About
Services offered include:
- Weight loss surgery: This includes laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy & gastric by-pass for morbid obesity. In addition, abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) after patients have lost weight.
- Laparoscopic procedures: Surgery on colon and rectum, anti-reflux surgery for GORD, cholecystectomy, hernia surgery (on groin and ventral abdominal wall) are all done through a laparoscopic approach.
- Skin cancer surgery requiring flaps and skin grafts part of my practice. Smaller skin lesions are done in the rooms; those requiring elaborate flaps/ grafts are done in the hospital.
- Gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures: Colonoscopy, gastroscopy, PEG tube insertion and stent placements.
- General surgical procedures: Breast cancer, thyroid & parathyroid diseases and varicose veins. In addition, procedures such as vasectomy, carpal tunnel release and Dupuytren’s contracture.
Interests
Weight loss surgery
Laparoscopic: gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy, colon and rectal surgery, hernia surgery, gastrointestinal reflux
Gastro-intestinal endoscopy
Colonoscopy, gastroscopy, endoscopic insertion of stents, PEG tubes
Thyroid surgery