Wong Hock Boon Professorship In Paediatrics

The Wong Hock Boon Professorship in Paediatrics was established in April 2005 with a gift of S$1.5 million from Emeritus Prof Wong Hock Boon.

The income generated from this professorship fund will be used to engage eminent professors for periods ranging from 3 months to a year or more to share their expertise and experience.

In March 2007, seven of Prof Wong’s former students, who are now leading specialists in their own rights, decided to honour him on his birthday by making a gift of S$250,000 to the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine’s Department of Paediatrics to fund a Visiting Professorship.

The endowed gift, whose value will be doubled to S$500,000 through the dollar-for-dollar government matching, will support a leading international expert to spend a week each year teaching in the Paediatrics Department. This gift will be administered as part of the Wong Hock Boon Professorship in Paediatrics.

 

Current appointment: Prof Andrew Stewart Kemp

Professor of Paediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Paediatrics & Child Health, Children's Hospital, Westmead, The University of Sydney, Australia

Period of appointment: 29 September 2008 to 9 November 2008

Key activities:

• Postgraduate & undergraduate teaching on paediatric allergy (an important field as allergic diseases are highly prevalent in Singapore children).
• Research discussions, planning and collaboration with the paediatric allergy and immunology division.
• Supervision of allergy clinics and help clinicians formulate guidelines for the management of allergic diseases (food allergy and allergic rhinitis) for Singapore children.
• Development of clinical practice guidelines for the management of allergic rhinitis in children and food allergy in children.