Practitioner Profile

Orthopaedic Surgery

Dr Poh Seng Yew is a Senior Orthopaedic and Sports Surgeon who specializes in hip, knee, and shoulder surgery. He currently practices at Advanced Orthopaedic and Sports Centre, serving as Medical Director. He has more than 18 years of clinical experience and previously served as Director of Sports Service at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Chief of the Sports and Exercise Medicine Service at SGH, Singhealth Duke-NUS Sport and Exercise Medicine Centre. He also serves as Visiting Consultant to Singapore General Hospital, Sengkang General Hospital and Kandang Kerbau Women and Children’s Hospital (KKWCH).

He has special interest in hip preservation surgery, and established the Singhealth Joint Hip Preservation Service, with the aim to optimise the care of hip patients across all Singhealth hospitals. Hip preservation focuses on interventions to treat hip disease with the aim of preserving the native hip joint and delaying or preventing hip arthritis and the need for hip replacement. These include techniques such as hip arthroscopy, open surgical dislocation, and peri-acetabular osteotomy.

Dr Poh has been invited as regional and international faculty and is active in training surgeons from around Asia through fellowship and visitation programs, in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine and Hip Preservation Surgery. He is one of the highest volume hip arthroscopy surgeons in Southeast Asia, having performed over 500 such procedures to date. In addition, Dr Poh also does complex knee arthroscopy, osteotomy, multi-ligamentous ligament reconstruction, meniscal reconstruction, cartilage resurfacing, and complex shoulder arthroscopy, open shoulder reconstruction and shoulder arthroplasty. He has a high volume of hip and knee arthroplasty, and is adept at using the latest techniques, such as robotic assisted surgery, patient specific instrumentation and navigation.

He is also an active trauma surgeon and serves as the Community Development officer for the AOTrauma Singapore Council. Dr Poh is Adjunct Assistant Professor to Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and serves as Orthopaedic Surgery Examiner for both the undergraduate and postgraduate examinations.