Rena Dharmawan

Dr Rena Dharmawan believes that with the right innovation, one can improve the lives of millions at a time. She is a Consultant Surgeon at Department of Head & Neck Surgery in National Cancer Centre Singapore and Singapore General Hospital. Dr Rena also holds a joint appointment as Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Innovation Education & Ecosystem Development (IE2D) at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.   In 2014, she was one of four nationally-selected fellows in the Singapore-Stanford Biodesign (SSB) Programme, a year-long fellowship that aims to train and nurture the next generation of medical technology innovators for Singapore and Asia. After the fellowship, she co-founded a few Singapore-based medtech startups (Privi Medical, Jaga-Me and CATALYST) and is currently Programme Director for the Duke-NUS Healthcare Innovation Fellowship to train & develop the next generation of Clinician-Innovators.   Prior to medicine, Rena graduated summa cum laude with a BSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She then joined the inaugural batch and completed her medical degree at Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore) in 2011 and recently just completed her MBA at INSEAD's Global Executive MBA programme, where she was named the "Best & Brightest EMBA in 2022" by Poets & Quants.