Our Doctors

Dr Tan
Yu-Meng

Director & Founder, Senior Consultant Surgeon,
Gallstones, Liver, Pancreas, Gastrointestinal, Cancer Surgery & Endoscopy

Dr Tan continues to be one of few surgeons in Asia who perform specialized surgery for peritoneal malignancies in Asia.

Training & Qualifications:

MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery, First Class Honors & Distinction at the University of London) 1994
RCSEd (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh) 1999
Further training in advanced HPB surgery and liver transplantation at the world renowned Liver Unit of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Further training in living donor liver transplantation in Japan.

Prior To Private Practice:

Founding member of the liver transplant team at SGH in 2005
Appointed as Deputy Head and Senior Consultant of the Department of Surgical Oncology at the National Cancer Centre in 2007
Appointed as Surgical Director of the Liver Transplantation Programme at SGH in 2007

Awards & Achievements:

Young Surgeons Award (Asian Surgical Congress, 2001)
Led his team to perform the first successful split liver transplant at SGH and the first combined Heart-Liver Transplantation in Asia in 2009

Dr Tan continues to be one of few surgeons in Asia who perform specialized surgery for peritoneal malignancies in Asia.

Clinical Interests

With his interest in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary-pancreatic (GI-HPB) surgery and the treatment of cancer, Dr Tan joined the department of surgical oncology at the National Cancer Centre in 2003 as a consultant.

Dr Tan’s interest in the management of peritoneal surface malignancies was part of his effort in leading a multidisciplinary team from NCC to Washington Cancer Institute to adopt the techniques and protocols of peritonectomy and HIPEC (Sugarbaker procedure) from Dr Paul Sugarbaker in 2009.

Academic Contributions

During his surgical career, Dr Tan has been a strong proponent of academic surgery having published over 90 articles in leading surgical journals including the highest rated surgical journal the ‘Annals of Surgery’ as lead and corresponding author on a wide range of topics in surgical diseases.

He was also examiner of the Royal college of Edinburgh and Yong Loo Lin School of medicine.

Founding of FeM Surgery

Dr Tan left for private practice in May 2010 to pursue a more holistic and patient centric approach to surgical care and also to have a better work life balance for his family.

He continues to contribute to public care as an active visiting consultant at the national cancer centre.

In 2012, he embarked on an exciting new venture as founder and chief surgeon of a new surgical group practice called ‘FeM Surgery’ at Parkway Hospitals. This is a multidisciplinary practice where his philosophy of team based approach comprising medical and allied health professionals for the best patient care will be adopted.

Dr Tan currently leads the Gallstone Liver Centre @ FeM and the Cancer Surgery & Peritonectomy Centre @ FeM where patients with cancer and gallstones, liver and gastrointestinal diseases can obtain the best possible care.