Dr Daniel Tan Yat Harn | Farrer Park Hospital

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Dr. Daniel Tan Yat Harn is a medical director and senior radiation oncologist at Asian Alliance Radiation & Oncology. He specializes in the use of Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS / SBRT) and Advanced Radiation Technologies to treat complex cancers. His clinical interests are in the management of the central nervous system (Brain and Spine) tumors, and prostate and breast cancers. Prior to entering private practice, Dr. Tan was a consultant radiation oncologist in the Division of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center Singapore, where he led the development of the first SRS and SBRT programs in Singapore for various organ sites. After graduating from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2002, Dr. Tan underwent specialist training at the National Cancer Center Singapore (NCCS) and was awarded a Health Manpower Development (HMDP) award by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in 2008 for training in Clinical Oncology. He obtained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists in the UK (FRCR) in Clinical Oncology in 2011 and was given another HMDP Award for training in brachytherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, and body irradiation (SRS / SBRT) in 2012. Dr. Tan was admitted as a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore (Radiation Oncology) in 2012. His subspecialty training was a focused on neurooncology at international premier centers, including Proton Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Roberts Proton Therapy Center in the USA, Spine Radiosurgery at Princess Margaret Hospital and Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Center in Toronto, Canada, and Advanced Radiation Technologies at Tokyo Komagome Hospital in Japan. Dr. Tan’s research interests were in the evaluation of the use of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in benign and malignant tumors of the brain, spine, and body. Together with his mentors, he developed the Novalis Brain Stereotactic Radiosurgery Program at the National Cancer Center Singapore (NCCS) and subsequently developed the Novalis Spine Stereotactic Radiosurgery Program after returning from abroad. This was the first of such services in Singapore and the region.

Dr. Tan was the national project coordinator for the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) healthcare project 6065 involving efforts to train and develop SBRT, an advanced radiation technique, in countries within the Asia-Pacific Region. He was course director for the first regional SBRT training course in 2012 and in 2014 he was invited to IAEA as an expert consultant for the preparation of phase 2 of the project. Dr. Tan’s work has been presented at major international conferences, and he has written and published in research journals on the subjects of neuro-oncology, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). He is frequently invited to speak about these subjects in regional meetings.

In NCCS, Dr. Tan held the appointment of co-chairperson of the Neuro-Oncology Cancer Service Line Development workgroup as well as a clinical lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS. Dr. Tan also served as an executive committee member of the Singapore Radiological Society and council member of the College of Radiology Singapore. He was the organizing chairman of their 24th Annual Scientific Meeting and the event RadiologyAsia 2015. In 2015, he founded AARO with a mission to provide subspecialized radiation oncology services in the private sector, aligning with the practice of leading international cancer centers, where specialists devote their practice to specific cancers and procedures so as to achieve clinical excellence. He holds an MBA in Healthcare Management from NUS business school and has also helped to develop several private cancer centers locally and abroad. Dr Tan’s specialty interests include brain and spine tumors, prostate and breast cancers, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).

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