Project Description
- Speciality: Oncology – Medical
- Clinic: Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital
Background
- Dokter senior yang sudah berpengalaman di bidangnya
- Keahlian khusus pada gastrointestinal cancers including colorectal, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, stomach, oesophageal, anal and neuroendocrine cancers
- Dr Choo was a senior consultant, the chief of the gastrointestinal oncology department, and deputy head of the medical oncology division at NCCS. She was also the founding director of the experimental cancer treatment unit and chair of the clinical trials steering committee.
- She is experienced in running clinical trials in gastrointestinal oncology, and dealing with complex gastrointestinal cancers and novel therapeutics.
- She is a visiting consultant at the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and is an adjunct associate professor at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.
- Prior to starting private practice, she was an adjunct associate professor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and co-director of the Comprehensive Liver Cancer Clinic at NCCS.
- She is the current president of the Singapore Society of Oncology and founding member of the SSO-Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium.
- She is also a council member in the Chapter of Medical Oncology, Academy of Medicine Singapore, and a board member of the Asian Oncology Society.
- She is involved in developing guidelines for the treatment of pancreatico-hepatobiliary cancers in Singapore and internationally, and was on the Pan-Asia adapted European Society of Medical Oncology Guidelines on Hepatocellular Carcinoma Committee and the Asia-Pacific Liver Cancer Expert Meeting Consensus Panel.
- Dr Choo was the local chair of ESMO Asia in 2018 and was co-chair of ESMO Gastrointestinal Cancer Preceptorships in 2017 and 2018.
- She sits on advisory boards of pharmaceutical companies and provides consult on drug development in gastrointestinal cancers.
- She has published in several journals including the Lancet, Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Cancer Discovery, Annals of Oncology and Journal of Clinical Oncology.