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English Forum 

"Singapore Elderly Happiness & Dignity" English Forum 

26 January 2014 at National Library Board Central Groundfloor

GUEST SPEAKERS FOR ENGLISH FORUM

26 JAN 2014 Sunday @ National Library Basement 1 (Public to arrive 1:45pm - 2:00pm)

Event Period:  2pm - 4pm   

Moderator: Ms Diana Ser

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Guest-of-Honor: Dr Wiliam Wan - Kindness Movement General Secretary

“Dr. William Wan is the General Secretary of the Singapore Kindness Movement.  He is a retired lawyer and an ambassador for active aging, having won the Active Ager Award of the Council for Third Age in 2011.  He is also very active in charity work as chairman of the Prison Fellowship Singapore and on several boards of charity organizations. He is a grandfather of 3 teenagers.”

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Speaker Ms Peh Kim Choo

Director of Hua Mei Centre for Successful Ageing of the Tsao Foundation TSAO Foundation http://www.tsaofoundation.org

 

Ms Peh is a trained social worker and counselor. She has more than 20 years of experience in social work working with individuals, families and groups. For the last eight years, Kim Choo has been involved in aged care in the area of counseling, supervision of clinical social work and training of aged care professionals and family caregivers.
 
Kim Choo received her degree in social work from the National University of Singapore and subsequently received her Diploma in Training and Clinical management from the Singapore Institute of Management and Diploma in Clinical Supervision from the Satir IInstitute of the Pacific North West.  

Speaker  Dr Radiah Salim

Founder & President  CLUB H.E.A.L.  http://www.clubheal.org.sg/

Dr Radiah Salim graduated with MBBS from Sydney University in 1995. She completed her Graduate Diploma in Family Medicine from NUS in 2002.She had an 8-month stint at IMH as a Resident Physician. Currently she works as a regular locum doctor at Yishun polyclinic, and also continues to render her services as a locum resident physician every second Wednesday afternoon in IMH's long-stay wards. She is the founder and president of Club HEAL.


The majority of her spare time is spent as a volunteer at Club HEAL, a voluntary welfare organization that aims to assist and empower persons with mental illness to regain confidence in themselves and others in their journey towards community reintegration. She regularly contributes articles on menatl health topics in Malay for the local Malay newspaper Berita Harian.

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Speaker Mr Chan Tuck Wai

Senior Associate Director / Human Protections Administrator, Institutional Review Board National University of Singapore

 

Mr. Chan Tuck Wai is the Senior Associate Director of NUS Institutional Review Board and Secretariat. He is also the appointed Human Protections Administrator of the National University of Singapore (NUS).


Mr. Chan is a Singapore Registered Pharmacist, with Masters of Business Administration from the Golden Gate University, San Francisco. He was also the first Certified IRB Professional (CIP) by the Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA) USA, in Asia, and has presented papers during their 2004, 2006 and 2011 annual conferences. Mr. Chan was appointed as temporary adviser to World Health Organisation in 2005 and was invited to attend the WHO Conference on Ethical Aspects of International Collaborative Research and Health Ethics. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Biomedical Ethics with the NUS Centre of Biomedical Ethics.
 

Mr. Chan is a member of the Hospital Ethics Committee at Singapore Institute of Mental Health, member of National Transplant Ethics Committee of Ministry of Health, member of the Code of Ethics Committee of Singapore Pharmacy Council, consultant to Ministry of Community Youth and Sport, Singapore Institute of Management University, Singapore University of Technology and Design and Singapore Polytechnics on research ethics.

 

Mr. Chan was the Head of Medical Affairs at the National University Hospital and was instrumental in the establishment of the first university IRB - NUS-IRB, and the first Nursing and Paramedical IRB in Singapore. He subsequently setup 9 other IRBs in Singapore.Prior to this appointment in NUH, Mr. Chan held the position of Senior Manager, Asia Pacific Regional Regulatory Affairs and Medical Affairs with Aventis-Behring (Asia Pacific). He handled both drug regulatory affairs and multi-centre clinical trials for pharmaceutical and biological products in the Asia Pacific region.Mr. Chan has delivered talks and lectures on Research Ethics and the IRB at local schools and polytechnics, university and other regional conferences. He has also spoken on ethics of end of life care and other bioethics topics..

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Speaker Sri Ghanavenothan Retnam

Music Director Bhaskar's Arts Academy http://www.ghanavenothan.com

with flute player Tan Qing Lun                            with tabla player Shouri Veluri

 

Sri Ghanavenothan Retnam, son of Sri R.Retnam a pioneer musician of Singapore, had his tutelage under Pundit M. Ramalingam and many stalwarts from North and South India. Besides performing, and teaching at Nrityalaya, he also composes music and  has conducted two flute arrangements for his students, first of its sort in Singapore. As the first Singapore Indian artiste to be awarded Singapore's "Young Artist Award" for music, he holds other honorific titles ~ "Sangeetha Kala Nipuna", "Singai Venugana Visharada", “Mohana Murali“, and many awards, including a "Lifetime Achievement & Humanitarian Medallion" by the World Peace and Harmony Organization in New York. and serves in the various programming panels at the National Arts Council, People's Association and the National Youth Council.

Moderator: Diana Ser

Ms Diana Ser has more than 20 years experience in the Singapore media industry, spanning both entertainment and journalism, print and broadcast media.

 

Many of you may remember her as the spunky presenter of Channel NewsAsia's series, Get Rea!

 

As an award-winning presenter and producer, Diana has interviewed political leaders, business leaders, celebrities and ordinary folks. Regardless of their backgrounds, people connect quickly with her down to earth, straight shooting but affable manner.

 

Diana now spends her time training executives on how to work with and via the media. As a host or emcee, she is also a familiar face at many high profile corporate and government events.

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