Dr Tan Wah Siew - General Surgery

Dr Tan Wah Siew

General Surgeon

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Specialty

General Surgery

Languages

Cantonese, English, Hokkien, Mandarin, Teochew

Gender

Female

Insurance Panel

AIA, Great Eastern, HSBC Life, NTUC Income, Singlife

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Key achievements

  • Performed more than 500 major colorectal resection surgeries for colorectal cancer and benign colorectal conditions
  • One of the earliest Singaporean female surgeons to be trained in robotic colorectal surgery in 2012
  • Part of a multi-disciplinary team who performed the inaugural robotic pelvic exenteration for a patient with advanced rectal cancer in 2018 at Singapore General Hospital

Experience

Associated treatments

  • Colorectal laparoscopic procedures
  • da Vinci surgical system (within the scope of the specialty)
  • Diagnostic & therapeutic colonoscopy
  • Diagnostic & therapeutic upper GI endoscopy
  • Laparoscopic herniorrhaphy

Awards and honours

  • 2020
    Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Silver)

  • 2017
    Service with a Heart Award

  • 2012
    Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Gold)

Contact for international patients

Parkway Support Centre

Clinic

Surgical Associates

3 Mount Elizabeth #08-07
Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
SG 228510
6454 0054
6764 0054

Surgical Associates

6 Napier Road #05-01
Gleneagles Medical Centre
Singapore 258499