Profile
 
I have graduated with a Master of Arts from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University in October 2003. I am now working at the Ministry of Health (Singapore) as a Senior Medical Informatics Consultant. My areas of work include the information architecture for national healthcare systems, using international standards (e.g. HL7, ICD, SNOMED-CT) where applicable to enable  national health information exchange.

Research Interest
 
I am interested in many areas within the field of Biomedical Informatics. My previous research projects include:

Digital Library Initiative 2: "PERSIVAL - Personalized Search & Summarization over Multimedia Information" (2003)
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
Under supervision of Dr Stephen Johnson, Dr Eneida Mendonca

Use of Mediated Schemas & Ontology to Integrate Heterogeneous Biological & Clinical Databases (2002)  [pdf]
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
Under supervision of Dr Yves Lussier

Bayesian Learning with Incomplete Information in Large Medical Databases: An Application of the EM Algorithm (1999)  [pdf]
Medical Computing Laboratory, National University of Singapore
Under supervision of Dr Tze Yun Leong

Developing Virtual Patients: Taking a Lesson from the Tamagotchi (1998)  [pdf]
Medical Informatics Programme, National University of Singapore
Under supervision of Dr Kwok Chan Lun
In Proceedings of the 1998 AMIA Annual Fall Symposium