Dr Edwin Tan, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr Edwin Tan is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at The Clifford Surgery. His field is sports and reconstructive surgery, with a special interest in the shoulder, elbow, hand and knee. At The Clifford Surgery he performs hand surgery as day procedures.
Training and Experience
Dr Tan graduated in medicine (MBBS) from the National University of Singapore in 2004. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2008, earned a Master of Medicine in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2013 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2014. He completed a one-year shoulder and elbow fellowship at Imperial College London under an HMDP award.
At Singapore General Hospital he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School and held patient safety roles. He has taught on AOTrauma fracture courses and advanced shoulder and knee arthroscopy courses. He has performed more than a thousand upper limb and knee operations, including reverse shoulder replacement.
Hand Surgery at The Clifford Surgery
Carpal tunnel release, trigger finger release, De Quervain tenosynovitis treatment and tendon repair, done as day surgery at Raffles Place.
