Senior Consultant
Division of Supportive & Palliative Care
Senior Consultant
SingHealth Duke-NUS Supportive & Palliative Care Centre
Dr Ong Eng Koon is a specialist palliative medicine senior consultant at the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore and Assisi Hospice. He leads the home hos-pice team at Assisi Hospice and contributes towards improving patient care outcomes, including good symptom control, psychosocial support, and journeying with families during bereavement. Taking on further administrative, leadership, and education roles, he is also involved in strategic planning, formulation of processes, and curriculum planning for the interdisciplinary palliative care teams. Dr Ong has keen interests in medical education, especially in the field of humanities, ethics, and professionalism. He has special interests in the humanities and is Co-lead, SingHealth Duke-NUS Medical Humanities Institute; Director, Office of Medical Humanities, SingHealth Medicine ACP, and Deputy Director, Medical Humanities Education Unit (MHEU), Division of Cancer Education (DCE), National Cancer Centre Singapore. Through medical education, he hopes to nurture profes-sional identity formation for both medical students and postgraduate colleagues, improve clinical communications, achieve education excellence in interprofessional education and collaboration, and foster wellbeing for all staff of the academic medicine institute.