Consultant’s Profile

Credentials

Dr Huang Shoou Chyuan graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1984.

He became a fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ie FRCS ( Edinburgh) and Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow ie FRCS (Glasgow) after successfully passing the post-graduate examinations in 1990.

He had advanced specialty training at the Singapore General Hospital, completing it in 1993 and was admitted to the Academy of Medicine, Singapore as a Fellow in 1995 ie FAMS(ORL).

He is an accredited Ear Nose Throat Surgeon by the Ministry of Health, Singapore and is also a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons (FICS) as well as an International Fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (FAAOHNS).

Commitment to Excellence

Dr.Huang has special interests in snoring and sleep apnoea, ear pathologies including hearing assessment and fitting of hearing aids, treatment for ear drum perforations and cholesteatoma, sino-nasal pathology and allergy management.

As Nose Cancer (Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma) is extremely common in South-east Asia, he has vast experience in the treatment of this unfortunate condition.

He travels extensively to learn personally from world renowned ENT surgeons in their fields of expertise. These ENT centers include those in the USA, UK, Continental Europe, Australasia as well as many parts of Asia.

As mankind progresses, Dr.Huang believes that it must harness new technology to result in better outcomes for ENT conditions.

Commitment to Community

He is an elected Specialty Board Member of the Chapter of Otorhinolaryngologists, College of Surgeons (Academy of Medicine, Singapore) and serves as the Honorary Secretary. He is also a council member of Singapore's Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Recently he was invited to be a founding committee member of the World Chinese Otorhinolaryngology -Head and Neck Surgery Society.

He serves in the Medical Advisory Board of the Gleneagles Hospital as an elected member and sits in the Quality Assurance and Infection & Therapeutic Control committees. He is also a council member of Gleneagles Medical Centre's Management Corporation Strata Title Committee.

He is on Medical/Specialist Advisory Panel of some magazines and is often sought for his views and opinions about ENT conditions. He gives talks on medical related topics to laymen, students and doctors alike and had participated in community events such as pro-bono deafness screening of senior citizens.

Commitment to Positive Thinking and Healthy Living

He is an active participant in public discussions about all aspects of Singapore life particularly in issues pertaining to Education, the Medical Profession, Public governance and Civil society and has been featured on Television. He contributes regularly to the media's forum pages and is well known for his out-spoken social and political commentaries in blogosphere.

Being a firm believer of lifelong learning, he is currently enrolled in a MBA program which more or less takes up all his spare time .

He had completed his second Marathon and plays golf (badly).