Assoc Prof John Yuen Shyi Peng

Under an Australian Government scholarship, Associate Professor John SP Yuen studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and earned a Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (M.B; BS) degree in 1996. He is currently the head and senior consultant of the department of urology. He received advanced urology training in Singapore, where he also earned membership in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2000 and a Master of Medicine (Surgery) from the National University of Singapore (NUS). In 2004, he was accepted as a Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Medicine and as a Member of the Urologist Chapter of the Singapore College of Surgeons. Senior Consultant Urological Surgeon Dr. Yuen specialises in robotic and laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of urological malignancies at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) (prostate, kidney, bladder, testicular and penile cancers). He received robotic and laparoscopic surgical training at the University of Strasbourg in France and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York, USA, where he graduated with a diploma in laparoscopic surgery. He has a subspecialty in uro-oncology and oversaw the department at SGH from 2013 to 2016. Other basic urological problems such as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH or prostatism), urinary stone disease, and urinary tract infections are among the conditions he treats in his practise.

Qualification

• MBBS (Melb)
• MMed (Surg) (S'pore)
• MRCS (Edin)
• FAMS (Urology)
• DPhil (Oxon)