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Dr Chan Chung Yip
General Surgeon
Specialty
General Surgery
Languages
Cantonese, English, Hokkien, Mandarin, Teochew
Gender
Male
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Key achievements
- Initiated the performing of laparoscopic liver, pancreas and bile duct surgeries in Singapore.
- Lead donor surgeon in the donor surgery of the living donor liver transplant programme at Singapore General Hospital since 2015.
- Lead surgeon of laparoscopic donor hepatectomy programme at Singapore General Hospital since 2019.
Experience
Dr Chan Chung Yip is a general surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospitals and Parkway East Hospital, Singapore.
His subspecialties include hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and liver transplantation.
He was senior consultant and head of the department of hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) and transplant surgery at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). He continues to be a visiting consultant at SGH and Changi General Hospital.
He graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and completed his training in general surgery. He received further training in liver surgery and transplantation at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical Centre, Taiwan, as well as in laparoscopic hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, South Korea.
Dr Chan is one of the earliest doctors to perform laparoscopic surgery of the liver, pancreas and bile duct in Singapore. He is keenly involved in developing and promoting laparoscopic HPB surgery in Singapore and regionally. He has been practising medicine for more than 25 years.
He was the lead surgeon in the donor surgery for the living donor liver transplant programme in SGH. Since 2019, the donor surgeries have been performed laparoscopically by Dr Chan and his team.
Besides his clinical work, he was an adjunct associate professor at Duke-NUS Medical School and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. He was the president of the HepatoPancreatoBiliary Association of Singapore and a member of the clinical competency committee in the general surgery residency programme of SingHealth.
He has published more than 200 papers. He was awarded the SingHealth GCEO Outstanding Clinician Award, and the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) at the National Day Awards in 2021.
Awards and honours
- 2021
Public Administration Medal (Bronze), National Day Awards
Outstanding Clinician, SingHealth GCEO Excellence Awards
Fellowship and accreditation
- 2007
MD (NUS, Singapore)
FRCS (RCS, Edinburgh, United Kingdom) - 2002
M Med (Surg) (NUS, Singapore) - 1997
MBBS (NUS, Singapore)
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Clinic
Nexus Surgical Associates
3 Mount Elizabeth #08-06
Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
SG 228510
Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
SG 228510
6235 5675
Nexus Surgical Associates Pte Ltd
6 Napier Road #05-10
Gleneagles Medical Centre
SG 258499
Gleneagles Medical Centre
SG 258499
6341 5430
Nexus Surgical Associates Pte Ltd
319 Joo Chiat Place #05-01
Parkway East Medical Centre
SG 427989
Parkway East Medical Centre
SG 427989
6440 9655
Nexus Surgical Associates Pte Ltd
38 Irrawaddy Road #08-43
Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre
SG 329563
Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre
SG 329563
6570 2710
