Doctor's Profile
Dr Choo Chee Yong
Dr Choo Chee Yong
Consultant Anaesthesiologist & Specialist Pain Physician, Novena Pain Management Centre (Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital)
MBBS (Spore), MMed (Anaes), FANZCA, FFPMANZCA, FAMS
Dr Choo is an Anaesthesiologist who specializes in Pain Medicine. He graduated with MBBS from the National University of Singapore, and embarked upon Anaesthesiology specialist training. He was awarded Best Trainee award (Singapore) during his traineeship years.
He obtained his Masters of Medicine in Anaesthesiology from NUS (Singapore). He also went on to become a Fellow with the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA), after completing his examinations in Melbourne.
He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine (ANZCA), and completed his fellowship training at the Western Australia Pain Management Centre of Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, where he underwent training for interventional pain procedures and pain management for acute, chronic and cancer related pain syndromes.
His main interests lie in pain medicine, paediatric and regional anaesthesia. He is trained in a variety of ultrasound and fluoroscopically guided interventional procedures including spinal steroid injections, radiofrequency neurotomies, neurolytic blocks, intrathecal pump insertion and spinal cord stimulation.
Dr Choo is currently serving as a Council Member of the Pain Association of Singapore, and is also a member of the Pain Section, College of Anaesthesiology (Academy of Medicine, Singapore). In addition, he has also been actively involved in postgraduate teaching in Singhealth. He has served as a senior clinical lecturer with Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.