A/Prof Jimmy So

MBChB, FRCSEd, FRCSG, FAMS
Senior Consultant General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon

        Associate Professor Jimmy So is a Consultant General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon, as well as Consultant of Department of Surgery at the National University Hospital (NUH). He is also the Clinical Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore (NUS), and has joined the Department of Surgery, NUS as an Associate Professor on 1 Jun 2007.

A/Prof So graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his surgical training at NUH, Singapore. He obtained the fellowships from Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Royal College of Surgeons of Gasglow and Hong Kong College of Surgeons. In 1996, he received a clinical fellowship from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School to be trained on surgical endoscopy and laparoscopy.

A/Prof So's specialty is in the area of general surgery and his special interests are Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, bariatric surgery, minimally invasive surgery and hernia surgery. He received further training in Upper GI surgery in Japan and Hong Kong. He was appointed as visiting consultant in Esophageal and Gastric Surgery at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh. He established a multidisciplinary program for Esophageal and Gastric cancers. He also set up a bariatric and obesity surgery programme at NUH.

His research interest include biomarkers discovery for gastric cancer, gastric carcinogenesis, phase 2 study on neoadjuvant therapy for advanced gastric cancers and morbid obesity. His paper (put together with Dr Dan Yock Young and A/Prof Yeoh Khay Guan) on “Cost-effectiveness of screening for cancer of stomach using endoscopy” received ASGE Poster of Distinction at the Digestive Disease Week, 20-23 May 2002, San Francisco, USA.