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Dr Tay Hsien Ts'ung

MBBS, MSc, MRCS, FRCS

Senior Consultant

Specialty: Vascular Surgery

Clinical Interest: Vascular Surgery, Endovascular Surgery

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant Vascular Surgery Singapore General Hospital
Senior Consultant Division of Surgery ＆ Surgical Oncology National Cancer Centre Singapore
Director SingHealth Duke-NUS Vascular Centre

Profile

Dr Tay Hsien Tsung graduated from the University College of London in the UK with MBBS. He initially trained in Emergency Medicine in the UK before returning to Singapore where he completed general surgery training at the Singapore General Hospital.

Education

University College London – MBBS (2002)
Nanyang Technological University - MSc (Bioinformatics)

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Director, Clinical Innovation and Technology Unit (CITU), SGH
Consultant, Vascular Surgery Department, SGH
Consultant, Acute Care Service, SGH
Procedural Tutor, Clinical Skills Foundation Course, Yong Loo Lin Medical School
Clinical Tutor, Duke-NUS Year 1 Practice Course, DGMS
Medical Officer, Singapore Civil Defence Force
Alumnus, Stanford Biodesign, Stanford University
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS)
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS)
Member of the Wound Healing Society Singapore

Awards

Singapore-Stanford Biodesign Fellow 2012
3rd Young researcher prize, 8th Endovascular Symposium of Vascular Biomaterials (France)
Service with a Heart Award, 2014

Research Interests

Surgical / medical device development
Medical informatics
Deep venous insufficiency
Peripheral arterial disease
Machine learning

Publications

“Production of monoclonal antibodies against HLA-DRs and the use of enzyme assays in detection”, Dr EC Ren and HT Tay, Proceedings of the Science Research Congress, Singapore p. 295, 1993
“Reliability of 3D MRI Cartilage Volume Measurements”, Hunter D, Tay H, Peppa D, Warfield S, Arthritis Rheum 2002;46(9):S151
“Microarray profiling shows distinct differences between primary tumors and commonly used preclinical models in hepatocellular carcinoma”, Weining Wang, N Gopalakrishna Iyer, HT Tay, Yonghui Wu, Pierce Chow et al, BMC Cancer 2015, 15:828
“A rare case of metastatic choriocarcinoma to multiple organs causing intractable bleeding.” Hiang Jin Tan, Hsien Tsung Tay, Chung Yip Chan, Cancer Research Frontiers. 2016 Sep; 2(3):411-415
“Bloodbath, Seeing Red Everywhere: A rare case of Multi-Organ Bleeding from Metastatic Choriocarcinoma”, Hiang Jin Tan, Hsien Tsung Luke Tay, Chung Yip Chan, Digestive Surgery. 33():95, Aug 2016
“Treatment of an aortic arch aneurysm with scalloped and fenestrated thoracic stent-graft and left carotid to subclavian artery bypass”, Chia CS, Hsien Tsung LT, Chaw Chian JW, Chong TT, Tay KH, Tieng Chek EC, Annals of Vascular Surgery 2017 Feb 2. Pii: S0890-5096(17)30116-4
“Sempre Fidelis. A pain in the neck and abdomen” HJ Tan, Luke HT Tay, CY Chan, Journal of Case Reports and Images in Surgery 2017;3:14–16