Dr Timothy Lim Yong Kuei (MBBS, FRCOG (UK), FAMS (O&G)) is a Specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology with a special interest in the management of gynecological cancers. He was instrumental in the development of minimally invasive gynecological oncology surgery as a standard of care in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) as well as starting the ICG-NIR sentinel lymph node biopsy services for endometrial cancers in 2016.
He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1998 and obtained his post-graduate qualifications in O&G from the Royal College of O&G, London in 2003. He started his gynaecological oncology fellowship training in the Department of Gynaecological Oncology, KKH in 2006 and was awarded the prestigious Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) award from MOH to train in minimally invasive gynaecological cancer surgery in France under the tutelage of the renowned Prof Denis Querleu in 2008. He also obtained the Masters in Law (LLM) in Medical Law and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh in 2016.
He was instrumental in the development of minimally invasive gynae-cancer surgery as a standard of care in KKH as well as starting the ICG-NIR sentinel lymph node biopsy services for endometrial cancers since 2016. He performed the first laparoscopic Wertheim’s radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer in 2009, a series of fertility sparing abdominal radical trachelectomy for early cervical cancer in KKH with 3 livebirths as well as the first ICG- NIR sentinel lymph node biopsy for early endometrial cancer in KKH Dec 2015. He also introduced digital colposcopy services in the management of preinvasive diseases in the colposcopy suites, KKH in 2016.
He has a strong passion in public health education especially in the prevention and treatment of gynaecological cancers and has helped organise numerous public health talks and activities for the last decade. He has been a volunteer doctor in the Singapore Cancer Society for many years and is the Chairman of the Women’s Gynaecological Cancer Awareness committee in SCS since 2014. He also dedicates his time to professional education by serving in the councils of the O&G Society of Singapore (OGSS) and Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology of Singapore (SCCPS) for the last 13 years. He is the ex-President of O&G Society of Singapore (OGSS) 2019 – 2021 & also the ex-President of Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology of Singapore (SCCPS) 2019 – 2024. He also served as the section head for gynaecologic oncology in the College of O&G Singapore from 2016 to 2019. He is also dedicated to medical education to both undergraduates and O&G residents. He was an adjunct Associate Professor at the YLL Medical School, National University of Singapore, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore and the LKC School of Medicine, Singapore from 2017 to 2019.
