Pre-hospital Emergency Care (UPEC). On top of his clinical appointments, he holds an academic appointment at Duke-NUS Medical School as Professor and Director of Health Services and Systems Research. Prof Ong has been actively involved in research, education and clinical services for more than 30 years.

His research studies focus predominantly on pre-hospital emergency care, medical devices, and health services research. Prof Ong has obtained more than S$64 million in research grants and published extensively in international and local peer-reviewed journals. Prof Ong is also the chairman of the Pan Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study (PAROS) Clinical Research Network (CRN).

Dr Esther Lee Xing Wei

Assistant Director (Healthcare Innovation & Transformation)
National Health Innovation Centre Singapore (NHIC), Consortium for Clinical Research and Innovation, Singapore (CRIS)

Dr Esther Lee’s role entails nurturing healthcare innovations from ideation to implementation. This requires coordination with stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem that spans providers, policymakers to investors. Healthcare innovators and their relentless desire to continually improve and create impact for the healthcare system drives her to support innovation, development, commercialisation and adoption of new technologies into clinical practice.

Prior to joining NHIC, Dr Lee served in SingHealth (SHHQ) focusing on ground-up innovation which entailed nurturing handshakes to create conditions and processes for innovation. She led a team to facilitate partnerships thru co-developing innovation with start-ups, SMEs (funded by Enterprise Singapore) and Institutes of Higher Learning, making such partnerships accessible to innovators. This also included developing frameworks and enablers to facilitate implementation and adoption of co-developed innovation.

Dr Le has also managed a local SME, which manufactures livestock feed additives, with a distribution network overseas. This presented an opportunity for Dr Lee to develop business analytical, operational experience in ISO certification, distributor networks and import/export licensing. Dr Lee has gleaned valuable experience in tech transfer at the NUS Industry Liaison Office, managing an intellectual property portfolio in biochemistry, bioengineering as well as contract negotiations covering material transfer, collaborations and licensing.