Dr Kanwaljit Soin is a consultant orthopaedic & hand surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.
Soin studied in Tanjong Katong Girls' School for her secondary education and Victoria School for her pre-university education, and received her MBBS Hons in 1966 when she graduated top of her class.
Soin was the recipient of a Colombo Plan Scholarship to train in hand surgery in Australia in 1972.
[2] Soin was AWARE President from 1991 to 1993, and became the first female Nominated Member of Parliament of Singapore from 1992 to 1996.
[5][6] In 2008, she was presented with the 2008 Singapore Good Samaritan award by the Rotary Club of Singapore, in recognition of her work as founding president of Women's Initiative for Ageing Successfully (WINGS),[7] a non-profit centre to provide support for women in their 40s and above.