Primary Care Speakers

Don Dizon is the Director of the Pelvic Malignancies Program at Lifespan Cancer Institute, Head of Community Outreach and Engagement at The Cancer Center at Brown University, and Director of Medical Oncology at Rhode Island Hospital. Among his editorial roles, he is section editor in Gynecologic Oncology at UpToDate, Associate Editor at The Oncologist and serves on multiple editorial boards. He maintains online columns for Medscape, ASCO and for the journal, The Oncologist and is the chair of the Digital Engagement Committee for SWOG, a member of the National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN). He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO). In 2017, he collaborated with colleagues across the United States and founded the Collaboration for Outcomes using Social Media in Oncology.

Dr Tay Yu Kwang Donovan is a Senior Consultant in Endocrinology in Department of General Medicine at Sengkang General Hospital . He completed his basic specialist training and obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians MRCP (UK), as well as his Master of Medicine (Singapore) in 2010. Dr Tay received further advanced specialist training in Endocrinology and was certified by the Specialists Accreditation Board of Singapore in 2013. He further undertook his fellowship and research training in Metabolic Bone Disease and Osteoporosis at the Metabolic Bone Disease Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, College of Physician and Surgeons, Columbia University (New York, USA) in 2016. Dr Tan's clinical expertise includes management of metabolic bone disease, in addition to common hormonal problems. He runs a calcium and bone clinic at Sengkang General Hospital managing patients with primary hyperparathyroidism, chronic hypoparathyroidism and osteoporosis.

Kiley Loh Dr Kiley Loh Wei-Jen graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2005. After stints at several tertiary healthcare centres in Melbourne for his basic physician training, he successfully entered the Victorian Medical Oncology Training Group programme to undertake subspecialty training in medical oncology. His medical oncology training included stints at Melbourne based hospitals; Alfred Hospital, Cabrini Hospital and the highly regarded Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Dr. Rose Fok is a family physician with special interest in oncology. She practises at the National Cancer Cen-tre Singapore, caring for Breast & Gynae Cancer Survivors and runs a risk management clinic to opti-mise surveillance for mutation positive patients. She also practises at SingHealth Polyclinics (SHP), caring for patients with complex primary care conditions, and co-developing a community palliative care program. Dr Fok is a keen educator and is a faculty and ethics lead at the College of Family Physicians Singapore, Master of Medicine and Fellowship (Family Medicine) programmes. She has a deep interest in health services research, especially in the areas of oncology like cancer prevention, screening, survivorship and high-risk surveillance. In addition, Dr Fok is passionate about primary care research in mental health, transitional care and innovative integrated care delivery models. She is involved in various studies in oncology and family medi-cine, both in the capacity of principal and co-investigator. She advocates for "Cancer as a chronic disease" and has collaborated to develop cancer survivorship clinical practice guidelines in breast and colorectal cancer survivorship. Dr Fok envisage the role of family physician in oncology to focus on preventive care and health promotion to value-add care for the cancer survivor.

Dr Rukshini Puvanendran is Head and Senior Consultant and Assistant Professor at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Family Medicine Service. Her clinical interests are in Midlife Women’s Health including Menopause, Osteoporosis, and Cancer Survivorship. She also has an interest in Chronic Disease Management and Weight Optimisation, especially in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome and subfertility. In addition to clinical work, she is also passionate about education of residents and medical student and is core faculty in Duke-NUS Medical School and clinician faculty for SingHealth Family Medicine Residency. She serves as an examiner for doctors sitting for Masters of Medicine and well as Graduate Diploma examinations.

Dr. Ryan is a Consultant in Division of Medical Oncology at National Cancer Centre Singapore.