Dr Singh Sarbjit

Dr Sarbjit Singh is an orthopaedic surgeon in Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.

He is known for his surgical expertise in orthopaedic surgery, particularly in limb reconstruction and deformity correction, both in paediatric and adult patients.

Dr Sarbjit completed his post graduate degree in 1987. He was subsequently awarded a clinical fellowship in paediatric orthopaedics and limb reconstruction at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada in 1991. Upon his return, he was also trained in joint replacement and orthopaedic surgery at the adult reconstruction division of Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

He has presented and published at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Orthopaedic Research Society. He has conducted and run several courses and workshops on joint replacement surgery, limb deformity correction, and paediatric orthopaedics. Dr Sarbjit was a senior consultant and director at the adult reconstruction service at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He was also a visiting consultant to the children's orthopaedic department at KK Women's and Children's Hospital, National University Hospital, and Spastic Children's Association, as well as a senior clinical lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

He has extensive and in-depth experience in minimally invasive hip and knee replacement surgery, computer navigation surgery, mobile bearing knee replacement, uni-compartmental replacement, bi-compartmental knee replacement and hip resurfacing. He also specialises in complicated, knee and hip revision surgery.

In the field of paediatric orthopaedics, he has done extensive work on congenital hip and knee disorders, limb deformities, clubfeet, paediatric tumour and children trauma. He is an established authority in the field of Ilizarov surgery and limb lengthening. Dr Sarbjit was one of the founding presidents of the ASAMI ASEAN. He has won numerous awards for the development of limb lengthening techniques and published extensively on these topics. He has extensive experience using external frame, lengthening over nail and intramedullary techniques (Fitbone/ISKD) for his patients.

Dr Sarbjit has special interests in prosthesis development and technology. Together with Johnson and Johnson Medical, he was one of the international surgeons involved in the design of the mobile-bearing knee prosthesis and was involved in a multicentre trial in 2006 for the design and evaluation of the mobile-bearing knee prosthesis. He also developed the circular fixation and monolateral frames together with Biomedical Division, SIM University and was an adjunct professor in SIM University Science and Technology Department from 2007 - 2010.

Dr Sarbjit Singh has published numerous articles locally and internationally and has contributed to book chapters. He has contributed to basic science research and won awards such as finalist Young Investigator at SOA, Tan Tock Seng Hospital Annual Scientific Meeting (Young Investigator and Best Paper Award), and Yahya Cohen Lecturer.

Dr Sarbjit actively contributes to community work. He is a committee member of Spastic Children's Association, North-East CDC and Singapore Recreation Club. He has been given numerous awards by the government for his contribution to the less fortunate and community work. Sports continues to be his passion and he is a section member of the Singapore Recreation Club, Soccer and Cricket Section. He is also the chairman of the Food and Beverage services and is involved in the running of programmes in the Padang, Singapore.