Prof Pierce, Kah Hoe Chow

Biography

Prof Pierce Chow is an academic surgeon and Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School. He is concurrently Senior Consultant Surgeon at the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and the Singapore General Hospital (SGH), and NMRC Senior Clinician Scientist. He co-founded the Asia-Pacific Hepatocellular Carcinoma (AHCC) Trials Group and has been the protocol chair of 5 multi-centre trials. He serves on academic, government and pharmaceutical advisory boards, and has more than 200 scientific publications. He has successfully lead multi-disciplinary teams in translational oncology research and has been protocol chair of multi-national investigator-initiated clinical trials. He was conferred the 2012 NMRC National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award for his research on Liver Cancer.

Research Interest

Translational research in the genomics of liver cancer, experimental oncology, minimally invasive medical devices, brachytherapy. Clinical trials and prospective clinical studies on liver and bile duct cancer, pancreatic cancer, GIST, neuroendocrine tumours. Health Services Outcomes Research on HPB surgery and liver transplantation.