Dr Gerald Tan

Practice Location

• ADVANCED UROLOGY ASSOCIATES (Gleneagles)
  Gleneagles Medical Centre
• ADVANCED UROLOGY ASSOCIATES (Mount Elizabeth)
  Mt Elizabeth Medical Centre
• ADVANCED UROLOGY ASSOCIATES (East)
  Parkway East Medical Centre

Accredited Hospitals:

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

Educational Qualifications

• MBChB (Edin) – Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• MRCS (Edin) – Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• MMed (Surgery) – National University of Singapore
• FICS (USA) – Fellow of the International College of Surgeons
• FAMS (Urology) – Fellow of the Academy of Medicine

Languages

Mandarin, Teochew, Chinese, English

Dr Gerald Tan is a urology specialist at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital who is well known for his expertise in minimally invasive and robotic surgery and for prostate, kidney and bladder cancers.

He completed his fellowship in both prostate cancer research and robotic urologic oncology under world-renowned robotic surgeon Professor Ash Tewari, director of both the Prostate Cancer Institute and LeFrak Institute of Robotic Surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York City. Their research has been recognised with top awards and honours from the American Urological Association, the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, and the International College of Surgeons.

He has been involved in over 550 robotic radical prostatectomies, and was one of the first in Singapore to perform robotic partial nephrectomy for early kidney cancer and robotic radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. He is proficient in robotic and advanced laparoscopic procedures, and also performs major cancer and reconstructive surgeries for complex pelvic cancer.

He has also received numerous top international academic awards and honors, being the named recipient of the prestigious Ferdinand C. Valentine Fellowship in Urologic Research by the New York Academy of Medicine, the AACR-GlaxoSmithKline Outstanding Clinical Scholar Award by the American Association of Cancer Research, the John Steyn Travelling Fellowship in Urology & the James Syme Medal for outstanding academic achievement by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

In 2011, he was awarded the Yahya Cohen Memorial Lectureship by the College of Surgeons, Singapore for excellence in clinical research. In 2012, he was named the Outstanding Young Urologist of Asia by the Urological Association of Asia for his contributions to the field of urology.