Mount Alvernia Hospital, Singapore

Director and Senior Consultant Surgeon at the International Centre for Thoracic Surgery in Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre is Dr. Aneez D.B. Ahmed. He has more than fifteen years of experience as a practitioner in the field of thoracic surgery, with a focus on thoracic cancer. He passed his Fellowship exams at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh after completing his cardiothoracic training at National University Hospital in Singapore. Dr. Aneez held the position of Head of Service of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of General Surgery at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), Singapore, before beginning his private practise. His interest in robotic surgery led the European College of Cardiothoracic Surgery to recognise him as the first member of the ASEAN cohort to receive a Level III Certificate Specialist training in Robotic Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). He presently oversees the training programme for thoracic surgeons in ASEAN and South Asia after taking breaks to complete advanced training in robotic thoracic surgery in Europe and the United States. Later, in 2016, he was elected as the Vice President of the Robotic Surgical Society of Singapore (RS3), and in 2019, he was nominated to be the organization's President. View Profile

In 1996, Dr. Benedict Peng earned an honours degree from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Later, he earned his FRCS in orthopaedics from Edinburgh and his Master of Medicine in orthopaedic surgery from Singapore. He then went on to the reputed Hospital for Special Surgery and Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York to finish his Fellowship training in spine surgery. At Singapore General Hospital, which performs the majority of spine operations in Singapore, Dr. Peng obtained expertise as a consultant spine surgeon. His specialty in spine surgery covers degenerative conditions, deformity, trauma, tumours, and infections. A particular area of focus for Dr. Peng is minimally invasive spine surgery. Patients who have minimally invasive surgery experience a shorter hospital stay and a quicker recovery with smaller scars. Dr. Peng is acknowledged internationally for his knowledge in this area. View Profile

Previously a consultant in the Department of Haematology-Oncology at the National Cancer Institute Singapore, National University Hospital, Dr. Benjamin Chuah is a Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist at the OncoCare Cancer Centre. After receiving his medical degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1998 and winning the Arthur Ball Prize for Second Place and the Professor Prize in Physics (Surgery), Dr. Chuah returned to Singapore and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of the UK in 2002. Dr. Benjamin Chuah, also known to patients as Dr. Ben Chuah, was actively involved in post-graduate teaching and research before he entered private practise. He was a member of the Core Faculty for the Residency Program and the Director for Postgraduate Medical Education (Medical Oncology) (Internal Medicine). He received the 2011 National University Hospital Postgraduate Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of his contributions. Gastrointestinal malignancies, such as oesophageal, gastric, biliary tract, pancreatic, liver (hepatocellular carcinoma), neuroendocrine tumours, and colorectal cancers, are Dr. Ben Chuah's area of expertise. He studies the lack of somatic mutations in the VEGFR-2 tyrosine kinase domain in hepatocellular carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer) with bony metastases, and the use of the chemotherapy drug docetaxel (Taxotere) with or without ketoconazole in breast cancer. He is a clinical cancer specialist and researcher. View Profile

In 2000, Dr. Chan earned his medical degree with honours from the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Medicine. He completed additional internal medicine training to earn the Member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) designation in 2004. His training as a medical oncology expert was completed at Singapore's National University Cancer Institute. In October 2014, he became the first person in South Asia to use the immunotherapy drug Pembrolizumab, a PD-1 inhibitor. With a particular clinical interest in breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma, and sarcoma, Dr. Daniel Chan accepts referrals for all cancer types. View Profile

Dr. Brian Khoo received his MB ChB from Queen's University of Belfast in 1998 and his MRCP from the Royal College of Physicians in 2002. He currently works as a cardiologist at Nobel Heart Centre in Mount Alvernia Medical Centre A. Dr. Brian Khoo is a multilingual person who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, Malay, and English. His work includes the evaluation and management of arrhythmias, CT coronary angiography, the management of heart failure disease, the evaluation and management of chest pain, and preventative cardiovascular screening. Dr. Brian Khoo received specialist accreditation in cardiology from the Ministry of Health and Singapore Medical Council in 2006 after completing advanced specialist training in cardiology at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. The only physician in Singapore to have been accepted to the United States-based Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's sponsorship programme as an interventional cardiology fellow, he advanced his studies by spending a year in interventional cardiology under Drs. Neal Kleiman at the Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Centre and Ken Fujise at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Brian Khoo assisted in the establishment of the Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention service at the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital after his return. The ""door to balloon"" time, or the amount of time between when a patient enters the A&E and when coronary blood flow is achieved, has been decreased to under 90 minutes thanks to this round-the-clock service, which has significantly increased the survival rates of heart attack patients. View Profile

He currently serves as the Heart, Lung & Vascular Center at Mount Elizabeth Medical Center's and Singapore's Consultant of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. At the National Heart Centre in Singapore, Dr. Sivathasan also holds many positions, including Program Director of the Mechanical Heart Devices and Co-Director of the Heart/Lung Transplantation programmes. He served as the program's principal investigator for robotic minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery. Dr. Sivathasan is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore and the Edinburgh (1980) and Royal College of Surgeons of England. He received his degree from the Colombo Medical Faculty. He played a key role in the establishment of several important programmes in Singapore, such as the Mechanical Hear Assist, the National Heart Centre's heart-lung transplant program, robotic cardiac surgery, and its dedicated non-invasive vascular laboratory. View Profile

Dr. Charles Siow Hua Chiang is a neurologist with more than 10 years of expertise who specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of stroke, pain disorders, and headaches. His clinics at Mount Elizabeth Novena and Mount Elizabeth Hospitals are where he currently conducts his practise. Dr. Siow pursued specialty training in the US after earning his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (MB BCh BAO, LRCPI, LRCSI, 1995). Prior to finishing a fellowship in headache management at the renowned Jefferson Headache Center in Pennsylvania under the guidance of Professor Stephen Silberstein, he underwent a residency programme in neurology at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Virginia. View Profile

The urology specialist Dr. Gerald Tan is highly known for his proficiency in robotic and minimally invasive surgery as well as for prostate, kidney, and bladder malignancies. Dr. Tan was one of the first doctors in Singapore to conduct robotic partial nephrectomy for early kidney cancer and robotic radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. He has participated in over 1,500 robotic radical prostatectomies. Dr. Tan performs sophisticated pelvic cancer reconstruction operations and is skilled in robotic and advanced laparoscopic treatments. Dr. Tan led the creation of the hospital's inpatient-care pathway for patients receiving robotic prostatectomy before going into private practise. Dr. Tan served as the surgical proctor for the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Robotic Urology Task Force. Dr. Tan is the recognised winner of the famous Ferdinand and has won various other prominent worldwide academic accolades and awards. His additional specialties include the minimally invasive and endoscopic therapy of prostate illnesses and urinary stones. He was then hired as staff and worked as a fellowship director and attending neurologist at the department of neurology while he was there. Beyond his clinic and patients, Dr. Siow is dedicated to his field in general. He participates in a number of organisations that support sufferers of headache issues in Singapore and the surrounding countries through education and support. He presently serves as the Headache Society of Singapore's president and a member of the Pain Association of Singapore's executive committee. Additionally, he played a key role in founding the Asian Headache Foundation, where he currently serves as Secretary. View Profile