Our Doctors

Dr Chang  graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Medicine in 1994. He was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow in 1998. The same year, he obtained his Master of Medicine in General Surgery from the National University of Singapore.

In 2001, Dr Chang became the first orthopaedic trainee from Singapore to obtain the FRCS Edin (Orth) when it was made a requirement for exit certification for orthopaedic training in Singapore. He was then awarded the Ministry of Health HMDP Scholarship in 2003 to train at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA as a Clinical Fellow in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine.

He was mentored by Professor David NM Caborn, a leading sports orthopaedic surgeon in the USA, with a special interest in the use of allograft tissues for sports reconstructive surgeries and in meniscus transplantations. He served as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Changi General Hospital and as Deputy-Head of the Changi Sports Medicine Center (CSMC). He was instrumental in developing the Orthopaedic Sports Service in CSMC, eventually becoming the Director of Orthopaedic Sports Service in 2007.

Among his many achievements was the setting up of the CSMC Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Programme in 2004, which has treated over 250 patients with anterior cruciate ligament injuries annually. Among his patients were National football players and S-League football players.

Dr Lim Kay Kiat is an Orthopaedic surgeon with a subspecialty in Foot and Ankle surgery. He has an interest in running and cycling injuries.

Dr Lim obtained his medical degree from the National University of Singapore in 1996. He went on to pursue postgraduate training in Surgery and was admitted as a Member of the Royal of College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2001. The following year, he obtained a Masters of Medicine in Orthopaedic Surgery from the National University of Singapore and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2005. Being awarded a training grant from the SingHealth Talent Development Fund, Dr Lim was a Foot and Ankle fellow in the University of Toronto and underwent subspecialty training at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Canada between 2006 and 2007.

Dr Lim has been practicing as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Changi General Hospital and has also been the Director of the Foot and Ankle Service there. He performed the first total ankle replacement in Changi General Hospital and has been instrumental in pioneering the use of maggot debridement therapy in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers there. As a surgeon also running a practice in the Changi Sports Medicine Centre, Dr Lim counts amongst his many patients, several S-League and National soccer players, junior and development team athletes as well as dancers with lower extremity injuries.

He has a research interest in foot and ankle disorders and gait and has received several research grants and been published in major Orthopaedic scientific journals. In addition, Dr Lim has been involved in multi-centre international medical trials as the Singapore principle investigator.

Dr Lim holds a teaching appointment from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore for training undergraduate medical students. He is also involved in the training of specialist Orthopaedic surgeons, acting as mentor and supervisor for surgeons in-training. He has been teaching faculty for the National University of Singapore Postgraduate Course in Orthopaedic Surgery over the past few years. This is a course targeted at local and international trainee Orthopaedic surgeons. Outside of Orthopaedic surgery, Dr Lim has been an instructor for the Advanced Trauma Life Support course since 2004 and has acted as advisor/mentor for biomechanics students from the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore.

Outside of his work, Dr Lim is a keen endurance athlete. He is a multiple-time finisher of Ironman 70.3 Triathlons and marathoner. With this background, he has a personal interest in running and cycling injuries. Beyond rehabilitative, medical and surgical treatment of cycling injuries, he also focuses on bike fit strategies to prevent and treat overuse cycling injuries.

Dr Lim has been involved in the medical team covering the Singapore Grand Prix since the inaugural event in 2008. In 2009, he was the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the track medical service, responsible for trackside safety and medical intervention for racing accidents.

Dr Teo Yee Sze an Orthopaedic Surgeon who has a primary subspecialty interest in adult reconstructive and trauma surgery, graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Medicine in 1999. He went on to pursue postgraduate training in Orthopaedic Surgery and was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2002. He obtained his Master of Medicine in Orthopaedic Surgery from the National University of Singapore in 2003. His post graduate training culminated in him being admitted as a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2007. He was registered with the Singapore Medical Council as a specialist in Orthopaedic Surgery in the same year.

Dr Teo continued to pursue his interest in adult reconstructive and trauma surgery. He was awarded the Singhealth Health Manpower Development Fund (HMDP) Scholarship in 2008 to train at the world renowned Rorabeck Bourne Joint Replacement Clinic at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. He was mentored by leading orthopaedic surgeons, Professor CH Rorebeck, Professor RB Bourne and Professor SJ McDonald and performed numerous highly complex primary and revision arthroplasty surgeries during the fellowship year.

Dr Teo is currently practicing as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Changi General Hospital. He has been instrumental in setting up and expanding the adult reconstructive division within the hospital and has accumulated extensive experience in complex primary and revision arthroplasty surgeries in the department.

Dr Teo has a keen interest in research. He has been awarded multiple research grants and has also authored numerous research papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. In addition, he has participated in several multicenter trials as principal and co-investigator, especially in the area of adult reconstructive surgery.

In addition to research, Dr Teo commits time to teaching medical students and post-graduate trainees. He has been a clinical tutor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore from 2003 and was subsequently appointed Adjunt Assistant Professor in 2010, in charge of medical student teaching in the Orthopaedic Department of Changi General Hospital.