Dr Teo Kejia - Neurosurgery

Dr Teo Kejia

Neurosurgeon

Medical Reviewer

Specialty

Neurosurgery

Languages

English, Hokkien, Malay, Mandarin, Teochew

Gender

Male

Insurance Panel

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

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Key achievements

  • Started NUH’s brain mapping and awake craniotomy surgery service since 2017
  • Programme director of the NUHS Surgery-in-General Residency Programme since 2022
  • Founding member of the 1st Asia Pacific Low Grade Glioma Network

Experience

Associated treatments

  • Lumbar Puncture
  • Intracranial abscess/Haemorrhage – craniectomy/burr hole and drainage
  • Repair & excision of myelomeningocele
  • Computer-guided stereotactic neurosurgery

Awards and honours

  • 2017
    Quality Improvement Project Recognition Award, NUH
  • 2015
    Long Service Award, NUH
  • 2013
    Academic Medicine Development Award, NUH

Fellowship and accreditation

  • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, National University of Singapore
  • Member of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK
  • Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore, Neurosurgery
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Neurosurgery
  • International Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons

Research & publications

Tan, C. L., Jain, S., Chan, H., Loh, N. W., & Teo, K. (2022). Awake craniotomy for brain tumor resection: Patient experience and acceptance in an Asian population. Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, 19(1), 172–178.

Bolem, N., Soon, Y. Y., Ravi, S., Dinesh, N., Teo, K., Nga, V. D. W., Lwin, S., Yeo, T. T., & Vellayappan, B. (2022). Is there any survival benefit from post-operative radiation in brain metastases? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 99, 327–335.

Jain, S., Loh, W., Chan, H., Lam, C., Yeo, T. T., Lwin, S., Nga, V. D. W., & Teo, K. (2021). Performing awake surgeries in times of COVID-19 – A Singapore experience. Asian Journal of Neurosurgery, 16(04), 685–691.

Hamer, R. P., Jain, S., Teo, C., Loh, W., Chan, H., Yeo, T. T., & Teo, K. (2020). Optimizing the onco-functional balance in supratentorial brain tumour surgery: A single institution’s initial experience with intraoperative cortico-subcortical mapping and monitoring in Singapore. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 79, 224–230.

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Clinic

Precision Neurosurgery

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Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
SG 228510
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Parkway East Medical Centre
SG 427989
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