Dr Timothy Lim Yong Kuei is an experienced specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology with a special interest in the management of gynaecological cancers.
His key interests are in laparoscopic surgery, complex pelvic surgery and the prevention and treatment of gynaecological cancers. He also provides antenatal care to expectant mothers and manages a wide range of gynaecological conditions including endometriosis, fibroids and ovarian cysts. He has more than 20 years of clinical experience.
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 10 years. He is the current Honorary President of both societies since March 2019.