Mr. Chan Tuck Wai

Mr. Chan Tuck Wai is the Senior Manager of NUS Institutional Review Board

(NUS-IRB) Secretariat. He is also the appointed Human Protections Administrator of the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Mr. Chan is a Singapore Registered Pharmacist, with Masters of Business Administration from the Golden Gate University, San Francisco. He is also the first Certified IRB Professional (CIP) by the USA, in Asia, and has presented papers during their 2004 and 2006 annual Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA) conferences. Mr Chan was appointed as temporary adviser to World Health Organisation and invited to attend the WHO Conference on Ethical Aspects of International Collaborative Research and Health Ethics in 2005. He is currently pursuing doctoral study in medical ethics.

Mr. Chan was the Head of Medical Affairs in the National University Hospital and was instrumental in the setting up of the first university IRB - NUS-IRB, and the first Nursing and Paramedical IRB (NUH NP-IRB) in Singapore.

Prior to this appointment in NUH, Mr. Chan held the position of Senior Manager, Asia Pacific Regional Regulatory Affairs and Medical Affairs with Aventis-Behring (Asia Pacific). He handled both drug regulatory affairs and multi-centre clinical trials for pharmaceutical and biological products in the Asia Pacific region.

Mr. Chan was the Editor-in-Chief of HealthWorld Asia, a health magazine published in USA and Asia, and the Editor of bulletins of the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore and NUS Pharmaceutical Society.

Mr. Chan has delivered talks and lectures on Research Ethics and the IRB at local schools and polytechnics, university and other regional conferences.