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Obituaries
Emeritus Prof Edward Tock Peng Chong
Late of Singapore 1934 – 2018
Emeritus Professor Edward Tock Peng Chong, was a renowned pathologist and the longest-serving dean of the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Faculty of Medicine from 1980 to 1994.
A distinguished leader and an outstanding scholar and teacher he had the foresight to adopt the latest technology of the time and the Department of Pathology was among the rst in the region to employ immunohistochemistry in diagnosis.
Emeritus Prof Tock graduated in medicine from the then-University of Malaya in Singapore (1959), and began his career in pathology at the then-University of Singapore in 1961. He later trained at the Hammersmith Hospital, Royal Postgraduate Medical School of London, where he obtained his doctorate in philosophy in pathology. He was granted FRCPA in 1970. A senior consultant at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) until 1985, he then moved to the NUH as senior consultant head of the pathology department.
He was involved in the relocation of the university’s clinical departments from SGH and KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital to NUH and was also instrumental in the planning and commissioning of NUH as a new tertiary hospital and helped to formulate hospital policies and practices in clinical care, research and teaching.
He had made signi cant contributions to the development of the NUS medical faculty and NUH for over 40 years, Mr Tan had said in the report. Although retired and unwell Emeritus Prof Tock remained active as an educator and conducted a Collaborative Learning Case teaching session just days before his demise.
ANNUAL REPORT • 2017 - 2018