Prof Khay Guan Yeoh is Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. His concurrent appointments include Senior Vice President (Health Affairs) of the National University of Singapore, as well as Chief Executive of the National University Health System. He practices as a Senior Consultant at the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National University Hospital.

Prof Yeoh’s research interest is in enhancing the early detection of gastric and colorectal cancers. He is the Lead Principal Investigator of the Singapore Gastric Cancer Consortium, a national flagship research group, and chairs the National Colorectal Cancer Screening Committee of the Health Promotion Board, Ministry of Health. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and has an H-index of 59 with over 11,400 citations. He was awarded the National Medical Excellence Award as Outstanding Clinician Scientist by the Ministry of Health, Singapore in 2013.