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MBBS MMed (Master of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore) MRCS (Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh) FRCS (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh) FAMS (Fellow of Academy of Medicine, Singapore)

Clinical Focus:

Minimal Access & Robotic surgery, Bariatric & Metabolic surgery, Gastrointestinal surgery, Oncology surgery & Hernia Surgery

Dr. Jaideep Raj Rao


Dr. Jaideep Raj Rao is the senior consultant surgeon at JR surgery at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore and specializes is Minimal Access & Robotic Surgery, Gastrointestinal Surgery, Oncology Surgery & Hernia and Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction.

Dr. Rao completed his basic and advanced surgical training in Tan Tock Seng Hospital & Singapore General Hospital, Singapore and did his fellowship in Advance Laparoscopic and Robotic surgery in Seoul National University Hospital and Bundang Hospital, Seoul, Korea. He was the Senior Consultant & Head of Upper Gastrointestinal, Bariatric & Minimal Access Surgery and founding director of the Bariatric Surgery Program in Tan Tock Seng Hospital for the last 10 years before founding JR surgery.

Dr. Rao’s main interest is Minimal access and Robotic surgery for complex conditions such as Gastric & Esophageal cancer. He was the first to perform Robotic Gastrectomy in Singapore.

Dr. Rao is also one of the founding members & Ex-president of the Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of Singapore (OMSSS), President of the Singapore Hernia Society and member of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, Board of Governors of the Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA), and Executive Council member of the Asia Pacific hernia society and Robotic Surgery Society of Singapore.

 

He has been conferred International honorary membership of

  1. Korean Laparoscopic Surgery Society
  2. Chilean Surgical Society
  3. Peruvian Surgical Society

 

Dr. Rao is actively involved in clinical research and has several publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is in the review board of prestigious journals such as Hernia, International Journal of Hernia & Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, Asian Journal of Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Surgery and Journal of Minimally Invasive

Surgery. He was also involved in teaching and was a core faculty of the Surgical Residency program in Singapore. In addition, he was a Clinical Teacher at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

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Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital

Singapore

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