Hip & knee treatment in Singapore

Cheung Tin Lung Alan

Bones & joints · Singapore

Dr Alan Cheung is an orthopaedic surgeon practising at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore. He specialises in sports injury as well as hip and knee replacement using robotic surgery. Dr Cheung is one of the few surgeons in Asia to be trained in the MAKOplasty, Robodoc and NAVIO robotic surgical systems. He completed his surgical training in trauma and orthopaedics in London, and underwent his fellowship training in joint reconstruction and musculoskeletal oncology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Prior to starting private practice, Dr Cheung was a consultant at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. Dr Cheung was a clinical lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He was also an instructor for a hip and knee reconstruction course in Myanmar, and is regularly invited to teach courses in the Asia Pacific, instructing other surgeons on how to perform the latest techniques in sports and joint reconstruction surgery. Dr Cheung is a member of the Association of Ringside Physicians, USA. He is also the international member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and a member of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, UK. Dr Cheung provides medical coverage for several international sporting events. He leads the local medical team for the ONE Championship and ONE Warrior mixed martial events in Singapore, and is the match day’s doctor for events such as the HSBC Singapore Rugby Sevens and Super Rugby. He is the recipient of awards including the Sydney Long Prize in Surgery, the AW Beard Prize in Psychiatry, and the Howard Murray and FMR Walshe Prize in Neurosurgery.

Lingaraj Krishna

Bones & joints · Singapore

Dr Lingaraj Krishna is an orthopaedic surgeon at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. He subspecialises in the field of knee and hip surgery, as well as orthopaedic sports medicine. He has practised medicine for more than 20 years and manages a wide range of orthopaedic conditions. He also has special interests in sports-related knee surgery, knee ligament reconstruction surgery, hip and knee joint replacement surgery, as well as revision joint surgery. He is currently a senior consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery Partners – a private practice at Gleneagles Hospital. He also serves as a visiting consultant in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the National University Hospital (NUH). Dr Lingaraj was previously the head of the Division of Sports Medicine and Surgery at NUH from 2014 – 2020. He was also the founding director of the NUH Sports Centre from 2016 – 2020. Dr Lingaraj served on the Executive Board of Sport Singapore, the national governing body for sport in Singapore from 2016 – 2020. He currently serves on the Civil Aviation Medical Board and represents Singapore on the boards of the ASEAN Society for Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy (ASSA), the Asia-Pacific Knee Society (APKS), and the Asian Knee Arthroscopy Think-Tank (AKAT). He also serves in the membership committee of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles and has been involved in more than 70 conference presentations. Dr Lingaraj is also a sports enthusiast and a former competitive squash player.

Lo Ngai Nung

Bones & joints · Singapore

Dr Lo Ngai Nung is an orthopaedic specialist at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. His areas of expertise include the management of complex degenerative conditions of the hip and knee joints. His interests include minimally invasive joint replacements and partial knee replacements, and accelerated recovery programmes after joint replacement surgery for early return to function. He has over 25 years of experience in managing symptomatic degenerative hip and knee joints. He performs close to 450 joint reconstruction surgeries per year, many of which are complex cases or revision cases referred for further treatment. In 1995, Dr Lo headed the adult reconstruction service of the department of orthopaedic surgery at Singapore General Hospital. He was a visiting professor in orthopaedics to Ningxia Medical College in China, and emeritus consultant in orthopaedics to Liaocheng People’s Hospital in Shandong, China. He is also an adjunct professor of orthopaedics at the Duke-NUS Medical School, and associate professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is also an examiner for the Master of Medicine (Orthopaedics) in NUS, and an examiner for the Thai Hip and Knee Society fellowship examinations. He is a member of the teaching faculty of the ASEAN Arthroplasty Association and the Asia-Pacific Arthroplasty Society. He was an invited speaker at international conferences like the World Arthroplasty Congress in Rome, and also regularly conducts surgical courses and masterclasses in hip and knee replacement surgery in the Asia-Pacific. He has over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is a co-editor of 2 textbooks in arthroplasty. He initiated the Singapore International Foundation’s Vietnam arthroplasty surgeon training project in 2005 which involved volunteer doctors, scrub nurses and physiotherapists. He also conducted surgery and taught orthopaedic surgeons in Myanmar in a similar programme. Dr Lo participated in the design of implants and instruments used in minimally invasive knee replacement surgeries which are now used worldwide. He was also a principal investigator in multi-centre trials involving new hip and knee implants and in trials involving anti-deep vein thrombosis drugs. He is currently collaborating on a novel hip prosthesis with enhanced stability. He has received several awards including NUS Excellence in Orthopaedic Teaching Award in 2002 – 2004, SGH CEO’s Service Quality award in 2004, and the Heart of Gold Award in 2019. For 25 years of his contributions to public service, Dr Lo was awarded the Long Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Setia) at the Singapore National Day Awards in 2013.

Tan Guoping Kelvin

Bones & joints · Singapore

Dr Kelvin Tan is an orthopaedic surgeon at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. He is proficient in robotic-assisted surgeries primary and revision hip and knee joint replacement surgeries; complex hip reconstruction including impaction bone grafting for failed hip replacements/hip dysplasia; direct anterior approach to hip replacement; and trauma surgeries including peri-prosthetic fracture fixation and sports surgeries. He is also a proponent of the use of cutting-edge technology such as robotics and computer navigation to perform hip and knee replacement, including unicompartmental (partial) knee replacement. Dr Tan was the previous head of adult reconstruction/joint replacement unit and senior consultant at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). He graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and did his master’s there. He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK. He did his fellowship in complex/revision arthroplasty at Prince Charles Hospital and Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He received a team Health Manpower Development Plan award for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) knee replacement at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Scotland and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, UK. Dr Tan was the clinical champion in TTSH Knee Replacement Clinical Pathway and clinical lead of the ERAS Knee Replacement Taskforce at TTSH and the National Healthcare Group (NHG). He is an advocate of ERAS after knee replacements, reducing the patients’ length of hospital stay and transforming TTSH knee replacement to ambulatory surgery. He also started the Institution Knee Registry database. He has performed more than 500 MAKO robotic-assisted joint replacements (MAKOplasty). He is also the region's first few certified MAKO robotic trainers in partial knee, total knee as well as total hip replacement. He has been practising medicine for more than 15 years. Dr Tan is an opinion leader locally and regionally in robotic-assisted joint replacements as well as ERAS, and has sat on various national committees. Besides his clinical work, he is an adjunct assistant professor at NUS, and a core clinical faculty member and clinical competencies committee member of NHG’s orthopaedic residency programme. He is an examiner for NUS and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine’s undergraduates as well as in the orthopaedic master’s programme. Dr Tan has published extensively in international peer-reviewed medical journals, and presented at local and international conferences. He is currently the chairman of the Singapore Arthroplasty Society, representing Singapore at various international conferences.