| Updates on the Science Behind PrEP Dr Wong Chen Seong
Director, National HIV Programme, NCID Dr Wong Chen Seong is a Senior Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), and Director of the National HIV Programme. He is actively involved in HIV clinical care and research, with interests in the socio-behavioural determinants of HIV/STI, HIV/STI prevention, HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), innovations in HIV service delivery such as telemedicine, as well as HIV and ageing and co-morbidity. Dr Wong is also actively involved in both undergraduate and post-graduate medical education and training. He is an Assistant Professor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Clinical Lecturer at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, as well as a Programme Director of the National Healthcare Group Internal Diseases Residency Programme.
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| Counselling and Referring to PrEP Services Leow Yangfa
Executive Director, Oogachaga Leow Yangfa is executive director of Oogachaga, Singapore's most established, community-based, non-profit professional organisation working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer and gender-diverse (LGBTQ+) individuals, couples and families. As a registered social worker, Yangfa has professional experience working in Singapore's non-profit sector, in social service planning, development and evaluation (in National Council of Social Service from 1999 to 2005), suicide prevention, intervention and training (in Samaritans of Singapore from 2005 to 2013), and working with the LGBTQ+ community (in Oogachaga since 2013). His current role includes providing professional counselling for clients, volunteer management, community and corporate engagement, fund-raising, publicity and delivering professional workshops. He is a registered member of Singapore's Social Work Accreditation and Advisory Board (SWAAB), with a Graduate Diploma in Social Work (National University of Singapore) and Bachelor's Degree in Social Policy (Royal Holloway, University of London). He is also a member of Singapore Association of Social Workers (SASW) and life member of Action for AIDS (AfA).
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| Counselling and Referring to PrEP Services
Ms Fikri Alkhatib
Manager, Action for AIDS Fikri Alkhatib is the Manager of Anonymous Testing Service & Community Research at Action for AIDS (Singapore). She is concerned that public health crises tend to hit already vulnerable groups harder, hence worsening existing inequalities, and believes in the importance of community-based interventions to address this. She has over a decade's experience volunteering for LGBTQ+ and feminist organisations. Before joining AfA, she worked in the civil service as a policymaker. She obtained her BSc in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science and MA in Sociology from Columbia University.
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| Counselling and Referring to PrEP Services
Mr Arun Kumar
Enhanced HIV Programme Manager, NCID Arun is currently the Programme Manager with the Enhanced HIV Programme at National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), and has previously worked with the National HIV Programme. He is former nurse with 11 years' experience in HIV and sexual health community engagement and programme management. He has collaborated on theoretically-informed and community-engaged HIV social research with culturally and linguistically diverse people living with HIV at the national level.
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| National PrEP Guidance – Updates from the National HIV Programme Dr Choy Chiaw Yee
Consultant, National HIV Programme, NCID Dr Choy Chiaw Yee is a Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital. She received her medical training at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and gained membership to the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 2016. Having an active interest in HIV clinical care and research, she is a member of the National HIV Programme and Head of NCID Enhanced HIV Programme. She is also actively involved in education and is a Lee Kong Chian Medicine adjunct teaching faculty and NUS medical faculty member.
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| Sexual Health Dr Lee Pei Hua
Associate Consultant, National Centre for Infectious Diseases Dr Lee Pei Hua is an Associate Consultant Infectious Diseases (ID) Physician at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and Tan Tock Seng Hospital. She graduated from the University of Manchester, UK in 2012 and gained Membership to the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 2017. She completed her specialist training in ID in 2022. Her areas of interests include HIV treatment and prevention, and sexual health. |
| Staying Safe: How the Healthcare Provider can Encourage PrEP Persistence Dr Edwin Sng
Consultant, Changi General Hospital Dr Edwin Sng is currently a Consultant with the Department of Infectious Diseases, Changi General Hospital. He underwent specialty training under Singhealth residency before attaining specialist accreditation in infectious diseases in 2021. He is interested in HIV medicine, sexually-transmitted infections and tropical medicine.
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| Challenging Situations when Prescribing PrEP Dr Dariusz Olszyna
Senior Consultant, National University Hospital Dr Olszyna received a medical degree from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He completed his advanced medical specialty training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. In 2001, he was awarded a PhD in medicine from the University of Amsterdam. Dr Olszyna has been working in the field of HIV for more than 15 years, providing care for people living with HIV/AIDS as well as training in this field for healthcare workers and students. His other clinical interests are Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), treatment as prevention as well as viral hepatitis co-infections. Dr. Olszyna joined the Division of Infectious Diseases at the National University Hospital, Singapore in 2008. He is one of the co-founders and current Clinical Director of the NUH HIV Program, founder of the NUH PrEP service and the sexual health clinic (NUH BePrEP Clinic). Dr Olszyna also serves as the Head of the Division of Advanced Internal Medicine at NUH and Vice Chairman of Medical Board for Education in Alexandra Hospital. |
| A General Practitioner's Perspective on PrEP Implementation Dr Tan Kok Kuan
General Practitioner, Dr Tan Medical Center Dr Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore. He has been in private practice focusing on men's health since 2005. He is a member of the Singapore Men's Health Society and the Singapore Association for the study of Obesity. He was the lead author for the Community Workforce subsection in the Blueprint to end AIDS and HIV transmission in Singapore. He is a reviewer for the Harm Reduction Journal and an Advisor to the Asian Association of Neuropsychopharmacology Panel on Harm Reduction. Dr Tan currently practices at Dr Tan Medical Center, Novena Medical Center. |
