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Position :Emeritus Patron
Department :Orthopedic
Location :Hlaing Tharyar
Speciality :Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Qualifications :M.B.B.S (SG), F.R.C.S (Edin), F.R.C.S (Glasgow), F.A.M.S (Ortho), Fellowship in Ortho Surgery (Toronto, Canada) Adjunct Professor, SIM University
Gender :Male
Language :English
Biography

Dr. Sarbjit Singh is a Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon who is locally and internationally renounced for his surgical expertise and advancement of orthopaedic surgery particularly in advanced techniques for Limb Reconstruction and Deformity Correction both in Paediatric and Adult patients.

Dr Sarbjit completed his post graduate degree in 1987. He was subsequently awarded a clinical fellowship in Paediatric Orthopaedics and Limb Reconstruction at the world famous Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada in 1991. Upon his return, he was also trained in Joint Replacement and Orthopaedic Surgery at the Adult Reconstruction Division of Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

He has presented and published at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon and American Orthopaedic Research Society. He has conducted and run several courses and workshops on Joint Replacement Surgery, Limb Deformity Correction, Paediatric Orthoapedics locally and internationally.

Dr Sarbjit was a Senior Consultant and Director at the Adult Reconstruction Service at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He was also a visiting consultant to the Children’s Orthopaedic Department at KK Women’s Children Hospital, National University Hospital, Spastic Children’s Association and Senior Clinical Lecture to the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

He has extensive and in-depth experience in Minimally Invasive Surgery in the hip and knee replacement surgery, computer navigation surgery, mobile bearing knee replacement, uni-compartmental replacement, bi-compartmental knee replacement and hip resurfacing. He also specializes in complicated revision knee and hip surgery.

In the field of Paediatric Orthopaedics, he has done extensive work on congenital hip and knee disorders, limb deformities, clubfeet, pediatric tumor and children trauma.

He is a world leader in the field of Ilizarov surgery and limb lengthening. Dr Sarbjit was one of the founding Presidents of the ASAMI ASEAN. He has won numerous awards for development of limb lengthening techniques and published extensively on these topics. He has extensive experience using external frame, lengthening over nail and intramedullary techniques (Fitbone/ISKD) for his patients. Of special mention are pioneering work in internal limb lengthening technique. He was the first surgeon to implant Fitbone in 2001 and ISKD in 2006.