Dr. Kim Guowei

Asst Prof Kim has a strong interest in innovation in surgery, and strongly believes that keeping abreast with advances in technology is quintessential to give Singaporean patients access to the best medical care available. To this end, he embraces technology such as artificial intelligence, robotics to improve existing techniques to improve patient outcomes. One such example would be the successful performance of robotic telesurgery over a distance of more than 5,000 km between Singapore and Japan in October 2023. He also is an early adopter of new techniques, being part of the team that performed the first Pressurised Intraperitoneal Aerosolised Chemotherapy (PIPAC) procedure in Asia in 2016, conducting several first-in-the-world trials on PIPAC, and also being the first to successfully perform mediastinoscopy assisted transhiatal esophagectomy (MATHE), for patients in whom conventional esophagectomy approaches were not feasible. He has also performed the first endoscopic full thickness resection (EFTR) for submucosal tumours of the stomach and the first endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty at NUH for bariatric patients.