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Dr Yap Yi-Lwern Kevin

Pharmacy Practice Manager, Serious Games Lead, Department of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital

Special Interest Group Lead , Allied Health Division Digitalization and Innovation Unit (AHDDIU) Special Interest Group on Serious Games, Extended Reality and Metaverse, Singapore General Hospital

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychology & Public Health, La Trobe University

Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Digital Health, Singapore


Dr Kevin Yap is an inter-disciplinary digital health strategist, healthcare innovator and cyberpharmacist researcher. His interests span the whole digital healthcare innovation cycle through the development, utilization, application and/or evaluation of informatics, internet and other health-related technologies in various healthcare settings to enhance patient care and safety, and health-related information and medications management. His work has included the development and quality evaluation of healthcare innovations, telehealth/mHealth applications, virtual reality and serious games, and 3D-printed applications. He has also applied artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in clinical predictions of side-effects, as well as established quality assessment tools to combat the COVID-19 infodemic and evaluate other digital health technologies. He has over 100 journal publications, 4 book chapters, 1 book and presented at over 100 conferences. His work has won many awards and featured in various media channels in Singapore and Australia, including The Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao, The Australian News and iMedicalApps mHealth Research Digest - an international website featuring medical apps for healthcare professionals. He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Digital Health, on various journal editorial boards and an invited reviewer of many international journals, grants and conferences.

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