Clin Assoc Prof Neo Soek Hui Patricia

Clinical A/Prof Neo graduated from medical school at the National University of Singapore in 1997, completed her basic specialty training in Internal Medicine and was awarded advanced traineeship in Oncology. During her training term, she moved to Sweden and did an International Masters of Public Health at Lund University. On her return to Singapore, she continued with specialist training in Palliative Medicine and received further specialty training at Massachusetts General Hospital in US. She completed an executive Masters of Business Administration at INSEAD in recent years.

Dr Neo is a Senior Consultant at the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care in National Cancer Centre Singapore and Head at SingHealth Duke-NUS Supportive and Palliative Care Centre. She served as past Chair of Singapore Hospice Council, Head at Division of Supportive and Palliative Care NCCS and Clinical Director at Assisi Hospice. Her academic interests include national stand-ards, integrative oncology, supportive care in cancer and service development, where she has gar-nered several large grants. She is currently involved in regional palliative care teaching with the Asia Pacific Hospice Network and the Cynthia Goh Palliative Care Institute.

• Lien Collaborative Train the Trainers Programme in Philippines 
• National Quality Standards Education in Malaysia, Thailand 
• Local undergraduate and postgraduate training

• SingHealth Value Council Strategic Lead 
• SingHealth TCM Education and Research Committee Member 
• Cynthia Goh Palliative Care Institute Advisory Board Member 
• SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute Faculty 
• MOH National Strategy for Palliative Care Implementation Committee Member 
• SGH HealthierSG Executive Committee Member 
• Singapore Hospice Council Clinical Services Steering Committee Chair 
• NCCS Population Health Steering Committee Co-chair 
• NCCS Research Institution Review Board (IRB) Institution Representative 
• HCA Hospice Limited, Clinical Review Committee Chair and Board Member

• National Day Public Administration Award – Bronze 
• SingHealth GCEO Excellence Award Outstanding Clinician Award 
• National Day Long service award 25yr Dean’s Award YLLSOM 
• Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence 
• Merit Award MOH 6th National Clinical Quality Improvement Conference 
• Best Poster Award at European Society of Medical Oncology Conference

• Supportive care in cancer, end-of-life care, bereavement care, quality improvement and service development, where she has garnered numerous grants and awards.

• Yang G, Ke Y, Ng XH, Neo PSH, Cheung YB. Proactive symptom monitoring to initiate timely palliative care for patients with advanced cancer: a randomized controlled trial. Support Care Cancer 2025;33(3):249. 
• Zhuang QY, Zhang AY, Cong RSTY, Yang GM, Neo PSH, Tan DSW, Chua MLK, Tan IB, Wong FY. Ong MEH, Lam SSW, Liu N. Towards proactive palliative care in oncology: Devel-oping an explainable HER-based machine learning model for mortality risk prediction. BMC Pall Care 2024;23(1):124. 
• Teo I, Paramasivam K, Chee WY, Ng C, Neo PSH, Lee GL. Deathbed experiences and meaning-making: Perspectives of family caregivers of patients who received cancer palliative care. Palliat Support Care 2024;22(3):444-450. 
• Yang GM, Ong WY, Tan J, Ding J, Ho S, Tan D, Neo P. Motivations and experiences of patients with advanced cancer participating in Phase 1 clinical trials: A qualitative study. Palliat Med 2023;37(2):257-264. 
• Yeo SL, Ng RHL, Peh TY, Lwin MO, Chong PH, Neo PSH, Zhou JX, Lee A. Public sentiments and the influence of information-seeking preferences on knowledge, attitudes, death conversation, and receptiveness toward palliative care: results from a nationwide survey in Singapore. Palliat Care Soc Pract 2023;17:1-14. 
• Soon JJY, Juan DWK, Ong WS, Neo PSH, Salazar E, Zhuang KD, Tan YP, Seo CJ, Ong JCA, Chia CS, Wong JSM. Implementation of a multi-disciplinary team and quality of goals of care discussions in palliative surgical oncology patients. Ann Surg Oncol 2023;30(13):8054-8060.
• Wong VHM, Zhu X, Phua GLG, Ong AHK, Teo SH, Goh SSL, Quah DSC, Neo PSH. Enhancing the safety of patients on opioid infusion in the supportive and palliative care setting. Journal of Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality 2023;2(2):60-66. 
• Chan A; Ports K; Neo P, Ramalingam MB; Lim AT; Tan B; Hart NH; Chan RJ; Loh K. Barriers and facilitators to exercise among adult cancer survivors in Singapore. Support Care Cancer 2022;30(6):4867-4878. 
• Yang GM, Zhou SQ, Xu Z, Goh SSL, Zhu X, Chong DQQ, Tan DSW, Kanesvaran R, Yee ACP, Neo PSH, Cheung YB. Comparing the effect of a consult model versus an integrated palliative care and medical oncology co-rounding model on health care utilization in an acute hospital – an open-label stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial. Palliat Med 2021;35(8):1578-1589. 
• Krishna L, Neo HY, Chia EWY, Tay KT, Chan N, Neo PSH, Goh C, Peh TY, Chiam M, Low JAYH. The role of palliative medicine in ICU bed allocation in COVID-19: a joint position statement of the Singapore Hospice Council and the Chapter of Palliative Medicine Physician. Asian Bioeth Rev 2020;1:1-7. 
• Koh MYH, Hum AYM, Khoo HS, Ho AHY, Chong PH, Ong WY, Ong J, Neo PSH, Yong WC. Burnout and resilience after a decade in palliative care: What survivors have to teach us. A qual-itative study of palliative care clinicians with more than 10 years of experience. J Pain Symptom Manage 2020;59(1):105-115. 
• Lo TJ, Neo PSH, Peh TY, Akhileswaran R, Chen WT, Lee A. Improving quality of Palliative Care through implementation of National Guidelines for Palliative Care. J Palliat Med 2019;22(11):1439-1444. 
• Teo I, Singh R, Malhotra C, Ozdemir S, Dent RA, Kumarakulasinghe N. Barr NK, Yeo WL, Cheung YB, Malhotra R, Kanesvaran R, Yee ACP, Chan N, Wu HY, Chin SM, Hum YMA, Yang GM, Neo PSH, Nadkarni NV, Harding R, Finkelstein EA. Cost of medical care of patients with advanced serious illness in Singapore (COMPASS): prospective cohort study protocol. BMC Cancer 2018 Apr 23;18(1):459. 
• Yang GM, Tan YY, Cheung YB, Lye WK, Lim SH, Ng WR, Puchalski C, Neo PS. Effect of a spiritual care training program for staff on patient outcomes. Palliat Support Care. 2017 Aug;15(4):434-443. 
• Poulose JV, Do KY, PSH Neo. Association between referral-to-death interval and location of death of patients referred to a hospital-based specialist palliative care service. J Pain Symptom Manage 2013;46(2):173-81.