Reshma Merchant MBChB , MRCP, FRCP

Reshma Aziz Merchant is the Head and Senior Consultant for the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the National University Hospital, Singapore, and is a strong advocate for at in-place and age-friendly healthcare system. She has recently been awarded the NUHS-Mochtar Riady Master Clinician award, the first Geriatrician within NUHS. Before this, she was the head of the division of Advanced Internal Medicine and under her leadership, the division made great progress in care integration, care coordination, and new models of care including the acute medical unit and Innovation-42. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh and obtained her postgraduate qualification from the Royal College of Physicians, London, in 1999, where she worked for several years before returning to Singapore in 2001.

She is a member of the WHO Global Network on Long-term Care (GNLTC), and is recognized as a thought leader and special expert in policy, research, and practice in fields associated with population aging by the International Federation on Ageing. She also holds many leadership positions in national and professional organizations and advisory boards including the National Kidney Foundation and clinical lead for Institutional Community Collaborations (ICC), Regional Health System Planning Office. She has won multiple teaching awards, and her main areas of research interest are in sarcopenia, fall prevention, frailty, and healthy aging in community-dwelling older adults. She is well-published, a co-author on many international consensus papers on frailty and sarcopenia, and has many ongoing projects on healthy aging, and fall prevention. She is the co-chief editor of the Journal of Nutrition, Health, and Aging.