Dr. James Tan

Dr James Tan is a neurosurgeon at Gleneagles Hospital and Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore. He subspecialises in the surgical treatment of degenerative spinal disorders of the cervical and lumbar spine, and performs minimally invasive treatment for these conditions including the use of radio frequency for neck and back pains. His clinical expertise also includes minimally invasive endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery, which is a procedure to remove pituitary tumours. Other conditions that Dr Tan treats include back and neck aches, disc replacements, prolapsed discs, meningiomas (tumour between the skull and brain), radicular pain (caused by injury to spinal nerve root), spine degeneration, fusion and pain, and spondylosis (spine degeneration).