Dr Tan Bo Chuan

General Surgeon

Specialty

General Surgery

Languages

Cantonese, English, Hokkien, Malay, Mandarin

Gender

Male

Insurance Panel

Prudential^, Great Eastern, HSBC Life

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Experience

Dr Tan Bo Chuan is a general surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore.

His clinical interest is in minimal access gastrointestinal surgery, encompassing both oncological and metabolic spectrums, in addition to the use of endoscopy in the evaluation of gastrointestinal disorders.

Dr Tan was the former head of the upper gastrointestinal and bariatric surgery unit at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH). He was also the clinical director of the Integrated Care for Obesity and Diabetes Centre (ICOD).

He graduated from the National University of Malaysia and later completed his master’s degree at the National University of Singapore. He later became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK. He was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan award for an upper gastrointestinal surgery fellowship at the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, South Korea. He has been practising medicine for more than 15 years.

Dr Tan serves as a senior clinical lecturer at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and a clinical block leader (surgery) at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He also serves as a core faculty member of the National Healthcare Group’s (NHG) general surgery residency programme.

He was the secretaries of the Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of Singapore and the Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition of Singapore. He is currently a proctor for Fundamental of Laparoscopy Surgeon, which is a joint educational laparoscopy programme by Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons and American College of Surgeons.

Dr Tan has shared his surgical expertise through surgical conferences and surgical workshops in local, regional and international stages. He is also involved in multiple research studies and serves as a co-investigator for projects, such as the establishment of a standing database for bariatric surgery at KTPH and research on site-specific adipocytes adiponectin gene expression.

His work in ICOD was recognised by NHG with a Team Recognition Award.

Associated treatments

Upper GI laparoscopic procedures
Bariatric surgery
Hernia repair (laparoscopic)
Minimal access surgery
Endoscopic procedures

Research & publications

Moh, M. C., Cheng, A., Tan, C. H., Lim, B. K., Tan, B. C., Ng, D., Sum, C. F., Subramaniam, T., & Lim, S. C. (2020). Metabolic Surgery Diabetes Remission (MDR) Score: a New Preoperative Scoring System for Predicting Type 2 Diabetes Remission at 1 Year After Metabolic Surgery in the Singapore Multi-ethnic Asian Setting. Obesity Surgery, 30(9), 3387–3393.

Kim, G., Min, S., Won, Y., Lee, K., Youn, S. I., Tan, B. C., Park, Y. S., Ahn, S., Park, D. J., & Kim, H. (2020). Frailty in elderly gastric cancer patients undergoing gastrectomy. Digestive Surgery, 38(1), 66–72.

Tan, B. C., Park, Y. S., Won, Y., Lee, S., Kang, S. H., Ahn, S., Park, D. J., & Kim, H. (2021). Preoperative nutritional deficiencies in bariatric surgery candidates in Korea. Obesity Surgery, 31(6), 2660–2668.

Moh, M. C., Cheng, A., Tan, C. H., Low, S., Tan, B. C., Ng, D., Subramaniam, T., Sum, C. F., & Lim, S. C. (2022). Association of Baseline Triglyceride-Glucose Index with Poor Glycemic Control and Diabetes Remission After Metabolic Surgery. Obesity Surgery, 33(1), 164–172.