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Assoc Prof Yap Yi-Lwern Kevin

Pharmacy Practice Manager & Serious Games Lead, Division of Pharmacy
 
Serious Games, Extended Reality & Metaverse Lead, Allied Health Division Digitalization & Innovation Unit (AHDDIU) Special Interest Group
 
Pharmacy Co-Lead (Develop), SingHealth Allied Health and Pharmacy Data, Innovation, Technology & Transformation (DIT2) Taskforce
 
Clinical Associate Professor, Surgery ACP, Duke-NUS Medical School


Clin Assoc Prof Kevin Yap is an inter-disciplinary digital health strategist, healthcare innovator, and cyber-pharmacist researcher. His research interests and work have included the development and quality evaluation of healthcare innovations, telehealth/mHealth applications, extended reality, metaverse and serious games, artificial intelligence (including generative AI), clinical predictions, 3D-printed applications, and most recently, in sustainable healthcare and the digital health humanities. 

He has over 100 journal publications, 4 book chapters, 1 book and presented at more than 100 conferences. His work has won several local and international awards, including the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore–Pfizer Innovation and Scientific Research Award and the Health 2.0 Outstanding Leadership Award for his leadership excellence in the field of digital health. He has also been featured in various news media such as The Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao and The Australian News. 

He is a recently Certified Metaverse Expert and Prompt Engineer. Besides being on 7 journal editorial boards, Clin Assoc Prof Yap is also an invited reviewer of over 30 international journals, grants, and conferences.