Our Staff

Dr Heng has been the director of HSOR since its establishment in 2005.

Email: bee_hoon_heng@nhg.com.sg
Tel: 6496 6939

Eric has worked on a variety of corporate events including the Annual Healthcare Humanity Awards, Senior Management Meetings as well as Board Retreats. Prior to joining NHG, he was an experienced Project Management and Marketing Specialist in Multinational Corporations for more than 7 years.

Ruijie worked as an occupational therapist prior to joining NHG as a research analyst. He has experience working in both the acute and community healthcare settings in Singapore. Ruijie obtained his Masters in Hong Kong and has since worked on numerous research projects aimed at documenting and improving healthcare related outcomes both in Hong Kong and locally. His research interests include assessing psychometric properties of instruments and using various quantitative and qualitative methods in analysis and interpretation of the data collected in studies.

Sheryl H.X. Ng holds a Master of Public Health (Specialization in Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods) from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH), National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining NHG, she worked on Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data and provided statistical and public health expertise in the National University Health System (NUHS). She has also provided biostatistics support to research projects in SSHSPH on physical activity and stroke. Her research interests include longitudinal data analysis and health service utilization patterns of geriatric populations.

Palvannan has developed decision models to improve understanding and support healthcare decision making. Starting from operations analysis and capacity planning, he has moved to MRSA disease modeling and population health analysis using databases. He has previously worked in the defense sector, developing optimization models for resource allocation.

Christina is involved in several community projects, and handles research related administrations in HSOR. Prior to her employment in NHG-HSOR, Christina worked as an Executive (Operations) and Research Assistant in various community healthcare related projects.

Dr Sun Yan has published widely in peer-reviewed medical journals. She has also been awarded a few national grants on developing disease prediction models as well as evaluating the cost and effectiveness of various screening strategies for infectious diseases (MRSA colonization, carbapenemase-producing gram negative bacteria (CPGNB)) and diabetes related complications (diabetic retinopathy and diabetic foot ulcerations etc.). Her current research interests focus on development and implementation of healthcare solutions leveraging on AI & big data analytics, microsimulation for cost effectiveness analysis and value-based care, etc.

Woan Shin's research focuses on the application of mixed methods in the design and evaluation of health services innovations with a special interest in the provision and financing of integrated care for geriatric and end-of-life populations. She was awarded the Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) fellowship in 2008 and the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) research training fellowship in 2015. Her work has been published in academic journals such as PLOS Medicine, BMC Medicine, Palliative Medicine and the Journal of American Geriatrics Society. She has held grants and commissioned projects totalling $5.7 million either as lead or co-investigator. Woan Shin also teaches at NUS and NTU as an invited lecturer within the field of Health Services Research.

Chun Wei has worked as a principal investigator on many clinical informatics projects, particularly in the areas of oncology and chronic kidney disease. He has experience with the development of clinical decision support tools to aid in the individualization of therapy. His current research interest is in predictive analytics. Prior to joining NHG, Chun Wei worked as an Assistant Professor in Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore.

Zhecheng holds a PhD in Industrial & Systems Engineering from NUS. His research area is applied optimisation and discrete event simulation. He has project experience in patient flow simulation, appointment scheduling, workload projection and data visualization, etc.