Dr Lin Jingping is a Senior Consultant Emergency Physician at the National University Hospital (NUH) and Alexandra Hospital (AH). She graduated from King’s College London and completed her Emergency Medicine residency at NUH.
She serves as Associate Chairman, Medical Board (Medicolegal), and is a SIMI-accredited mediator. In this role, she manages complex medicolegal cases and represents the hospital in mediations involving patients, families, and care teams. She has held an appointment with the Ministry of Health’s Professional Training and Assessment Standards (PTAS) Division since 2020, where she adjudicates SMC and SAB appeals. In 2019, Dr Lin was appointed to the 12-member MOH Workgroup reviewing the taking of informed consent and the SMC disciplinary process; its recommendations were accepted in full and led to amendments to the Medical Registration Act that came into effect in 2022.
As Patient Liaison Director for both Emergency Departments, Dr Lin oversees patient experience and feedback systems. Under her leadership, the department received the Hospital Management Asia (HMA) Excellence Award 2024 for Improving Patient Experience in the Emergency Department. She also helms WeCare, an Emergency Department programme focused on strengthening social cohesion and team resilience, which received the HMA Excellence Award 2025 for Talent Development.
Dr Lin has driven innovation in clinical documentation, including the development of Smart Phrases within the Epic electronic medical record, as well as the ED Summarizer, an AI-enabled tool that reduces clinician documentation time by over 50%. This work was recognised at the Singapore Business Review Management Excellence Awards 2025.
Dr Lin is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She has a longstanding interest in integrating palliative care principles within Emergency Medicine and has developed departmental guidelines to support care aligned with patients’ goals and values during acute illness. She serves on the Master of Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Examination Committee and is an Advanced Cardiac Life Support instructor.
Her work spans clinical care, medicolegal practice, and healthcare innovation, with a focus on improving patient experience, supporting clinicians, and strengthening trust in the healthcare system.
