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Programme - Day 1

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Day 1 Programme (22 Oct 2026, Thursday)

08:0009:00

Registration 
The Ngee Ann Kongsi (NAK) Auditorium, Academia

09:0009:15

Welcome Address

09:1509:30

Opening Address By Guest-Of-Honour
Mdm Halimah Yacob
(Chancellor of the Singapore University of Social Sciences)

09:3010:30

Plenary Session 1 - Dealing With Surprising Facts: How The Humanities Can Help Devise The Logic Of Diagnosis In The Clinic,
And How Medicine Can Discover Truth In Experience For The Humanities

Prof Ronald Schleifer 
(George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English, The University of Oklahoma)
Prof Jerry B. Vannatta 
(Clinical Professor of Medicine, The University of Oklahoma)

10:3011:00Break
  The NAK Auditorium Breakout Room: L1-S1 Breakout Room: L1-S3 Breakout Room:
L1-S4
11:0012:30Bioethics 1:
A Time to Come: Should Death Be Planned?

Ms Crystal Lim
(Master Medical Social Worker, SGH)
Prof Richard Huxtable
(Director and Professor Medical Ethics and Law,
Centre for Ethics in Medicine, The University of Bristol)
Narratives in Medicine 1:
Who Tells the Story: 
Narrative Authority in Singapore’s Healthcare System


Dr Leong Yi Onn Ian
(Senior Consultant, Tan Tock Seng Hospital)
Breakout SessionAbstracts/
Healing Arts
12:3013:30Lunch
  The NAK Auditorium
13:3014:45

Plenary Session 2

14:4515:15Break
  The NAK Auditorium Breakout Room: L1-S1 Breakout Room: L1-S3 Breakout Room:
L1-S4
15:1516:45Breakout SessionBioethics 2:

Advancing Nursing Voices In Ethics To Ensure Care Remains Humane, Meaningful And Values -Driven

Assoc Prof Michael Dunn
(Director, CBmE, YLLSoM, NUS)
Assoc Prof Edward Boon
(Associate Professor, HSS)
Assoc Prof Serena Koh
(Associate Professor, NUS)
Narratives in Medicine 2:
Making Meaning In The Midst Of Illness -
Arts, Humanities And The Lived Experience In Singapore

Abstracts/
Healing Arts

-End of Day 1 Programme-