5th Pathology ACP Research Day | SingHealth Duke-NUS

Our 5th Research Day was held on Friday, 5 October 2018. It was a day where residents, trainees, medical students/undergraduates and our allied health professionals showcased their research findings locally to colleagues in the pathology community through posters and platform presentations at Academia, SGH. A record number of 56 abstracts was submitted this year!

We were honoured to have Dr Ian A. Cree, Head, WHO Classification of Tumours, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organisation, Lyon, France, deliver the keynote lecture. His keynote lecture titled: “The role of liquid biopsy in early cancer detection – research or clinical practice?” was insightful and relevant.

We were privileged to have Dr Ian A. Cree, Dr Clement Ho (KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital), and Dr Loo Liat Hui (KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital) as our esteemed judges.

With participants presenting their research findings zealously, it was an opportunity for members of the pathology community to interact with one another, resulting in a truly memorable event!

The following prizes and awards were presented:

Platform Presentations

Dr Aw Sze Jet

Resident, SingHealth Pathology Residency Programme

Best Platform Presentation –

Title: A clinico-pathological, immunohistochemical and DICER1 mutational analysis of pleuropulmonary blastoma

Mr Tan An Sen

Medical Student, Lee Kong Chian Medical School, NTU

Platform Presentation – 1st Runner Up

Ms Sim Xin Ni

Student, School of Applied Science, Temasek Polytechnic

Platform Presentation – 2nd Runner Up

Dr Gary Tay Sei Kiat

Resident, SingHealth Pathology Residency Programme

Achievement Award (Platform)

Ms Josephine Ho

Medical Laboratory Technologist, Cytogenetics Laboratory
Department of Molecular Pathology, SGH

Achievement Award (Platform)

Ms Saretta Sng

Medical Laboratory Technologist
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KKH

Achievement Award (Platform)

Poster Presentations

Mr Timothy Lai

Medical Student, Lee Kong Chian Medical School, NTU

Best Poster Prize –

Title: Multiplex Immunohistochemistry for evaluating Mitoses in Asian Triple Negative Breast Cancers

Ms Chan Wai Ting

Medical Laboratory Technologist, Clinical Biochemistry
Department of Clinical Pathology, SGH

Achievement Award (Poster)

Ms Clara Ong

Research Officer, Department of Anatomical Pathology, SGH

Achievement Award (Poster)

Ms Ng Yit Jun

Medical Laboratory Technologist, Cytogenetics Laboratory
Department of Molecular Pathology, SGH

Achievement Award (Poster)

Ms Yvette Yeap

Medical Laboratory Scientist, Cytogenetics Laboratory
Department of Molecular Pathology, SGH

Achievement Award (Poster)

Mr Benjamin Loke

Masters Student, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS

Achievement Award (Poster)

Mr Wu Duoduo

Medical Student, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS

Achievement Award (Poster)

Inspiring Mentor Awards

Dr Aw Tar Choon Senior Consultant, Department of Laboratory Medicine, CGH	Inspiring Mentor Award
Dr Sangeeta Mantoo Senior Consultant, Department of Anatomical Pathology, SGH	Inspiring Mentor Award
Dr Yeo Chin Pin Senior Consultant, Department of Clinical Pathology, SGH	Inspiring Mentor Award
Mr Yong Min Hwee Senior Principal Medical Laboratory Scientist Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KKH	Inspiring Mentor Award

Publication Prize

Dr Tang Po Yin

Associate Consultant, Department of Anatomical Pathology, SGH

Publication Prize

Journal: Singapore Medical Journal

Title: A wolf in sheep’s clothing - a benign perineurioma-like lesion that is not what it seems.

Authors: Tang Po Yin & Sathiyamoorthy Selvarajan
Department of Anatomical Pathology, SGH

Prof Tan Puay Hoon, Academic Chair, Pathology ACP, giving her welcome address.		Mr Benjamin Loke (Masters Student, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS) presenting his poster “Genomic analysis differentiates breast fibroadenomas from phyllodes tumours’’ to the judges (Dr Ian A. Cree, Dr Clement Ho and Dr Loo Liat Hui).
Dr Aw Sze Jet (Resident, Singhealth Pathology Residency Programme) giving his presentation “A clinico-pathological, immunohistochemical and DICER1 mutational analysis of pleuropulmonary blastoma”.		Ms Sim Xin Ni (Student, School of Applied Science, Temasek Polytechnic), giving her presentation “Comparison of two multiplex IHC methods to study the tumour immune microenvironment: introducing the imaging mass cytometry”.

Dr Ian A. Cree giving his keynote lecture titled: “The role of liquid biopsy in early cancer detection – research or clinical practice?”

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Dr Ian A. Cree presenting the best platform presentation and poster prizes.
From left: Dr Aw Sze Jet (Best Platform Presentation) and Mr Timothy Lai (Best Poster Prize).

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