Dr Shawn Vasoo is Clinical Director and Senior Consultant at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Singapore. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2001, and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine and his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and following that, a Clincal Microbiology Fellowship and Orthopaedic ID fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He also leads the Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory at NCID. He oversees clinical and outbreak preparedness activities at NCID, which is a ~330 bed facility in Singapore purpose-built for outbreaks, which has cared for over 7000 patients with confirmed COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and also chairs the COVID-19 therapeutic workgroup in Singapore.