Assoc Prof Yang Meijuan Grace

Dr Grace Yang is Senior Consultant in the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore and Associate Professor in Lien Centre for Palliative Care and Programme for Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School. Alongside clinical work, she is actively pursuing health services research in developing and evaluating models of palliative care. With over 60 peer-reviewed publications and over $2.4 million in research grants as principal investigator, she was the first palliative care physician in Singapore to be awarded the NMRC Transition Award in 2019 and HPHSR Clinician Scientist Award in 2023.

• PhD, University of Cambridge, UK 
• MPH (Clinical effectiveness), Harvard University, USA 
• MRCP (UK), Royal College of Physicians (UK) 
• MA, University of Cambridge, UK 
• MBBCh, University of Cambridge, UK

• SingHealth GCEO Outstanding Researcher Award, 2025 
• European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) Early Researcher Award, 2024 
• NMRC HPHSR Clinician Scientist Award – Investigator Category, 2023-2026 
• NMRC Transition Award, 2019-2022 
• NMRC Research Training Fellowship, 2016-2017

• Health Services Research 
• Implementation Science 
• Supportive and Palliative Care

• Yang GM, Ke Y, Ng XH, Neo PSH, Cheung YB. Proactive symptom monitoring to ini-tiate timely palliative care for patients with advanced cancer: a randomized controlled trial. Support Care Cancer. 2025;33(3):249. 
• Cheung YB, Ma X, Chaudhry I, Liu N, Zhuang Q, Yang GM, et al. Reverse Time-to-Death as Time-Scale in Time-to-Event Analysis for Studies of Advanced Illness and Palliative Care. Stat Med. 2025;44(3-4):e10338. 
• Zhuang Q, Zhou S, Ho S, Neo PSH, Cheung YB, Yang GM. Can an Integrated Pallia-tive and Oncology Co-rounding Model Reduce Aggressive Care at the End of Life? Secondary Analysis of an Open-label Stepped-wedge Cluster-randomized Trial. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2024;41(4):442-51. 
• Yang GM, Lee Y, Ke Y, Neo PSH, Cheung YB. Feasibility of Weekly Integrated Pallia-tive Care Outcome Scale (IPOS) Within a Stepped Care Model. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2024;68(3):e174-e82. 
• Zhuang Q, Zhang AY, Cong R, Yang GM, Neo PSH, Tan DS, et al. Towards proac-tive palliative care in oncology: developing an explainable EHR-based machine learn-ing model for mortality risk prediction. BMC Palliat Care. 2024;23(1):124. 
• Yang GM, Koh D, Natesan N, Ng J, Odom JN, Bakitas M. A pilot study to evaluate the feasibility and potential effectiveness of an early palliative care model: "Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends for Singapore". Palliat Support Care. 2024:1-7. 
• Phua GLG, Poh YK, Ong BS, Tan JYT, Koh ARX, Yang GM. Experiences of Migrant Live-in Caregivers in Caring for Patients With Advanced Cancer - A Qualitative Study. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2024:10499091241300694. 
• Yoon S, Goh H, Yeo ZZ, Yang GM, Chong PH, Zhuang Q. Comparing situational in-fluences on differential healthcare utilization trajectories in patients on home palliative care: A qualitative study. Palliat Support Care. 2024:1-8. 
• Lim SY, Ke Y, Mok NK, Tan YY, Neo PSH, Chan A, Yang GM. Factors associated with distress and the impact of distress on acute health-care service utilization among patients diagnosed with breast and gynecological cancers. Palliat Support Care. 2024;22(4):726-33. 
• Ke Y, Neo PSH, Yang GM, Neo SH, Tan YY, Tan YP, et al. Impact of a Multidiscipli-nary Supportive Care Model Using Distress Screening at an Asian Ambulatory Cancer Center: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. JCO Oncol Pract. 2024;20(9):1207-18. 
• Ke Y, Cheung YB, Bakitas M, Odom JN, Lum E, Tan DSW, et al. ENABLE-SG (Edu-cate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends for Singapore) as a proactive palliative care model: protocol for a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation randomized wait-list controlled trial. BMC Palliat Care. 2024;23(1):29. 
• Yang GM, Ong WY, Tan J, Ding J, Ho S, Tan D, et al. Motivations and experiences of patients with advanced cancer participating in Phase 1 clinical trials: A qualitative study. Palliat Med. 2023;37(2):257-64. 
• Ng CZ, Cheung YB, Koh ARX, Teo HR, Mok NKM, Yang GM. Palliative care pain control: inpatient consultation versus corounding models compared. BMJ Support Pal-liat Care. 2023;13(e1):e59-e62.
• Ke Y, Tan YY, Neo PSH, Yang GM, Loh KW, Ho S, et al. Implementing an Inclusive, Multidisciplinary Supportive Care Model to Provide Integrated Care to Breast and Gy-naecological Cancer Survivors: A Case Study at an Asian Ambulatory Cancer Centre. Int J Integr Care. 2023;23(1):14. 
• Zhuang Q, Chong PH, Ong WS, Yeo ZZ, Foo CQZ, Yap SY, et al. Longitudinal pat-terns and predictors of healthcare utilization among cancer patients on home-based palliative care in Singapore: a group-based multi-trajectory analysis. BMC Med. 2022;20(1):313.