Hepatitis C - The End Is Nigh?
Speakers
: Dr. John Hsiang ,Dr. Leong Choon Kit
Organizer
: GP+ Coop
Event link
Date
: Sat, Dec 04, 02:00 pm Sat, Dec 04, 04:00 pm
Ticket price
: 0
CME point status
: Pending
Speaker's Profile
Dr. John Hsiang
GASTROENTEROLOGY
Biography
Dr John Hsiang is a Taiwanese who grew up and trained as Gastroenterology specialist in New Zealand. He came to Singapore many years ago with his wife and children as he fell love with the weather, the people and the food!

Dr John completed his specialist training and went to the prestigious Chinese University of Hong Kong and Prince of Wales Hospital where he completed his fellowship training as well as his doctoral research in liver diseases. He published over 25 peer-reviewed papers on liver diseases, H.pylori infection, gut microbiota, hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. 

His specialty interest is fatty liver, colon cancer surveillance and endoscopy. He is interested in empowering patients with the knowledge and know-how to help them to improve their condition and well-being
Credentials And Achievements
Doctor of Medicine (Doctorate)  University of Auckland, New Zealand 2017
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Digestive Diseases, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013-2015
Clinical Training Research Fellowship Award, Health Research Council, New Zealand, 2013-2015
Young Investigator of the Year, NZ Society of Gastroenterology, NZ, 2013
Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP), Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2012
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2003
Financial Declaration
Nil
Accepted Insurance
Corporate - NTUC, GE, Adept Health
Personal - GE Shield
Dr. Leong Choon Kit
FAMILY MEDICINE
Biography
Dr Leong Choon Kit had his training in Public Health and Family Medicine, has his interest pique in public policy and social issues.  He had co-authored the Adult Vaccination Guidelines with several Infectious Disease colleagues in 2016, 2018 and 2020, and has been a strong advocate for vaccination in the primary care. His experiences in medical mission put him in touch with health promotion and disease prevention locally and overseas. He contributes his time in the community, schools, social services on top of healthcare institutions, committees and advocacy groups. Some of these interests he advocated strongly include but not limited to are healthcare systems and model of care, medical ethics, smoking control, issues related to teenage suicide, special needs children and their family and prevention of cancer via vaccine. He manages the Tampines Family Medicine Clinic and leads the Class Primary Care Network (PCN).  He is also the founder and chairman of the GP+ Co-operative Limited in Singapore. Besides clinical and consultancy work, Dr Leong is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS and Yong Loo Lin school of Medicine, NUS.  and an adjunct clinical instructor at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He is also involved in post graduate training with the College of Family Physician Singapore and Family Medicine Residency program with National Health Group Polyclinics and SingHealth Polyclinics.  Dr Leong believes in developing the future generation and he is involved in mentoring younger students and doctors in medicine, technology as well as developing their medical practice in the private sector.
Credentials And Achievements
MBBS, M.Med (Public Health), GDFM, MCFP(S), FCFP(S), FAMS(Family Medicine)
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