• DDS (Taiwan)
• MS (Iowa, USA)
• Certificate in Pedo (Iowa, USA)
• Certificate in DPH (Iowa, USA)
• PhD (Iowa, USA)

Discipline of Primary Dental Care & Population Oral Health

Associate Professor, NUS Faculty of Dentistry

Population Oral Health and Services Research

• Bio-photonic/laser application on caries diagnosis, prevention and treatment
• Caries risk assessment/prediction
• Physicochemical characterization of dental tissues
• Oral-systemic link

Membership of Associated Professional Bodies
International Association of Dental Research
American Association of Pediatric Dentistry
Singapore Dental Association

Awards
1991 Rotary International Scholarship
1992 National Dean’s List (USA)
1998 IADR/Colgate “Research in Prevention” Award (USA)
1998 NUS Staff Achievement Award (Singapore)
1999 IADR/Colgate “Research in Prevention” Award (USA)
2001 “Finalist Award-for excellence in research enhancing the speciality of Pediatric Dentistry” and “Foundation Research Award” (American Academy for Pediatric Dentistry, USA)
2003 “AAPD Award- for excellence in research enhancing the specialty of Pediatric Dentistry” (American Academy for Pediatric Dentistry, USA)
2011 “Williams J. Gies Award” for clinical research, International Association for Dental Research, USA

Publications
Publication List