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Christopher Cheng

Head, Department of Urology
Singapore General Hospital

Dr Christopher Cheng graduated from Singapore University in 1982 and obtained his post-graduate degree in Surgery FRCS in 1986, and FAMS (Urology) from the Academy of Medicine, Singapore in 1993. He obtained his Uro-oncology Fellowship after spending two years at the Mayo Clinic, USA from 1990 to 1992.

Dr Cheng's clinical and research fields of interest include uro-oncology, renal transplantation (living-related and cadaveric) and minimally invasive surgery. Dr Cheng was the Principal Investigator to develop the Urological Oncology Unit at the Department of Urology for Basic and Clinical Research in Urinary Tract Cancer, fully funded by the then Singapore Totalisator Board.

Dr Cheng also spearheaded the project for a Minimally-Invasive Surgery (MIS) research centre based on a robotic surgery unit da Vinci system, and an image-guided intervention unit funded from Ministry of Health, Singapore in 2003. He has over 90 publications in local and international journals on Prostate Cancers, Bladder Cancers and Stone Diseases. He has contributed to several book chapters on urology in local and international publications. He is on the editorial board of several well known journals, namely Journal of Robotic Surgery and Oncology & Haematology News. He was the Editor of the MOH Clinical Practice Guidelines on Prostate Cancer, published by Ministry of Health in May 2000.