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EileenPoon

Cancer Treatment Fund Committee (2021 to 2024)
Co-opted to Council April 2023

Dr Eileen Poon is presently a Consultant Medical Oncologist at National Cancer Centre Singapore. Dr Poon obtained her medical degree from National University of Singapore in 2007. She subsequently completed her postgraduate internal medicine in National University of Singapore and did her postgraduate residency training in Medical Oncology. She also serves as the Vice President for Singapore Society of Oncology (SSO). She has a special interest in Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology (AYAO), which she has initiated the AYAO support group in NCCS in 2017. She also spearheaded a AYA team in NCCS to enhance the cancer care of AYA.

Besides the clinical aspect, Dr Poon is keen to become an inspiring clinical educator too who is able to individualise teaching strategies to help each young doctor reach their full potential as she believes everyone learns differently with their own needs. Dr Poon has met wonderful inspiring mentors in her short career, and she recognize the importance of educating our younger doctors in order for not just science to be handed over, but also good doctoring. This is a skillset which she feels is increasingly underrated, especially with all the technology advancement.