Dr. Chung Sze Ryn is a consultant at the Department of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery at Singapore General Hospital. She is also a European Board-Certified Hand Surgeon (EBHS) and won the best candidate award (gold medalist) in 2024. She graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, in 2011 with an MBBCh BAO degree and achieved her MRCS (Edinburgh) and MMed (Surgery) in 2013 and 2016, respectively. She completed her hand residency training in 2020 and was awarded as a fellow of the Academic of Medicine Singapore (FAMS) in Hand Surgery. She is currently the Asia Pacific Wrist Association (APWA) fellowship chairman.
Dr. Chung recently received the SingHealth Quality Service Award for honoring COVID-19 healthcare heroes. She also received the ‘Service of the Heart Award’ from SingHealth for her high-quality contribution to patient care in 2021. Dr. Chung was also involved in animal research on tissue adhesion and its impact on clinical outcomes from an SGD 150,000 grant from Academic Medicine SingHealth. She is a clinical physician faculty member for the SingHealth Hand Surgery Residency Program and is currently a clinical assistant professor at DUKE-NUS Medical School. Her research contributions included managing difficult distal radius fractures, arthroscopic assisted scapholunate reconstruction and wrist intercarpal ligament tears. Dr. Chung was also actively involved in the grant collaboration between Singapore General Hospital Hand Surgery department and Nanyang Technology University (NTU-SACP grant), where she was one of the co-investigators for a project on tissue adhesive as a vessel sealant compared to traditional sutures for microvascular anastomosis. She also invented a novel technique of continuous irrigation of hand joints for minimally invasive management of septic arthritis.
Dr. Chung has a special interest in hand and wrist joint arthroscopy. She recently received a Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) award from Singapore to pursue her fellowship at Institut de la Main (International Wrist Center) in Paris, France. She was also a recipient of the APWA Travelling Fellow award and was a wrist traveling fellow in Adelaide, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. In addition, she was also a visiting Hand Surgery fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery New York, the University of Michigan, and the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Chung completed her fellowship (Wrist arthroscopy and Upper limb Spasticity & Paralysis surgery in International Wrist Center/Institut de la Main, Clinique Bizet (Paris) in 2023.
