Dr Chok Aik Yong
General Surgeon
Specialty
General Surgery
Languages
Cantonese, English, Hokkien, Mandarin
Gender
Male
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Great Eastern, Prudential^, HSBC Life
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Experience
Dr Chok Aik Yong is a general surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.
His subspecialty interests are in minimally invasive and robotic colorectal surgery, colorectal cancer, pelvic lymph node dissection, pelvic exenterations and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). He also treats haemorrhoids, anal fistula and fissure, and bowel incontinence.
He was a consultant surgeon in the department of colorectal surgery at Singapore General Hospital (SGH), managing a high volume of complex colorectal cases.
Dr Chok graduated from the National University of Singapore and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, UK. He subsequently completed his specialist training in colorectal surgery and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK. He was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan award to advance his colorectal training at Royal Marsden Hospital, UK.
While at SGH, he was a member of the multi-disciplinary IBD team, operating on many Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis cases. He was also a member of the SGH pelvic exenteration team, performing numerous multi-organ surgeries for advanced colorectal cancers. He was also a part of the colorectal genetics and hereditary disorders service at SGH.
He has performed more than 500 major colorectal operations including laparoscopic and robotic procedures. In addition, he has performed one of highest volumes of gastroscopy and colonoscopy procedures, as well as major colorectal resections at SGH. He has more than 15 years of experience practising medicine.
Dr Chok has received numerous teaching awards and was part of the SGH mentoring programme for junior specialists. He is also a clinical assistant professor at Duke-NUS Medical School and Duke-NUS oncology academic clinical programme.
He has published in various international peer-reviewed journals, particularly on colorectal cancer. He is a member of the PelvEx Collaborative, having contributed two first-author publications with the international research collaborative.
He has received the Singapore Health Service Quality Award and the SingHealth 10-year Long Service Award.
Awards and honours
- 2020
Singapore Health Service Quality Award - 2018
SingHealth 10-Year Long Service Award - 2017
Singapore Health Service Quality Award
Research & publications
Chok, A. Y., et al. (2023). Cost-effectiveness comparison of minimally invasive, robotic and open approaches in colorectal surgery: a systematic review and bayesian network meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. International Journal of Colorectal Disease, 38(1).
Chok, A. Y., et al. (2023). Stenting as a bridge to surgery in obstructing colon cancer: Long-term recurrence pattern and competing risk of mortality. World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 15(2), 64–76.
Chok, A. Y., et al. (2022). The distinct clinical trajectory, metastatic sites, and immunobiology of microsatellite-instability-high cancers. Frontiers in Genetics, 13.
Chok, A. Y., et al. (2022). Efficacy of biofeedback therapy for faecal incontinence in an Asian population. Anz Journal of Surgery, 93(5), 1262–1266.
Chen, H. L. R., Chok, A. Y., Cheng, T. L., & Tan, E. (2021). Pouch volvulus after laparoscopic ileal pouch anal anastomosis: the Achilles heel? Anz Journal of Surgery, 92(9), 2322–2323.
Chok, A. Y., et al. (2021). The Emerging role of robotics in pelvic exenteration surgery for locally advanced rectal Cancer: A Narrative review. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10(7), 1518.
Chok, A. Y., et al. (2021). Perioperative management and anaesthetic considerations in pelvic exenterations using Delphi methodology: results from the PelvEx Collaborative. BJS Open, 5(1).
Chok, A. Y., et al. (2020). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Management of Locally Advanced Primary/Recurrent Rectal Cancer. British Journal of Surgery, 107(11), e547–e548.
