DR SUSAN LIM | DR KUM CHENG KIONG | DR LAM FOONG LIAN

Dr Susan Lim MBBS (Hons 1 Monash) PhD (Camb) FRCS (Edin, Gold Medal) FRCS (Glasg) M.Med Surg (Singapore) FACS FAMS HonMD (NewC)

Dr Susan Lim is widely known in Asia and Singapore for being the first surgeon to have performed a successful liver transplant in 1990. She is also widely known as the "Spirit of the Century", an Award conferred upon her by the Singapore public in a national contest held to identify the role model for the 21st century. She is in active general surgery practice at the two premier hospitals in Singapore (Mount Elizabeth and Gleneagles Hospitals) with practices in breast surgery, abdominal and gastrointestinal surgery, liver, gallbladder and pancreatic surgery, advanced laparoscopic surgery, transplantation, colon and rectal diseases and cancer, and robotic surgery.

Dr Susan Lim has gone on to further pioneer in the field of general surgery, two new surgical technologies for Singapore, the mammotome minimally invasive breast biopsy and most recently, the Da Vinci robotic general surgery program for Singapore. She continues to be actively involved in research, training and education and delivers lectures/presentations to both the medical profession and public in specialised aspects of surgery.

Dr Lim is the founder of various surgical practices including Susan Lim Surgery, Centre for Breast Screening & Surgery, Centre for Cancer Surgery, Centre for Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Centre for Robotic Surgery, Lifestyle Surgery, Centre for Weight Management, and Stem Cell Technologies (i). She has under her, a team of 22 staff including doctors, nurses and administrative officers. Both Practices are located at the Gleneagles Medical Centre and Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre in Singapore.

Dr Lim graduated from Singapore Chinese Girls School and Raffles Institution. She was awarded the Colombo Plan Scholarship to study Medicine in Melbourne, Australia from 1974 to 1979. She graduated with First Class Honours from Monash University, Melbourne in 1979, and was awarded the David Rosenthal Memorial Prize for the highest aggregate marks in preclinical years.

She decided to pursue a career in Surgery at an early stage of her training. She obtained her Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1984, and was awarded the GB Ong Gold Medal for being the most outstanding candidate in General Surgery in that year. She was also awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Master of Medicine from the National University of Singapore, Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, USA.

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