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Singapore The chairman of Singapore’s Medical Technology Industry Group, Albert Lee discusses the association’s key priorities, how they serve to advance the interests of both multinational and local members, and the key challenges that the medtech industry faces in transition from product-based to solutions-based care. Can you provide an overview of…

Singapore In an exclusive interview, Zuellig Pharma CEO John Davison provides insight into the new Zuellig Health Solutions unit that is providing strategic, topline-focused services in order to support Pharma companies in the region. He highlights the challenges the industry faces in penetrating the market and how Zuellig Pharma is closing…

Singapore Martin Dewhurst of the Global Pharmaceuticals and Medical Products Practice at McKinsey & Company provides his view of the Asia Pacific Medtech Forum 2016 in Singapore and elaborates on the prominent trends for the industry in the region. What have been your first impressions of the MedTech Forum and your…

Singapore Boehringer Ingelheim’s (BI) country managing director in South East Asia and South Korea (SEASK), Gerrard McKenna characterizes the recent changes within the family-owned business as “evolutionary” in nature, while highlighting the key role that Singapore plays in capitalizing on the blossoming opportunities in the region. It seems it’s been a…

Singapore Philips general manager of Health Systems, South East Asia, Johan Vooren highlights the company’s renewed commitment to Singapore with the recent opening of their APAC Center, while detailing the qualities that make the country as such an ideal testing ground for Philips’ new telehealth program. He further elaborates on the value…

Singapore Cerner’s managing director of Southeast Asia, Rebecca LaNasa highlights the key importance that Singapore—as the company’s third office outside the U.S.—serves in implementing and piloting new forms of health care information technology (HIT), while elaborating on how the company’s comprehensive portfolio of solutions can actually help both developed and developing…

Singapore Recently appointed Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific, Massimiliano Colella speaks about Smith & Nephew’s reasons for establishing a presence in the region, their dual approach in catering to the diversity of Southeast Asian markets, as well as the opportunities for growth in the region. Can you please provide some…

Singapore In an exclusive interview with Richard Saynor at GSK, he outlines the growth of the CEP portfolio in emerging markets and highlights the opportunities and challenges in the region, as well as the strategic benefits of operating in Singapore.   Even though our key medicines have many generic competitors, their…

Singapore Chin Yau Seng, President of Singapore Airlines Cargo, highlights how SIA Cargo supports Singapore’s reputation as a logistics hub in Asia Pacific and how the carrier has been able to adapt to the dynamic industry trends by tailoring their services to the customer’s needs. With twenty years of experience in…

Singapore HGP Partner and Director of Asia, Ming Chua on the company’s reasons for using Singapore as the first point of entry into Asia, while highlighting the expansion of the country’s biomedical sciences sector as a major factor in HGP’s consistent year-on-year growth. He also speaks to the company’s qualities in…

Singapore Newly-appointed President & CEO of GE Healthcare ASEAN, Myra Eskes, shares the key lessons of her recent appointment, strategizing according to the diversity of the ASEAN region, and also elaborates on how the company’s unique concept of “healthy imagination” offers a value-proposition to the region. As a newly appointed President…

Singapore Siemens Healthineers’ president of Asia Pacific, Elisabeth Staudinger speaks about the company’s redefined strategy—an overarching move from product-centric to value-centric services—and how this ultimately serves to benefit their customers and the patients.   We need to think along the lines of what it takes to make healthcare providers successful, as…