The Inaugural Centennial Lecture: Celebrating Milestones Achieved and Pondering the Road Ahead

I am deeply conscious of the conspicuous honour of being invited to deliver the inaugural Centennial Lecture. This lecture has been specially established to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of our Faculty of Medicine and of the National University of Singapore (NUS); it is the opening event of the main scientific programme of the special 39th Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine. I thank the Academy of Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine for bestowing on me this rare honour and the opportunity to make a personal contribution to the centennial celebrations.