Doctor

Dr Cathryn Chan Weng Buen

 

Qualifications

MBBS (Singapore), FAMS (Obstetrics & Gynaecology), MRCOG (London)
 

Languages Spoken

English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay , Indonesia

Profile

 

Dr Cathryn Chan Weng Buen was awarded the ASEAN Scholarship to study in Singapore. A recipient of the Public Service Commission Local Merit Scholarship, she pursued her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) at the National University of Singapore. 

 

She is experienced in providing medical services to local, expatriate and foreign patients as well as both local and international insurance companies.

 

Dr Chan underwent three years of advanced sub-speciality training, including in the area of endoscopic surgery (laparoscopy and hysteroscopy). She is an accredited colposcopist and regularly attends a variety of courses to continuously improve her clinical skills in the area of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Additionally, Dr Chan has a clinical interest in reproductive medicine and infertility which includes helping patients with ovulatory problems, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), tubal blockage, endometriosis and male infertility.

 

Before commencing private practice in 1995, Dr Chan was in the IVF Team at the Centre of Assisted Reproduction (CARE) at the Singapore General Hospital. In 2000, Dr Chan performed the first successful IVF case which utilised frozen testicular sperm and frozen oocyte that resulted in pregnancy. She has a credible success rate in her fertility procedures.

 

Dr Chan is an accredited IVF Clinician with Parkway Fertility Centre, Thomson Fertility Centre and Sincere IVF Center. She has assumed positions as a Member of the Gleneagles Tissue Committee and Member of the Gleneagles Hospital and Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital Medical Advisory Board (O&G Sub-section).

 

Academically, she also won the Young Investigator Award during the Singapore General Hospital Annual Scientific Meeting. In 1991, she obtained her membership at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the United Kingdom.

 

 

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