Clinical A/Prof (Dr) Tan is a practicing family physician, senior consultant, Director of Research Department in SingHealth Polyclinics (SHP), chairperson of Primary Care Research Institute in Singapore, Clinical Associate Professor cum Director, Innovation in the Family Medicine Academic Clinical Programme in Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.

A/Prof Tan has a strong passion in primary care research focusing on preventive health, innovation, and new care model evaluation. He is the principal investigator and recipient of the SHP Centre Grant awarded by the Singapore National Medical Research Council. He also receives the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award from the National Academy of Medicine, USA to develop and validate a novel virtual reality tool to screen for cognitive health. He leads key projects such as AI-enabled consultation module to optimize care of people with type-2 diabetes mellitus. He also coaches medical students, Family Medicine Fellowship trainees and multidisciplinary healthcare professionals in primary care research.

A/Prof Tan was recognized as one of the world’s top 2% of most-cited scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier from 2023 to 2025. He received the Master Academic Clinician Award 2022 from Duke-NUS Medical School; Distinguished Senior Clinician Award in 2023 from the Ministry of Health, Singapore; the Rajakumar Award (2023) for the best oral presentation at the 9th Asia Pacific Primary Care Research Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.