Singapore: Dr. Michael Tan Co-founder of Fullerton Healthcare Group Pte Ltd has won the EY Entrepreneur of the year award for the healthcare category.

Prior to co-founding Fullerton, Dr. Tan served as Chief Executive Officer of East Shore Hospital of Parkway Holdings Ltd and has been providing business and professional leadership for its Primary Healthcare division for three years.

Dr. Tan serves as a Consultant on several Risk Management projects for large corporations. Dr. Tan has experience in the corporate healthcare. Dr. Tan served as a Physician Manager in Shenton Medical Group clinics. He served as Medical Director for GP clinics in Parkway Holdings and led the business development for its Primary Care.

He served as Advisor to many multinational companies and large local companies in their healthcare benefits policy design.
He was also instrumental in the successful execution of the recent National Flu Pandemic Exercise conducted by the Ministry of Health conducted recently. He is a Member of the American Academy of Insurance Medicine and the Academy of Insurance Medicine of Asia. Dr. Tan served on various Ministry of Health committees for various issues related to primary health care.

Dr. Tan completed his undergraduate training in Medicine at the National University of Singapore. He has Postgraduate qualifications in Occupational Medicine, Dermatology and Health Insurance. Dr. Tan holds a Masters in Business Administration from Imperial College, University of London.