Dr James Tan | Farrer Park Hospital

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Dr. James Tan is a certified and experienced neurosurgeon practicing at Surgi-TEN Specialists. He sub-specializes in the surgical treatment of degenerative spinal disorders. His clinical expertise also includes minimally invasive endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery, a procedure to remove pituitary tumors. Other conditions he treats include neck and back pain, disc replacements, slipped discs, meningioma (tumor between the skull and brain), pituitary tumors, radicular pain (caused by injury to spinal nerve root), and spinal degeneration (such as spondylosis), fusion and pain. Dr. Tan founded and was the Director in charge of the Spine Program at the National Neuroscience Institute. His interest in spinal disorders led him to become the first surgeon in Asia to successfully use artificial cervical disc implants in spinal surgery. He has since performed over 300 of such cervical spinal operations. Dr. Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, and Bachelor of Surgery at the National University of Singapore in 1989 and obtained his Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1995. In that same year, he commenced his neurosurgical training at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. In 1997, he was awarded a Ministry of Health HMDP Scholarship to attend a two-year specialist training program in London, the United Kingdom at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (Queens Square) and the Charing Cross Hospital. In 1999, he completed his training and obtained his specialist Neurosurgical Fellowship in Neurosurgery from the Intercollegiate Board of the United Kingdom. In 2003, Dr. Tan was awarded a Ministry of Health HMDP fellowship to further his sub-specialty training in spinal surgery at the Schulthess Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland, where he further developed his interest in minimally invasive spinal procedures as well as spinal injections for the treatment of neck and back pain. He was one of the first surgeons in Singapore to use facet and medial branch injections in the treatment of neck and back pain. Dr. Tan has participated actively as an invited speaker and instructor at conferences in Singapore and Asia. He is a member of the AO Spine (East Asia) Committee and is active in teaching and training young spine surgeons in the region. He is also a Clinical Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore as well as a part-time lecturer at Nanyang Polytechnic. Presently, he is also visiting a consultant to the Department of Neurosurgery, National University Hospital.

Dr Tan’s specialty interests are degenerative spinal disorder and minimally invasive endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery.

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