Dr Chan is an accredited General Surgeon with a sub-specialty interest in liver, gallbladder, bile duct and pancreas surgery, and liver transplant. Prior to private practice, he was a Senior Consultant and Head of Department of the Department of Hepatopancreatobliary and Transplant Surgery in SGH, and National Cancer Centre, Singapore.
He is a gazetted liver transplant surgeon with the Ministry of Health, Singapore. Besides liver transplants, his passion is in minimally invasive surgery of the liver and pancreas. He is a pioneer of laparoscopic HPB surgery in Singapore and is keenly involved in developing and promoting laparoscopic HPB surgery in Singapore as well as in regional countries. He was the lead surgeon in the donor surgery for the living donor liver transplant program in SGH. Since 2019, the donor surgeries have been performed laparoscopically by Dr Chan and his team.
He was awarded the Singhealth GCEO Outstanding Clinician Award, and also the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) at the National Day Awards in 2021. He maintains ties with the public sector by being a visiting consultant to SGH and CGH.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery – National University of Singapore
- Masters of Medicine (Surgery) – National University of Singapore
- Doctorate of Medicine – National University of Singapore
- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Specialty
- Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery
- Gallbladder surgery
- Liver transplant
- General Surgery
Languages Spoken
- English
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Teochew/ Hokkien