Dr Kanwaljit Soin is a consultant orthopaedic & hand surgeon at

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, Singapore.

Education

Soin studied in

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for her secondary education and

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for her pre-university education, and received her MBBS Hons in 1966 when she graduated top of her class. She obtained her Master of Medicine (Surgery) in 1970 from the

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, and she is a Fellow of the

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(1970) and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (1975). Soin was the recipient of a Colombo Plan Scholarship to train in hand surgery in Australia in 1972.

Biography

A founding member of

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(AWARE) in 1985, Soin became the president of AWARE from 1991 to 1993. Soin was AWARE President from 1991 to 1993, and became the first female

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of Singapore from 1992 to 1996. In 1992, she was awarded "Woman of the Year" in Singapore. In 2000 she was presented the “Women Who Make a Difference Award” by the

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In 2006, Soin was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem) Singapore for consistently excelling in her job and for her selfless contribution to society, especially towards the less advantaged. In 2008, she was presented with the 2008 Singapore Good Samaritan award by the

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, in recognition of her work as founding president of Women's Initiative for Ageing Successfully (WINGS), a non-profit centre to provide support for women in their 40s and above. WINGS has helped almost 12,000 women with various programmes. In 2014, Soin was inducted to the

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Personal life

Dr Soin is married to former judge, Amarjeet Singh. They have 3 sons, an Internet entrepreneur Dinesh Bhatia, Diplomat Umej Bhatia and Consultant Cardiologist Dr Lokpal Bhatia.

Bibliography

References

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