Pang Yi Ping Cindy

Dr Cindy Pang is an obstetrician and gynae-oncologist practising in Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore. She specialises in conditions affecting the female reproductive system, providing antenatal care to expectant mothers, and gynaecological cancer care. Dr Pang underwent advanced surgical training as a fellow at the Western Australian gynae-oncology group in Perth, Australia under the Health Manpower Development Plan from the Ministry of Health of Singapore in 2012. This stint equipped her with skills for pelvic oncologic surgery and laparoscopic procedures. She has since performed minimally invasive surgery on selected women with endometrial and ovarian cancers. To improve public education on the detection and prevention of female cancers, Dr Pang has actively organised activities at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and the Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology of Singapore (SCCPS). She previously ran a weekly preinvasive (abnormal Pap smear and pre-cancerous change) clinic in the obstetrics and gynaecology centre at SGH. She also represented SGH in the Women’s Gynaecological Cancers Awareness Month steering committee organised by the Singapore Cancer Society in 2017. She has also been serving as a council member in the SCCPS since 2009 and was the society's treasurer from 2014 – 2015. Dr Pang was awarded the Tony McCartney Surgical Innovation prize at the Australian Society of Gynaecological Oncologists Annual Scientific Meeting at Darwin in 2013. She has also participated as a facilitator at various workshops, such as the Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Masterclass in Perth, Australia in 2012 and the 'Anatomy of Complications' series of workshops in Perth and Singapore. Dr Pang is a clinical instructor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS and an adjunct professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School. She also assists the division of graduate medical studies at the National University Hospital, Singapore in assessing trainees for in-hospital clinical training modules on colposcopy.