Practitioner Profile

Dr Peter Robless is a vascular surgeon based in Singapore. He has over a decade of specialist experience in treating a wide variety of vascular conditions. Dr Robless has published well over 40 publications in specialist vascular and angiology journals. He has a special interest in patients with complex vascular conditions. Dr. Peter Robless has trained and worked in the UK, Australia and Singapore. He obtained his MBChB from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK in 1992. He then underwent training in General Surgery on the West of Scotland Surgical specialties rotation, and obtained the FRCS qualification from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1996. Dr. Robless then moved to London, to St Mary’s Hospital at the Imperial College School of Medicine, as research fellow for the MRC funded Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial (ACST). Completing two years of clinical research, he thereafter trained as a specialist registrar in General and Vascular Surgery, on both the South East and North West Thames London Deanery Surgical rotations. After obtaining the Intercollegiate FRCS in General Surgery in 2003 and the UK Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in General/Vascular Surgery in 2004, he became a Fellow of the European Board of Vascular Surgery (FEBVS) by examination in 2004. Moving from the UK to Australia, Dr. Robless then spent a year as the Vascular Fellow at St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia subspecialising in Endovascular Surgery, before returning to Singapore in 2005 as Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the Department of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore. During his 9 years at NUH, he was the Founding Head, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and Senior Consultant in the Department of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery. He was also Program Director for the Vascular Medicine and Therapy Program and Director of the Non Invasive Vascular Laboratory at the National University Heart Centre Singapore (NUHCS). He is also Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Visiting Consultant (Vascular surgery) at National University Hospital, National Heart Centre, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Jurong General Hospital and Changi General Hospital. In 2006, Dr. Robless was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine (MD) from the University of London and in 2009, to advance Vascular Surgery in Singapore, he was awarded a National Healthcare Group Health Manpower Development Program grant to visit the Vascular surgical units at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston and The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, UK, the European Board of Vascular Surgery, and the American Society of Angiology. He is a member of the ongoing Cochrane Collaboration Review Group on Peripheral Vascular Disease, and has published on the use of antiplatelet agents and cilostazol in Peripheral Vascular Disease. He is on the Board of Directors for the Adelaide Vascular Trials Pty Ltd (Aust) and also serves as a Council member for the Asian Society for Vascular Surgery and the Asian Venous Forum. Dr. Robless is a regular speaker at international and regional meetings on vascular surgery and endovascular interventions. He was an International Visitor for the Australasian New Zealand Society Vascular Society meetings in 2007 and 2011. In 2013 he was the International Visitor for the New Zealand Society for Vascular Surgery meeting in Hamilton, NZ. Dr Robless was awarded the NUH STAR award in 2005-2007 for patient care. He believes in holistic patient care and in providing the best service and outcomes for his patients and their families.

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