About Dr Yim Heng Boon
Expert In: Gastroenterology
SUBSPECIALTIES: Gastroenterology
Associate with: Yim Gastroenterology Liver And Endoscopy Centre
Gender: Male
Languages: English, Hokkien, Indonesian, Mandarin
Fellowship and accreditation
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
- Member of the Royal College of Physicians, UK
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK
- Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (Gastroenterology)
Qualification & EXPERIENCE YEARS :
- Dr Yim Heng Boon is a gastroenterologist with more than 15 years EXPERIENCE YEARS in the field. He provides specialised care in all general gastroenterology and hepatology conditions at his clinic at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital.
- Upon his graduation from the Faculty of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (MBBS, 1990), he underwent basic training and subsequently obtained his postgraduate Qualifications (MRCP Int Med, 1996). (MRCP Int Med, 1996). In 1999, through the Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) scholarship, he qualified in advanced endoscopy at the Harvard Medical School’s teaching affiliate, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, USA. A second HMDP award followed in 2007. This time he specialized in endoscopic surgery for early gastric cancer at the National Cancer Centre in Tokyo, Japan.
- Prior to establishing his private practice, Dr Yim Heng Boon was a senior consultant and Deputy Head of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. During his tenure, he served as Director of the Endoscopy Centre as well as Chairman of the Endoscopy Committee.
- Teaching is one of Dr Yim Heng Boon’s passions and he continues to groom and mould future generations of doctors as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is frequently invited as both local and foreign faculty to give lectures and to conduct endoscopic live demonstrations. In 2007, he was named Visiting Honorary Lecturer to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of North Sumatra in Indonesia. Additionally, he has been working as Visiting Associate Professor to Vietnam’s Ministry of Health’s Choray Hospital since 2010.
- Dr Yim Heng Boon’s contribution to the industry reaches into the editorial dimensions too. He is the present writer for the international journal Endoscopic Ultrasound and a reviewer for other international journals such as Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Dr Yim himself is well published, especially in the field of endoscopy, and has many peer-reviewed journal papers to his credit.
Dr Yim Heng Boon Appointment Process
Appointment Number (For Serial): BOOK BY Phone 66841811, Fax 66841911, Orchard +65 6250 0000, Novena +65 6898 6898 &
Chamber Name & Address: Mount Elizabeth Hospital,, Yim Gastroenterology Liver And Endoscopy Centre, 38 Irrawaddy Road #07-39, Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre, Singapore 329563.
