Dr Tan Soo Heong is a senior consultant Hand Surgeon and the Director of Hand, Wrist & Upper Limb Surgery. He graduated from the National University of Singapore and obtained his surgical fellowships from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Dr Tan did his Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery fellowship at Ogori Daiichi Hospital, Japan and at the world renown Kleinert Kutz and Associates Hand Care Centre, USA. He was a senior consultant Hand Surgeon at the Department of Hand Surgery, Singapore General Hospital.
Dr Tan was a recipient of the Japanese Government Scholarship for Hand & Reconstructive Microsurgery in 1996. He was awarded the SGH Young Investigator Award in 2000 and the Ministry of Health Higher Manpower Development Plan Fellowship for Hand and Advanced Reconstructive Microsurgery in 2000.
He has held several research and teaching positions. He was the Director of Research and Director of Fellowship Training at the Department of Hand Surgery; Clinical Lecturer at the National University of Singapore, the Nanyang Technological University and the Nanyang Polytechnic. He was the President of the Singapore Society for Hand Surgery from 2002 to 2004. He is a committee member, Chapter of Hand Surgeons in the College of Surgeons, Singapore.
Dr Tan has membership in several local and international professional Societies. He is a member of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, British Society for Surgery of the Hand, the Japanese Society for Surgery of the Hand and the Singapore Society for Hand Surgery, World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, the Kleinert Society, the Singapore College of Surgeons and the Singapore Medical Association.
He has published several scientific papers and book chapters and regularly speaks at several local, regional and international meetings.
Dr Hong Soo Wan graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1986. Subsequently, he obtained fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1992. Dr Hong then went on to pursue further training in the subspecialty of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and underwent a one-year fellowship in London during 1996. Upon its completion, he became a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore in 1998.
Dr. Hong’s practice comprises mainly cosmetic surgery, including blepharoplasty, rhinoplasty, chin augmentation, ear pinback surgery and facelifts. He does body contouring with liposuction, lipectomy, abdominoplasty and breast surgery, which includes augmentation, reduction, mastopexy and nipple surgery.
The areas of Dr. Hong’s sub-specialty interest lie in breast reconstruction after mastectomy using implants or flaps, the usage of costal cartilage in ear reconstruction for congenital ear deformities, such as microtia, facial reanimation for facial palsy using microsurgical transfer of muscle flaps, hand surgery and reconstructive microsurgery.
Active in the medical community, Dr Hong is a member of the Singapore Association of Plastic Surgeons, Singapore Society for Cosmetic (Aesthetic) Surgeons and Singapore Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine.
Dr Tan Puay Ling completed her medical degree at the National University of Singapore in 1998 and attained Master of Medicine in Surgery (NUS) in 2002. She was awarded the Health Manpower Development Program (HMDP) scholarship in 2006 and spent one year at the prestigious Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (Linkou) under the guidance of Prof FC Wei and Prof David Chuang, who are both renowned specialists in reconstructive microsurgery, nerve surgery and paediatric hand surgery. Her keen interest in hand & wrist arthroscopy has also brought her under the wings of Dr AL Osterman from Philadelphia Hand Centre as well as Dr PC Ho from Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong.
Dr Tan is a Visiting Consultant at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, KK Women's & Children's Hospital, as well as Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.
Dr Tan is well respected in her area of specialty and is currently the Chairman of the Chapter of Hand Surgeons, College of Surgeons, Academy of Medicine Singapore. She has also served previously as the Treasurer as well as the Secretary of the Singapore Society for Hand Surgery from 2010 to 2012.
Her active involvement in education and research saw her as the Program Director for the National Healthcare Group (NHG) Hand Surgery Program from 2011 to 2013. She is also the Senior Clinical Lecturer in Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. Her active involvement in teaching also saw her as the Chairman and Director of the Surgical Sciences Training Centre in Tan Tock Seng Hospital prior to joining CHARMS.
Besides being invited to speak in numerous local , regional and international conferences, Dr Tan has aslo published extensively, in numerous international journals, including a book chapter in the referenced text "The Art of Microsurgical Reconstruction". She also serves as an expert reviewer for many well-recognized journals.
Prior to establishing her private practice in CHARMS, Dr Tan was the Head and Consultant of the Hand & Microsurgery Section, Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Dr Tan is currently the first and only accredited female Hand Surgeon in private practice.
Dr Tan is multilingual, and is conversant in English, Mandarin, Hokkien and Bahasa Melayu.
Dr Chong's subspecialty interest is in minimally invasive arthroscopic reconstructive surgery of the hip, knee and shoulder. He is one of the few Orthopaedic surgeons in Singapore who is trained in the techniques of hip arthroscopy. Common procedures performed by Dr Chong include:
a. Hip arthroscopic surgery, including femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) decompression and labral repair
b. Knee arthroscopic surgery, including anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, multi-ligament knee reconstruction, meniscus repair and cartilage resurfacing
c. Shoulder arthroscopic surgery, including rotator cuff repair, shoulder stabilization and stiff shoulder release