Webinar: Palliative Care in the ICU
Date & Time
16 April @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Come join us for our second session of our 2026 Webinar Series! This time our topic will be on ‘Palliative Care in the ICU’ held on 16 April 2026 (Thu), 2:30-3:30 pm (Singapore time). It will be a live 1 hour session on Zoom with a Q&A segment at the end with the speakers.
For this session, we are honoured to have Adjunct Assistant Professor Poi Choo Hwee (Department of Palliative Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore) and Dr Nittha Oer-areemitr (KOON Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand) as our speakers!
Speaker Bio
Adjunct Assistant Professor Poi Choo Hwee
Adjunct Associate Professor Poi is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Palliative Medicine at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). She received accreditation as a specialist in General Medicine in 2010 and Palliative Medicine in 2012. In March 2014, she was awarded a Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) fellowship to learn about the integration of palliative care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York. Since 2015, she has been leading her department’s efforts to integrate palliative care within the Intensive Care Units (ICUs), providing dedicated care for critically ill patients at the end of life.
She co-leads undergraduate palliative medicine teaching at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Additionally, she is a Core Clinical Faculty Member of the National Healthcare Group (NHG) Internal Medicine Residency Programme and serves as the Associate Programme Director of Palliative Medicine Residency Programme.
Dr Nittha Oer-areemitr
Dr. Nittha Oer-areemitr is a Medical Director based in Bangkok, Thailand, with extensive expertise in internal medicine, pulmonology, critical care, and palliative care. She further specialised through fellowships in Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Palliative Care, including international training in India. She currently serves as Medical Director at Koon Hospital and holds leadership roles across multiple healthcare institutions.
With over a decade of clinical experience, she has contributed significantly to research in respiratory medicine, critical care, and palliative care, with publications in peer-reviewed journals. She is also an active educator, serving as a lecturer for several national medical societies in Thailand.
Dr Oer-areemitr is deeply committed to advancing palliative care integration within healthcare systems and improving quality of life for patients with serious illness.
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