Senior Consultant
Division of Supportive & Palliative Care
Assoc Prof Alethea Yee is a specialist in Palliative Medicine and a Senior Consultant at the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care (DSPC) at the National Cancer Centre Singapore. She was Head of DSPC from 2011-2018 during which she oversaw a huge expansion of DSPC into service, education and research arms. On stepping down as HoD, she was seconded to Assisi Hospice as a Clinical Di-rector from Aug 2018 to Aug 2023. In 2020, with the formation of the Singhealth Duke-NUS Sup-portive and Palliative Care Centre, a platform that offers opportunities for palliative care services within Singhealth to collaborate strategically, A/P Yee took up the post of Deputy Director till 2025, when she became strategic advisor.
On the education front, A/Prof Yee is the Education Director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care Centre (LCPC), Duke-NUS GMS from 2013, as well as founder member of the National Subspecial-ty Training Committee for Palliative Medicine from 2007. From April 2023, she is appointed Chair of RAC (Palliative Medicine) to oversee the national training of palliative medicine specialists.