Prof. Dr. Jyoti Somani
graduated from medical school in 1991 and attended the University of Chicago
Hospitals for her Internal Medicine Residency. She has had a peripatetic career
with time spent in the US Indian Health Service (1998–2000) and in academia
as an Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease at Emory University (2000–2004)
where she started the transplant ID Elective for ID Fellows. She also spent
time in Chennai, India (2004–2008), where she worked on an HIV and Leadership
Training Program for Indian doctors. She spent time in private practice
(2008–2012) back in Peachtree City, south of Atlanta, Ga, and also lived in
Jakarta, Indonesia (2012–2014), where she worked for the Australian Embassy
clinic and was also a Consultant to Siloam Hospitals for Quality Improvement.
In November 2014, she joined the General Medicine Department at Khoo Teck Puat
Hospital, Singapore, where she practiced Infectious Diseases. In December 2019,
she joined NUHS as a Senior Consultant for the Division of Infectious Diseases
and as the Clinical Director of the ASP program. Her research was in T-cell
immunology and immune reconstitution after hematopoietic stem cell
transplantation.
Prof. Dr. Paul Anantharajah
Tambyah is currently a Senior Consultant in the Division of Infectious
Diseases at the National University Hospital, a Professor of Medicine at the
Infectious Diseases Translational Research ProgramYong Loo Lin School of
Medicine & Honorary Joint Professor at NUS CBmE and visiting Consultant at
the National Center for Infectious Diseases. He is currently the President of
the International Society for Infectious Diseases and immediate Past President
of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection. His past
appointments include the founding head of the Division of Infectious Diseases
in NUS, the Assistant Dean at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSOM), and a
board member of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology in America. His main
research interests are in emerging infectious diseases and hospital-acquired
infections.
