Dr Chua Tju Siang

Practice Location

• CHUA TJU SIANG GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY & LIVER CENTRE (Orchard)
  Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
• CHUA TJU SIANG GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY & LIVER CENTRE (Mt Alvernia)
  Mount Alvernia Medical Centre
• CHUA TJU SIANG GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY & LIVER CENTRE (Novena)
  Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre

Accredited Hospitals:

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

Educational Qualifications

• MB ChB – University of Glasgow
• MRCP (Int Med)(UK) – Royal College of Physicians, UK
• Specialist Accreditation Board (Gastroenterology) – Ministry of Health, Singapore

Languages

English, Chinese

Dr Chua Tju Siang graduated from the University of Glasgow Medical School and continued his postgraduate medical training in Scotland at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. After attaining the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in 1998, Dr Chua returned to Singapore and trained in Gastroenterology at Changi General Hospital. He was awarded specialist accreditation in Gastroenterology in 2002. In 2003, Dr Chua was awarded a one-year fellowship to train in diagnostic and interventional endoscopic ultrasonography at the Centre for Research and Education in Endosonography of Montreal, University of Montreal, Canada, where he received intensive and comprehensive training in endoscopic ultrasonography. In 2007, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In 2008, Dr Chua spent some time in Japan for training in endoscopic submucosal dissection and double balloon enteroscopy. In 2009, Dr Chua performed the first endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.

Dr Chua is actively involved in clinical research and has wide research interests ranging from Helicobacter pylori to advanced endoscopic techniques. He has published widely and has received several international awards. Dr Chua was awarded the Young Clinician Award by the Asian Pacific Congress of Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy in 2000 and by the World Congress of Gastroenterology in 2002. He received the Warren and Marshall Helicobacter Pylori Award in 2001 for his research on Helicobacter pylori. In 2004, Dr Chua was awarded an United European Gastroenterology Federation Travel Award to travel to Prague, Czech Republic to present his research findings on the use of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration in the evaluation of pancreatic cysts at the United European Gastroenterology Week. His submission was awarded Best Abstract for the conference.