DR. TAN WEE BOON

Adjunct Assistant Professor Tan Wee Boon graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2003 with degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. He then commenced on his surgical training in General Surgery in 2007. With this, Dr Tan was accredited as a general surgical specialist by Specialist Accreditation Board, Singapore in 2013 after he obtained a fellowship with Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He subsequently received the Academic Medicine Development Award and went for his fellowship training in endocrine surgery at University College of London Hospital in London, UK as well as at Yonsei University in Seoul for training in robotic thyroidectomy.

Prior to his private practice at Mount Elizabeth Orchard, Dr Tan was a senior consultant in the Department of General Surgery at National University Hospital (NUH). His key interests include hernia, soft tissue and endocrine surgery. As such, Dr Tan has vast experience in hernia surgery with majority performed laparoscopically. His subspeciality in endocrine surgery allowed him to manage conditions related to thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands. Another key interest of his involves surgery for common soft tissues growth such as lipomas and sebaceous cysts, and advanced retroperitoneal sarcomas as he was a part of the Sarcoma Committee in NUH.