Chia Chung King

Dr Chia Chung King is a gastroenterologist practising at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital and Parkway East Hospital, Singapore. Dr Chia has subspecialty interests in liver disease and related disorders such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and fatty liver. Dr Chia obtained his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1997. He attained the Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine) and was admitted as Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2002. In 2006, he was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) scholarship by the Ministry of Health (MOH), and underwent subspecialty training at the Liver Unit at King’s College Hospital in London. Dr Chia is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK. He completed his Master of Science in Health Profession Education from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Profession. He was appointed as an adjunct associate professor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Dr Chia has mentored many young doctors and medical students. Having held various teaching and leadership posts, he has taught advanced trainees therapeutic and diagnostic gastroscopy and colonoscopy. He has won many teaching and service awards, the highlight of which is the Courage Star Award for putting himself at risk while tending to SARS victims at the front line during the SARS episode in 2003.