The Monteiro Lecture

The Monteiro Lecture was established in 2011 in collaboration with the Chapter of Infectious Diseases Physicians, College of Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore, to commemorate both Professor ES Monteiro, who was a pioneer in infectious diseases in Singapore, as well as his son, Dr Edmund Monteiro, who worked at the Middleton Hospital which became the current Communicable Disease Centre, from 1965 to 1993.