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About Prof Tan Puay Hoon
Expert In: Pathology
SubExpert In: Histopathology, Cytology
Designation: Senior Consultant
Qualification: MBBS, FRCPA, FAMS, MD, FRCPath, MIAC, Professor
Associate with: SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL
Profile
- Prof Tan Puay Hoon is Senior Consultant Histopathologist and Chairman, Division of Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore. She has active interests in breast, urologic and renal pathology, and was a Volume Editor of the 2012 WHO Classification of Tumours of the Breast. She sits on the Editorial Boards of Modern Pathology, Breast Cancer Research, Journal of Clinical Pathology, Pathology, Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology, and Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology. She is Associate Editor of Histopathology and the Singapore Medical Journal. Apart from a busy service primarily focusing on subExpert In surgical signouts, she and her colleagues are recipients of many research grants related to translational studies of breast and prostate cancer. She is author of more than 400 publications, and participates actively in regional and international meetings.
- Prof Tan Puay Hoon’s research interests in breast pathology center on the classification of breast fibroepithelial lesions and their genetic pathogenesis, triple negative breast cancers, and ductal carcinoma in situ. In urologic pathology, she is engaged in prostate and renal cancer studies and is a contributor to the 2016 WHO Classification of Tumours of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs.
- She is the immediate Past-President of the International Society of Breast Pathology, and was Councillor for Asia of the International Society of Urological Pathology (2009 – 2015).
Qualification
- MBBS (National University of Singapore, 1986)
- FRCPA (Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, 1994)
- FAMS (Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 1996)
- MD (National University of Singapore, 2002)
- FRCPath (Royal College of Pathologists, United Kingdom, 2005)
- MIAC (International Academy of Cytology, 2005)
Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships
- Chairman, Division of Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, 1 Jun 2016 – current
- Academic Chair, Pathology Academic Clinical Programme, 1 Apr 2013 – current
- Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, 1 Apr 2014 – current
- Professor, Departments of Anatomy and Pathology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 1 Apr 2014 – current
Prof Tan Puay Hoon Appointment Process
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