Back To Search Results

Assoc Prof Yong Tze Tein

MBBS, FRCOG, FAMS

Head ＆ Senior Consultant

Singapore General Hospital

Specialty: Obstetrics ＆ Gynaecology, Surgery ＆ Surgical Oncology

Clinical Interest: Reproductive Medicine, Menopause, Adolescent Gynaecology, Obstetrics ＆ Gynaecology

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Chorionic Villus Sampling, Clomid, Dysmenorrhea, Elective Egg Freezing, Endometriosis, Endometriosis and Ovarian Cysts, Fibroids of the uterus, First Trimester Screening & Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing, Group B Streptococcus, Group B Streptococcus (GBS), Infertility, Introduction to Down Syndrome Testing, In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI), Menopause, Ovarian Cysts.

Clinical Appointments

Head ＆ Senior Consultant Obstetrics ＆ Gynaecology Singapore General Hospital
Clinical Quality Chairman Obstetrics ＆ Gynaecology Singapore General Hospital
Senior Consultant Centre for Assisted Reproduction (CARE) Singapore General Hospital

Academic Appointments

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Duke-NUS Medical School

Profile

Dr Yong was awarded the Asean Scholarship to complete her A-levels at National Junior College. She was a trainee in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, SGH and obtained her postgraduate degree in 1995. She received the SGH fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and was attached to St Mary’s Hospital, London and the IVF unit in Hammersmith Hospital in 1998 and HMDP in in-vitro maturation in Ho Chi Minh in 2014.

She is committed to teaching and is Adjunct Assoc Professor for Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine,Dukes-GMS,Vice Clinical Chair for the Obsttrics &Gynaecology ACP

Education

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

President,College of Obstetricians &Gynaecologists (Singapore)
Committee members,Association of breastfeeding Advocacy Singapore
Committee member,SIFECS

Awards

Service with a Heart Award
National Long Service Award
Singhealth Duke_NUS Harvard Macee Programme-HaPEE

Research Interests

Publications

High Long-Term Cure Rate Justifies Routine Treatment of CIN Grade I. Aust. NZ J Obstet Gynaecol 1995; 35:2:192, Dr SK Tay & Dr T T Yong, JIF Citation 17
The Visual Effect of Partogram Designs on the Management and Outcome of Labour. Aust NZ J Obst Gynae, 1996; 36(4): 395-400, Dr Tay SK, Dr Yong TT, JIF Citation 10
3Skin Reactions after Transdermal Matrix Estrogen Patcn Application in a tropical country. Adv. Obstet Gynaecol. Vol 92 No 2 Mar 2000, 340-346, SL Yu, TT Yong, Y Fong et al
Medical Disorders in Pregnancy-The Challenges Ahead. TT Yong, Tay SK. Ann Acad Med May 2002
Lessons learnt from two women with morbidlyadherent placenta and a review of the literature. Annals of academy of Medicine,Singapore 2007 Apr;36(4):298-303, Edwin WH Thia, LK Tan, Kanalingam Devendran, TT Yong, HK Tan, TH Ho
Fluoroscopy guided,transcervical selective salpingography and fallopian tube recanalisation. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, November 2011; 31: 746–750, G.Anil,KH Tay,SF Loh,TT Yong,CL Ong,BS Tan
Giant fibroepithelial stromal; polyp. Journal of Path 2013:35(1)91-94, Michelle Chan MF.TT Yong,K Sittampalan
Caesarean scar pregnancy;a case series in a single tertiary referral centre. Singapore Med J 2012)ct;53(10):638-42, Yi Ping Cindy Pang, WC Tan, TT Yong, PK Elisa Koh, KH Tan, TH Ho
A single-arm pilot study on effects of acupuncture treatment on semen parameters of subfertile Singaporean men.Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction. doi:10.1016/j.apjr.2015.07.004, Ho Lee Mee,Shu Li Chui,Siew Chen Hum,TT Yong et al