Clin Assoc Prof Alethea Yee Chung Pheng

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.

• MRCP (2000) UK 
• MBBS (1993), Singapore

• Chair, Residency Advisory Committee (Palliative Medicine), MOH 
• Education Director, Lien Centre for Palliative Care (LCPC), Duke-NUS 
• Strategic Advisor, Singhealth Duke-NUS Supportive and Palliative Care Centre 
• Fellow, Academy of Medicine 
• Member, Medical Advisory Council, NKF 
• Member, Working group on resource intensive treatments with limited benefits (dialysis), Singhealth 
• Service Workgroup, National Palliative Care Strategy Committee, MOH (2013-2015) 
• Nursing home & Inpatient palliative care standards review committee, MOH (2022- 2023)
• Implementation Committee National Strategy of Palliative Care, MOH (2022- 2023)

• Health Services Research 
• Education research in palliative care training
  

• Pang GS, Qu LM, Tan YY, Yee ACP. Intravenous Fentanyl for Dyspnea at the End-of-Life – Lessons for Future Research in Dyspnea. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. Apr 2016;33(3):222-7. 
• Soh TL, Krishna LK, Sim SW, Yee AC. Distancing Sedation in End-of-Life Care from Physi-cian-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Singapore Med J. May 2016;57(5):220-7. 
• Ng DW, Teo MC, Yee AC, Ng KH, Wong TH. Surgery for the palliation of intestinal perfo-ration from secondary metastases in advanced malignancies. Asia Pac J Clin Oncol. Dec 2016;12(4):453-459. 
• Yang GM, Kanesvaran R, Neo SH, Yee ACP, Block SD, Cheung YB. Pilot Study of a Pallia-tive Care and Medical Oncology Co-Rounding Model for Advanced Cancer Inpatients in a Tertiary Hospital in Singapore. J Palliat Med. Jan 2018;21(1):95-98. 
• Teo I, Singh R, Malhotra C, Ozdemir S, Dent RA, Kumarakulasinghe NB, Yeo WL, Cheung YB, Malhotra R, Kanesvaran R, Yee ACP, Chan N, Wu HY, Chin SM, Allyn HYM, 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 Proto-col. BMC Cancer. Apr 2018;18(1):459. 
• Loh KW, Ng T, Choo SP, Saw HM, Mahendran R, Tan C, Chang GCY, Ong YJ, Yee ACP, Chan A, Soo KC. Cancer Supportive and Survivorship Care in Singapore: Current Challenges and Future Outlook. J Glob Oncol. Sep 2018; 4:1-8. 
• Wong TH, Lau ZY, Ong WS, Tan KB, Wong YJ, Farid M, Teo MCC, Yee ACP, Nguyen HV, Ong MEH, Iyer NG. Cancer Patients as Frequent Attenders in Emergency Departments: A National Cohort Study. Cancer Med. Sep 2018; 7 (9): 4434-4446. 
• Ozdemir S, Malhotra C, Teo I, Yang GM, Kanesvaran R, Yee AC, Finkelstein EA. Palliative Care Awareness Among Advanced Cancer Patients and Their Family Caregivers in Singa-pore. Ann Acad Med Singap. Aug 2019;48(8):241-246. 
• Chua GP, Pang GSY, Yee ACP, Neo PSH, Zhou S, Lim C, Wong YY, Qu DL, Pan FT, Yang GM. Supporting the Patients with Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers: What Are Their Palliative Care Needs? BMC Cancer. Aug 2020;20(1):768. 
• Ong EK, Soh GT, Peh TY, Lo TJ, Yee AC. Challenges faced by Community Palliative Care Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic—Experiences from a Hospice. Ann Acad Med Singap. Aug 2020;49(8):588-593. 
• Ozdemir S, Choong HL, Gan SWS, Lim LWW, Malhotra C, Jafar TH, Yee ACP, Vishwanath P, Tan SNG, Finkelstein EA. Patient Decision Aid Development for Older Adults with End-Stage Kidney Disease in Singapore. Kidney Int Rep. Sep 2021 ;6(11):2885-2896. 
• Yang GM, Zhou S, Xu Z, Goh SS, Zhu X, Chong DQ, Tan DS, Kanesvaran R, Yee ACP, Neo PS, 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. Sep 2021;35(8):1578-1589. 
• Lee A, Tang SN, Phua G, Yee A, Neo S Adaptation of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide to Singapore’s Multicultural Setting for Patients With Heart Failure, Renal Failure, or Cancer Palliative Medicine Reports Volume 5.1, 2024,DOI: 10.1089/pmr.2023.0086 
• Neo S, Zhou JX, Wong GC, Mok NK, Yee AC, Phua GL. Teaching Communication Micro-Skills to Cardiologists Managing Seriously Ill Patients in Asia: Challenges Encountered Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Perspectives. Nov 2021; Cureus 13(11): e19957.