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8 April 2024

Programme information about Health Manpower Development Programme visiting experts in 2024.

Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) - Visiting Experts

The HMDP VE scheme is made available to all integrated clusters, HPB, HSA and MOH. It provides funds for overseas Experts in medical and health-related fields to be brought to Singapore so as to impart their skills and share their knowledge to help improve and upgrade our medical and health team's expertise in the respective disciplines.

The Experts' visits facilitate the sharing of knowledge and skills among healthcare professionals of similar interest in hospitals and institutions across the public healthcare sector. They are involved in lectures, seminars, workshops and visits to the various departments of hospitals/institutions as part of their HMDP programme.

FY2024 HMDP Visiting Experts Scheme

With reference to the MOH Training Circular Minute No: 02/2024 dated 9 April 2024, the HMDP Selection Panel has met and concluded its selection for HMDP Visiting Expert Scheme FY2024. Approved applications are listed below, applications not listed are considered as unsuccessful. Unless informed otherwise, MOH will not be organising the annual briefing for local coordinators and cluster administrators sessions.

List of Approved Visiting Experts for FY2024

The table below lists the Approved Experts for FY2024. There will be no Alternate Experts from FY2018 onwards. The dates of visit shall be listed once the confirmation has been given by the individual LCs. Please refer to the Events section for the confirmed date and synopsis of each visit. Conditional approval is given for the experts in Table 2, who would need to fulfil the additional stipulated conditions before they could be invited.

Table 1: List of Approved Experts

Topic	Professional Group	Specialty	Name	Institution	Country
Community Mental Health / Population Mental Health	Medical	Mental Health	Thomas Edward Smith	New York State Office of Mental Health & Columbia University, Psychiatry Division	USA
The Omaha System: Standardised care documentation and integrated care planning	Nursing	NA	Wong Kam Yuet, Frances	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
Community Mental Health - Psychiatry Pharmacy	Pharmacy	Psychiatric Pharmacy	Kelly N. Gable	Department of Pharmacy Practice Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy Edwardsville, Illinois	USA
Psychology - Dialectical Behavioural Therapy	Allied Health	Psychology	Anthony P. DuBose	Behavioral Tech, LLC	USA
Improving care for children living with autism and intellectual disability	Medical	Psychiatry, Paediatrics	Robert McConkey	University of Ulster	Nothern Ireland, UK
Usage of AI in Multimorbidity	Medical	Primary Care	Bruce Guthrie	University of Edinburgh	UK
Tracheostomy Physiotherapy Management	Allied Health	Cardiorespiratory	Amanda Jane Thomas	The Royal London Hospital, London	UK
Geriatric Nursing - Integrated Care for Older Person (ICOPE) framework and Caregiver Support	Nursing	Gerontology	Angela Yee Man Leong	The school of nursing of Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
Social and biological influences on caries risk among pediatric populations	Dental	Paediatric Dentistry	Kimon Divaris	Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA
Healthcare Innovation and Transformation - Nursing Innovation, Informatics and Digital Health	Nursing	Innovation	Tiffany Frances Kelley	University of Connecticut School of Nursing	USA
Molecular Imaging and Nuclear Theranostics for Precision Medicine - Prostate cancer, Neuroendocrine Tumors and other Cancers	Medical	Nuclear Medicine	Ken Herrmann	Universitätsklinikum Essen (University Hospital Essen)	Germany
Interventional Radiology - Interventional Oncology for Lung Ablation and Palliative Treatment of Bone Metastases	Medical	Radiology	Thierry Jacques de Baere	Institut Gustave Roussy	France
Care transitions/ Re-designing urgent care of older people	Medical	Emergency Medicine	Christian Hans Nickel	University Hospital Basel	Switzerland
Systemic Implementation of Geriatric Competency Framework and Building Nursing Excellence in Global Context	Nursing	Geriatrics	Mattia Gilmartin	Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE)/NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing/Center for Continuing Nursing Education	USA
Midwifery, Primary Care and Community Nursing - Midwifery-led model of care	Nursing	Midwifery	Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent	International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)	The Netherlands
Occupational Therapy for School-Aged Children	Allied Health	Occupational Therapy	Susan Bazyk	Cleveland State University and Every Moment Counts, LLC	USA
Neurological Gait Deviations	Allied Health	Prosthetics & Orthotics	David Buchanan*	Becker Orthopedic	UK
Pulmonary Physiology, Machine Learning, Airway Diseases, Interstitial Lung Diseases, Lung Transplant	Medical	Respiratory Medicine	1. Chung-Wai Chow 2. Joyce Ka Yan Wu*	1. University of Toronto 2. Toronto General Hospital	Canada
Hospital-based care / Surgical procedures - Lymphedema Management	Medical	Plastic, Reconstructive & Microsurgery	Takumi Yamamoto	National Center for Global Health & Medicine	Tokyo, Japan
Geriatric Care: Delirium and Dementia Across Care Settings	Medical	Geriatric Medicine, General Surgery, Anaesthesia	Esther Seunghee Oh	1. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 2. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center	USA
Systematic Lifespan Approach to Developmental Screening and Mental Health Disorders in Children	Medical	Paediatrics	Paul H. Lipkin	1. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 2. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore	USA
Social-health integration to address determinants of health - Developmental Parenting and Home Visiting Services	Others	Community Paediatrics / Community Nursing	Lori Roggman	Utah State University’s Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services	Utah, USA
Minimally invasive procedures with skeletal anchorage devices in the management of children and adults with dentofacial deformities and sleep-disordered breathing	Dental	Orthodontics	Lee Kee-Joon	Yonsei University	Korea
Team-based Dental Model of Care - Peri-Implantitis	Dental	Periodontology	Moshe Goldstein	Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Faculty of Dental Medicine	Israel
Emerging management and reconstructive surgical strategies for advanced sight-threatening ocular surface diseases.	Medical	Ophthalmology: Cornea and External Diseases / Oculoplastics Surgery	Virender Singh Sangwan	Dr Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital	India
Management of asthma in primary care	Medical	Primary care	Aziz Sheikh	The University of Edinburgh	Scotland

Table 2: List of Conditionally Approved Experts

Topic	Professional Group	Specialty	Name	Institution	Country	Remarks
Neurological Gait Deviations	Allied Health	Prosthetics & Orthotics	David Buchanan*	Becker Orthopedic	UK	Expert will need to sign an undertaking to exclude any promotion of products throughout the programme. Steps should also be taken by the local coordinator of the programme to ensure that the training would not result in any conflict of interest, especially in related procurement.
Pulmonary Physiology, Machine Learning, Airway Diseases, Interstitial Lung Diseases, Lung Transplant	Medical	Respiratory Medicine	1. Chung-Wai Chow 2. Joyce Ka Yan Wu*	1. University of Toronto 2. Toronto General Hospital	Canada	The local coordinator would need to provide justification on how the second expert (i.e. Joyce Ka Yan Wu) could value add to the programme and how her involvement may differ from the first expert (i.e. Chung-Wai Chow) in deepening expertise. . MOH will contact the local coordinator for this justification.