Dr Tsang Bih Shiou

Biography

 ·         Dr Charles Tsang is a general surgeon practising at Parkway East Hospital and Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore. His special interests are in minimally invasive (laparoscopic) and robotic surgery for both cancer and bowel disorders. ·         Dr Tsang graduated from medical school at the National University of Singapore in 1987, obtained his fellowship diploma in Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1993. He completed a clinical fellowship in surgery at the Leeds General Infirmary, UK in 1994 and went on to successfully complete an advanced residency in colon and rectal surgery at the University of Minnesota. He emerged at the top of the class and was the first non-American to be award the Carl E Christensen Outstanding Resident Scholar Award in 1997. He then successfully defended his thesis in 1998 and graduated with a Master of Science in Experimental Surgery. He became a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine and an accredited specialist in General Surgery in 1999. ·         With an experience spanning 15 years as a consultant colorectal surgeon, he was the head and senior consultant, Division of Colorectal Surgery as well as head of Surgical Oncology with the National University Cancer Institute of Singapore, before moving to private practice. As such, he is highly accomplished surgeon, well versed in laparoscopic and robotic surgery for both cancer and benign disorders, proctology, advanced therapeutic endoscopic and functional bowel disorders such as constipation and incontinence.

Research Interest

  General Surgery