Mr Andy SIM

Lead Education Associate, Master Medical Social Worker (SGH)

Brief Biography:

Andy is a Master Medical Social Worker (Clinical Educator) with the Department of Medical Social Services in Singapore General Hospital (SGH). He is also the Education Co-Director of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Supportive and Palliative Care Centre (SDSPCC), and Lead Education Associate at the Lien Centre for Palliative Care (LCPC) helping to develop education programmes for social workers.

Clinically, Andy is part of the inter-professional care teams in the Internal Medicine Supportive and Palliative Care Services (IM SPCS) and Isolation Intensive Care Unit. He oversees a team of advance care planning (ACP) coordinators to spearhead ACP implementation in SGH and is appointed Education Co-lead in the SingHealth Cluster ACP Workgroup. Andy is appointed Executive Committee Member of SingHealth Centre for Person-Centred Care since January 2023 and has been the Education Lead for ESTHER Network Singapore since 2016.

Andy holds a Master of Social Work degree from New York University (NYU) and is a Fellow of the Zelda Foster Studies Program in Palliative and End-of-Life Care, and Zelda Foster Leadership Programme in the same school. He is also a Fellow in Thanatology (FT) from the Association of Death Education and Counselling (ADEC), USA. His professional interest lies in palliative and end-of-life care, healthcare communication, clinical ethics, person-centred care, and ACP.