Profile
A/Prof Alethea Yee is a specialist in Palliative Medicine and a Senior Consultant at the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care (DSPC) at the National Cancer Centre Singapore. She was Head of DSPC from 2011-2018 during which she oversaw a huge expansion of DSPC into service, education and research arms. On stepping down as Head, she was seconded to Assisi Hospice as a Clinical Di-rector from Aug 2018 to July 2023. In 2020, with the formation of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Support-ive and Palliative Care Centre, a platform to bring together the various palliative care services with-in SingHealth in a strategic and coordinated approach, A/Prof Yee took up the post of Deputy Director.
On the education front, A/Prof Yee is the Education Director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care Centre (LCPC), Duke-NUS GMS from 2014, as well as founder member of the national Subspecialty Training Committee for Palliative Medicine from 2007. From April 2023, she is appointed Chair of SSTC (Palliative Medicine) to oversee the national training of palliative medicine specialists.
Education
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh MRCP (UK)
National University of Singapore, MBBS
Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships
- Clinical Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
- Director of Education, Lien Centre for Palliative Care
- Deputy Head, SingHealth Duke-NUS Supportive and Palliative Care Centre
- Chair, Subspecialty Training Committee (Palliative Medicine), MOH
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Research Interests
- Health Services Research
- Education research in palliative care training
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Publications
- Neo S, Zhou JX, Wong GC, Mok NK, Yee AC, Phua GL. Teaching Communication Micro-Skills to Cardiologists Managing Seriously Ill Patients in Asia: Challenges Encountered Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Perspectives. Nov 2021; Cureus 13(11): e19957.
- Yang GM, Zhou S, Xu Z, Goh SS, Zhu X, Chong DQ, Tan DS, Kanesvaran R, Yee ACP, Neo PS, Cheung YB. Comparing the effect of a consult model versus an integrated palliative care and medical oncology co-rounding model on health care utilization in an acute hospital - an open-label stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial. Palliat Med. Sep 2021;35(8):1578-1589.
- Ong EK, Soh GT, Peh TY, Lo TJ, Yee AC. Challenges faced by Community Palliative Care Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic—Experiences from a Hospice. Ann Acad Med Singap. Aug 2020;49(8):588-593.
- Chua GP, Pang GSY, Yee ACP, Neo PSH, Zhou S, Lim C, Wong YY, Qu DL, Pan FT, Yang GM. Sup-porting the Patients with Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers: What Are Their Pallia-tive Care Needs? BMC Cancer. Aug 2020;20(1):768.
- Ozdemir S, Malhotra C, Teo I, Yang GM, Kanesvaran R, Yee AC, Finkelstein EA. Palliative Care Awareness Among Advanced Cancer Patients and Their Family Caregivers in Singapore. Ann Acad Med Singap. Aug 2019;48(8):241-246.
- Wong TH, Lau ZY, Ong WS, Tan KB, Wong YJ, Farid M, Teo MCC, Yee ACP, Nguyen HV, Ong MEH, Iyer NG. Cancer Patients as Frequent Attenders in Emergency Departments: A National Cohort Study. Cancer Med. Sep 2018; 7 (9): 4434-4446. JIF: 1.403, Times Cited: 10
- Loh KW, Ng T, Choo SP, Saw HM, Mahendran R, Tan C, Chang GCY, Ong YJ, Yee ACP, Chan A, Soo KC. Cancer Supportive and Survivorship Care in Singapore: Current Challenges and Future Out-look. J Glob Oncol. Sep 2018; 4:1-8.
- Teo I, Singh R, Malhotra C, Ozdemir S, Dent RA, Kumarakulasinghe NB, Yeo WL, Cheung YB, Malhotra R, Kanesvaran R, Yee ACP, Chan N, Wu HY, Chin SM, Allyn HYM, Yang GM, Neo PSH, Nadkarni NV, Harding R, Finkelstein EA. Cost of Medical Care of Patients with Advanced Serious Illness in Singapore (COMPASS): Prospective Cohort Study Protocol. BMC Cancer. Apr 2018;18(1):459.
- Yang GM, Kanesvaran R, Neo SH, Yee ACP, Block SD, Cheung YB. Pilot Study of a Palliative Care and Medical Oncology Co-Rounding Model for Advanced Cancer Inpatients in a Tertiary Hospital in Singapore. J Palliat Med. Jan 2018;21(1):95-98.
- Peh TY, Yang GM, Radha Krishna LK, Yee ACP. Do Doctors Gain More Confidence from a Longer Palliative Medicine Posting? J Palliat Med. Feb 2017;20(2):141-146.
- Ng DW, Teo MC, Yee AC, Ng KH, Wong TH. Surgery for the palliation of intestinal perforation from secondary metastases in advanced malignancies. Asia Pac J Clin Oncol. Dec 2016;12(4):453-459.
- Soh TL, Krishna LK, Sim SW, Yee AC. Distancing Sedation in End-of-Life Care from Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Singapore Med J. May 2016;57(5):220-7.
- Pang GS, Qu LM, Tan YY, Yee ACP. Intravenous Fentanyl for Dyspnea at the End-of-Life – Lessons for Future Research in Dyspnea. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. Apr 2016;33(3):222-7.
- Krishna LKR, Tay TEJ, Watkinson DS, Yee ACP. Advancing a Welfare Model in Medical Decision Making. Asian Bioethics Review, Sep 2015;7(3):306-320.
- Koon OE, Shan SN, Shivananda S, Ying TY, Thang A, Kyawt AM, Santoso U, Yin GP, Pheng AY, Hui PN. Use of a Modified Liverpool Care Pathway in a Tertiary Asian Hospital: Is There Still a Role for It? J Palliat Med. Jun 2015;18(6):506-12.
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