University Awards

Outstanding Educator Award

Digital technology can transform medical education to become more efficient, resilient, adaptive and interactive. Effective use of technology preserves the sacred doctor-patient and teacher-student relationship, and yet elevates the learning experience to the highest quality.” Assoc Prof Alfred KOW Wei Chieh
MBBS (NUS)
MMed (Surgery)
MRCS (Edinburgh)
MRCS (Ireland)
FRCSEd (General Surgery)
Department of Surgery
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Teaching Achievements

  • Pioneered the General Surgery Slide Review, a session on a wide range of surgery topics, incorporating real-time annotation, animations and videos. It garnered excellent student feedback for its high interactivity and relevance, and will be offered as a Massive Open Online Course on EdX
  • Demonstrated exceptional leadership in medical curriculum development by adopting innovative advanced technology to facilitate interactive learning, particularly in the domains of patient safety, and general perioperative and systemic surgery through:
    • “Patient Safety in Surgical Education” – an iPad game which imparts practical tips on patient safety in surgery. The game, which includes real life adverse and sentinel events, will be adopted by the other medical schools and healthcare professionals in Singapore
    • “Patient Safety in Surgery as Interprofessional Training” (PASSIT) – a virtual reality training session that allows students to receive universal education on patient safety in an immersive environment during the COVID-19 pandemic
    • “Let’s PASS-IT”– a mobile app, developed together with a team at the Ministry of Health, which is now used as a compulsory education module for Professional Training and Assessment Standards on patient safety for junior doctors locally
  • Headed a team of physicians across four specialties to create an iPad game on “Healthcare Economic Awareness LearnING” to educate healthcare professionals on the cost of investigations and treatments in hospitals
  • Led a medical education team and collaborated with Microsoft Inc. on the use of Hololens 2.0 to create 3D-holographic technology (named Project Horizon), for the training of medical and nursing undergraduates on bedside procedural skills

Publication Credits

  • Published more than 100 papers in internationally refereed journals, including Cell and Nature Communications

International Standing

  • Lead, Regional Expansion Advanced Learning project, Education & Scholarship Committee, International Liver Transplant
    Society (since 2020)
  • Study Group Lead, Minimally Invasive Surgery in HPB Surgery, International Society of Liver Surgeons (since 2020)
  • Fellow, American College of Surgeons (2016)

Awards and Accolades

  • Fellow, NUS Teaching Academy (since 2016)
  • Teaching Excellence Award (Medical) (2018 to 2020 and 2014), NUHS
  • High Achiever Award, NUHS-Mocktar Riady Pinnacle Awards (2018)
  • Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2014/2015 and 2011/2012); and Educator of the Year Award (AY2019/2020), NUS Medicine
  • Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2011/2012 to 2017/18); and Dean’s Honour Roll (2017/2018), NUS Medicine
  • Annual Teaching Excellence Award, NUS (2014/2015 and 2011/2012)
 
 Honour Roll Recipients