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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Dr. William Tan

3pm, Wednesday

21st August 2013

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Please sign up at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Dr William Tam personifies both passion and compassion. He contracted polio at the age of two and is paralysed from the waist down. Notwithstanding his disability, he has shown outstanding strength in overcoming adversities. From a kindergarten drop-out, he topped Selegie Primary School and went to Singapore’s Premier School namely Raffles Institution on a Ministry of Education Scholarship for his Secondary and Junior College education. The National University of Singapore Alumnus who majored in Life Sciences joined the Civil Services after graduation in 1980. In Pursuit of his dream to become a scientist and medical doctor, he venture abroad for postgraduate studies in 1989. Holder of a First Class Honours in Physiology, this Harvard University’s Fulbright Scholarship and Oxford University’s Chevening Scholar has also trained at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in USA.