Dr Singaporewalla Reyaz Moiz

Dr Singaporewalla Reyaz is a general surgeon at Gleneagles Hospital and Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.

His special interest is in endocrine surgery including thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal gland surgery.

He is experienced in transaxillary endoscopic thyroid surgeries that reduce neck scars, and laparoscopic adrenal surgeries with quick turnaround time.

Prior to joining private practice, Dr Reyaz headed the endocrine and head-neck surgical service in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH). He was the deputy head of the department of surgery from 2019 – 2020.

Dr Reyaz finished his undergraduate medical training and postgraduate master’s degree at the University of Mumbai, India. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK and earned his Diplomate National Board surgery post-graduate master's degree. Subsequently, he was selected for the head-neck surgical fellowship programme at the Tata Memorial Cancer Centre in Mumbai. He came to Singapore and earned his master’s degree from the National University of Singapore. He was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan award to undergo training in Germany and the UK. He gained experience and training in minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery as well as endocrine and breast surgery. Dr Reyaz also helped to set up the KTPH endocrine-head neck surgical service.

He has expertise in the technique of transaxillary endoscopic thyroid surgery, which avoids a neck scar in selected patients needing thyroid surgery. He introduced minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy in Singapore and published his series of 100 successful cases in international peer-reviewed journals. He also developed protocols for the safe management of renal failure patients undergoing parathyroid surgery, and digitalised the calcium management protocols after thyroid and parathyroid surgery for use across various disciplines and hospitals in Singapore.

He was an adjunct associate professor of surgery at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He was also the teaching lead for undergraduate year 3 medical students.

Dr Reyaz has been invited to many international and local surgical conferences to speak on MIVAT and transaxillary endoscopic thyroid surgery. He has more than 30 research publications, which have been cited over 250 times.

He received several Service Champion Awards at KTPH.