WORK AND APPOINTMENTS
1992 - 1997
Consultant Surgeon, Singapore General Hospital
1997 - 2001
Private Practice, Mount Elizabeth Hospital
2001
Member of Parliament, Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC
2002
Minister of State for Education and Manpower
May 2003
Acting Minister for Manpower & Minister of State for Education
August 2004
Minister for Manpower & Second Minister for Education
July 2005
Minister for Manpower & Second Minister for Defence
May 2006
Re-elected Member of Parliament, Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC
May 2006
Re-appointed Minister for Manpower & Second Minister for Defence
April 2008
Minister for Education & Second Minister for Defence
May 2011
Re-elected Member of Parliament, Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC
May 2011
Minister for Defence
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND MEMBERSHIP
1986
Fellow Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
1989
New York Hospital - Cornell University Medical Centre Research Fellow, Laboratory of Surgical Metabolism
1990
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre Clinical Fellow, Surgical Oncology (First Prize Winner - Clinical Research)
1990
Fellow, Academy of Medicine, Singapore
1992
American Society of Surgical Oncology
1998
Founder Member, Breast Cancer Foundation, Singapore
1999
American Society of Clinical Oncology
EDUCATION
1964 - 1974
Anglo-Chinese School
1975 - 1976
National Junior College
1977 - 1987
National University of Singapore
1982
M.B.B.S. with distinctions in Social Medicine and Public Health
1987
Master in Medicine (Surgery)