MDIS ENU Nursing and Healthcare Conference
Schedule
Thu, 04 Jun, 2026 at 09:00 am to Sat, 06 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm
UTC+08:00Location
MDIS Auditorium | Queenstown, SG
About this Event
Join a 3-day healthcare conference designed for professionals and students to explore patient-centred care, leadership, and mental wellness in modern healthcare.
Transforming Patient Experience brings together healthcare leaders, clinicians, and innovators to explore how care can be delivered that is safe, compassionate, and person centred.
Learning outcomes:
1. Explore the core principles of safe, compassionate, person‑centred care.
2. Identify key factors that shape patient experience across healthcare settings.
3. Critically review how leadership and culture influence compassionate, high‑quality care.
4. Explore practical strategies to improve communication, empathy, and patient involvement.
5. Reflect on their own practice to enhance patient experience and “what matters” care.
Main Conference and Pre-Conference sessions require separate registration. Please select your tickets accordingly. Student tickets are reserved for MDIS students. A valid student ID may be required upon entry.
Pre-Conference
🕑: 09:30 AM - 09:45 AM
Opening and Setting the Context
Host: Casey Yong
🕑: 09:45 AM - 10:45 AM
The Hidden Emotional Load in Healthcare
Host: Casey Yong
🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Regulation Techniques for Stress and Burnout
Host: Casey Yong
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM
Recovery Beyond Rest: Understanding Deeper Regulation
Host: Nicole Tang
🕑: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Bioelectric Approaches to Recovery and Self-Care
Host: Nicole Tang
🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Break
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Live Demonstration: Regulation & Bioelectric Tools
Host: Casey Yong
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Integration and Closing Reflection
Host: Casey Yong
Day 1
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Welcome and Introduction to Day 1
Host: Dr Eric Kuan
🕑: 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Keynote: Conference Aim
Host: Professor Susan Dawkes
Info: Transforming Patient Experience brings together healthcare leaders, clinicians, and innovators to explore how care can be delivered that is safe, compassionate, and person centred.
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch
🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Keynote: Leadership in Healthcare, Singapore
Host: Lilian Yew Siew Mee
Info: Key Question: How can healthcare leaders cultivate cultures that prioritise safety, compassion, and person centred care, even within high pressure and resource challenged environments?”
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Tea Break
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Theme 1: Holistic and Person Centred Care Across the Lifespan
Host: Dr Stephen Smith
Info: Holistic and person centred care recognises that high quality healthcare is not only about treating illness, but about understanding each individual’s physical, emotional, social, and cultural needs. This theme explores how care can be designed around “what matters” to patients and families at every life stage—through ageing and end of life
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM
Conclusion from Day 1
Host: Professor Susan Dawkes
🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Theme 2: Education, Workforce Development, and Professional Wellbeing
Host: Brenda Lim
Info: A skilled, confident, and well supported workforce is the foundation of safe, compassionate care. This theme focuses on future ready education, leadership development, and wellbeing initiatives that help professionals adapt to evolving healthcare demands.
Key Questions
• What models of education and support most effectively promote a confident, adaptive, and emotionally well healthcare workforce?”
Day 2
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Registration
🕑: 09:30 AM - 09:45 AM
Welcome and Introduction to Day 2
Host: Dr Joseph Darwin
🕑: 09:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Theme 3. Advanced Assessment and Management of Complex Health Needs
Host: Professor Susan Dawkes
Info: Patients with complex health and social needs require highly skilled, coordinated, and sensitive care. This theme explores approaches to advanced assessment that address clinical, psychological, and environmental dimensions of complexity. It highlights multidisciplinary planning, risk identification, transitions of care, and proactive models that prevent deterioration and support long term wellbeing.
• Key Question: What models of care most effectively integrate advanced assessment, risk identification, and coordinated decision making for complex patients?
🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee and Networking
🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Theme 4 : Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in Diverse Healthcare Settings
Host: Professor Thanos Karazias
Info: Mental and emotional wellbeing are fundamental components of overall health. This theme highlights approaches for recognising psychological distress early, supporting patients experiencing anxiety, trauma, or emotional care, and embedding mental health–sensitive practices across the healthcare setting. It explores trauma informed frameworks, communication strategies that promote psychological safety, and culturally aware responses.
Key Question: What approaches most effectively support early recognition of psychological distress and trauma in patients?
🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Theme 5. Patient Experience, Satisfaction, and Relationship Based Care
Host: Professor Caroline Hollins Martin
Info: Patient experience is a powerful indicator of quality, trust, and organisational culture. This theme explores to what shapes meaningful patient experiences—from clear communication and empathy to respectful behaviours, continuity, and emotional support. It examines the importance of listening to patient voice, and the role of relationship based care in building safety and confidence.
Key Question: What factors shape patient satisfaction across services?
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:15 PM
Theme 6: Research, Evidence, and Global Perspectives on Care Delivery
Host: Mohamed Anwar Salleh
Info: Healthcare improvement depends on robust evidence and shared international learning. This theme focuses on the role of research, evaluation, and global collaboration in shaping effective, compassionate, and sustainable health systems. Key Question: How do we translate evidence into meaningful, actionable change?
🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Theme 7: Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Better Patient Journeys
Host: Shona Montgomery
Info: High quality care increasingly relies on the ability of diverse professionals to work together collaboratively. This theme explores how interdisciplinary collaboration across medicine, nursing, midwifery, and allied health can transform care pathways into coordinated, person centred journeys. Themes include collaborative communication, shared decision making, role clarity, and team based problem solving.
Key Question; What interprofessional learning formats—such as simulation, case based learning, shared clinical placements, or digital collaborative platforms—most effectively build teamwork, communication, and mutual understanding across healthcare professions?”
🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Conclusion from Day 2
Host: Dr Joseph Darwin
Where is it happening?
MDIS Auditorium, 503 Stirling Road, Queenstown, SingaporeEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
SGD 126.84 to SGD 315.44



















