Dr Aw Tar Choon is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Changi General Hospital (CGH) since 2006. He is also the director of Chemical Pathology and a clinical senior lecturer in Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Dr Aw received his medical degree from the University of Malaya, Medical School in 1976. Trained in internal medicine at Medical Unit 1, SGH and King’s College Hospital Medical School, London, UK. He has specialist certifications in Internal Medicine from NUS (M.Med Internal Medicine) and the Royal College of Physicians UK (MRCP UK). Thereafter, Dr Aw trained in chemical pathology at the Department of Pathology Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA from 1981 to 1984. He also has specialist certification in chemical pathology from the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (FRCPA Chemical Pathology). Dr Aw was a faculty staff member of the NUS Medical School from 1980 to 2006, where he attained the rank of full professor (pathology) and served as its vice-dean from 1994 to 2002.