AsAES2018 | 16th Congress of the Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons | 8 -10 march 2018


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First Name: A/Prof Reyaz M. / Last Name: Singaporewalla
Position: Senior Consultant Surgeon,
Head , Endocrine Surgical Service / Department: Surgery
Affiliation/Institution: Khoo Teck Puat Hospital
Singapore. / Country: Singapore
MBBS( Bom), MS ( Gen Surg, DNB(Surg), FRCS(Edin),
MMed(Surg), FRCSEd.
Senior Consultant
Consultant
Fellow -Overseas MOH scholarship
Associate
Consultant
Advanced Surgical Trainee - AST
Service
Registrar
Clinical Observer
Clinical Fellow
Clinical
Observer
Post graduate
Residency / 14 May 2016 onwards
13 May 2011 –13 May 2016
Oct 2009 – Oct 2010
( 1 year )
13 May 2009 - 18 May 2011
.7 Nov 2005 to
12 May 2009
26 Nov 2001 to
6 Nov 2005
Sept -Nov 2002
( 3 months )
1/9/01 to
15/11/01
(2 months)
1-31 July 01
(1 month)
1/7/2000 to
30/6/2001
(1 year) / General, Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery
General, Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery
General Surgery
General Surgery
General Surgery
Head & Neck Surgery
Head & Neck Surgery
Head & Neck Surgery
Surgical Oncology – Head & Neck / Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore
Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore
Centre for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, University Duisberg-Essen, Germany ( Prof Martin Walz)
Royal Victoria Infirmary, NHS trust, Newcastle upon Tyne , UK ( Prof Tom Lennard )
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA.
Dept. of Surgical Oncology -Tata Memorial Cancer Centre, Mumbai, India.
University of Texas-M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre, USA.
Tata Memorial Hospital and Cancer Research Institute, Parel, Mumbai.

Publications (number): 18

Research Interest: 1. Hypocalcemia prevention post total thyroidectomy.

2. Cost-effective work-up of nodular goitre in One Stop Clinic

3. The clinical validation of Thyroseq v2 Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for the prediction of

thyroid malignancy in thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology in the Asian population

Major Achievements:

2010 to current - Set up the Endocrine Surgical Unit in Khoo Teck PuatHospital to provide the full range of surgical operations for benign and malignant thyroid disorders, primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism and benign and malignant adrenal disorders.

2010 - Pioneered the introduction of MIVAT – (Minimally Invasive Video-assitedThyroidecotmy) in Singapore. Currently KTPH is the only public hospital offering this surgery to patients. Results of our cases series has been published in World Journal of Endocrine Surgery.

2011 to current : Introduced the new concept of a – ONE-STOP THYROID CLINICfor “quadruple assessment” of thyroid nodules in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital to improve work flow, reduce waiting times and make healthcare more cost-effective.

August 2011 – Invited Speaker at the 10Th Asia Pacific Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, Singapore

Lecture topic – Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy- Posterior Approach.

March 2012 – Member of Local Organizing Committee & Treasurer for the 13th Asian Association of

Endocrine Surgeons Congress 2012 in Singapore.

August 2012 – Appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery, National University of Singapore.

Oct 2014 – Presented the results and follow-up of the first 63 patients undergoing MIVAT in Singapore at the combined surgical meeting held in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.

May 2015 – Invited speaker for SPACES 2015 – Advanced Endocrine Surgery Workshop organized in NUHS, Singapore.

2016 - Appointed Member of Ministry of Health, Singapore – General Surgery Working Committee on under–graduate Medical Education : to review and standardise the GS curriculum across the three medical schools.

2016: Appoint Associate Professor of Surgery at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine , Singapore.

Summary (Five lines):

I am actively involved in undergraduate and post-graduate surgical training and mentoring of junior doctors and specialize in the field of minimally invasive endocrine surgery. My main strengths are in the field of thyroid surgery and aiming to perform the work-up and management of this common problem in a cost-effective approach.

Congress Secretariat : Department of Endocrine Surgery, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS),
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