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Dr Nor Azhari Mohd Zam

Dr Nor Azhari Mohd Zam

MBBS, MRCS (Edin), MMed (Surg), FAMS (Urology)

Senior Consultant

Specialty: Urology

Clinical Interest: Endourology, Urinary Stone Disease

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Urinary Stone Disease.

Clinical Appointments

  • Senior Consultant Division of Surgery & Surgical Oncology National Cancer Centre SingaporeNational Cancer Centre Singapore

Profile

Dr Nor Azhari graduated from National University of Singapore in 2001. He completed his urology training in Singapore General Hospital in 2009. He did his fellowship training in Laparoscopic Surgery and Endourology in Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia in 2010.

He is currently a Senior Consultant Urologist and Director of Endourology/ Urinary Stone Service in SGH.  His other subspecialty interest is in laparoscopic surgery for both malignant and benign conditions of the urinary tract.

He is actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and holds Adjunct Assistant Professor appointments in Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Duke-NUS Medical School.

Education

  • MBBS: NUS, 2001 
  • MRCS: Edinburgh, 2004 
  • MMed (Surgery): NUS, 2005 
  • FAMS (Urology): 2009 

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
  • ​Director, Endourology/ Urinary Stone Service, Department of Urology, SGH.

Awards

  • College of Surgeons Gold Medal (Urology): 2009 
  • Singapore Urological Association Book Prize for European Board of Urology MCQ Exams: 2009

Research Interests

Publications

Publications
  • Nor Azhari BMZ, Tan KY, M Hoe, Eu KW. “Mortality, morbidity and functional outcome after total or subtotal abdominal colectomy in the Asian population.”ANZ J Surg. 2005 Oct;75(10):840-3.
  • C Cheng, Nor Azhari BMZ. “Diagnostic Approach to prostate diseases”.The Singapore Family Physician Journal Vol 31 No. 4 2005 p 13-15.
  • Teng YHF, Tan PH, Chia SJ, Nor Azhari BMZ, W Lau, C Cheng, Bay BH, Yip GWC. “Increased expression of non-sulphated chondroitin correlates with adverse clinicopathological parameters in prostate cancer”.Mod Pathol. 2008 Jul;21(7):893-901
  • Nor Azhari BMZ, Lau WKO. “ Dutasteride: Its use in the treatment of patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia”Medical Progress, July 2008.
  • Nor Azhari BMZ, Tan PH, Sim HG, W Lau, S Yip, C Cheng. “Correlation between prostate needle biopsy and pathological radical prostatectomy specimen – can we predict pathological outcome?”.Pathology. 2008 Oct;40(6):586-91
  • Nor Azhari BMZ, Tan PH, Lau WKO, Yip SKH, C Cheng. “Mixed epithelial and stromal tumour of the kidney – a clinicopathological report of 3 cases”. Pathology 2009;41(4):403-6.
  • Nor Azhari BMZ, Tan YH, Sunga PA, Yip SKH, C Cheng. “Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for renal tumours: early experience in Singapore General Hospital”.Ann Acad Med Singapore 2009;38:576-80. 
  • E Poon, S Ong, X Chuang, W Lim, Nor MZ, T Chong, I Al Jajeh, K Mancer, Min-Han Tan. “'Prechronous' metastasis in clear cell renal cell carcinoma: a case report”. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011, 5:181.
  • C V Choong, T Tang, W Y Chay, C Goh, M H Tay, Nor Azhari  MZ, P H Tan, Ming-Han Tan.”  Nasal metastases from renal cell carcinoma are associated with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center poor-prognosis classification”. Chin J Cancer; 2011: Vol. 30 Issue 2.
  • KJ Tay, Nor Azhari MZ, C Cheng. Prevailing Attitudes Towards Cancer: A Multicultural Survey in a Tertiary Outpatient Setting. Ann Acad Med Singapore 2013;42:492-8.
  • Lim KS, Sim ASP, Mohd Zam NAB, Ho HSS. A Novel Method for Retrograde Ureteral Stent Insertion During Laparoscopic Ureterolithotomy Without Radiological Guidance. . Journal of Endourology Jan 2015. doi: 10.1089/vid.2015.0019

Paper/Poster Presentations

1. 19th World Congress of International Society of Digestive Surgery. Yokohama, Japan, Dec 2004.
 Poster presentation on “Patient satisfaction and functional outcome after total or subtotal abdominal colectomy in an Asian population”.

2.Urology Fair, 12th Federation of Asean Urological Association Meeting. Singapore, Feb 2005.
 Podium presentation on “ Correlation between prostate needle biopsy and pathological radical prostatectomy specimen in Asian patients”

3.39th Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine, Singapore July 2005. 
 Podium presentation on “Correlation between prostate needle biopsy and    pathological radical prostatectomy specimen in Asian patients”

4.Urology Fair, Singapore Feb 2006. 
 Poster presentation on “Correlation between prostate needle biopsy and radical prostatectomy specimen – can we predict pathological outcome?”

5.World Congress of Video Urology in conjunction with Urology Fair, Singapore Mar 2007. 
 Video podium “ Partial nephrectomy: How we do it”
  
6.14th Annual SGH Evidence-based Medicine Seminar April 2007. 
 Best Systematic Review in Surgery Podium presentation – “Adjuvant radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy”.
   
7.29th Congress of the Societe International d’Urologie. Paris, France 2007. 
 Podium (video) presentation on Preservation of the Accessory Pudendal Artery (APA) during Robot-assisted Laparascopic Radical Prostatectomy.
   
8.SUA Urology Fair Feb 2008, in conjunction with 1st Asia-Pacific Kidney Cancer Symposium. 
 Poster presentations “ Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for renal tumours – early experience in Singapore General Hospital” and “ Mixed-epithelial stromal tumour of the kidney – case series”.
   
9.SUA Urology Fair March 2009. }|
 Poster - “ Analysis of outcome of contemporary series of laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for renal cancer”.
   
10.Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (USANZ) Annual Scientific Meeting. Feb 2010, Perth, Australia. Delegate.
   
11.SUA Urology Fair Singapore, Mar 2010. Poster - “ Prevailing Attitudes Towards Cancer – A Multicultural Survey in a Regional Urology Centre”.
   
12.4th triennial Best Practice Workshop in Urological Oncology. June 2010, Sydney, Australia. Participant.
   
13.NSW Section Educational Meeting, "Battle of the Prostates and Challenges in Laparoscopic Urology". July 2010, Sydney, Australia. Participant.
   
14.11th National Prostate Cancer Symposium, Aug 2010, Melbourne, Australia. Delegate.
   
15.SUA Urology Fair Mar 2011, Delegate. Singapore.
   
16.American Urological Association Meeting, May 2011. Washington, USA. 


Research Trials