Dr Li Zisheng is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Emergency Medicine at National University Hospital (NUH) and the Urgent Care Centre (UCC) at Alexandra Hospital (AH). He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSOM).
As the Undergraduate Medical Education Director for Emergency Medicine at NUS YLLSOM, Dr Li oversees the direction and coordination of medical education in Singapore’s emergency departments, guiding more than 300 medical students annually through their Emergency Medicine rotations. He is deeply committed to teaching and mentoring Emergency Medicine residents, pharmacists, nurses and medical officers, and he serves on the Communication Competency-based Workgroup at NUS YLLSOM. In 2026, he was appointed as the Site Lead at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), supervising medical students during their clinical training in NUH EM.
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to medical education, Dr Li has received multiple teaching awards, including the NUHS Teaching Excellence Award (2019, 2020), the Residents’ Choice Award for Outstanding Clinical Session (2019), NUS Fortitude Award (2020), and the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2021–2023). In 2023, he received the Dean’s Honours Award for Teaching Excellence—the highest accolade in the faculty — and in 2024, the NUS YLLSOM Special Recognition Award. During his earlier years as a EM resident, he was awarded the Prof Anantharam Book Prize as he emerged as the top scorer for the MMed Emergency Medicine examinations.
Dr Li also served as Clinical Director of the AH UCC (2020–2022), where he oversaw the clinical matters and assisted the head of UCC in managing clinical operations. He was also a member of the AH Infection Control Committee.
In 2024, Dr Li completed a fellowship training in Transitional Care at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) in Taiwan. In 2026, he was formally appointed as the ED Lead of the NUHS@Home taskforce. In this capacity, he spearheaded the implementation and expansion of the NUHS@Home program across all three NUHS EDs. This innovative model of care allows patients to receive hospital-level treatment in the comfort of their own homes resulting in improved patient outcomes and reduced lodging/overcrowding in EDs. Dr Li’s vision and leadership have been instrumental in shaping NUHS@Home as a transformative step in patient-centered healthcare delivery.
