Teo Kejia

Dr Teo Kejia is a neurosurgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospital and Parkway East Hospital, Singapore. His expertise is in complex brain tumour surgeries using advanced techniques like brain mapping and awake brain surgery. He also manages neurovascular conditions, traumatic head injuries and spinal disorders including brain tumour, head trauma, degenerative spine, hydrocephalus, ischemic and haemorrhagic stroke, spine tumour and hemifacial spasm. He was formerly a senior consultant at the division of neurosurgery at National University Hospital (NUH) At NUH, he set up the hospital’s team’s brain mapping and awake craniotomy surgery service, and performed several awake surgery/brain mapping surgeries in Singapore. Dr Teo graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS), followed by comprehensive general surgery training and advanced specialised neurosurgery training at NUH. He was awarded the Academic Medicine Development Award and went for further training in functional neurosurgery, neuro-oncology, neurovascular and spinal surgery at Queen’s Hospital, UK. He was elected to the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburg, UK. He subsequently underwent fellowship training in brain mapping and awake brain surgery at Humanitas Research Hospital, Italy and Gui De Chauliac Hospital, France. He has been practising medicine for more than 15 years. He is an international member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. Locally, he is a board member of the chapter of neurosurgeons, Academy of Medicine and a member of the Singapore Spine Society. Dr Teo has been active in various neurosurgical conferences in Singapore, assuming executive committee positions for events such as the skull base, pituitary tumour and head injury conferences. He is also one of the founding members and committee members of the Asian Low-Grade Glioma Network. He has chaired several conferences on gliomas, and he regularly chairs the annual White Matter Dissection course held locally. He is involved in the undergraduate education of medical students at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is an appointed examiner in the final professional examination for the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at NUS. He was a core faculty for the National University Health System’s (NUHS) transitional year residency programme for general surgery and programme director for the surgery-in-general residency programme at NUH. He is also a teaching faculty member of the NUHS neurosurgery residency programme. Dr Teo was previously an examiner for the intercollegiate Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons’ neurosurgery preparatory course and the local neurosurgery exit exam. He is a recipient of the Long Service Award at NUH.