Adj Asst Prof Maleena Suppiah Cavert is the Chief Wellbeing Officer at the National University Health System (NUHS). Her career as a food scientist, educator, and healthcare professional spans six countries and over three decades. She keeps healthy through educated nutritional choices, dancing, yoga, swimming, tennis, meditation, and cooking for family and friends. In the ‘sleep’ category, she admits that it’s not optimal yet… but she’s working on it!

Prof Kua Ee Heok is Tan Geok Yin Professor in Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his Psychiatry training at both Oxford University and Harvard University. Over the years, Prof Kua has held multiple leadership titles, including Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at NUS, CEO and Medical Director of the Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, and President of the Pacific-Rim College of Psychiatrists. He was a member of the WHO Research Team for the Global Study of Dementia and has published 30 books on ageing, addiction and mental health. He is Editor-in-Chief (with Norman Sartorius) of the new 7-book series ‘Mental Health and Illness Worldwide’. His novel, ‘Listening to Letter from America’ is used in a course on anthropology in Harvard. He has been invited by the United Nations in New York to address the World Assembly on ‘Depression – the hidden illness’.

Dr Ang Peng Chye is Chairman of Dementia Singapore and Consultant Psychiatrist at The Psychiatric and Behavioural Medicine Clinic. He was a consultant to many corporations and institutions on managing stress, managing transitions and developing models for effective cross-culture work. His keen professional interests lie in psychosomatic medicine, stress research, and psychogeriatrics. Dr Ang graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree at University of Singapore, and trained at the Royal Free Hospital Rotation in Psychiatry.

Prof Tay Boon Keng is Emeritus Consultant of the Orthopaedic Surgery department in Singapore General Hospital (SGH). He was Head of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1995, during which the department achieved many breakthroughs in surgical techniques, as well as in orthopaedic surgery research. Prof Tay has held multiple titles including Chairman Division of Surgery and Chairman Medical Board in SGH. He was presented with the National Courage Award for SARS in 2004 for his exemplary contribution as the Chairman of the Taskforce in SGH. In 2016, he was awarded the SingHealth Distinguished Golden Achievement Award.

Dr Lydia Au is Head of the Division of Geriatric Medicine in JurongHealth Campus. She also practises as a Senior Consultant in Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. Having an extensive clinical experience in geriatric medicine, Dr Au takes a special interest in falls in the elderly, ortho-geriatrics and osteoporosis. She has spoken extensively on these topics on public platforms, and has contributed to two clinical practice guidelines on osteoporosis. Dr Au graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Medicine from the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Prof Wong Poh Kam (PhD, MIT) is Emeritus Professor at NUS Business School. He was the founding chairman of Business Angel Network (Southeast Asia), and is an active angel investor in tech start-ups in Singapore, Silicon Valley and China. Prof Wong has published extensively in leading international journals on entrepreneurship and innovation and was ranked among the top 2% most highly cited researchers globally by AD Scientific index in 2020 and 2021. He has also consulted widely on innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem development policies for the World Bank, OECD, Asian Development Bank and Singapore government agencies.

In her first career, Lee Foong Ming was a news veteran and Vice-President of Editorial Talent Development & Corporate Services at Mediacorp Pte Ltd where she spent almost three decades. Inspired by her volunteer experience with the elderly, Foong Ming transitioned into a second career in the social service sector to promote meaningful ageing. Today, Foong Ming is Manager (Programme & Volunteer Management) at Society for WINGS where she plans programmes to promote meaningful and active ageing among mature women. Prior to this, as Senior Programme Executive at Lakeside Family Services, her programmes helped seniors maintain their cognitive skills and empower them as volunteers.

A/Prof Tan Chay Hoon is an Associate Professor in Pharmacology at National University of Singapore (NUS) and Consultant Psychiatrist at National University Hospital (NUH). She was awarded Honorary Fellow after 36 years as a teaching faculty with the Department of Pharmacology, NUS. A/Prof Tan has received multiple university teaching awards from 2002 to 2020, including NUS Faculty Outstanding Educator in 2016 and Mentoring Innovation and Leadership in Educational Scholarship (MILES) Award in 2020. Prior to her graduation from Singapore University Medical School in 1980, A/Prof Tan obtained her diploma in Acupuncture in 1977. She served as a member of the Health Science Authority Proprietary Medicine Committee, supervised postgraduate students and published articles in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). She also co-edited 2 books namely ‘A Guide To Medicinal Plants’ and ‘Ginseng And Ginseng Products 101: What Are You Buying?’.

Dr Goh Chye Tee is Consultant Physician and former Director of the NTU Chinese Medicine Clinic and Director of Biomedical Sciences/Chinese Medicine at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Amid his career as an accounting professor, he obtained Singapore TCM Registered Physician qualification and a PhD from Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine in China. Dr Goh served as a member of the Accreditation Committee and an Examiner at the TCM Practitioners Board and was an International Peer Reviewer in a WHO ‘Standardisation of Traditional Chinese Medicine’ project. Dr Goh’s clinical practice covers pain management and gastrological ageing disorders. His research interests include depression and TCM philosophy for better health management.

Prof Cheung Chan Fai obtained his BA and MPhil degrees from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and Dr. Phil. from Freiburg University, Germany. His research interests include death and happiness, phenomenology, the philosophy of love, theories of General Education and more. Before Prof Cheung retired from CUHK in 2012, he was Professor and former Chairman of the Department of Philosophy. Prof Cheung is also a prolific author. His most recent publications are: Hong Kong in Crisis (in Chinese, 2021), Educated to be Human: Essays on the Humanities, Philosophy and General Education (in Chinese, 2021), Proximity and Distance (2019), and Phenomenology of Photography (in Chinese, 2019).

Dr Kanwaljit Soin is a well-respected orthopaedic and hand surgeon. She is also a former and Singapore’s first female Nominated Member of Parliament, from 1992-1996. Dr Soin, who was inducted into the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame in 2014, is actively involved in welfare and advocacy organisations. She became a founding member of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) in 1985 and was AWARE’s president between 1991-1993. Her other credentials include being the founding chair of the Singapore chapter of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the founding president of Women’s Initiative for Ageing Successfully” (WINGS). Dr Soin has received accolades such as the Singapore Medical Association Merit Award, Singapore’s Woman of the Year, the International Women’s Forum’s Women Who Make a Difference Award and a UNIFEM Lifetime Achievement Award.