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October / November 2008
Award Winners, New
Appointments and More...
NCCS Shares Limelight at
Scientific Meeting
Pictured below, from left to right:
Dr Joanne Ngeow (right), Dr Ang
Mei-Kim, Dr Ho Gay Hui (right) and
Mr William Chin Wei Lim (left).
Three doctors and a Research Officer from National Cancer
Centre Singapore (NCCS) each walked away as winners at the
Singapore General Hospital (SGH) 17th Annual Scientific
Meeting which was held from 25th to 26th April 2008 at the
College of Medicine Building.
Staff from Outram Campus, namely,
SGH, NCCS, National Dental
Centre, National Heart Centre,
National Neuroscience Institute SGH
Campus, Singapore National Eye Centre
and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
were invited to submit an abstract of their
work to compete in 13 award categories.
Dr Joanne Ngeow, Registrar of the
Medical Oncology Department
clinched the Young Investigator’s
Award (Clinical) with her paper on
“PET/CT versus Conventional CT
Scans and Bone Marrow Biopsy in the
Initial Staging of Lymphoma Patients:
A Comparative Analysis”.
Her department colleague, Dr Ang
Mei-Kim, an Associate Consultant,
won the Best Poster (Clinical) prize
for her work which featured “A
Promising New Chemoimmunotherapy
Regimen for Advanced Hepatocellular
Carcinoma”.
Dr Ho Gay Hui, Senior Consultant of
the Surgical Oncology Department,
took home the second prize in
the Best Oral Paper (Clinical). Her
winning paper “Cancer Miss Rate in
Women Under 30 Who Undergone
Excision Biopsy of Clinically Benign
Breast Lumps without Preoperative
Ultrasonography”.
The Best Oral Paper (Scientist) prize
was awarded to Mr William Chin
Wei Lim, Research Officer of the
Laboratory of Photodynamic Diagnosis
and Treatment in the Medical Sciences
Division, for his paper on “Membrane
Transport Enhancement of Chlorin
e6 – Polyvinylpyrrolidone and its
Photodynamic Efficacy on the Chick
Chorioallantoic Model”.