Dr Chan Chung Yip is a senior consultant surgeon and is the current head of department. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the National University of Singapore in 1997. He completed his training in General Surgery in 2006 and received further training in liver surgery and transplantation in Kaohsiung, Taiwan as well as in laparoscopic hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery in Seoul, Korea. He is a pioneer in laparoscopic surgery of the liver, pancreas and bile duct in Singapore, and is a leader in its adoption amongst other surgeons in the country and region. He is a MOH-gazetted liver transplant surgeon, and is a lead surgeon of the living donor liver transplant program in the hospital.