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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)