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Prof Howe Tet Sen

MBBS, FRCS (Edin&Glasg), FRCS (England), FAMS

Senior Consultant

Specialty: Orthopaedic Surgery

Sub-specialties: Trauma Service

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgery Singapore General Hospital

Academic Appointments

Duke-NUS Medical School

Profile

Prof Howe Tet Sen is a Senior Consultant with the Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery, specialising in Trauma.

Education

M.B.B.S (Singapore) 1981
F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh) 1985
F.R.C.S. (Glasgow) 1985
F.A.M.S. (Singapore) 1999
F.R.C.S. (England) 1999
Fellowship in Sports Medicine: Cleveland Clinic Foundation 1989-1990

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Immediate past Director of Trauma Service, Department of Orthopaedics, SGH, 1996-2015
Vice President Singapore Orthopaedic Association Feb 2006
Director of Education, AO Singapore 1997-2000
Clinical Lecturer in Orthopaedics by National University of Singapore
Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Lecturer, Advanced Specialist Training in Orthopaedics, NUS
Visiting Lecturer, National Technological University
Examiner for Joint Specialty Fellowship Examination in Orthopaedic Surgery held by (Division of Graduate Medical Studies and Academy of Medicine) together with The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
AAOS Educators Course (Orthopaedics)
Pharmacology and Therapeutics Committee: Singapore General Hospital 1998-2003
Infectious Diseases Committee, Singapore General Hospital 1993- 1996
Trauma Committee, SGH 1986- Present
Treasurer, Singapore Malaysia Congress Bi-Annual Meeting 1996, Academy of Medicine SingaporeCommittee on Management of Minimal Access Therapy Training (MATT Course), Academy of Medicine Singapore
Ambulatory Surgery Planning Committee, SGH
Instructor Advance Trauma Life Support Course 1991- Present
AO Basic Course Instructor, Davos Switzerland 1996
Ambulatory Surgery Planning Committee 1997- present
Organiser, Advanced Techniques in Arthroscopic Knee Surgery, The Academy of Medicine (Singapore) in Association with The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2nd-3rd July 1998.
Advanced Techniques in Arthroscopic Knee Surgery, The Academy of Medicine (Singapore) in Association with The Royal College of Surgeons of England. April 2000.
Convenor Basic Arthroscopy Course, The Academy of Medicine (Singapore) in Association with the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 8th July 2000.
Chairman AO Scientific committee 2000- present
Chairman Emergency Operating Committee 2001- present
Consultant to the Sports Medicine & Research Centre of the Singapore Sports Council. 1999- present.
Speciality Resource Committee – Orthopaedic Surgery Jan 2003 – Present
ACAP Workgroup, SingHealth 2004 - present
National Workman’s Compensation Committee – Member 2006 – Present

Awards

Hospital Management Asia 2003

Asian Hospital Management Awards 2003

Winner Quality Medical Care: Reducing Delays in Emergency Surgeries

SGH Quality Week 2003: First Prize

Reducing Delays in Emergency Surgeries

SPRING Singapore GOLD AWARD

National ICQ Convention 2005

“No more Lying Flat in Bed after Spinal Anaesthesia : An attempt to Range the Age-Old Protocol”

Research Interests

Publications

Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2004 Mar;33(2):248-51. Cancellous screw fixation for femoral neck fractures: one hundred and sixteen patients. Lee KB, Howe TS, Chang HC.
Book Chapter: Acute Surgical Management, ISBN 981-238-681-5, Jul 2004
Chapter 29, Page 479-493, Treatment of Multiple Fractures.
S. E. Lim, Y. Xing, Y. Chen, W. K. Leow, T. S. Howe, and M. A. Png. Detection of Femur and Radius Fractures in X-Ray Images. In Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Advances in Medical Signal and Information Processing, 2004.
Y.Chen, W.H. Yap, W. K. Leow, T. S. Howe, and M. A. Png. Detecting Femur Fractures by Texture Analysis of Trabeculae. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, 2004.
Dennis Wen-Hsiang Yap, Ying Chen, Wee Kheng Leow, Tet Sen Howe, Meng Ai Png: Detecting Femur Fractures by Texture Analysis of Trabeculae. ICPR (3) 2004: 730-733
Y. Chen, X.Ee, W. K. Leow, T. S. Howe. Automatic Extraction of Femur Contours from Hip X-ray Images. In Proc. First International Workshop on Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Applications (CVBIA 2005) (in conjunction with Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, 2005). Y. Liu, T. Jiang, C. Zhang (Eds), LNCS 3765, Springer, 2005, pp. 200-209
V.L. F. Lum, W. K. Leow, Y. chen, T. S. Howe, M. A. Png. Combining Classifiers for Bone Fracture Detection in X-ray Images. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Image Processing, 2005.
Sourina O, Sourin A, Howe TS. Orthopaedic Surgery Simulation. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine & Biology, World Scientific, 7(1), 2007 (in press)
Subtrochanteric insufficiency fractures in patients on alendronate therapy: A CAUTION
S. K. Goh, K. Y. Yang, J. S. B. Koh, M. K. Wong, S. Y. Chua, D. T. C. Chua, and T. S. Howe
J Bone Joint Surg Br 2007, 89-B:349-353
Chong KW, Wong MK, I.S. Rikhraj, T. S. Howe. The use of computer navigation in performing minimally invasive surgery for intertrochanteric hip fractures – The experience in Singapore [Injury 2006; 37 (8):755-62].
P.K. Bhunre, W. K. Leow, T. S. Howe, Recovery of 3D Pose of Bones in Single 2D X-ray Images. In Proc. IEEE Workship on Applications of Computer Vision, 2007
Surgical Management of Fractures of the Shaft of the Humerus, The Journal of the Asean Orthopaedic Association 1987
Shoulder Injuries, Review of Sports Injuries in Singapore
Double Level Fractures of the femur Treated with Closed Intra-Medullary Nailing
Ann Acad Med Singapore. 1998 Mar;27(2):188-91.
Factors affecting healing of below knee amputation.
Singapore Med J, 1996 Aug;37(4):392-3
Low CK, Chew WY, Howe TS, Tan SK
Virtual Orthopaedic Surgery on Personal Computer
Alexei Sourin, Olga Sourina & Howe TS
International Journal of Information Technology – June 2000
Virtual Orthopaedic Surgery Training
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
May/June 2000 Pg 6-9
Alexei Sourin, Olga Sourina & Howe TS
Natural History of Posterior Cruciate Ligament Tears. Vol 10, No 1, 2001 SGH Proceedings 2001. Joyce Koh & Howe Tet Sen
Prospective Randomised Study of the effect of Alendronate (Fosamax), Calcitrol (Rocaltrol) and Calcium on the Bone Mineral Density of Patients with Osteoporotic Hip Fractures. IS Rikhraj, KWE Sng, SSJ Lee, TS Howe & BK Tay. The Journal of the Asean
Orthopaedic Association, July 2002, Vol 15 No.1.
Book Chapter : Computing Neck-Shaft Angle of Femur for X-Ray Fracture Detection
Tai Peng Tian1, Ying Chen1, Wee Kheng Leow1, Wynne Hsu , Tet Sen Howe and Meng Ai Png Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 82 - 89
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg
ISSN: 0302-9743
Radionuclide synovectomy and chronic haemophilic synovitis in Asians: a retrospective study. Haemophilia. 2003 Sep;9(5):632-7. Chew EM, Tien SL, Sundram FX, Ho YK, Howe TS
T. P. Tian, Y. Chen, W. K. Leow, W. Hsu, T. S. Howe, M. A. Png. Computing neck-shaft angle of femur for x-ray fracture detection. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, LNCS 2756, 2003, p. 82-89.
Insead Presentation, INSEAD, Asia Campus
1 Ayer Rajah Avenue, 138676 Singapore
March 2004. Computer Detection of Fractures and proposal for Business Plan.