
PROF. SOO KHEE CHEE
Pioneer and Leading Cancer Surgeon in Singapore
Prof. Soo Khee Chee became the Founding Director of the National Cancer Centre Singapore in 1997 and recently retired from that position after 20 years. He was for a period Chair of the NUS Department of Surgery and was also the Senior Vice-Dean of Duke NUS Medical School and now continues to hold the Benjamin Sheares Professorship in Academic Medicine. In his career in Singapore spanning 30 years, he has trained numerous general surgeons, surgeons with interest in cancer surgery and head and neck surgery.
Prof. Soo has been recognised as the pioneer and leading cancer surgeon in the country. He introduced complex surgery like peritonectomies for previously inoperable cancers in the abdominal cavity...