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Dr Tan Bien Soo is Senior Consultant at the Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Singapore General Hospital. Dr Tan is Clinical Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, and also an Honorary Professor at the Department of Medical Science, Development and Management University of Medicine 1, Yangon, Myanmar. He was the inaugural Academic Chair of the Radiological Sciences Academic Clinical Programme at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Centre from 2014 to 2020, the Chair of the Division of Radiological Sciences at Singapore General Hospital from 2017 to 2020, and the Head of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Singapore General Hospital from 2002 to 2010.
Dr Tan has served in various capacities professionally. He was the Chairman of the Diagnostic Radiology Residency Advisory Committee, the national committee that oversees postgraduate training in Diagnostic Radiology in Singapore from 2010 to 2018. He is a past President of the Asia Pacific Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, (APSCVIR) and a past President of the College of Radiologists, Singapore. He is also in the team of editors of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (CVIR) and was an assistant editor of the American Journal of Roentgenology. Dr Tan is a fellow of several professional organizations, including the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE). He is active in research and has authored several publications in key Interventional Radiology clinical trials.
In 2019, he was appointed as a member of the Lancet Commission on Diagnostics, a global health research project working on how pathology, laboratory medicine and radiology are essential to Universal Health Coverage. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in early 2020, Dr Tan was invited to be a member of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) COVID-19 Task Force. He is the only international member of this task force, which has been instrumental in developing guidelines and policies and disseminating them through educational initiatives.
In 2013, Dr Tan was conferred the prestigious CIRSE Distinguished Fellow Award for his contributions and achievements in the field of Interventional Radiology, being only the 3rd Asian radiologist to receive this honour. He was also one of the 2017 recipients of the SingHealth Distinguished Senior Clinician Award. In 2022, he was inducted into the Duke-NUS Medical School Hall of Master Academic Clinicians. APSCVIR also recognised Dr Tan's contributions to Interventional Radiology by conferring him with the 2022 Gold Medal. In 2023, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the College of Radiologists Singapore and the Singapore Radiological Society, and in 2024, he was awarded the SIR Gold Medal.
Education
Fellow, Royal College of Radiologists
Royal College of Radiologists, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
National University of Singapore, Singapore
NUS Appointment(s)
Clinical Associate Professor
Yong Yoo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore,
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