Department of Urology



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:

  • Andrology
  • Bladder Cancer
  • Endourology
  • Female Urology
  • Geriatric Urology
  • Kidney Cancer
  • Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery
  • Medical prevention of Stone disease
  • Neuro-urology and voiding dysfuntion
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment
  • Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery
  • Reconstructive urology
  • Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery
  • Robotic Cancer Surgery
  • Subfertility & Sexual Dysfunction
  • Stone / Shockwave Treatment
  • Testicular Cancer Treatment
  • Urologic Oncology
  • 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 Adjunct Assistant Professor Chong Yew Lam, and comprises 8 consultants, 1 associate consultant, and 3 registrars, and 1 Resident Physician.

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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