Dr Stephen Chew is a Consultant Nephrologist and Physician at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital and a Visiting Consultant at Changi General Hospital.

He earned his medical degree from the National University of Singapore, and subsequently his Masters of Medicine (Internal Medicine) before moving on to completing his training in renal medicine in 1998. He also worked as a research associate at Duke University in 1997. As a Consultant Nephrologist at the Singapore General Hospital, he ran a home-based peritoneal dialysis program while providing patient care in general nephrology and renal transplantation.

Dr Chew was also on the working committee of the Ministry of Health that developed clinical guidelines in glomerulonephritis and diabetes mellitus, the latter of which was launched in 2006.