Dr Darryl Chew Ee Ming

While Dr Chew cares for patients of all ages, he is particularly committed to the care of children with congenital hand malformations, neuromuscular problems and injury to the upper limb. He combines knowledge of anatomy and child development with careful observation and patience to optimise their function.

Dr Chew received his undergraduate medical degree from the National University of Singapore and completed his advanced specialty training in hand surgery at the Singapore General Hospital. He spent a year of fellowship training in adult and paediatric hand surgery with Prof Michael Tonkin at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia. He completed a second year of fellowship training in paediatric hand surgery in the United States of America with Prof Marybeth Ezaki and Prof Scott Oishi at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas, Texas, and with Prof Michelle James at the Shriner’s Hospital for Children – Northern California, Sacramento, California.

Dr Chew was a recipient of the 2010 Ministry of Health Training Scholarship and the inaugural Singapore Society for Hand Surgery Travelling Fellowship 2012.

He has been actively involved in teaching undergraduate medical students and hand surgery residents. He was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award 2015/16 by the SingHealth Residency Programme, and the Orthopaedic Teaching Excellence Award 2016 and 2017.

Dr Chew is married to Sharon and they have two children – Eleanor and Isaiah.

1. ​Soo JZ, Sio RB, Ashik M, Wong KP, Chua KH, Mahadev A, Lim KB, Chew EM, Lam KY. Epidemiology of paediatric orthopaedic-related trauma injuries sustained across a lockdown period during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Orthop Surg (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (SAR)). 2021 Sep-Dec;29(3).
2. Lee JY, Liu Xuan E, Chew EM, Yeo NEM. Polymetatarsia of the Foot without Polydactyly: A Case Report. JBJS Case Connect. 2021 Oct 6;11(4).
3. Mishra N, Yap ST, Lee NKL, Lua JYC, Tay YH, Saffari SE, Mahadev A, Chew EM, Wong KPL. Dose reduction for minimizing radiation in displaced paediatric supracondylar humerus fractures: single vs. automated pulse mode. J Pediatr Orthop B. 2021 Jul 8.
4. Chew EM, Wong KPL, Chan CMS, Teoh LC. Suture osteosynthesis in the bony reconstruction of thumb duplication. J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2021 Sep;46(7):762-767.
5. Wong KPL, Reddy V, Mishra N, Mahadev A, Chew EM. Lateral Pinning of the Pediatric Phalangeal Neck Fracture. Tech Hand Up Extrem Surg. 2020 Aug 28;25(2):116-119.
6. Wong KPL, Chew EM, Mahadev A. Sliding the Medial Pin: A Safer Approach to Cross-pinning Humerus Supracondylar Fractures? Tech Hand Up Extrem Surg. 2019 Sep;23(3):111-114.
7. Chew EM, Tay SC. Heterodigital Artery Island Flap. In: ASSH Surgical Anatomy: Flap Reconstruction of the Upper Extremity. Moran SL and Chung KC (Eds). American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Jan 2018.
8. Chew EM, James MA. Congenital Hand and Upper Limb Anomalies – Deformations, Dysplasias and Syndromes. In: Chapman’s Comprehensive Orthopaedic Surgery, 4th Ed. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, Jan 2019 ; 4: 2019-2043.
9. Chew EM, James MA. Congenital Hand and Upper Limb Anomalies – Overview and Malformations. In: Chapman’s Comprehensive Orthopaedic Surgery, 4th Ed. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, Jan 2019 ; 4: 1970-2018.
10. Chew EM, James MA. Congenital Transverse and Intersegmental Deficiencies of the Upper Limb. In: Krajbich JI, Pinzur MS, Potter BK, et al (Eds) Atlas of Amputations and Limb Deficiencies, 4th Ed. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2016:815-821.
11. Agrawal AK, Mat Jais IS, Chew EM, Yam AK, Tay SC. Biomechanical investigation of 'figure of 8' flexor tendon repair techniques. J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2016 Oct;41(8):815-21.
12. Tonkin MA, Chew EM, Ledgard JP, Al-Sultan AA, Smith BJ, Lawson RD. An assessment of 2 objective measurements of web space position. J Hand Surg Am. 2015 Mar;40(3):456-61.
13. Chew EM, Chong AK. Hand Fractures in Children: Epidemiology and Misdiagnosis in a Tertiary Referral Hospital. J Hand Surg Am. 2012 Aug;37(8):1684-8.
14. Chew EM, Yong FC, Teoh LC. The Oblique Wedge Osteotomy of the Metacarpal Condyle for Reconstructing Wassel Type IV Thumb Duplication in Older Children and Adults. J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2010 Oct;35(8):669-75.
15. Chew EM, Yam AK, Tay SC. Simultaneous intratendinous ganglion and synovial cyst of the wrist. J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2010 Jan;35(1):80-1.