Dr Timothy Lim Yong Kuei is a Specialist with over 25 years experience in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with a special interest in the management of gynaecological cancers and has been in private practice since 2019. His key interests are in laparoscopic surgery, complex pelvic surgery and the prevention and treatment of gynaecological cancers. He also provides obstetric care and manages a wide range of benign gynaecological conditions. He was awarded the Health Manpower Development Programme of MOH(HMDP) award to train in minimally invasive gynaecological cancer surgery in France in 2008.
Previously, he was the Head and adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Gynaecological Oncology and the Deputy Division Chair of O&G,
KKH from 2014 to 2019. He was also the past President of the O&G Society of Singapore and past President of the Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology of Singapore (SCCPS). He has been a volunteer doctor in the Singapore Cancer Society for many years and is the Chair of the Women’s Gynaecological Cancer Awareness committee in SCS since 2014.
He was instrumental in developing minimally invasive gynae-cancer surgery to be a standard of care in KKH as well as pioneering the use of ICG-NIR for sentinel lymph node biopsy services in endometrial cancers since 2016. He also started performing laparoscopic Wertheim’s radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer in Singapore since 2009. He also introduced digital colposcopy services in the management of preinvasive diseases in the colposcopy suites, KKH in 2016. He has also successfully managed several pregnancies for Stage IB cervical cancer survivors who have undergone fertility sparing radical trachelectomies.
