About The Organizers
VIVA FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER
The goal of Viva Foundation is three-fold: (1) to establish a world-class Children’s Cancer Center at the National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore; (2) to promote clinical research and treatment of childhood cancer; and (3) to advance the training of doctors and nurses from NUHS, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKWCH) and the region. The Viva-University Children’s Cancer Center @ NUHS, in collaboration with St Jude Children’s Research Hospital will be the hub to translate research into improving cure for childhood cancers, train doctors and nurses and treat children with cancer.
Through active facilitation of close working relationships of its partners, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital and NUHS – the Viva Foundation hopes to advance the care for treatment of childhood cancer in Singapore and Asia, and save the lives of as many children as possible, with the support of kind hearted donors.
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ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL
The St Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the largest and only U. S. National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive childhood cancer center in the United States. The first successful cure for childhood ALL came from St Jude and currently their cure rate for ALL is approximately 90%. St Jude is a charity hospital, and one of its missions is to help improve the cure for childhood cancer worldwide through its International Outreach Program. Together with the Viva Foundation, St Jude hopes to develop Singapore not only as a world-class center for the treatment of childhood cancers and the training of pediatric oncologists in Asia and beyond, but also as a coordinating center for research in childhood cancer in Asia. This Forum is the sixth of such efforts to bring the Asian groups to hub together under one roof.
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM (NUHS)
Recognising the importance of research, education and quality medical care in furthering the standards of medicine, the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education has embarked on a new paradigm of medicine in Singapore with the establishment of the National University Health System (NUHS). NUHS combines the National University Hospital, the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Faculty of Dentistry from the National University of Singapore (NUS) under the same governance and mission to improve standards of medicine through the triple mission of research, education and medical care. This is reflected in NUHS logo of 3 nearly concentric circles representing each of these highly integrated missions. This novel model will enable NUHS to pursue excellence in medicine through highly integrated translational, clinical research and training and education.
NUHS is closely plugged into its parent bodies, namely NUS and National Healthcare Group. It will function as medical clusters akin to the human body where organs work seamlessly as a system. Spearheading this will be the two National Specialty Centers in Cardiovascular and Cancer medicine.
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VIVA-UNIVERSITY CHILDREN’S CANCER CENTER
The Viva-University Children’s Cancer Center (VUC3) is housed in Ward 88, Kent Ridge Wing in the National University Hospital. It is a one-stop complete with the inpatient wards and outpatient consultation and day therapy areas. This facility is the seat of the St Jude-Viva International Outreach Program and the Viva Foundation's Centrer of Excellence for the treatment of childhood cancers. Funded by the Singapore Totalisator Board and Viva Foundation, it is the center for research, training and treatment of children with cancer for Viva Foundation. It provides training for doctors, nurses, technologists, administrators, care-givers and other personnel from both Singapore and the region, in the care, treatment and follow-up of children with cancer and childhood cancer survivors. It aims to be a center for clinical research in pediatric oncology and pediatric stem cell transplantation. Its vision is to bring pediatric cancer treatment to the highest level in Asia.
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KK WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) is the only integrated women’s and children’s hospital in Singapore, and offers a full range of tertiary services in obstetrics, gynaecology, neonatology and pediatrics. KKH is also a teaching hospital affiliated with the National University of Singapore. The KKH-CCF Children’s Cancer Center consists of a 20-bedded inpatient ward including 4 bone marrow transplant rooms and a 13-bedded Day Therapy Center and provides comprehensive therapy for hematological and solid malignancies. The center handles 100 new patients each year and since 1998, has conducted 65 hematopoeitic stem cell transplants. In 2002, KKH performed the first cord blood transplant which was successful, underpinning today’s demand for this procedure.
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