Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
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Ngiam Kee Yuan

 Ngiam Kee Yuan 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

 Dr Ngiam is a Consultant General Surgeon specialising in Thyroid and Endocrine surgical disorders. 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 and Endocrine Surgery in Taiwan. He received further training in robotic thyroid surgery at the Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea.

 

Dr Ngiam’s special interests are in thyroid and endocrine surgery, robotic thyroid 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 parathyroid surgery, robotic thyroid surgery, obesity surgery for type 2 diabetes and thyroid cancer surgery.

 

Education and Fellowships

MBBS (London), MRCS (Glasgow), MMed (Surgery), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)

 

Specialty Interests

• Robotic and endoscopic thyroid surgery
• Parathyroid Surgery
• Adrenal Surgery
• Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
• Health information technology and Big Data Analytics

 

Awards and Honours

• Special Recognition Award, NUS, School of Medicine,  2015
• NUS Medical Society, Outstanding Tutor Award, 2013
• NUHS residency Program, Resident`s Choice Awards 2011
• NUS Medical Society Teachers´ Day Award 2008
• ExxonMobil-NUS Research Fellowship for Clinicians, 2007
• Excellent Service Award, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore 2005 - Silver award
• Distinctions in Surgery, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2003
• Robert and Diana Dick Prize for Top Overseas Student 2003
• Esther Frances White Memorial Prize (Distinction in Final MBBS Examination 2003)
• Natalie Bogdan Prize in Medicine 2003   
• Winifred Secretan Patch Prize in Anatomy, 1999

 

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Research Interest

 bariatric surgery,obesity,weight management

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