Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
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Kee Yuan Ngiam

 Department of Surgery, National University Hospital Singapore
1E Kent Ridge Road, NUHS Tower Block, Level 8-119228, Singapore
Tel: +65 6779 5555
Fax: +65 6777 8427
E-mail: kee_yuan_ngiam@nuhs.edu.sg

Biography

 Asst Prof Ngiam Kee Yuan is a Consultant at the Department of Thyroid and Endocrine Surgery at the National University Hospital. Following the completion of his Advanced Specialist Training in General Surgery, he was awarded a fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and was accredited as a surgical specialist by the Specialist Accreditation Board, Singapore in 2012. He received the Higher Manpower Development Program Award in 2012 to complete a Fellowship in Metabolic Surgery.

Dr Ngiam’s specialty is in general surgery and his special interests are endocrine surgery, bariatric and metabolic surgery, advanced endoscopy and laparoscopic surgery. He was awarded the ExxonMobil-NUS Research Fellowship for Clinicians in 2007 and his research interests include obesity, surgery for type-2 diabetes and thyroid cancer.

Education and Fellowships

•  MBBS - Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London
• MRCS - Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow
• MMed - National University Singapore
• FRCS - Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Edinburgh

Advanced Training

• HMDP fellowship in Metabolic Surgery, Taipei, Taiwan

Specialty Interests

• Early detection of thyroid cancers
• Conventional thyroid surgery and thyroid cancer surgery
• Endoscopic thyroid surgery
• Minimally invasive parathyroid surgery
• Laparoscopic and conventional adrenal surgery
• Laparoscopic metabolic and bariatric surgery

Research Interest

 Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding,Obesity, Weight Loss, bariatric surgery 

Publications

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