Chetna Malhotra is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Director (Research) at Lien Centre for Palliative Care and Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. She is a physician-researcher specializing in Public Health and Community Medicine. She has more than a decade of experience conducting health services research in the area of end-of-life care for patients with advanced serious illnesses including those with advanced cancer, heart failure and dementia, with the goal of improving the delivery of palliative care services to these populations. She evaluated the implementation of Singapore’s advance care planning program. She received the Clinician Scientist Award by Singapore’s National Medical Research Council for her work related to advance care planning. Her research has been published in leading clinical, palliative care and geriatric journals. She mentors graduate and medical students in conducting palliative care research.