CGH ENT Surgeon
Awarded Prestigious
Yahya Cohen
Memorial Lectureship
Dr Hsu Pon Poh, Consultant
ENT surgeon and Head of Clinical Trials and Research Unit, has
been awarded
the 10th Yahya Cohen Memorial Lectureship by the College of Surgeons,
Singapore on 3 July 2005.
Dr Hsu presented his paper "Clinical Predictors in Obstructive
Sleep Apnea (OSA) Patients with Computer Assisted
Quantitative Videoendoscopic Upper Airway Analysis" at the
39th Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine. The
lecturer is awarded with a gold medal and a certificate.
The 1994 Chapter of Surgeons established the Yahya Cohen Memorial
Lecture in honour of the outstanding
contributions to the development of surgery in Singapore by Dr
Yahya Cohen, the 1st Chairman of the Chapter
of Surgeons and a past Master of the Academy. The Lectureship is
held annually and takes place at an event
organised by the Chapter of Surgeons. The award is given in recognition
of academic excellence and contribution
to medical science.
Past recipients of this prestigious award include A/Prof London
Lucien Ooi, Surgical oncologist (3rd Yahya Cohen
Lecture) and A/Prof Au Eong Kah Guan, Ophthalmologist (6th Yahya
Cohen Lecture).
To diagnose the obstructive site for a patient suffering from OSA
is not easy. Often the problem is that the normal
tissue is lax, and therefore is obstructive. As it is difficult
to see, doctors cannot measure and pinpoint the obstruction.
The method that Dr Hsu developed through his research enables doctors
to objectively measure the obstruction
without subjecting patients through x-ray, and can be done in the
clinic.
With this computer-assisted videoendoscopic technique, diagnosis
is easier and and surgery can therefore be
more precise to correct the problem. This is achieved through specialised
equipment, software and methodology,
which was developed by Dr Hsu and his team. His team members are
everyone in ENT, particularly Dr Alvin Tan,
Registrar, and Dr Peter Lu.
Dr Hsu had been working on OSA research for many years and
his papers had been published in many ENT journals. He also
lectured in top universities all over the world, including Oxford
University and the University of Georgia in the United States.
Dr Hsu has a passion for research, and has obtained his M.D.
(Doctorate in Medicine) from University of Dundee Medical
School in December 2003.
Dr Hsu is the world pioneer for this computer assisted
videoendoscopic technique. Today, some Australian and
American hospitals have learnt this technique from him and
are using it. In Singapore, CGH’s ENT clinic is the only
clinic
to offer this service.
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