Dr. Choon Meng TING
M.B.,B.S. (Singapore)

A Medical Doctor, Serial Inventor of medical devices and an Author, Dr TING Choon Meng has been in private practice in Singapore for more than 20 years.

His BPro device was the first wrist-worn device capable of capturing 24hr BP readings and Pulse waveform analysis both at the same time. This patented invention with an FDA approval, has also been credited with Awards from the World Economic Forum and Frost & Sullivan as Monitoring Technology of the year 2007. The revolutionary BPro is now commercialized in more than 25 countries in the world.

Dr.Ting’s other inventions includes a non-invasive blood glucose monitor, a smart needle for intra-articular injection and a mobile ER vehicle for mass casualty that is now the standard deployment in the Singapore Homeland Defence Force. He also pioneered the technique of Visco-supplementation for the treatment of OA knees since 1991 and has worked on more than 25,000 knees to date, complementing it with a handbook written especially for doctors. It was launched in Beijing in August 2007.

Still actively involved in clinical practice and spending half his time in the clinic while dedicating the other half of his time in research, Dr. Ting also devotes himself to the promotion of innovation culture for the nation. He serves as a Member of the Panel evaluating the TECS program under Spring Singapore and is a Member of the Technology Advisory Committee of Spring Singapore. Dr.Ting has also been appointed as a Member of the Enterprise Board for the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) recently formed under the Singapore Management University (SMU). He is also on the Advisory Board of the Wee Kim Wee Center in SMU.

In April 2008, he founded the Singapore Fellowship Of Inventors (S-FOI), a non-profit organization dedicated to the education, support and networking of fellow entrepreneurs and inventors. The monthly meetings culminate in an annual convention of INVENT SINGAPORE held since 2008.

In March 2009, Dr.Ting was appointed Member of the Evaluation Panel of the National Research Foundation of Singapore evaluating submission of projects for funding in the bio-medical cluster.

His extensive portfolio also includes serving on the Economic Review Committee of the Singapore Government since 2009.