Practitioner Profile

Other than being our senior consultant, Dr. Chan is also an Assistant Professor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, since 2009. Prior to being an essential part of Solis, she was the Cluster Sub-specialty Lead for Breast Services in Singapore's National University Health System. Dr Chan was also the Tumour Programme Lead for Breast Oncology for National Cancer Institute Singapore.

She is trained in the procedures of therapeutic mammoplasty, latissimus dorsi flap for partial and total breast reconstruction, implant reconstruction, contralateral symmetrisation surgery, and the transfer of fat for volume deficits and contour remodelling. Additionally, Dr. Chan helped develop transitional studies aimed at various aspects of cancer diagnosis, detection, and treatment. 

Dr. Chan’s latest project as of 2020 includes the profiling of breast cancer and its relation to prognosis. On top of having been widely published in the fields of breast cancer and breast surgery, Dr. Chan is a regular reviewer for two international journals – Tissue Engineering, and the Journal of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Moving forward, Dr. Chan has two new projects; the use of Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields for killing cancer cells, and the use of an optoacoustic probe for intraoperative margin assessment, which she hopes would allow more accurate margin assessment, to decrease the need for a second operation.