Driven by compassion, decades of experience in orthopaedic care, and modern technology, we strive to provide patient-centric care by alleviating pain, restoring mobility, and improving the quality of life for all our patients.
Driven by compassion, decades of experience in orthopaedic care, and modern technology, we strive to provide patient-centric care by alleviating pain, restoring mobility, and improving the quality of life for all our patients.
M.B.B.S., National University of Singapore, Singapore, M.R.C.S. (Edinburgh), M.Med. (Surgery) National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr David Tan has developed and cultivated his practice in hand surgery over the past 20 years and subscribes to the belief that the hand and wrist is the highest representation of form and function in the human body and meticulous care and rehabilitation of the injured hand and wrist restores an indispensable function to the patient who presents to him.
He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1998, embarked on specialty training in Hand Surgery in 2005 and received his accreditation in Hand Surgery in 2008. Following three years of institutional practice at the National University Hospital (NUH) of Singapore in the Department of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery (HRM), he went on a one-year MOH awarded ACGME accredited fellowship in Hand Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York from 2011-2012. Upon returning from fellowship, he took on the reins of Program Director for the Hand Surgery Residency Program before relinquishing the position in early 2020.
Dr Tan is currently a Senior Consultant Hand Surgeon at Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery Partners – a private group practice located at Gleneagles Hospital. He is also a Visiting Consultant with the HRM Department, National University Hospital, the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Changi General Hospital and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the National University of Singapore. In addition, he is an accredited Hand Surgeon at the multiple private hospitals that include Mt. Elizabeth Hospital, Mt Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Parkway East Hospital, Farrer Park Hospital, Mt Alvernia Hospital, and StarMed Specialist Centre.
With one-and-a-half-decade long experience in hand surgery at NUH, Dr Tan is confident in managing a wide range of disorders encompassed within the breadth of hand surgery, including microsurgery, peripheral nerve surgery and traumatic hand and wrist disorders. His subspecialty interests are in wrist disorders, forearm axis disorders and elbow disorders.
He is one of few hand surgeons to be accredited to treat elbow disorders both in restructured hospitals and private hospitals. He has incorporated arthroscopy widely into his practice in the management of wrist problems since developing his interest in that field early in his career and has performed more than 300 wrist arthroscopic interventions to date. With more than a decade of experience in treating hand and wrist trauma at a major trauma centre like the National University Hospital, Dr. Tan is eminently qualified and experienced in the management of hand and wrist fractures.
Dr Tan is a firm advocate of the necessity of continued education in medicine and particular to his situation, Hand Surgery. This is embodied not just by his steady mentorship of training surgeons during his stint as Program Director whilst at NUH, but through the numerous courses that he has organized as well as participated in as faculty member over the years. He was previously President of the Singapore Society for Hand Surgery (2017-2019). He has been a constant faculty member of the annually held Singapore Wrist Arthroscopy Course since its first iteration in 2016. He has been an invited speaker at many nationally and internationally organized meetings and conferences. He has also contributed to further understanding and knowledge in Hand Surgery through scientific publications and book chapters as well as through media publications.
MBBS (Singapore), MMED (ORTH), FPCSED (ORTH)
Dr Lingaraj Krishna is an orthopaedic surgeon, who firmly believes in providing holistic, comprehensive, evidence-based care for all of his patients. He also believes that working in a team, together with the patient and the rehabilitation therapist, is the best way to achieve optimal outcomes.
He has practised medicine for more than 20 years, and manages a wide-range of orthopaedic conditions. His subspecialty interests lie in the field of knee surgery and orthopaedic sports medicine, where he is recognised as a thought-leader nationally and internationally.
He is currently Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery Partners - a private group practice located at Gleneagles Hospital. *He also serves as Visiting Consultant in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the National University Hospital (NUH). He was previously Head of the Division of Sports Medicine and Surgery at NUH from 2014 to 2020.
He was also the founding Director of the NUH Sports Centre - a multi-disciplinary, research-oriented, tertiary-level centre for sports medicine and surgery – from 2016 to 2020.
Dr Lingaraj served on the Executive Board of Sport Singapore, the national governing body for sport in Singapore, for 4 years from 2016 to 2020. He currently serves on the Civil Aviation Medical Board, which is a division of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore. He represents Singapore on the board of the ASEAN Society for Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy (ASSA).. He also served in the Membership Committee of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS) from 2017 to 2021.
He has published 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and has been involved in more than 70 conference presentations. He has also been widely featured in the media.
Dr Lingaraj graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1997. He completed his Basic Surgical Training in General Surgery in 2003, and subsequently his Advanced Surgical Training in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2007. He completed a one-year clinical fellowship programme in Advanced Hip and Knee surgery in Melbourne, Australia in 2008.
Dr. Lingaraj has always had a keen interest in sport and exercise. He played competitive squash for many years and previously represented Raffles Institution, Raffles Junior College, Combined Schools, the National University of Singapore and the Singapore Armed Forces in various competitions. He continues to keep fit by jogging and going to the gym. He is also a great fan of Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is married and has three daughters. His family is his constant reminder of the wonders of life.
M.D (UKM), MRCS (Edin), MMed (Ortho Surg, Spore), FRCS (Edin)
Dr Poh Keng Soon is a fellowship-trained consultant orthopaedic surgeon, experienced in treating a wide range of orthopaedic conditions, ranging from sports injuries, trauma, inflammatory to overuse and degenerative conditions. Dr Poh has over 15 years of medical experience in the public sector prior to setting up the private practice.
Dr Poh specialises in minimally invasive keyhole (arthroscopic) and joint replacement (arthroplasty) surgeries, particularly of the shoulder and elbow joints, such as rotator cuff repairs and reconstruction for recurrent dislocations.
Dr Poh performs a high volume of shoulder replacement surgeries for advanced arthritis.These surgeries are routinely performed with computer planning and 3D printed patient-specific instrumentations to ensure ideal implant placement and optimal clinical outcomes.
Dr Poh currently practises at Orthopaedics and Hand Surgery Partners, Gleneagles Hospital. He also serves as Visiting Consultant at the National University Hospital. He is an appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor with the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education in orthopaedic surgery.
Formally practised in National University Hospital and Alexandra Hospital, Dr Poh was a key member of the Sports Medicine, Shoulder and Elbow Division, handling large volumes of simple and complex orthopaedics cases, especially those related to the shoulder and elbow joints. He was also the core faculty for the National Postgraduate Year 1 Programme for Orthopaedic Surgery, a programme structured to provide an integrated and comprehensive training for junior doctors.
Dr Poh graduated with a Medical Degree in 2009 and was subsequently trained under the Postgraduate Specialist Programme for Orthopaedic Surgery, NUHS. He was appointed a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 2013 and obtained the Master of Medicine (Ortho Surgery, NUS) in 2017. He completed the specialist training and was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2018.
Dr Poh subsequently received the Ministry of Health Human Manpower Development Plan award to further pursue his subspecialty training in Melbourne, Australia with special focus in sports, shoulder, and elbow surgery, during which he gained valuable experience in treating complex shoulder and elbow injuries especially among professional athletes.
Dr Lau is a specialist in Orthopaedic Surgery subspecialising in Spine Surgery with a special interest in Paediatric Spine. He has more than 20 years of experience in the medical field. The depth and breadth of his medical training coupled with more than a decade of experience managing various spinal conditions from infants to nonagenarians in a high-volume tertiary teaching hospital environment honed his skills and sharpened his clinical acumen.
Guided by evidence-based medicine and adopting a consultative approach while supported by a multidisciplinary team, he places his patients on the road to recovery holistically and expeditiously.
Dr Lau graduated from Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin in 2002 with honours in anatomy and pharmacology. He did both basic and advanced surgical training in Singapore. He obtained a Master of Medicine in Orthopaedic Surgery from National University Singapore (NUS) and became a member and then a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2011.
He embarked on subspeciality training in Spine Surgery at National University Hospital (NUH) for 2 years. After being appointed a full-fledged spine surgeon, he pursued further clinical training in the field of Paediatric Spine Surgery at an ACGME-accredited facility at Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in the United States for a year. Dr Lau is the first fully trained Spine Surgeon who is also fellowship trained in the field of Paediatric Spine Surgery. He has since practised in the area for more than a decade.
Dr Lau ran a busy tertiary spine service prior to his departure to private practice. He was one of the highest volume surgeons seeing more than 4000 patient-visits per year and performing hundreds of surgeries annually.
He conducted regular same-day spinal intervention services such as nerve root block in the outpatient department to facilitate the care of the patients to aid their prompt recovery.
In the course of his work, many of his patients benefitted from his personal touch. He felt honoured when he was invited to pen the foreword in a book entitled ‘Embrace’ – written by his patient - Liz who underwent scoliosis surgery. The book details her scoliosis journey and aims to encourage other patients in a similar predicament.
Dr Lau serves as an Assistant Professor at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and is actively involved in teaching and examining duties at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In the area of academic work, he has published more than 20 papers and 9 book chapters. His main interest is in spinal deformity management, particularly Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis. After securing a grant of more than SGD 2 million， he was appointed as the Project Director to optimise the National Scoliosis Screening Programme. One of his proudest achievements is the decade-long multi-pronged effort that has resulted in a reduction of surgical eligibility rates significantly whilst maintaining a favourable cost-benefit ratio. Recognising his effort, he was invited to share the findings internationally.
Apart from the academic work, he is active in various professional organisations such as the Singapore Orthopaedic Association, Asia Pacific Spine Society and North America Spine Society. He served previously as the Treasurer and the exco member of the Singapore Spine Society. As a country delegate and national faculty of the AO Spine, he chaired and lectured in several well-structured courses to train budding and early-career spine surgeons from the region.
Dr Lau manages all aspects of the spinal pathologies. He is versatile in various surgical techniques in the management of adult spinal conditions including minimal invasive surgery (MIS), robotic-guided and motion preservation techniques. In the field of paediatric spine, he is an expert in various growth-sparing techniques such as vertebral body tethering (VBT), endoscopic deformity correction, and large deformity correction techniques. He utilises the latest technology such as 3D printing and smart braces to help his patients.
He treats a myriad of adult and paediatric spinal conditions including back pain, prolapsed intervertebral disc, spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, myelopathy, spinal tumours, inflammatory and traumatic spinal conditions, scoliosis, kyphosis, spinal disorders associated with skeletal dysplasia, neuromuscular conditions, growth and endocrine disorders, genetic and syndromic pathologies.
Driven by compassion, decades of experience in orthopaedic care, and modern technology, we strive to provide patient-centric care by alleviating pain, restoring mobility, and improving the quality of life for all our patients. At Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery Partners, where compassion meets experience, you can trust in us.
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