Dr Jen Wei Ying
graduated with First Class Honours in Medical Sciences from the University of
Oxford in 2009. She was awarded the Gibbs prize for outstanding performance in
the Final Honour School examination. She completed her undergraduate medical
training at the University of Oxford, graduating with distinction in 2012. She
was awarded a college exhibition, two book prizes, a research elective prize
and undergraduate scholarship (the Glaxo scholarship) for her academic
performance while at Oxford. She also conducted tutorials for undergraduate
Physiology and Medicine students at St Catherine’s College, Oxford from
2009-2012.
She did her
post-graduate medical training in Singapore, completing the Internal Medicine
Residency (2016) and Haematology Senior Residency (2019) programmes at the
National University Health System. She obtained her Membership of the Royal
College of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 2015, and Fellowship of the
Royal College of Pathologists of the United Kingdom in 2019.
In 2023, Dr Jen pursued an advanced sub-specialisation fellowship in leukaemia. She worked in the world-renown Leukemia Department at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the #1 cancer hospital in the United States of America. During her time at MD Anderson, she was active in clinical research into acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), publishing in high-impact journals such as the American Journal of Hematology, the British Journal of Haematology and Cancer, and presenting clinical trial data at major international conferences.
Dr Jen is currently a Consultant with the Department of Haematology-Oncology at the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS), and is also involved in teaching and research as a Senior
Lecturer with the Department of Medicine at the National University of Singapore - Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She
is leading the adoption of new technologies to provide better care and improve
patient experience at NCIS and the National University Hospital (NUH).