Yik Yee Ian

Biography

Associate Professor Dr. Yee Ian Yik completed both his undergraduate and postgraduate training at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur in 1998 and 2005, respectively. He has worked as Clinical Fellows at Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne (December 2008 to July 2012) and Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide (July 2012 to January 2013) to consolidate his training as a Paediatric Surgeon. He was recently conferred his Ph.D. by University of Melbourne, Australia, for his thesis on Chronic Constipation in Children and The Roles of Nuclear Transit Scintigraphy (NTS) and Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation (TES) therapy. He has transferred his knowledge back to Malaysia with the improvement of care for children with chronic constipation and introduced the use of a new laxative (movicol) to Malaysian chidlren suffering with chronic constipation. He recently started his research on studying the patterns of gastrointestinal transit in Malaysian children with chronic constipation with the introduction and development of Whole Gastrointestinal Transit in children with the use of scintigraphy, which has improved the understanding of gastrointestinal dysmotility as the cause for chronic constipation. His main area of interest is in Surgical Gastroenterology, particularly in treating children with chronic constipation (Hirschsprung disease & non-Hirschsprung) and cholestatic jaundice. He has published extensively in this area and has been invited to present his works at numerous conferences, both nationally and internationally. He is also trained and experienced in minimally invasive surgery, i.e. laparoscopy and thoracoscopy in both neonates and infants. He has succesfully performed numerous laparoscopic pull through in neonates and infants with Hirschsprung disease and thoracoscopic repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in neonates. He has pioneered the first innovative biliary diversion surgery for a child with Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis (PFIC), with great relief of her pruritic symptom and much improved quality of life, avoiding the need for liver transplant. He also has treated many children with anorectal malformation, with early recognition of the condition, careful delineation of the anatomical abnormality with early corrective surgery and much improved outcomes. He has also used his skills to perform laparoscopic appendicostomy to administer antegrade continence enema (ACE) for chiildren with intractable chronic constipation. He is recently appointed as the Head of Division, Division of Paediatric and Neonatal Surgery and Chief Coordinator for Master of Paediatric Surgery, effective from 10 Dec 2015.

Research Interest

Surgery (THORACOSCOPY, REPAIR OF DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA) Surgery (laparoscopy, pullthrough, Hirschsprung, anorectal malformation) Gastroenterology (Anorectal manometry, constipation, incontinence) Surgery (Chronic constipation, laparoscopic colonic seromuscular biopsy, laparoscopic pullthrough) Surgery (Surgery for children with constipation) Surgery (Hepatobiliary Surgery) Radiation Health and Safety (radiation risk, nuclear medicine, steps to reduce risk) Electrical Stimulation (animal model, electrical stimulation) Gastroenterology (delayed gastric emptying, upper gastrointestinal dysfunction, electrical stimulation) Surgery (chronic constipation, incontinence, appendix stoma, laparoscopy) Clinical Pathway (Children, chronic constipation, stoma, appendix stoma) Electrical Stimulation Therapy (Children, chronic constipation, colonic transit, electrical stimulation, interferential therapy) Histology (Children, chronic constipation, colonic transit, substance P) Gastroenterology (Children, chronic constipation, colonic transit, electrical stimulation, food intolerance) Paediatrics (Children, chronic constipation, colonic transit, electrical stimulation) Nuclear Medicine (Children, chronic constipation, colonic transit) Gastroenterology (Children, chronic constipation, appendix stoma).