Jimmy B.y So

Biography

 Prof Jimmy So received his surgical training in National University Hospital, Singapore. He was trained in Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Bariatric Surgery, Therapeutic Endoscopy and Minimally Invasive Surgery. He received fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA and holds the appointment as the visiting consultant surgeon in Esophageal and Gastric Surgery at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. A multidisciplinary program for Esophageal and Gastric Cancers in NUH was also established by him in 2005. He also received fellowship training in gastric and esophageal cancer surgery in Japan, Korea and Hong Kong, and is the pioneer in endoscopic surgery for early esophageal and gastric cancers, robotic surgery and Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) for Achalasia in Singapore. Prof So's interests are gastroesophageal cancer and obesity. He received numerous research grants for these topics and has published more than 100 peer reviewed scientific papers. Prof So received Gold Award at the annual scientific meeting of the National Healthcare Group and is invited regularly to speak at international conferences. He is the founding president of the Asia-Pacific Gastro-esophageal Cancer Congress in 2006, and was the council member of Consensus Meeting at the 10th International Gastric Cancer Congress, held at Verona, Italy in 2013. In addition, he is a founding member of Asia-Pacific Bariatric Surgery Society, a member of editorial board for Journal of Gastric Cancer and reviewer for a number of prestigious medical journals including British Journal of Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy and Digestive Disease and Science.

Research Interest

 Surgery