Dr Lee Tswen Wen Victor - StarMed Specialist Centre

Dr Lee Tswen Wen Victor

Designation: Senior Consultant, Digestive & Liver Surgery

About

Speciality: General Surgery
Sub-speciality: Digestive and Liver Surgery

Dr Victor Lee is a surgeon with a specialty in surgeries involving the liver, gallbladder, bile duct and pancreas.
He is accomplished in minimally invasive techniques such as laparoscopy for the gallbladder and hernia surgeries. He is also an advocate for the latest surgical techniques which include microwave ablation for patients who are unsuitable for open surgeries.
Dr Lee is also the co-director of the Pancreas Transplant Programme in Singapore. He is accredited to perform transplant surgeries of the liver, kidney and pancreas. He is an executive member of the Society of Transplantation, Singapore. He is also a member of the International Pancreas & Islet Transplantation Association and The Transplantation Society.

More About Dr Lee

Qualifications

Clinical Interests

Hepatobiliary-pancreatic surgery
- Liver: Liver cancer, colorectal liver metastasis and other liver tumours.
- Pancreas: Pancreatic cyst assessment, pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.
- Bile Duct: Bile duct stones, stricture and bile duct cancer.
Laparoscopic General Surgery
- Gallstone removal
- Hernia repair
- Laparoscopic assessment and surgery

Current Appointments

Adjunct Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Visiting Research Scientist, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)

Languages

Training

Graduated from the National University of Singapore Medical School in 1998
Obtained the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh membership diploma in 2001
Completed advanced surgical training at the Singapore General Hospital and the National Cancer Centre Singapore in 2006
Admitted ad Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 2007
Joined National University of Singapore as Associate Consultant and Assistant Professor in 2007
Trained at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK, in liver, kidney and pancreas transplant and complex hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery from 2008-2009
Returned to National University Hospital as Consultant Surgeon in 2009
Set up the National Pancreas Transplant Programme as Co-Director in 2012
Joined Singapore General Hospital as Senior Consultant and Director of Pancreas Transplant in 2012
Conferred Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in 2012
Director of Centre for Digestive & Liver Disease in 2013-2015,which has more than 500 patient visits per day for hepatobiliary, gastro-enterology, upper gastro-intestinal and colorectal diseases.
In private practice since 2015