Meet our Invited Speakers

Professor Fatimah Lateef is Senior consultant, Director of Undergraduate Training and Education as well  as Director of Clinical Service and Quality at the Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital. She is also Adjunct Professor at Dukes-NUS Graduate Medical School, Lee Kong Chian Medical School @ Nanyang technological University and Yong Loo Lin Medical School, National University of Singapore. She teaches part-time at the School of Health Sciences, Nanyang Polytechnic. She is also the vice chair of Research in the Emergency Medicine Academic Clinical Programme at Singhealth. Fatimah is also Director of The Singhealth Duke NUS Institute of Medical Simulation, the largest simulation training facility in South East Asia. Her area of sub-specialisation include Prehospital Care Medicine, Cardiovascular and Neurovascular Emergencies. She is also highly involved in medical education and research. She has worked in various countries including both the UK and USA, many Asian countries and served as an International Consultant to MaxHealthcare, India.

A strong advocate of life long and deep learning and empowerment, she has presented more than 500 abstracts at international conferences, published over 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and is on the editorial board and reviewer for some 50 international journals. She leads various leadership groups, grooming youths and doctors to excel, which is also befitting her role as a core faculty, nurturing residents in Emergency Medicine.

For her work in the various fields, she has been conferred awards such as  Young Investigator’s Award (1998), Excellent Scientific Publication Award (2001), Best Teacher Award (2002), Laerdal Visiting Lectureship Award (2003), Courage Award (2004), National Healthcare Humanity Award (2005), The Outstanding Young Person  of Singapore (2006), Good Mentor Award, Singhealth (2005), The Outstanding Young Person of the World Award (2006), Woman for Peace Award, Sokka Gakkai International, (2007), Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, NUS (2008),  Singapore Medical Journal Recognition Award for Review with Distinction, (2007-2016), Critical Talent Retention Award, Singhealth , Excellent Educator Award 2016 and The Academy of Medicine, Gold Reviewer Award( 2011), Deans Awards for Excellence in Clinical Training/ Teaching  2016 from The National University of Singapore and The National Day Long Service Award 2017,  Academic Medicine Award 2019, The Golden Apple Award for Generativity in Education 2021, The Golden Quill Award 2021,  and Inspiring Mentor Award 2021, amongst others.

She continues to work full time, with a fulfilling career in Emergency Medicine, balancing clinical work with research and education. Fatimah continues to be active in the political arena, after serving for 15 years as an elected Member of Parliament in Singapore. Fatimah enjoys  mountain climbing, travelling, cooking, reading and has completed 15 full marathons.