​Dr Tan Ban Hock is Senior Consultant in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Singapore General Hospital, where he was head of the department until April 2014. He was instrumental in setting up the department, and has since established programs where the department works closely with the transplant, hematology and oncology units. Dr Tan is also clinical professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.  

Dr Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore and obtained his MRCP (Edinburgh) in 1995. He went on to train in infectious diseases in Singapore and at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was conferred the title of FRCP in 2009. He is past president of the Society of Infectious Diseases (Singapore). He is currently President-elect of the Transplant Infections Disease Section of The Transplantation Society, and sits on the editorial board of Transplant Infectious Disease. He served for 9 years as co-chair of the Asia Fungal Working Group.

Dr Tan has a keen interest in the study of infections in immunocompromised hosts, and is particularly interested in infections in transplant recipients and febrile neutropenic patients.