Programme - Day 1

Day 2 Programme

Day 1 Programme (22 Oct 2026, Thursday)
08:00	09:00	Registration The Ngee Ann Kongsi (NAK) Auditorium, Academia
09:00	09:15	Welcome Address Organising Co-chairs - Assoc Prof Anantham Devanand & Dr Ong Eng Koon
09:15	09:30	Opening Address By Guest-Of-Honour Mdm Halimah Yacob
09:30	10:30	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)
10:30	11:00	Break
		The NAK Auditorium	Breakout Room: L1-S1	Breakout Room: L1-S3	Breakout Room: L1-S4
11:00	12:30	Bioethics 1: A Time to Come: Should Death Be Planned? Ms Crystal Lim 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	Breakout Session	Abstracts/ Healing Arts
12:30	13:30	Lunch
		The NAK Auditorium
13:30	14:45	Plenary Session 2
14:45	15:15	Break
		The NAK Auditorium	Breakout Room: L1-S1	Breakout Room: L1-S3	Breakout Room: L1-S4
15:15	16:45	Breakout Session	Bioethics 2: The Ethics Of Everyday Decisions: How Nurses Can Shape What “Living Well” Means For Patients Jiang Li Na Norasyikin Bte Hasan	Narratives in Medicine 2: Making Meaning In The Midst Of Illness - Arts, Humanities, And Lived Experience in Singapore	Abstracts/ Healing Arts
-End of Day 1 Programme-

Programme - Day 1

Day 1 Programme (22 Oct 2026, Thursday)