Innovations in Chronic Disease management during and beyond COVID- 19: Video consultation, Remote monitoring, and virtual models of Care
Speakers
: Dr. Leong Choon Kit ,Dr. Yik Voon Lee ,Dr. Tan Teck Jack ,Dr. Dinesh Guna ,Dr. Kenneth Tan
Organizer
: GP+ Coop, AskDr
Event link
Date
: Sat, Jul 24, 12:30 pm Sat, Jul 24, 01:00 pm
Ticket price
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CME point status
: Pending
Speaker's Profile
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)
Dr. Yik Voon Lee
FAMILY MEDICINE
Dr. Tan Teck Jack
FAMILY MEDICINE
Biography
Dr Tan is the founder and CEO of Northeast Medical Group since 1999. He graduated from University of Melbourne in 1994 and later obtained his Master’s degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is also the administrative leader of United Primary Care Network and serves in various clinical, research and ethics committees. He believes that primary care must leverage on technologies to improve lives.
Dr. Dinesh Guna
GENERAL PRACTICE
Biography
Adj. Assistant Professor. Dr. Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran MBBS, PhD  is a licensed general practitioner (GP) in Singapore with a passion for sustainable initiatives that improve the quality, affordability, and accessibility of healthcare. Dr. Dinesh has managed complex initiatives from health promotion/community-based screening programs in underprivileged populations, to multinational health technology research spanning across industries, by leading multidisciplinary teams to execute aligned objectives. He was conferred the NUS Student Leadership award for multidisciplinary collaborations across faculties of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and others to organise technology-enabled grassroots health promotion campaigns and free annual health screenings for underprivileged communities in Kallang, Geylang, Chinatown, and Macpherson.

Link to more details -  FACES OF CO-OPERATORS: DR DINESH VISVA GUNASEKERAN, A FRONTLINER WITH A VISION 
Credentials And Achievements
Awards:  
1. 2019 NUS Young Alumnus (Medicine) of the Year, National University of Singapore (NUS); 
2. Commonwealth Fellow (Innovation), British High Commission (BHC), Singapore; 
3. National Youth Fund award, National Youth Council (NYC), Singapore.
4. Best Paper Award (Education), issued by Singapore General Hospital (SGH) at the  Singhealth DUKE-NUS Congress 2018. 
5. Best Paper award (1st Runner up), issued by  Tan Tock Seng Hospital at the 2018 International Ophthalmology Congress (IOC), Singapore  
6. WHBRS Distinction award 2014 (Open Category), issued by Wong Hock Boon Research Symposium (WHBRS), Singapore. 
7. 2014 TTSH IOC 1st Place (Open Category) award, issued by Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) at the 7th International Ophthalmology Congress (IOC) by NHGEI, TTSH. 
8. NUS Student Leadership Award (Individual Leadership category)

10 recent publications out of >50:
1) Gunasekeran DV. Technology and chronic disease management. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2018 Feb;6(2):91. Article.
2) Gunasekeran DV. Invited Commentary: Treating the Patient with Uveitis as an Individual – Not a Disease. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2019;137(2):206-207. Article.
3)  Gunasekeran DV* and Liu ZH*, Tan WJ, Koh J, Cheong CP, Tan LH, Lau CS, Phuah GK, Manuel ND, Chia CC, Seng GS, Tong N, Huin MH, Dulce SV, Yap S, Ponampalam K, Ying H, Ong MEH, R P. Safety and Efficacy of telereview in patients with Abdominal Pain Using Video Consultation: a randomised controlled trial evaluating digital telereview (SAVED). J Med Internet Res. e-pub ahead of print. Article.
4)  Weiling LL, Ming Kai AC, Gunasekeran DV. Digital health for patients with chronic pain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Br J Anaesth. 2020 Aug 10. Epub ahead of print. Article.
5) Gunasekeran DV, Wong TY. Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmology in 2020: A Technology on the Cusp for Translation and Implementation. Asia Pac J Ophthalmol. 2020;9(2):61-66. Article.
6)  DS Ting, Gunasekeran DV, Wickham L, TY Wong. Next generation telemedicine platforms to screen and triage. Br J Ophthalmol. e-pub ahead of print. Article.
7)  Agrawal R* and Gunasekeran DV*, Grant R, Agarwal A, Onn MK, Nguyen QD, Pavesio C, Gupta V, COTS-1 Study Group. Clinical features and outcomes of patients with TB uveitis treated with anti-tubercular therapy (ATT) in COTS-1. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2017 Dec;135(12):1318-1327. Article.
8)  Z Liu, M Ng, DV Gunasekeran, H Li, K Ponampalam, R Ponampalam. Mobile technology: Usage and perspective of patients and caregivers presenting to a tertiary care emergency. World J Emerg Med. 2020;11(1):5-11. Article.
9)  Chia KJW, Gunasekeran DV, Laude A. The Impact of Switching Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Therapy in the Management of Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina. 2017 Oct;48(10):859-869. Article.
10)  Bansal S, Gunasekeran DV, Ang B, Lee J, Khandelwal R, Sullivan P, Agrawal R. Controversies in Pathology and Management of Hyphema. Surv Ophthalmol. 2016 May-Jun;61(3):297-308. Article
Financial Declaration
DVG reports equity investment in AskDr, Doctorbell (acquired by Mobile Health Network Solutions, NYSE:$MNDR), Healthlink Protocol, and VISRE.
Accepted Insurance
CHAS, Healthier SG, Cigna, MHC, etc
Dr. Kenneth Tan
FAMILY MEDICINE
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