AI Product Leader

Dr Petty Chen

MD · MPH · FRSPH

Former AWS Asia Pacific and Japan Hospital Business Development Lead and founder of Milkiway AI. A physician-turned-technology operator with a track record of building and scaling agentic workflows, computer vision inference products, and AI-enabled applications across Asia Pacific. Combines deep experience in highly regulated, high-trust sectors with hands-on product execution, enterprise go-to-market, and regional scale.

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[ 01 ] Worked & Studied

StudiedWorked

Worked2023

Milkiway

CEO & Founder

Worked2022

Amazon Web Services

Asia Pacific Hospital BD Lead

Worked2021

ASUS Global

Director of Medical Products

Studied2020

Harvard University

Master of Public Health

Worked2019

Open Government Products

Product Manager · GovTech

Worked2015

Medical Doctor

MOHH

Studied2015

Duke-NUS Medical School

Doctor of Medicine

Studied2011

Duke University

BSc, Cellular & Molecular Biology

[ 02 ] Impact Matrix

Selected Work

Products shipped to production

Clerical AI

Clinical recommendations

Live

Andre Tan

58 years oldChineseMale

Date: 2025-07-01

No known drug allergy

Recommendations

Cholesterol Management

Triglycerides: 500 mg/dL (Reference: <150)

Review lifestyle factors and follow-up testing.

Immunisation - Shingles

Shingles vaccination is recommended for this age group.

Clerical AI

Solution 01

AI-powered recommendation engine surfacing clinically appropriate guidance from a curated recommendation bank, using zero-shot and few-shot prompting.

Winner

Design AI + Tech 2026

BT & SUTD

Recognition

Product live

Private hospital group

Open case

MNR 1234567890

2017/09/05 · C18.4

Diagnosis

Treatment

Follow-up

Patient Items (12 Unidentified)

AI extracted registry fields

Confirm

Search clinical concepts

4.1Primary site01/7

4.2Morphology02/7

4.3Stage group03/7

4.4Treatment intent04/7

4.5MDT decision05/7

Oncor

Solution 02

Smart cancer registry and clinical information extractor using NLP/NLU to help oncology teams structure records and reduce registry workload.

60x

Usage growth over 3 months

NLP/NLU

Clinical extraction

Hospital Groups

Campaign console

Gov-to-citizen messaging

Secure

123

messages

users

99.9%

delivery

Send templated message

Postman.gov.sg

Solution 03

Founding product manager for Singapore's secure government-to-citizen messaging platform, used by public agencies during COVID-19 for official communications.

Finalist

AWS City on a Cloud · 2020

100+

Government agencies

Millions

Messages sent

Open case

[ 03 ] Testimonies

Hear it from my clients

"Once Petty evaluated the technical feasibility, the project moved quickly. We are now gathering initial research data and applying for grants to deploy the solutions to production, building on the software that Petty and her team delivered."

Principal Investigator
Aeon

"Milkiway's Clerical seamlessly automated report generation and helps us incorporate evidence-based medicine into our daily practice."

Dr M
Clinician · Private Hospital

"Petty is a strategic thinker who can solve problems that have not been solved before."

Lead of Innovation Office
Public Hospital

"Implementing Clerical by Milkiway has been pain-free and easy thanks to their responsive and speedy tech team."

Deployment Team Manager
Private Hospital

[ 05 ] Philosophy

Impact through AI in healthcare

Designing intelligent solutions that empower clinicians and patients.

Every AI-driven solution, from predictive analytics to clinical workflow automation, is designed to enhance user experience and improve patient outcomes. Decisions are grounded in clinical evidence and shaped by feedback from the clinicians and patients who use them daily.

The strongest digital health products fit into existing workflows rather than disrupting them. Thoughtful, human-centered design helps AI feel intuitive, useful, and trusted by specialist physicians and frontline teams.

Years in healthcare

Years in product

APAC countries

[ 04 ] Press

News & Media

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The Business Times · 2026

Diverse AI Solutions Clinch Top Honours at Design, AI and Tech Awards

Milkiway's Clerical AI recognised among Singapore's impactful design-and-technology projects of the year.

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The Straits Times · 2022

Duke-NUS fosters clinician-innovators

Dr Petty Chen is a clinician-innovator ready to create tech-led biomedical innovations.

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Duke-NUS Media Release · 2015

KKH and Duke-NUS study shows patients benefit from gestational diabetes screening

Routine screening emerged as the optimal strategy in Singapore, where GDM rates are high and treatments are effective.

Dr Petty Chen

Milkiway

Amazon Web Services

ASUS Global

Harvard University

Open Government Products

Medical Doctor

Duke-NUS Medical School

Duke University

Selected Work

Andre Tan

Recommendations

Cholesterol Management

Immunisation - Shingles

Clerical AI

Oncor

Postman.gov.sg

Hear it from my clients

Impact through AI in healthcare

News & Media

Diverse AI Solutions Clinch Top Honours at Design, AI and Tech Awards

Duke-NUS fosters clinician-innovators

KKH and Duke-NUS study shows patients benefit from gestational diabetes screening

From concept to launch

MVP development & prototyping

Web & mobile app design and implementation

AI-driven solutions

Clinical workflow & patient-centered digital tools

End-to-end digital product strategy

Asia Pacific go-to-market expertise