The Urology
Department at Tan Tock Seng Hospital was first formed as a subspecialty service
within the Department of General Surgery in 1993, eventually maturing into its
own Department in 2007 under the inaugural headship of Associate Professor Chia
Sing Joo. Since then, we have rapidly expanded our capabilities to become a
one-stop center that provides a comprehensive range of urological subspecialty
services that include:
- Urologic oncology
- Reconstructive urology
- Minimally invasive and robotic urology
- Endourology
- Geriatric urology
- Neuro-urology and voiding dysfunction
- Andrology
- Female urology
- General urological support to KK Women's and
Children's Hospital, Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins Medical
Institute (Singapore).
The Department of
Urology is currently headed by Dr Chong Yew Lam, and comprises 6 consultants, 3 associate consultants, and 3 registrars.
We pride ourselves on delivering
excellent clinical outcomes for our patients. This has been the result of a
focused effort of having our consultants complete formal subspecialty training
at top centers in the United States and Australia, as well as harnessing the
best available technologies in the market to deliver cost-effective care to our
patients. These include the acquisition of state-of-the-art flexible
ureteroscopes and the da Vinci S HD Robotic System, allowing our urologists to
offer the benefits of minimally invasive surgery to our patients with complex
conditions.
Our high surgical
volume, coupled with the strong institutional culture of resident teaching, has
also seen our Department become a teaching center for urologists from regional
countries wishing to understudy the latest techniques in endourology and
laparoscopic surgery.
In conjunction with the Singapore Urological Association,
TTSH Urology has also hosted several live surgery workshops, and most recently
the 10th Annual Advanced Urology Course in 2010 for urology
residents from all around Asia.
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