Our Doctors

Special Interest in Arthroscopic Knee and Shoulder Surgery, Sports Injury

MBBS (Singapore), FRCS (Edinburgh), MMed (Singapore) (Orthopaedics), FRCS (Edinburgh) (Orthopaedics), FAMS (Orthopaedics)

Dr Oh graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1995. His post-graduate qualifications include a postgraduate degree in General Surgery from the Fellowship of the Royal Surgeons of Edinburgh, a Master of Medicine (Orthopaedics), Singapore, and a Membership with the Fellowship of the Royal Surgeons of Edinburgh (Orthopaedics).

He has dual sub-specialty areas of training in sports and trauma surgery. Common conditions managed by and common procedures performed by Dr Oh include:

1. Arthroscopic knee surgery, including ACL reconstruction, meniscus surgery and complex repairs for multiple lesions
2. Arthroscopic shoulder surgery, including rotator cuff surgery and Bankart repair
3. Cartilage Regeneration
4. Knee and Shoulder replacement surgery
5. Computer navigation in Knee replacement

Prior to coming on board at IOC, Dr Oh was a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He actively shares his expertise as a clinical teacher to medical and nursing students as well as fellow doctors and surgeons. Between 2007 and 2009, Dr Oh was an instructor at Arthrocare Shoulder & Knee Arthroscopy workshop and a Masters of Medicine GP course tutor. He is also active in conducting orthopaedic research, which spans from osteoporosis to cartilage regeneration and injuries in children.

Dr Oh has been a competitive swimmer since 6 and was a qualified lifeguard. He is also a Masterscuba Diver (NAUI). He loves downhill skiing, especially through gladed runs and going off piste. He has been playing tennis since 12 and spends too much time modifying his racquets and tweaking his strokes. Nowadays, if he is not playing tennis, he is either doing off-court conditioning or reading up on biomechanics to improve stoke production and strategy.

Dr Oh is multilingual; he is conversant in English, Mandarin, French, Cantonese, Malay and Thai.

Dr Leslie Ng
Consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Surgeon,
Island Orthopaedic Consultants

Dr Leslie Ng is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Island Orthopaedic Consultants. Dr Ng is at the forefront of spine surgery and well-versed in the use of advance technology to make the surgery safe and cost effective. This includes the use of ultrasonic bone scalpel rather than traditional bone cutter that may endanger the nerve or spinal cord; deploying real time nerve root monitoring devices during spine surgery to ensure prevent nerve injury and computer navigation for pedicle screw insertion whenever necessary for complex spine cases. He has considerable experience in evidence-based interventional pain procedures for chronic neck and back pain management including the latest generation of nucleoplasty ”˜Disc “Fx' system for degenerative intervertebral disc disorder.

Dr Ng is a United States certified user of lateral access spine surgery and conceptualized the technique of ”˜indirect decompression' of spinal canal. This is the first time lumbar inter-body fusion can be performed with decompression of the spinal canal with total preservation of facets joint, unlike the standard technique of transforaminal inter-body fusion technique which require removal of facets joint.

Dr Ng graduated from the University of London, United Kingdom in 1998. He was the first Asian trainee accepted in the pioneer two year spine surgery national fellowship training programme in England. He previously practised at the world renowned Centre for Spine Studies and Surgery at Queens Medical Centre, University Teaching Hospital of Nottingham under the mentorships of Mr. John Webb and Mr. Michael Gevitte. He focused on developing advance spine surgical technique for complex spine deformity and pathologies.

Dr Ng is Adjunct Assistance Professor at National University Hospital and is also the spine fellowship programme director.

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Special Interest in Joint Replacements, Foot & Ankle Surgery

MBBS (London), MRCS (Edinburgh), MMed (Singapore) (Orthopaedics), FRCS (Edinburgh) (Orthopaedics)

Dr Ooi graduated from United Medical & Dental Schools of Guy’s & St Thomas’s Hospitals in 1996. His post-graduate qualifications include a Master of Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) (Singapore), and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr Ooi has dual sub-specialty areas of expertise in foot and ankle surgery as well as hip and knee replacement surgery after receiving his sub-specialty training at the Perth Orthopaedic Institute, Australia. Besides general orthopaedic and trauma surgery, other surgical procedures performed by Dr Ooi include:

• Surgery for bunions or hallux valgus
• Ankle arthroscopic surgery and ankle lateral ligament reconstructive surgery for ankle instability
• Radiofrequency coblation therapy for plantar fasciitis (chronic heel pain)
• Management of diabetic foot deformities and ulcers
• Hip and knee replacement surgery
• Knee arthroscopy, meniscal surgery and cruciate ligament reconstruction

Dr Ooi was formerly Deputy Head and Consultant at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. He was also the Division Chief of the Foot & Ankle, and Sports Medicine Services. In addition, he was a member of the hospital’s Medical Board. Dr Ooi has been awarded numerous prizes, including First Prize for Best Research Paper Award 2008, Singapore Medical Journal; Top 10 Teacher award for 2007-8 in Tan Tock Seng Hospital; and Silver EXSA recipient for 2008.

An avid sportsperson, Dr Ooi is currently the team captain of the CoolJoe’s Football team. He was past Captain of the SJIOBA Football team and ex-member of the ORA Rugby team.

Dr Jane Yap is a Senior Respiratory Consultant in private practice since 2001 at Mount Alvernia Hospital specializing in:

• asthma
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• tuberculosis
• lung cancer
• pleural diseases
• chronic cough
• pneumonia
  

Trained as a specialist in Internal and Respiratory Medicine at National University of Singapore (MBBS 1982, Master of Medicine 1987) with Postgraduate Respiratory attachment in Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London (1989-1990) and Fellow of the Academy of Medicine (Respiratory Medicine), Singapore since 1991, she is a founding member of the Asthma Association Singapore that was registered in 1993. She was the President of the association in 1995 and 1999. She was also an active committee member of the Singapore Thoracic Society from 1987 – 1995.

Dr Yap helped formulate in 1997 the STEPS (Singapore Tuberculosis Elimination Programme) after one year as Singapore’s representative in the World Health Organization (WHO) Tuberculosis Surveillance Team (1996-2000) and TB Advisory Committee (1996).

She was Acting Head (1996-1997) of the Tuberculosis Department at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Consultant at Respiratory Department of the said hospital prior to private practice. She helped to manage the Occupational Lung Clinic from 1988 – 2001.

At Mount Alvernia Hospital, she was Chairman (2003) of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Prevention Committee, Chairman (2004-2007) of the Hospital Infection Control Committee and Member (2004-2006) of the Medical Advisory Board.

She is the principal author of more than 35 papers published in Local and International Journals and had presented in a number of International Conferences. She was a clinical tutor for medical students, doctors and nurses while in Tan Tock Seng Hospital.