Dean's Excellence Awards 2022

The 2022 winners are Mr Irwin Wong (DEA Leadership Category), Ms Tammie Zhu Meihua (DEA Administration Category), Dr Suzanne Goh Pei Lin (DEA Education Category) and Prof Tazeen Hasan Jafar (DEA Research Category)

Mr Irwin Wong
Director
Information Technology
Office of Corporate Services

Irwin is an extremely capable, confident and well respected Head of Department in Duke-NUS. Under his leadership, the IT team had risen to an admirable level of competence and client engagement, consistently delivering quality service. Duke-NUS’ cyber security preparedness level, as reviewed and scored by external penetration test vendors, has been maintained at a remarkable level as well.

Ms Tammie Zhu
Senior Manager
Admissions
Office of Education

Tammie actively looks for ideas to improve efficiency without compromising the quality of work. Her 14 years of experience has helped her identify potential issues and work on ways to approach them. As the Admissions Department will need to work closely with both internal and external partners, Tammie will front the discussions on behalf of the team and initiates assistance with a strong focus on building long term relationships.

Dr Suzanne Goh Pei Lin
Assistant Professor & Associate Dean
Student Affairs & Alumni Relations
Office of Education

Dr Goh is compassionate to students and advocates strongly and fairly for them and brings a developmental approach when guiding them in their professional growth. She has championed the development of clinical reasoning skills in early medical students. In this innovative approach, she has spearheaded the creation of a database of more than 100 clinical reasoning cases pegged to the different clinical reasoning developmental stages of students across the Phases.

Prof Tazeen Hasan Jafar
Professor
Health Services & Systems Research
Office of Research

Prof Jafar is a globally renowned clinician-scientist with expertise in implementation research in hypertension, cardio-metabolic and kidney diseases. She has an excellent 15+ year track record of designing and leading highly impactful and clinically relevant research in a variety of global health settings. Prof Jafar has consistently published in high-impact journals, including original research papers, editorials, and authoritative seminars on chronic disease management (especially hypertension and chronic kidney disease).

2022 Winners

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