Duke-NUS Health Innovator Programme

Innovation
For aspiring innovators and learners
Duke-NUS Health Innovator Programme

Training the next generation of health innovators

The Duke-NUS Health Innovator Programme (DHIP) is a first-of-its-kind programme in Singapore that assembles a multidisciplinary student team to work on a critical unmet clinical need, while being closely mentored by dedicated industry & clinical mentors.

Made up of a medical student, an engineering student and an MBA student, each team starts with a validated critical unmet clinical need. With their diverse expertise, each team creates a work-like prototype, under the close mentorship of experienced industry and clinical mentors. Their innovation journey culminates in a business pitch - "shark-tank style" - to a panel of judges on Dazzle Day, DHIP's graduating event. All within nine months.

Bring diverse young minds to converge and address a critical unmet clinical need - that's where magic happens.

Through our immersive innovation education programme, DHIP aims to:

Nurture Healthcare Innovators

Encourage innovation with a a problem-solving mindset, to solve healthcare problems.

Foster Venture Creation

Empower students with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Advance Innovation Education

Establish and evolve best practices for immersive innovation education.

A unique journey combining healthcare expertise, innovation mindset and industry experience

A unique problem-driven innovation curriculum to solve future clinical needs in Asia

Developed in-house, our curriculum guides students through the iterative process of innovation, from Discovery, to Design to Develop and lastly, to Dazzle.

Our curriculum is based on the vast combined experience of our teaching faculty, who come from a background of health start-ups and multinational medtech companies in Asia.

Our Fellows

Clinical Fellows (MD students, Class of 2026, Duke-NUS Medical School)


Mr Jasper Chua	Ms Low Xi Zhi	Ms Danielle Yap	Mr Charles Yau

Engineering Fellows (Final Year Biomedical Engineering Students, NUS College of Design and Engineering)


Ms Syn-I Chan	Ms Jaynielle Pineda	Ms Lakshmi Sujeesh	Mr Julian Tan

Business Fellows (MBA Students, NUS Business School)


Ms Nicol Hoong	Ms Qiao Jin	Ms Melody Kwok	Ms Amy Lee

Our Mentors

Clinical Mentors


Dr Foo Li Lian Consultant, Cataract & Comprehensive Ophthalmology, SNEC	Dr Woo Yew Lok Consultant, Orthopaedic Surgery, SGH	Dr Lim Chin Hong Consultant, Upper Gastrointestinal & Bariatric Surgery, SGH	Dr Ravishankar Asokkumar Senior Consultant, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, SGH

Industry Mentors


Ms Ashley Wittorf Head of Business Development, Asia Pacific, MedTech Johnson & Johnson	Ms Cecelia Zhou Vice President & GM, Stryker	Mr Peh Ruey Feng Head of Innovation, Genesis MedTech	Mr Peter Cheng Advisor, ZIG Ventures

Teaching Faculty


Dr Rena Dharmawan Programme Director; Asst Dean & Professor (Innovation Education & Ecosystem Development) Duke-NUS	Dr Bipin Bhola Curriculum Lead; Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS	Mr Alok Mishra Adjunct Associate Professor, Duke-NUS	Dr Mark Chong Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering, NUS College of Design and Engineering


Mr Dennis Ong Senior Education Associate, Duke-NUS	Dr Ali Asgar Saleem Bhagat Associate Professor (Practice); Deputy Director (iHealthTech); NUS College of Design and Engineering

Cohort 2 (AY2023/24)

Cohort 1 (AY2022/23)

Fellows

Clinical Fellows

Dr Wharton O Yinn Chan, MD-PhD, Class of 2025, Duke-NUS
Mr Benedict Lui En, MD student, Class of 2025, Duke-NUS
Dr Tyson Chan Kin-Chung, Associate Consultant, SingHealth Community Hospital
Dr Sabrina Cheok, General Surgery Resident, MOHH
Ms Chua Shi Ling, Clinical Trial Coordinator, National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS)
Dr Prawira Oka, Family Physician, SingHealth Polyclinics
Ms Viviana Fequira Oo, Senior Clinical Trial Coordinator, NCCS

Technical Fellows

Ms Chloe Loh Shih Hui, Data Analyst, SGH
Mr Jerome Tan, Final Year Biomedical Engineering Student, NUS College of Design and Engineering

Business Fellows (MBA Students, NUS Business School)

Mr Lim Tern Poh
Mr Joseph Tan
Mr Tan Pei En

Clinical Mentors

Dr Tan Ngiap Chuan, Family Physician and Senior Consultant; Director, Research, SingHealth Polyclinics
Prof Ng Chirk Jenn, Senior Consultant, SingHealth Polyclinics
Dr Ryan Shea Tan Ying Cong, Consultant, Division of Medical Oncology, NCCS
Dr Rose Fok Wai Yee, Consultant Family Physician, Division of Medical Oncology, NCCS
Dr Evelyn Wong Yi Ting, Associate Consultant, Division of Medical Oncology, NCCS
Dr Ang Xiao Hong Joella, Consultant, Obstetrics ＆ Gynaecology, SGH

Industry Mentors

Ms Chong Sinyi, Sales & Marketing Manager, Roche Diabetes Care Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Ms Chen Yen Yu, Market Access Lead, Roche Diabetes Care Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Dr Huren Sivaraj, CEO and Co-Founder, Oncoshot
Ms Veronica Chew, Head of Open Innovation and Emerging Technologies, MiRXES
Ms Levana Sani, CEO and Co-founder, Nalagenetics
Dr Simranjit Singh, CEO, Guardant Health
Mr Joe Daniel, Senior Director, New Product Introduction (NPI), Guardant Health

Fellows

Clinical Fellows (MD students, Class of 2024, Duke-NUS Medical School)

Mr Ricky T. George
Ms Ramalakshmi Gayathri Vinjamuri
Mr Feng Yi Low

Engineering Fellows (Final Year Biomedical Engineering Students, NUS College of Design and Engineering)

Ms Casey Ang Fann Ting
Ms Cheah Wei Ling
Ms Erika Maria Goh

Business Fellows (MBA students, NUS Business School)

Ms Anar Sanjaykumar Kothary
Mr Daryl Goh
Mr Daniel Wong

Clinical Mentors

Dr Wong Ker Yi, Consultant, Reproductive Medicine, KKH (link)
Dr Ku Chee Wai, Consultant, Reproductive Medicine, KKH (link)
Dr Tan Thiam Chye, Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School; OBGYN, O&G The Women’s Medical Specialist (link)
Dr Ee Tat Xin, Consultant, Reproductive Medicine, KKH (link)

Industry Mentors

Mr Prusothman Sina Raja, Co-founder, Hannah Life
Dr Ng Cailin, CEO and Co-founder, HiCura Medical
Dr Kevin Koh, Founder and CEO, VivoSurgical
Mr Richard Lieu, Head of Technology, VivoSurgical

Get Involved

Interested to know more about DHIP?

Reach out to us at healthinnovator@duke-nus.edu.sg. Recruitment for DHIP Cohort 3 (Aug 2024 to May 2025) is ongoing.

Our News

Our stories

Duke-NUS Health Innovator Programme: Winning team gets $20,000 to develop device for safer childbirth

Our stories

From the imaginations of scientists to the public domain: new programme to nurture next generation of clinician-innovators at Duke-NUS

Media releases

Duke-NUS Health Innovator Programme

Training the next generation of health innovators

Bring diverse young minds to converge and address a critical unmet clinical need - that's where magic happens.

Nurture Healthcare Innovators

Foster Venture Creation

Advance Innovation Education

A unique journey combining healthcare expertise, innovation mindset and industry experience

Our Fellows

Clinical Fellows (MD students, Class of 2026, Duke-NUS Medical School)

Engineering Fellows (Final Year Biomedical Engineering Students, NUS College of Design and Engineering)

Business Fellows (MBA Students, NUS Business School)

Our Mentors

Clinical Mentors

Industry Mentors

Teaching Faculty

Clinical Fellows

Technical Fellows

Business Fellows (MBA Students, NUS Business School)

Clinical Fellows (MD students, Class of 2024, Duke-NUS Medical School)

Engineering Fellows (Final Year Biomedical Engineering Students, NUS College of Design and Engineering)

Business Fellows (MBA students, NUS Business School)

Get Involved

Interested to know more about DHIP?

Our News

Duke-NUS Health Innovator Programme: Winning team gets $20,000 to develop device for safer childbirth

From the imaginations of scientists to the public domain: new programme to nurture next generation of clinician-innovators at Duke-NUS

Project on AI tool to match cancer patients with relevant clinical trials awarded $50,000 at Duke-NUS’ annual innovation challenge

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