Teaching faculty
Dr John WK Chia is a Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center Singapore, Visiting Consultant, KK Womens and Childrens Hospital, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke-NUS. He completed his undergraduate Medical training at NUS in 1999 and obtained his membership at the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh in 2002. Upon finishing his medical oncology board examinations, he trained with Professor Malcom Brenner and Professor Stephen Gottschalk at the Centre for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston from 2009-2010 in the field of cancer vaccines and adoptive T-cell immunotherapy for solid tumors. In 2011 and 2012, he trained as a post-doctoral fellow with Prof Stan Kaye and Susanna Banerjee at The Royal Marsden Hospital London in Gynecology Oncology. His major passion has been to improve cancer therapeutic through clinical trials – and he has developed several phase 1, 2 and 3, clinical trial studies. He holds several scientific research grants and has published in the fields of inflammation, immunotherapy, and gynecological and colon cancers. He is married with 2 active children and in his spare time, enjoys collecting Chinese Contemporary Ink Paintings and Asian Pottery.