Background & Overview

The use of big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) is set to transform many industries, including the healthcare sector. Along with the increasing digitization of our healthcare systems, massive amount of complex data is generated, which offers opportunities for big data analytics. Such investigations will be able to translate the data into real and actionable insights to healthcare practices, thus provide new understanding and ways of treating diseases, and improve overall individual and population health. Some of the issues that can be addressed by big data analytics include inefficiencies of healthcare systems, and potential adverse drug reactions. The application of AI in health analytics of data derived from digital devices may lead to innovative personalized health care.

The Department of Pharmacy at the National University of Singapore is organizing this introductory course on big data and AI with the aim to inform and enthuse healthcare  professionals, clinical-scientists, researchers and students with the fundamentals and some applications of the subject.  Harnessing the power of big data and AI has great potential in uncovering the underlining factors that can aid advancing healthcare practices so as to serve the patients better. No prior knowledge on data science is needed to benefit from this course. Participants will be able to network with our faculty as well as others who attend the course, thus seeding potential collaboration opportunities.

Date

28  February – 1 March 2019

Highlights

• Introduction to big data and AI and its applications in healthcare and medicine
• Transformation of Singapore’s healthcare landscape with big data and AI
• Learn the basics of “R” programming through hands-on training
• Expert panel discussions and networking

Venue

Pharmacy Practice Skills (PPS) Hub
S4 Level 2
Department of Pharmacy
National University of Singapore

Chen Yu Zong, PhD
Professor
Department of Pharmacy
National University of Singapore

Ngiam Kee Yuan, MBBS, MRCS, MMed, FRCS
Group Chief Technology Officer, NUHS
Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer, NUH
Consultant Thyroid and Endocrine Surgeon, NUH
Assistant Professor, YLL SoM, NUS
Singapore

Lou Huei-Xin, PharmD, MSc (Clinical Pharmacy)
Head
National Pharmacy Programme Management Office
Ministry of Health
Singapore

Sreemanee Raaj S/O Dorajoo, PhD
Data Analyst
Health Sciences Authority (HSA)
Singapore

Kevin Y.-L. Yap, PhD, MEng, BSc(Pharm)(Hons), SDMC, SRPharms, CBDSA
Senior Lecturer in Public Health (Digital Health)
Department of Public Health, School of Psychology and Public Health
La Trobe University
Australia

Kuldeep Singh Rajput, PhD
Founder and CEO
Biofourmis Group

Yap Chun Wei, PhD
Principal Research Analyst (Data Science)
National Healthcare Group (NHG)
Health Services & Outcomes Research
Singapore

Li Jialiang, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
National University of Singapore

An Introductory Course to R with Hands-on Training for Healthcare Data Analytics

R is an open source statistical programme that is rapidly becoming the leading tool in data science and statistics. R is arguably the tool of choice in numerous industries because of its versatility and extensibility in solving data problems. Whether you are a heavy-duty number cruncher or an occasional / recreational data analyst, R will fit your needs.

R offers a full suite of functionalities in the form of libraries that offer healthcare researchers a variety of tools to interrogate their data. In this introductory workshop, the critical steps involved in importing, cleaning and preparing datasets for analysis in R with be demonstrated. An introduction to the graphing capabilities of R for visualizing relationships between variables to draw insights from the data will also be covered. Additionally, methods of performing statistical analyses to derive answers to research questions of interest will also be covered.

This workshop is intended for participants who have some prior experience analyzing data using any other statistical software or in Excel. No prior programming experience is necessary but installing R on your laptop prior to the session is required. More details on R installation will follow upon registration of the workshop.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

(a) Import datasets into R
(b) Clean and prepare datasets for analysis
(c) Visualize data via scatter plots
(d) Perform inferential statistical analysis

Breakfast, lunch and Tea will be provided

Cancellation and Substitution Policy Cancellation must be received on or before February 15, 2019. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations received after this date. There is a SGD $100 processing fee on all cancellations. You may send a substitute registrant from the same organization. Substitutions must be submitted via email. To cancel or substitute your registration, contact phacuiy@nus.edu.sg.

Click here to register now!
Registration closes on 15 Feb 2019.

For inquiries, please email to PIRC@nus.edu.sg
This is a SPC CPE recognized event.

Date & Time

Monday, 8 April 2019
8.30 am – 4.30 pm

Venue

Pharmacy Practice Skills Hub
S4 Level 2
Department of Pharmacy
National University of Singapore

Highlights

Do you want to know what are the key decisions made during the major drug discovery and development milestones, or how the scientists in the industry uses PK (and PD) concepts to make these challenging decisions to bring medicines to patients successfully and quickly? Through this course, participants will be given an insider view of the practical applications of PK (and PD) concepts in decision making during Pharmaceutical R&D process, with many examples of realistic industrial scenarios.

This one-day workshop is the first of a series of potentially more workshops covering industrial application of PK and PD in drug discovery and development. Each workshop contains instructor-led lectures mixed in with many realistic examples of industrial scenarios, and activities. Significant emphasis will be placed on interactive hand-on activities to simulate decision making (e.g. which candidate to select, what data do you want to “buy” in what sequence with your limited budget and time frame), while carefully balancing between theories and applications to encourage holistic and integrated thinking. At the end of the workshop, participants have the opportunity to attempt a quiz to self-assess their understanding on what was delivered in the workshop.

Maximum class size is limited to 25, ideally with a mix of participants of different background, to facilitate the interactive nature of the curriculum.

Workshop Contents

• Review basic PK concepts and how to use these concepts to design better studies.
• Understand the physiological and anatomical basis of PK properties and use these to understand why certain drugs have bad PK profiles. Learn strategies to dissect the data in order to identify the root-cause of PK problems (and suggest ways to fix them).
• Introduction to in-vitro and in-silico (QSAR) screening and their use to guide direction of medicinal chemistry and how to design effective screening strategy using appropriate combination of in-vitro, in-silico and in-vivo assays.
• Simulation exercise: Apply all the concepts learned in simulated lead-optimization and candidate selection exercises. See if you can help your project team identify the cause(s) behind the drugs with “bad” PK profiles, or pick the right molecule(s) to progress into human studies with the least amount of data and/or time.

Instructor

Dr. Emile P. Chen
Director, System Modelling and Translational Biology
Glaxo-SmithKline, Inc.

Based in US, Dr Chen is a pharmaceutical scientist with 26 years of industrial experience.
He has vast working knowledge of the overall drug development process in diverse therapeutic areas.

Workshop Fee

SGD$600 per participant (7% GST included)
Maximum class size: 25

Lunch and tea will be provided

Cancellation and Substitution Policy Cancellation must be received on or before February 28, 2019. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations received after this date. There is a SGD $100 processing fee on all cancellations. You may send a substitute registrant from the same organization. Substitutions must be submitted via email. To cancel or substitute your registration, contact phacuiy@nus.edu.sg.

Registration

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For inquiries, please email to PIRC@nus.edu.sg
This is a SPC CPE recognized event.

Date & Venue

17 – 18 April 2019

NUS Kent Ridge Campus
C4-02-01
Multi-purpose Room
National University of Singapore

Topics

• Linking hair biology, chemistry, and physics
• Fundamentals of hair biology and structure, application of hair biology and chemistry to consumer care
• Dandruff and scalp health
• Consumer hair care applications
• Shampoos, conditioners and leave on treatments
• Hair styling and permanent waving
• Penetrating the fiber
• Damage and coloring
• Regulatory and claims
• What makes a good material

Duane Harland, Ph.D
Senior Scientist
AgResearch, New Zealand

Giorgia Pastorin, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy
Assistant Dean (Research), Faculty of Science
National University of Singapore

Trefor Evans, PhD
Institute Fellow, Director of Research
TRI Princeton

Etienne Wang, BA Hons (Oxford), MBBS Hons (UCL), MA, M.Phil, Ph.D (Columbia University)
Consultant
Department of Dermatology
National Skin Centre (NSC)
Singapore

Thomas Dawson, PhD
Senior Principal Investigator
Skin Research Institute of Singapore (SRIS)
Agency for Science Technology and Research
Singapore

Breakfast, lunch and Tea will be provided

Cancellation and Substitution Policy Cancellation must be received on or before March 15, 2019. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations received after this date. There is a SGD $100 processing fee on all cancellations. You may send a substitute registrant from the same organization. Substitutions must be submitted via email. To cancel or substitute your registration, contact phacuiy@nus.edu.sg.

Click here to register now!
Registration closes on 15 March 2019.

For inquiries, please email to PIRC@nus.edu.sg
This is a SPC CPE recognized event.

Date

21 – 22 January 2019

Venue

Pharmacy Practice Skills (PPS) Hub
S4 Level 2
Department of Pharmacy
National University of Singapore

Highlights

The future of healthcare is transforming from quality to value and from healthcare to health.  With the movement to shift health delivery beyond tertiary care hospitals to community for more effective and affordable care, the Department of Pharmacy at NUS is committed to provide continuing education and training support that is timely and relevant to the changing healthcare paradigm in Singapore and the world.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the vision and the direction of integrated community care
• Rationalize the importance of pharmacist involvement in delivering value-add care in the community
• Describe the key features of quality training programs in the community
• Describe the objectives of different types of services that are currently available in the community
• Demonstrate skills to perform medication therapy management for wellness programs in the community settings

Professor Jean-Venable “Kelly” Robertson Goode, PharmD, FCCP, FAPhA, BCPS
Director of Community Pharmacy Practice and Residency Program
Department of Pharmacotherapy & Outcomes Science, School of Pharmacy
Virginia Commonwealth University

Dr. Chow Wai Leng, MBBS, GDFM (SG)
Director of Health Services Integration and Development Division
Ministry of Health

Associate Professor Joyce Lee, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, BCACP
Domain Leader, Division of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacy Practice
Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science
National University of Singapore

Ms. Chung Wing Lam, BSc(Pharm)(Hons), MSc(Clin Pharm Prac), BCPS, BCGP
Principal Pharmacist (Clinical)
Watson’s Personal Care Stores Pte Ltd. Singapore

Mr. Lum Zheng Kang, BSc(Pharm)(Hons)
Registered Pharmacist
Postgraduate Student in Research
Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science
National University of Singapore

Day 1, Monday
21 January 2019

Day 2, Tuesday
22 January 2019

All prices stated are inclusive of 7% GST. Breakfast, lunch and tea will be provided.

Cancellation and Substitution Policy Cancellation must be received on or before December 31, 2018. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations received after this date. There is a SGD $100 processing fee on all cancellations. You may send a substitute registrant from the same organization. Substitutions must be submitted via email. To cancel or substitute your registration, contact phacuiy@nus.edu.sg.

Click here to register now!

Deadline to register extended to 11 January 2019!

For inquiries, please email to PIRC@nus.edu.sg
This is a SPC CPE recognized event.

Date

26 – 27 February 2018

Topics Covered

• Fundamental of Pharmacogenomics
• Clinical Applications of Pharmacogenomics
• Strategies for Clinical Pharmacogenomics Implementation
• Cost Effectiveness of Phamacogenomics Implementation

Venue

Seminar rooms A – D
Department of Pharmacy
National University of Singapore

Christina Aquilante, PharmD, FCCP
Professor
University of Colorado

Alexandre Chan, PharmD, MPH, FCCP
Deputy Head and Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacy
National University of Singapore

Ho Han Kiat, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacy
National University of Singapore

Wee Hwee Lin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacy
National University of Singapore

Ong Pei Shi, PhD
Lecturer
Department of Pharmacy
National University of Singapore

Michael David Winther, PhD
Senior Project Manager
SAPhIRE, A*STAR

Dorothy Toh, PhD
Assistant Group Director (Post-market Cluster)
Health Sciences Authority, Singapore

Doreen Tan, PharmD, BCPS (AQ Cardiology)
Specialist Pharmacist (Cardiology)
Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

Astrid Irwanto, PhD
Junior Principal Investigator
GIS, A*STAR

Regular fee per participant 

S$1000

Early bird registration fee
(register by 02 Feb 2018)

S$900

Group discount *
(register by 02 Feb 2018)

S$900 per participant

Click here to register now!
Registration closes on 19 Feb 2018.

For inquiries, please email to PIRC@nus.edu.sg
This is a SPC CPE recognized event.

Special thanks to the following sponsor:

We are glad that our workshop was well received and thankful for the numerous positive encouragement. We would like to send our gratitude to all participants and speakers for their participation and we sincerely hope you have enjoyed the lectures and have learnt a lot that will be useful in your workplace.

We would also like to thank Vishuo Biomedical Pte Ltd for sponsoring the workshop.

Quotes from our workshop participants

“Thank you for organizing the workshop! It was highly enjoyable and I learnt a lot. More importantly, it was a good networking platform and good for generating ideas” – Dr. Doreen Tan Su-Yin, PharmD, BCPS, Cardiology Specialist Pharmacist & Head, Pharmacy, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

“This was a well-organised workshop and I’ve learnt many new things. Good job to you and your team!” – Joelle Chia, Co-Director, Pharma To Market Pte Ltd

“Thanks for all the hard work put into the PGx workshop! It was really well planned and executed. It was a great opportunity to meet with practicing pharmacists and PGx researchers, and we have learned a lot from the lectures” – Zheng Weiling, PhD, Business Development Manager, Vishuo Biomedical Pte Ltd

News article from NUS Faculty of Science

Date

22 – 23 February 2018

Venue

Block S14, Level  4
Science Drive 2, Lower Kent Ridge Road
National University of Singapore

Why Attend?

Live demonstrations on PBPK modeling & DPRA prediction
Formulation lab & advances in encapsulation technology
Practical tips on transdermal delivery
Network with internationally recognised scientific leaders

Dr Bhashkar Mukerji
Head
Regulatory Affairs & Product Safety
Givaudan Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Mr Pang Tit Keong
Deputy Director (CCU)
CHPB/Pre-Market/HPRG
Health Sciences Authority, Singapore

Dr Thomas Dawson
Senior Principal Investigator
A*STAR IMB

Adjunct Professor
Department of Pharmacy and Drug Discovery
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), USA

Dr Vivek Arjunan Vasantha
ICES, A*STAR

Dr Yuri Dancik
IMB, A*STAR

Dr James Chan
NUS Pharmacy

Dr Gopalakrishnan Venkatesan
NUS Pharmacy

Regular Fee Per Participant

SGD $1400 + 7% GST
(Total SGD $1498)

CoRE-Net Members

SGD $1260 + 7% GST
(Total SGD $1348.20)

NEW Tertiary Institution Discount
(Including Research Institutes)

SGD $500 + 7% GST
(Total SGD $535)

NEW Group Discount
Additional 10% off when you register in groups of 2 or more. Registrants must be from the same company/institute.

Cancellation and Substitution Policy Cancellation must be received on or before February 12, 2018. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations received after this date. There is a SGD $100 processing fee on all cancellations. You may send a substitute registrant from the same organization. Substitutions must be submitted via email. To cancel or substitute your registration, contact phacuiy@nus.edu.sg.

We would like to convey our heartfelt appreciation to all our distinguished speakers, hands-on training demonstrators and participants for taking their precious time off to share their expertise and contribute in one way or another to the success of the workshop. It was heartening to know that our participants found the event relevant and really liked the topics in the program and their corresponding practical sessions. We sure hoped our participants had fun putting on their labcoats and getting their hands dirty (especially for those who have not step into the lab for a long time)!

Quotes from our workshop participants

 “Great series of lectures and practical sessions with a broad coverage of topics that are of interest to the consumer care industry” -anonymous

 “A lot of effort was put into the talks and practical sessions. Knowledgeable speakers and facilitators” -anonymous

“Good mix of science and regulatory topics covered” -anonymous

“Great organization of the entire workshop!” -anonymous

“Excellent demonstrators and experiments” -anonymous

News article from NUS Faculty of Science