Lawrence Ho Khek-yu MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRCP, FAMS

Professor Ho is a Professor of Medicine, NUS; Senior Consultant, NUH; and Director, Centre for Innovation in Healthcare, NUHS. Besides being an accomplished endoscopist, he is an international key opinion leader, being made a Fellow of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society, to recognize his significant contributions to the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy. Experienced in spearheading collaboration between researchers in Asia, he was the founding Chairman of the Asian EUS Group. He also co-chairs Gut & Obesity in Asia (“Go Asia”) Workgroup and the Asian Barrett’s Consortium.

A proven clinician innovator and experienced entrepreneur, he co-invented the Master and Slave Transluminal Endoscopic Robot (MASTER), which has since been spun off into the start-up, Endomaster. He also founded two other start-up companies, Endofotonics (endoscopic AI), and Endopil (weight loss capsule). He received the Singapore President’s Technology Award in 2012. He is the past Vice-Dean (Research), School of Medicine, NUS, and past Head, Department of Medicine, NUS. He has conferred the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 2017 and was awarded the Distinguished Senior Clinician award in 2018. He has published > 270 peer-reviewed papers (H index, 61), > 15 book chapters, co-edited 4 books, and held 6 US-granted patents in Medtech products.