Dr Chan graduated with the rare distinction of honours from National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Medicine. He was further trained in internal medicine and obtained the MRCP (UK) in 2004. He received his medical oncology specialist training with the National University Cancer Institute of Singapore. He finished his final year of fellowship in the USA at the prestigious University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Cedars- Sinai Medical Centre. He honed his medical oncology clinical expertise at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai with Dr Ronald Natale (lung cancer), Dr Michael Lill (lymphoma), Dr Charles Forscher (sarcoma) and Dr Albert Lai (neuro-oncology) under an endowment grant from the National University Hospital of Singapore. He also pursued research in the laboratory of world-famous haematologist-oncologist Professor Phillip Koeffler under a National Medical Research Council Overseas Fellowship. Upon his return, he was a consultant in medical oncology at the National University Cancer Institute Singapore and director of undergraduate education (medical oncology) at the National University of Singapore. He was also actively involved in cancer research at the Cancer Science Institute Singapore. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and in 2015 he was elected to be a fellow in the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh.

 oncology, cancer