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Profiles: PAP Vivian Balakrishnan » DR VIVIAN BALAKRISHNAN Age 40 Marital Status Married with four children Occupation CEO Singapore General Hospital Ward Holland-Bukit Panjang (Walkover) If this is a small ship, we need hands on board. It's well and fine to debate which direction you want to go, which equipment you want to navigate the sea. At the end, you have to decide on one course -- and we row together. In my multiple discussions with SM, PM, DPM, I have found them to be open, patient and fair. They listened to me, they explained their perspective, they never sought to impose their views on me, they never sought to convert me. In fact they said if I became converted, I will lose my value. Brief History 2000 Co-Chairman of the URA Concept Plan Focus Group on Land Use January 1999 became Medical Director of the Singapore National Eye Centre 1998 participated in one of the Singapore 21 sub-committees 1993 - 1995 worked at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London 1991 pursued post-graduate specialist training in Ophthalmology and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1984/1985 Chairman of NUSSU 1981 - 1983 elected President of the NUS Student’s Union (NUSSU) 1980 awarded the President’s Scholarship to study Medicine at the National University of Singapore

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