Dr Alfred Kow Wei Chieh is the Assistant Dean (Education) of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at National University of Singapore. He chairs the Curriculum Rationalization Task Force and the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UGCC) at the medical school. Concurrently, he is a fulltime surgeon at the National University Health System (National University Hospital), working as a hepatobiliary surgeon (predominantly liver, pancreas and gallbladder diseases, liver transplantation and general surgery). He is also the Undergraduate Medical Education Director at the Department of Surgery, NUS. Dr Kow has been teaching Surgery to undergraduate medical students since he was working at Tan Tock Seng Hospital from 2005 to 2010. After joining NUHS in 2010, he is one of the main drivers for curriculum reform in the Department of Surgery at NUS. He has received many teaching awards since 2007 as shown. He crafted many new teaching programs and modules to cater to the changing practices of Medicine in Singapore, including reforming the Student Internship Program in Surgery and using technology to teach medical students on patient safety. His research areas of interest include the clinical outcomes of diseases involving liver, gallbladder and pancreas diseases/ malignancies and liver transplantation. He is also a champion of minimally invasive surgery in these areas. In addition to the clinical research, he is actively involved in scholarly and academic work involving teaching pedagogy in Medicine and Surgery. He created a new IPad game called PASSED (PAtient Safety in Surgical EDucation) to enhance the training of medical students in this area. He was awarded the Ten Outstanding Young Malaysian (TOYM) Award (Medical Innovation Category) in 2014 for his contributions in liver transplantation and medical education. He is married to Dr Flora Yuan, who is an anaesthetist, and they have 3 lovely children.
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