As Professor Tina Wong sees it, there are two types of people at the are hyper-focused on getting through their sets and those gym: those who who are not.
“I am very disciplined and I do not waste time. When I am at the gym, I do not look at anyone. I am there to beast it, and then I leave,” says Prof Wong, the head and senior consultant of the Glaucoma Department at Singapore National Eye Centre.
In her words, “I have to compartmentalise my time. With age and seniority, my portfolio has grown so large and I have so many tasks to complete that I have to be very disciplined.”
With a laugh, the powerhouse says she often struggles to describe what she does at social events, often settling on a “simple” answer — a doctor. That barely scratches the surface.
In 2007, the British-born professor with Hong Kong family roots moved to Singapore from London to pursue her various passions as a doctor, surgeon, and research scientist.
ADVOCATE FOR TECHNOLOGY
An outspoken proponent of technology and innovation, particularly in med tech, she was the Executive Director of the National Health Innovation Centre (NHIC) from 2017 until the end of last year.
Reflecting on her tenure at NHIC, which supports innovation and enterprise activities from the public healthcare sector in Singapore, she says, “In 2017, things were just beginning in terms of commercialising homegrown innovations and health tech products. And towards the end of my term, we were looking at implementing some of these initiatives that we have funded earlier on.“
For instance, last October, the NHIC launched the Clinical Innovation and Adoption Initiative to disburse up to $1 million to assist successful applicants in developing and distributing their technologies across the island.
This story is from the March 2023 edition of The PEAK Singapore.
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