Practitioner Profile

Rehabilitation Medicine

Chronic Pain services

Rehab Technologies

Rehab Concepts and Consultancies

Dr CHAN Kay Fei graduated from NUS in 1985 and after completing National Service and general medical rotations started specialist training in Rehabilitation Medicine in 1992.

Rehabilitation Medicine is a medical field that promotes best functional recovery and quality of life for patients with acquired disabilities from strokes, brain conditions, spinal cord injuries, bone and joint surgeries and injuries/trauma and cancer complications.

There are key Rehabilitation treatment goals at different stages of recovery from acute stages to long-term well-being in personal independence and community return to school, work (and other vocational activities like driving) and hobbies.

Dr Chan was working in Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s Rehabilitation Centre for 24 years and was Head of Department for 8 years. In TTSH, he led the development of Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics (CART), in which Rehabilitation Robotics and other “high tech” platforms are matched with skilled expertise to promote improved outcomes for our patients with stroke, brain, Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions.

While in TTSH, Dr Chan also led the TTSH Pain Taskforce to improve pain management services institutionally with a special interest in Chronic Pain and Rehabilitation. Was also Program Development lead in Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation and Trauma Rehabilitation.

Dr Chan was a Clinical Fellow in Baylor College of Medicine’s Texas Institute of Rehabilitation and Research in 1995/96 and had a training attachment to Emory Spine Centre in Atlanta Georgia, USA.

Dr Chan has depth of experience in areas of Rehabilitation Medicine and Rehabilitative Care of Older Persons from tertiary hospital settings to community and to homes. He is used to working with teams to develop programs suitable for our patients’ needs, incorporating patient-centric technologies when helpful. He has extensive networks and good understanding of the Rehabilitation ecosystems and hope to be a catalyst for good in the Rehab and Chronic Pain space in Singapore and Asia.

Non-Clinical Roles:

1) Resident Advisory Committee member for training of in Senior Residents

2) Medical Advisory Committee, St Luke’s Hospital

3) Founding Co-Director, Rehabilitation Research Institute of Singapore (RRIS)

4) Evaluation panel member of Diagnostics Development Hub which evaluates potential of startups in Medtech. DxD is an initiative of National Research Foundation.

5) Was CEO of Orange Valley Nursing Homes between 2016 to 2018.

Academy of Medicine Singapore