Professor Ho is Professor of Medicine, National University of Singapore; Senior Consultant, National University Hospital; and Director, Centre for Innovation in Healthcare, National University Health System. Experienced in spearheading collaboration between researchers in Asia, he was the Founding Chairman of the Asian EUS Group. He also is the Founding Co-Chairs Gut & Obesity in Asia (“Go Asia”) Workgroup, and the US NIH-NCS initiated Asian Barrett’s Consortium. A proven clinician innovator, he co-invented the Master and Slave Transluminal Endoscopic Robot (MASTER). He also co-invented a Raman spectroscopy AI based realtime diagnostic system, and an ingestible weight loss balloon capsule. He received the Singapore President’s Technology Award in 2012. He was President of Gastroenterological Society of Singapore in 2005. He became the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation Emerging Leadership Lecturer in 2010. In 2017, he was conferred the Singapore Public Administration Medal (Bronze) for his distinguished service to public administration.
