Healthcare group to partner NTU school to better integrate healthcare, education and research
The Straits Times - Singapore·2024-10-09 20:00
SINGAPORE - To better address challenges such as an ageing population and an increase in chronic diseases, the National Healthcare Group (NHG) is partnering the Nanyang Technological University’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine).
The collaboration aims to achieve greater integration of healthcare, education and research, said LKCMedicine and NHG.
LKCMedicine was established in 2010 as Singapore’s third medical school, while NHG is the public healthcare cluster for central and northern Singapore.
The two will sign a memorandum of understanding at the 22nd Singapore Health & Biomedical Congress, which will be held at the Singapore Expo on Oct 10.
The agreement with LKCMedicine serves as a bridge to other disciplines across NTU, said Professor Benjamin Seet, group chairman of the medical board for research at NHG.
This is important because healthcare is no longer just a matter of providing medicines and understanding disease but rather requires an interdisciplinary approach, said Prof Seet, who is also co-chair of NHG’s academic partnership office.
“It’s also about how you actually apply engineering, how you apply data, how you apply AI in the workspace,” he told reporters during a briefing on Oct 2.
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