Most Influential Chief Nursing Leaders Transforming Global Healthcare to Watch in 2026
Healthcare transformation is most powerful when it is led by individuals who understand that systems change only when people are valued, heard, and empowered. In this edition, Most Influential Chief Nursing Leaders Transforming Global Healthcare to Watch in 2026, we are honored to feature Lilian Yew Siew Mee, Chief Nurse at Raffles Hospital, whose leadership journey exemplifies courage, compassion, and sustained commitment to excellence in nursing
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Lilian Yew Siew Mee
Chief Nurse, Raffles Hospital
In 1989, a young student nurse at Singapore General Hospital received something that would shape the next 36 years of her life. It wasn’t a prestigious award or recognition. It was a simple thank you from a patient. That moment, seemingly ordinary yet profoundly meaningful, confirmed for Lilian Yew Siew Mee what she had suspected all along: nursing was her calling, her purpose, and the path through which she would touch countless lives.
Dr. Euganthri Pillay
Head of Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance and Responsible Pharmacist at Novo Nordisk (Pty) Ltd
In the complex world of pharmaceutical regulation, where science meets policy and innovation confronts compliance, few leaders embody the delicate balance of rigor and compassion quite like Dr. Euganthri Pillay. With nearly two decades of experience transforming how medicines reach patients across South Africa, she represents a new generation of healthcare leaders who refuse to separate business excellence from social responsibility.
Dr. Jennifer Johnston
Founder & CEO of Elle, MD Biotechnologies
In her clinical practice as a family physician, Dr. Jennifer Johnston observed a recurring theme: women expressing a desire for more contraceptive options that better suited their individual needs and lifestyles. This clinical insight, combined with her perspective as a mother of four children—three daughters—sparked the idea that would eventually become Elle, MD Biotechnologies.
