Designation: Head and Senior Consultant
Specialization:
Orthopaedic Surgery (Hand)
Language spoken: English, Mandarin
Hospital Affiliation:
Singapore General Hospital (SGH)
Clinic Address:
Singapore General Hospital (SGH)
Outram Park
Singapore 169608
Operating Hours:
Mon-Fri : 9.00AM-5.00PM
Sat : Closed
Sun : Closed
Public Holidays : Closed
Dr Jacqueline Tan is currently Head of Department and Senior Consultant in the Department of Hand Surgery and serves as the Director of Micro-reconstruction Service, the Director of Quality Management, as well as, the Education Officer.
Dr Tan has completed a one year advanced fellowship in Taiwan, specializing in Brachial Plexus Surgery and Advanced Microsurgery under the tutelage of internationally acclaimed expert hand and microsurgeon – Professor Yuan-Kun Tu. Her areas of special interests are in early and late brachial plexus reconstruction, peripheral nerve disorders and reconstructive microsurgery of the extremities (includes free tissue transfers, free functioning muscle transfers and vascularised bone grafts).
Dr Tan has published widely in the field of hand surgery, with numerous first-author publications in peer-reviewed journals. She is active in academic teaching and holds concurrent teaching appointments of Adjunct Assistant Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School, as well as Senior Clinical Lecturer with NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. In addition, she is the chairperson for the 4th Flap Dissection Workshop and the AO Trauma Asia Pacific Masters Hand & Wrist Course in 2016. She has been teaching for many years at AO Trauma Courses and Basic Instructional Courses on Microsurgery
Board Certifications:
MBBS, MMed (Surg), MRCS (Edin), FAMS