Dr John Eu-Li Wong, Isabel Chan Professor in Medical Sciences, is currently Senior Vice President (Health Innovation and Translation), National University of Singapore (NUS) and Senior Advisor, National University Health System (NUHS).
A medical oncologist-haematologist, Professor Wong obtained his medical degree from NUS and did his residency both in Singapore and in the United States, along with his fellowship at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where he was the Chief Resident in Medicine, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
He is currently co-chairing a multisectoral public, social, and private sector initiative to work with residents in a location based, real-world township, to co-develop programs that are effective, scalable and sustainable to increase healthy longevity, enable purposeful longevity, promote intergenerational bonding and support a community for all ages to allow ageing in place.
He is Co-Chair of the 2022 United States of America National Academy of Medicine Commission for a Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity; a member of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, The Culinary Institute of America, and the Association Montessori Internationale on Healthy Aging, Diet and Lifestyle; a Council Member, M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers where he was Past President of the World Health Summit in 2013; a founding Member of the Association of Academic Health Centers – International; and a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative. He was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Personalized and Precision Medicine, the Nature Index Panel of Senior Medical Advisors, and currently sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the International Editorial Board of the American Journal of Medicine, and the Advisory Board to the Government of Qatar on Academic Medicine and Sidra Medicine.