Designation: Director
Specialization:
General Surgery
General Surgery (Liver, Pancreas, Biliary)
Language spoken: English, Mandarin
Hospital Affiliation:
Mount Elizabeth Hospital
Farrer Park Hospital
Mount Alvernia Hospital
Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital
Parkway East Hospital
Clinic Address:
Gastro Liver and Surgical Centre
1 Farrer Park Station Road
#10-10
Farrer Park Medical Centre
Singapore 217562
Operating Hours:
Mon-Fri : 9.00AM-5.00PM
Sat : 9.00AM - 12.30PM
Sun : Closed
Public Holidays : Closed
Tel: 66357000
Fax: 67220693
Clinic Address:
Gastro Liver and Surgical Centre
6 Napier Road
#06-17
Gleneagles Medical Centre
Singapore 258499
Operating Hours:
Mon-Fri : 9.00AM-5.00PM
Sat : 9.00AM - 12.30PM
Sun : Closed
Public Holidays : Closed
Tel: 62357923
Fax: 67220693
He did his further advanced surgical training at Changi General Hospital and Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He obtained a “young surgeon award” and also wrote several publications and was instrumental in creating a program for a safe training in laparoscopic cholecystectomy for which he himself has done about 1000 plus cases. He was promoted to consultant in 2003 and went on further training overseas. He spent his overseas training in the world famous Chang Gung Memorial Hospital under Prof Chen Chao Long who was the first man to perform a liver transplant in Asia. The centre has performed move than 1000 transplants and over countless number of liver resection and is consider the largest centre for liver diseases in the world. He had a training stint a in Japan under several famous professor for which he improve on his surgical skills and research skills. It was during this time that he wrote a landmark paper on the safety of donor hepactectomy in perspective of remnant liver volume. That paper won him several awards including the Taiwan and Japanese surgical association. He also took that time to improve his skill in minimally invasive surgery by visiting several European centres.
He is also a trained endoscopist including endoscopic retrograde pancreaticogram. He is a trained pancreas surgeon and wrote a publication on a unique way of joining the pancreas to the small intestine after a cancer resection for which the method provided the safest and best results for patients.
When he return, he set up the Hepatopancreatic biliary unit and as well as a liver transplant evaluation unit in Eastern health alliance. He was given the outstanding long Public service award in 2008 for his contribution to training the younger generation of surgeon and the public sector.
He spend last several years in Gleneagles in getting his experience in both liver transplant and liver surgery.
Professional Positions and Memberships:
Dr Salleh also sits on several charity organisation to and he is a clinic tutor to the National University of Singapore medical school and a visiting consultant surgeon to Eastern Health Alliance.
Awards and Publications
He has been invited as key note speaker to several conference in the region in the past several years.