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Hock-Lim Tan
Malaysia
Visiting Paediatric Surgeon & Paediatric Urologist of Prince Court Medical Centre, Malaysia
- Adjunct Professor of Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia
- Visiting Paediatric Surgeon & Advisor on Pediatric Minimal Invasive Surgery of Chulalongkorn & Bumrungrad Hospital, Thailand
PERSONAL INFORMATION
- Address: 3-03 Fernlea Court
16 Persiaran Ampang Hilir
55000 Kuala Lumpur
- Email: hockltan@yahoo.com
- Phone: +60172272690
QUALIFICATIONS
MBBS (Adelaide) MD (Adelaide) FRACS FRCS (Eng)
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
- Visiting Paediatric Surgeon & Paediatric Urologist
- Prince Court Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Pantai Medical Centre, 8 Jalan Bukit Pantai
- Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Adjunct Professor,
Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Faculty of Medicine
Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Visiting Paediatric Surgeon & Advisor on Pediatric Minimal Invasive Surgery
Chulalongkorn & Bumrungrad Hospital
Bangkok Thailand
SUMMARY
Professor Tan is a medical graduate from Adelaide University (Australia). An Australian resident in Malaysia, his professional career started in Australia at the Royal Canberra Hospital in 1981 before he was appointed to the Royal Children・s Hospital in Melbourne Australia from 1985 to 1994.
He was invited by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1998 to develop the Paediatric laparoscopic surgery program in the Prince of Wales Hospital for Prof C K Yeung. In 1999 he was appointed (by invitation) to the Great Ormond Street Children・s Hospital in London, one of the leading children・s hospital in the world, to lead the development of paediatric laparoscopic Surgery at this hospital.
Before returning to Malaysia in 2007, he was appointed in 2001 as the inaugural professor of Paediatric Surgery at Adelaide University, South Australia, and developed the Women・s & Children・s Hospital in Adelaide into an internationally renowned centre for Paediatric laparoscopic Surgery. He left Australia to return to Malaysia in June 2007, at the invitation of the former Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Abdullah Badawi.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO MEDICINE
His contribution to Paediatric Surgery includes describing Laparoscopic Pyloromyotomy for Infantile Pyloric Stenosis, Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty for PUJ Obstruction, Laparoscopic Choledochal cyst excision and Hepatico Duodenostomy.
He has authored more than 60 papers in refereed journals, 42 book chapters and is the associate editor of the 7th Edition of ：Operative Pediatric Surgery；, one of the reference textbooks on Paediatric Surgery.
He chairs the Paediatric Subsection of ELSA
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