Dr Jacqueline Tan Siau Woon

Practice Location

• Advanced Hand, Wrist, and Nerve Centre
  Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre

Accredited Hospitals:

• Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital Singapore
• Parkway East Hospital Singapore
• Mount Elizabeth Hospital Singapore
• Gleneagles Hospital Singapore
• Farrer Park Hospital Singapore
• Mount Alvernia Hospital Singapore

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Educational Qualifications

• MBBS – National University of Singapore, Singapore
• M.Med (Surg) – National University of Singapore, Singapore
• FAMS (Hand Surgery) – Academy of Medicine, Singapore
• MRCS (Surg) – The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Languages

English, Mandarin

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Dr Jacqueline Tan is a hand surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore.

She has expertise in the reconstruction of brachial plexus (network of nerves) injuries, open and endoscopic peripheral nerve surgeries, and microsurgical reconstruction of the upper limb. She also has special interests in hand and wrist fractures, arthritis of the hand and wrist, wrist arthroscopy, and ligament reconstruction for wrist instability.

Dr Tan was the former Head of Department and Senior Consultant of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery at Singapore General Hospital (SGH). She also served as the Director of micro-reconstruction service and Director of the peripheral nerve and paralytic upper limb service at SGH. She is currently a visiting consultant at SGH.

She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the National University of Singapore. She was awarded the prestigious Health Manpower Development Plan scholarship by the Ministry of Health and went on to complete a 1-year fellowship in Taiwan, specializing in brachial plexus surgery and advanced microsurgery. She is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK , and a fellow of the Academy of Medicine in Hand Surgery.

She was the Deputy Vice-chair for the education in the Musculoskeletal Sciences Academic Clinical Program at SingHealth. She was also the Program Director for the SingHealth hand surgery program and Core Faculty for the SingHealth orthopedic surgery program. She is currently a member of the Residency Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Health, which oversees the training of hand surgery residents in Singapore.

Dr Tan held concurrent teaching appointments at Duke-NUS Medical School and NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She is also the President of the Singapore Society for Hand Surgery, Vice-chairman of the Chapter of Hand Surgeons, the College of Surgeons, Singapore, and Secretary of the Singapore Reconstructive Microsurgery Society.