Dr Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore and obtained his MRCP (Edinburgh) in 1995. He went on to train in infectious diseases in Singapore and at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He has been Head of Infectious Diseases and of Internal Medicine at SGH. He is currently Infectious Diseases Lead with SingHealth Transplant, and is President of the Transplant Infections Disease Section of The Transplantation Society. He served for 9 years as co-chair of the Asia Fungal Working Group.
Dr Tan has a keen interest in the study of infections in immunocompromised hosts, and is particularly interested in infections in transplant recipients and febrile neutropenic patients
Session:
Celebration of Collaboration, 7 October 2022, 1000 - 1200hrsUndeterred By The Pandemic – What Made It Possible(A SARS Veteran Reflects On COVID)
SARS punished us but COVID-19 gave us a chance to redeem ourselves. How did we do it? In this talk I will review briefly the efforts that were taken after SARS to prepare the hospital and the staff for the next big thing. Needless to say, it called for massive collaboration. But one question is worth asking. Did we just sink money into an event that was hard to predict? There were likely multiple reasons. These will be explored.
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