Janil Puthucheary
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Janil Puthucheary (普杰立) is a Singaporean who is contesting the Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC in the [Singapore general election, 2011|2011 general election]]. He is a Senior Consultant in the Children's Intensive Care Unit at KK Women's and Children's Hospital. He is also the Medical Director for Faculty Development and an Assistant Professor at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.
After [[primary school] education in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he went to the United Kingdom for secondary school. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at The Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, and went on to have post graduate training in Belfast, London and Sydney before he moved to and settled in Singapore in 2001. He became a Singapore citizen in 2008.[1] He is the son of Dominic Puthucheary, a trade unionist and founding member of the People's Action Party.[2]
In 2001 Dr Puthucheary developed the Children's Hospital Emergency Transport Service, and trained many clinical staff to stabilise and transport the sickest babies and children in Singapore, and from around the region. He continues to serve as a member of the team. At the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School his role is to develop, implement and teach about Team Based Learning, the radical and highly effective educational methodology used at the school. He is also involved in directly teaching first year medical students the basic medical sciences. He has written several research papers and book chapters, locally and internationally, edited a paediatric textbook, and received awards from both medical schools in Singapore.
He is married, and has three sons.
References
- ^ Young, Pak Nang (1 April 2011). "A minimum period of citizenship?". TODAY. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^ "Who Is Dominic Puthucheary?". Singapore Notes.
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