Dean's Excellence Awards

Overview

 

Introduced in 2013, the prestigious Dean’s Excellence Awards accord recognition to passionate staff who espouse the school’s values, make significant impact within and beyond the school, seek continuous improvement in their personal best and considered a role model for all. 

Award Categories and Criteria 

There are four award categories and their criteria are: 

(1) Excellence in Administration

  • Made significant contributions either as a leader or in his/her professional areas of work.
  • Innovative in creating ways to improve efficiency and productivity in their respective function within and outside the School.

(2) Excellence in Education

  • Excelled in engaging and inspiring students in their journey of academic pursuit.
  • Recognised in advancing new teaching methodologies, effecting new curriculum development or making a significant contribution to the educational mission of the School.

(3) Excellence in Research

  • Made outstanding contributions to research & development that leads to results in new discoveries or secured significant amount of grants.
  • Played a strategic role in the research & development beyond the School.

(4) Excellence in Leadership (category introduced in 2018)

  • Inspired and influenced others to deliver impactful results through his/her knowledge and experience.
  • Displayed visionary foresight and made tough decisions for the benefit of the team and school.
  • Balanced realism with optimism by setting challenging but realistic goals to champion a vision or cause.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR DEAN'S EXCELLENCE AWARDS (DEA) 2022 WINNERS!

DEA_Winners2022
From L to R: Mr Irwin Wong (DEA Leadership Category), Ms Tammie Zhu Meihua (DEA Administration Category), Dean Thomas Coffman, Dr Suzanne Goh Pei Lin (DEA Education Category) and Prof Tazeen Hasan Jafar (DEA Research Category).

Mr Irwin Wong
Director
Information Technology
Office of Corporate Services

Irwin is an extremely capable, confident and well respected Head of Department in Duke-NUS. Under his leadership, the IT team had risen to an admirable level of competence and client engagement, consistently delivering quality service. Duke-NUS’ cyber security preparedness level, as reviewed and scored by external penetration test vendors, has been maintained at a remarkable level as well.

Ms Tammie Zhu 
Senior Manager
Admissions
Office of Education

Tammie actively looks for ideas to improve efficiency without compromising the quality of work. Her 14 years of experience has helped her identify potential issues and work on ways to approach them. As the Admissions Department will need to work closely with both internal and external partners, Tammie will front the discussions on behalf of the team and initiates assistance with a strong focus on building long term relationships.

Dr Suzanne Goh Pei Lin
Assistant Professor & Associate Dean
Student Affairs & Alumni Relations
Office of Education

Dr Goh is compassionate to students and advocates strongly and fairly for them and brings a developmental approach when guiding them in their professional growth. She has championed the development of clinical reasoning skills in early medical students. In this innovative approach, she has spearheaded the creation of a database of more than 100 clinical reasoning cases pegged to the different clinical reasoning developmental stages of students across the Phases. 

Prof Tazeen Hasan Jafar
Professor
Health Services & Systems Research
Office of Research

Prof Jafar is a globally renowned clinician-scientist with expertise in implementation research in hypertension, cardio-metabolic and kidney diseases. She has an excellent 15+ year track record of designing and leading highly impactful and clinically relevant research in a variety of global health settings. Prof Jafar has consistently published in high-impact journals, including original research papers, editorials, and authoritative seminars on chronic disease management (especially hypertension and chronic kidney disease).

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