Dr Tan Siau Woon Jacqueline

Hand Surgeon

Specialty

Hand Surgery

Languages

English, Hokkien, Mandarin

Gender

Female

Insurance Panel

AIA, Great Eastern, HSBC Life, Income, Prudential^, Singlife

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Experience

Dr Jacqueline Tan is a hand surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore.

She is experienced in the reconstruction of brachial plexus injuries, open and endoscopic peripheral nerve surgeries, and microsurgical reconstruction of the upper limb. She also has special interests in hand and wrist fractures, arthritis of hand and wrist, wrist arthroscopy and ligament reconstruction for wrist instability.

Dr Tan was the former head and senior consultant in the department of hand and reconstructive microsurgery at Singapore General Hospital (SGH). She is currently a visiting consultant there.

She completed her hand surgical training in Singapore and was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan scholarship. She went on to complete a 1-year fellowship in Taiwan, specialising in brachial plexus surgery and advanced microsurgery. Upon returning to Singapore, she served as the director of micro-reconstruction service and director of peripheral nerve and paralytic upper limb service at SGH. She has been practising hand surgery for more than 20 years.

Besides her clinical work, Dr Tan was the deputy vice-chair for education in SingHealth’s musculoskeletal sciences academic clinical programme. She was also the adjunct assistant professor at Duke-NUS Medical School and adjunct assistant professor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She has also held several roles such as programme director for the SingHealth hand surgery programme and core faculty for the SingHealth orthopaedic surgery programme.

In addition, she served as the chair of the hand surgery examination committee under the Joint Committee for Specialist Training with the Ministry of Health. She is currently a member of the Singapore Medical Council’s panel of medical assessors and member of the Joint Committee on Specialist Training’s panel of site accreditors.

She has served as president of the Singapore Society for Hand Surgery and is currently the chairman of the Chapter of Hand Surgeons, Singapore. She is also a member of many other professional societies including the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and the International Wrist Arthroscopy Association.

Dr Tan has published widely in the field of hand surgery, with numerous first-author publications in peer-reviewed journals. She speaks regularly at several local, regional and international meetings. She focuses on topics including brachial plexus injuries, thumb carpometacarpal arthritis, and hand and wrist trauma.

She is the recipient of numerous Singapore Health Quality Service awards, SGH Award for Leadership & Excellent Service and Singapore Health Quality Service Award – Honouring Covid-19 Healthcare Heroes.

Awards and honours

2021
Singapore Health Quality Service Award – Honouring Covid-19 Healthcare Heroes
2016
Singapore Health Quality Service Award
2014
Singapore Health Quality Service Award
2011
Singapore Health Quality Service Award
2010
Singapore Health Quality Service Award
2009
Singapore Health Quality Service Award
2008
Singapore Health Quality Service Award