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This is the meeting place for members and friends of the Singapore Society for Hand Surgery. The aim of this society is to bring together all Hand Surgeons and others interested in the practice, development and promotion of the fine art and fascinating science of SURGERY OF THE HAND.

SOA Distal Radius and Elbow Workshop 11 November 2008

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General NewsPhotobucketThe Singapore Orthopaedic Association invites all members of the SSHS to participate in its upcoming workshop on distal radius and elbow reconstruction.
 
Date: 11 November 2008
 
Venue: Changi General Hospital Skills Lab, B2 carpark, near Lift Lobby B
 
Time:
0715-1210 Post-traumatic elbow reconstruction and arthroplasty
1330-1730 Anatomical distal radius locking plate
 
Download the brochure and registration forms here for further details.
 

Kleinert Reunion 19 September 2008

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Article and photos contributed by Dr Tan Soo Heong on 25 October 2008, published here with minor editing:

PhotobucketA/Prof Lim Beng Hai and Dr Tan Soo Heong attended the 37th Annual Kleinert Reunion Dinner on Friday, September 19, 2008. This was held during the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand in windy Chicago from 18 to 20 September 2008. This Reunion was special because it marked the retirement of Dr Harold Kleinert from active practice. Dr Harold Kleinert and the Christine M Kleinert Institute have been instrumental in training several Hand Surgeons in Singapore. In recognition of his important contributions, he was made an Honorary Member of the SSHS in 2003.
 
Members who were trained there viz. A/Prof Teoh Lam Chuan, A/Prof Lim Beng Hai, Dr Winston Chew, Dr Tan Soo Heong and Dr Peng Yong Pin contributed to the festivities to honour Dr Kleinert by commissioning a sculptured bust of Dr Kleinert by Chern Lian Shan, a prominent sculptor in Singapore. This was presented to him during the dinner at Harry Caray's.
 
 
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Dr Teoh Lam Chuan has penned a few heartfelt words in gratitude to Dr Kleinert, reproduced below without alteration:
 
"Dear Dr Kleinert,
 
I have difficulty finding words to say to you.
 
For words can carry only superficial flatteries. It is in silence that hides the truth.
 
It is in the quiet reflection that I feel the deep gratitude to you and your institution for giving hand surgery to the world and in particular, Singapore.
 
For me it is hand surgery that has molded by character, established my career, enjoyed international friendship, raised my family, enriched my life and now, riding towards retirement and happiness.
 
May I wish you good health and happiness."
 

Hand Surgery Lectures for November 2008

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SGH ADVANCED HAND SURGERY TRAINING PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 7.30am - 8.30am

Education Resource Centre ,  Dept Of Occupational Therapy, SGH

Date

Topic

Presenter

Moderator

05 / 11 / 2008

Acute Injuries of the Distal Ulna                                             

Andy Wee

Dr Tay SC

12 / 11 / 2008

Malunion of the Distal Radius and Ulna

Yeo Chong Jin

A/Prof Teoh LC

19 / 11 / 2008

Distal Radioulnar Joint Instability

Darryl Chew

Dr Yong FC

26 / 11 / 2008

Ulna Impaction Syndrome

Mohd Zulfikar

Dr Andrew Chin

 

NUH ADVANCED HAND SURGERY TRAINING PROGRAMME

Thursday, 7.30am - 8.30am

Cardiac Department Lecture Theatre, Level 3, NUH

Date

Topic

Presenter

Moderator

06 / 11 / 2008

Orientation for New MOs & Registrars

Mr David Tan

Mr Alphonsus Chong

13 / 11 / 2008

What I need to know on-call

1.  Flexor tendon system  - Dr H Doshi (10min)

2.  Extensor tendon system - Dr Jamari (10 min) 

3.  Management & techniques - Dr Joao (15 min)

Discussion & department approach/input (15 min)

Mr Tan Ter Chyan

 

20 / 11 / 2008

Workmen's Compensation

Dr Kenneth Choy

 

27 / 11 / 2008

Journal Club

Dr Sandeep JS

Mr Peng Yeong Pin

SGH HAND SURGERY CME LECTURE

Friday, 7.30am - 8.30am

Meeting Room C3 ,  Dept Of Hand Surgery, SGH

 

Date

Topic

Presenter

Moderator

07 / 11 / 2008

Introduction to Hand therapy

    Jeyam

Dr Yong FC

14 / 11 / 2008

Functional skeletal anatomy of the hand (exclude wrist)

    Khor Kong Seong

Dr Tay SC

21 / 11 / 2008

Functional skeletal anatomy of the carpus

    Bernard Lau

A/Prof Agnes Tan

28 / 11 / 2008

Ligamentous anatomy of the hand (exclude wrist)

    Ow Ian

Dr Andrew Chin

 
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Hand Surgery Lectures for October 2008

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SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL ADVANCED HAND SURGERY TRAINING PROGRAMME (WEDNESDAYS)

Venue : Education Resource Centre ,  Dept Of Occupational Therapy, SGH

01 / 10 / 2008

HARI RAYA PUASA                                                              

 

 

08 / 10 / 2008

Vascular Grafts and vessel substitutes

Darryl Chew

A/Prof Teoh LC

15 / 10 / 2008

Tendon grafts and tendon substitutes

Sandeep

Dr Tay SC

22 / 10 / 2008

Extraarticular Fractures of the Distal Radius

Ambrose Yung

A/Prof Agnes Tan

29 / 10 / 2008

Intraarticular Fractures of the Distal Radius

Yeo CJ

Dr Tay SC

 

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ADVANCED HAND SURGERY TRAINING PROGRAMME (THURSDAYS)

Venue : Cardiac Department Lecture Theatre, Level 3, NUH

02 / 10 / 2008

Constriction ring syndrome

Dr Soumen Das De

Mr Tan Ter Chyan

09 / 10 / 2008

Generalized skeletal abnormalities

Dr Sreedharan

Mr Alphonsus Chong

16 / 10 / 2008

Skin & soft tissue tumors of the hand

- Benign

Dr Reuben Soh

Mr Peng Yeong Pin

23 / 10 / 2008

Skin & soft tissue tumors of the hand

- Malignant

Mr Andre Cheah

A/Prof Aymeric Lim

30 / 10 / 2008

Bone tumors of the upper limb

Mr Andrew J Myers

Mr Peng Yeong Pin

 

SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL HAND SURGERY CME LECTURE (FRIDAYS)

Venue : Meeting Room C3 ,  Dept Of Hand Surgery, SGH

03 / 10 / 2008

Chronic infections of the hand

Chew KY

Dr Sandeep

10 / 10 / 2008

Bite wounds of the hand: human and non human

Manzhi

Dr Yeo CJ

17 / 10 / 2008

Golfer and tennis elbows

Phoon ES

Dr Ambrose Yung

24 / 10 / 2008

Trigger digits of the hand

K Wong

Dr Yong FC

31 / 10 / 2008

DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis and intersection syndrome

Xie YS

A/Prof Teoh LC

 
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SSHS Annual General Meeting 2008

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Case DiscussionThe society's AGM was held today from 10 am to 12 noon at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. This was followed by an informal Thai Buffet lunch at the hotel's Cafe Brio. One major highlight of the AGM was the introduction of the new members. Our new ordinary members for 2008 are: Darryl Chew, Yeo Chong Jin, Aaron Gan, Anthony Foo and Phoon Ee San. Pramod Chinder from Bangalore India joined as a new corresponding member. The executive committee for 2008-2009 was also elected. A/Prof Aymeric Lim and Peng Yeong Pin will remain as president and vice-president respectively.
 
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NOTICE OF SINGAPORE SOCIETY FOR HAND SURGERY 27th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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To: All SSHS Members

This is to inform you that the 27th Annual General Meeting of the Singapore Society for Hand Surgery will be held on 12 April 2008 at 10am at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront, Singapore.

 


 
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SSHS 17th Hand Review Course and ASM wrap-up

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The SSHS 17th Hand Review Course and ASM was held from 1-2 February 2008 at the recently opened Advanced Surgical Training Centre in NUH. The venue was excellent, with great audio-visual facilities, very good seating arrangement in a small theatrette, and extra seating plus space for posters in a separate room. The foyer was sufficiently spacious for several sponsors to set up tables.

Thank you Professor Tu Yuan-Kun!


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The scientific program this year was anchored by two excellent lectures by our invited speaker, Professor Tu Yuan-Kun of E-Da Hospital and I-Shou University, Taiwan. Professor Tu, a renowned microsurgeon and innovator in hand and microsurgery, delivered a deeply philosophical lecture on microsurgery to start the conference off. He then shared his personal experience with the contralateral C7 transfer for brachial plexus surgery. To end the course, Professor Tu skilfully demonstrated a toe transfer for congenital transverse deficiency, live via video from the NUH operating theatres.

Those who were fortunate enough to hear Professor Tu speak during his two-week lecture series as Hand Surgery HMDP expert will agree that he is certainly an inspiring role model for microsurgeons. Candid and honest about his surgery and ever willing to discuss his failures alongside his successes, all his lectures were both entertaining and educational. His work ethic is almost unbelievable - 2 clinics a week going from 8.30 am to 11.30 pm seeing 300 patients personally, 2 theater sessions doing spine and joint replacements, 2 BPI cases and 2 free flaps a week, and an all-day microsurgery theatre session every Saturday going into Sunday morning! This apart from his administrative duties as vice-superintendent of the hospital, and helping out with emergency cases after his clinic if necesssary! Despite all this, he remains one of the most humble, down to earth and pleasant people I have ever met, with absolutely no airs at all.  All surgeons and surgical trainees would do well to follow his example.

Thank you Dr Martins Kapickis!

 

 

 

Dr Martins Kapickis is President of the Latvian Hand Society, a former fellow of the National University Hospital's Dept of Hand an Reconstructive Microsurgery and former fellow of the Christine Kleinert Institute, Louisville. Although officially in Singapore on holiday, he very gamely delivered some quality lectures and sat on the panel of judges for the free paper and poster presentations. We are most grateful for his help and look forward to strengthening ties and ongoing collaboration with the Latvian Hand Society. 

 

 

Congratulations to this year's ASM award winners - Dr Sandeep Sebastin (Best Free Paper) and Dr Gale Lim (Best Poster)


Once again, the standard in scientific papers was raised by the excellent quality of the papers and posters presented. Six free papers and nine posters were judged by our panel consisting of the eminent Professor Robert Pho, Dr Yong Fok Chuan, and international judges Dr Erwin from Indonesia and Dr Martins Kapickis, President of the Latvian Hand Society. This year, a "best poster" category was introduced for the first time, in addition to the traditional "best paper". The winning entries were:

The Quaba flap - extending the indications, SJ Sebastin, AYT Lim, YP Peng, D Tan, R Mendoza, Department of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery, National University Hospital - free paper presented by Dr Sandeep Sebastin (left)

Thumb MP joint volar plate reconstruction with tendon sling, GJS Lim, AKT Yam, SC Tay, FC Yong, LC Teoh, Department of Hand Surgery, Singapore General Hospital - poster presented by Dr Gale Lim (right)

 

We look forward to seeing these innovative techniques joining the international hand surgery literature in the near future.

Incidentally, Dr Lim is the only junior resident (MO) to have won prizes for papers presented at the SSHS ASM two years in a row - she won second prize last year for her paper "The spiral flap for resurfacing large fingertip pulp defects", which will be published soon in the Journal of Hand Surgery (American Edition).

 
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Prof Tu Yuan-Kun - Visiting HMDP Expert in Hand Surgery

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Professor Tu Yuan-Kun, Director of Orthopaedics, E-Da Hospital and Professor, I-Shou University of Taiwan, is in Singapore for 2 weeks as visiting HMDP expert and invited international speaker at the SSHS. Professor Tu is an expert microsurgeon and creative genius in the field of hand surgery, with many innovative contributions to the field of vascularised bone grafting, microsurgical management of congenital defects, and brachial plexus reconstruction. Please see the "Events" column on the left for details of his lectures.

 

Updates finally

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Dear members,

Sorry for the rather long delay in updates of the SSHS website. The webmaster is out of hibernation finally. Thank you for your patience. Please refer to the updates below for the upcoming events that will happen over the next 6 months.

As this is a website for all members of SSHS as well as keen, bona-fide and enthusiastic hand surgeons around the world, I will like to invite all of you to contribute your cases so that we can all learn from each other. Nothing better than to get all your esteemed opinions and comments to better inform ourselves and to improve patient care ultimately. Please feel free to send your pictures and summaries of the cases to andrewthechin@hotmail.com

I would also like to thank my hardworking and long suffering colleague Andrew Yam for helping out with the website maintenence in my absence. You will see postings being put up by the both of us every now and then.

Looking forward to serving you better,

Andrew Chin

 

SSHS 17th Comprehensive Hand Review Course and ASM 2008

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Our Society is organizing the 17th Comprehensive Hand Review Course and Annual Scientific Meeting on 1 – 2 February 2008.  The theme for this year's review course is "Reconstructive Microsurgery". The course is aimed at surgical trainees especially those interested in Hand Surgery, Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery and Emergency Medicine.  The course is also relevant to hand therapists.

This course will be especially exciting as we have invited world renowned microsurgeon Professor Tu Yuan-Kun to be part of the teaching faculty.  He will share his expertise in a series of lectures as well as a live interactive surgery session.

We have put together an exciting and educational programme covering all aspects of hand, wrist and microsurgery, and we invite you to share in the vast knowlege and experience of professor Tu and Singapore's leading proponents in these disciplines. We also invite you to share YOUR knowledge and experience through discussion and the Free Paper/Poster presentations.

 The Course will be held at:

Auditorium, Advanced Surgery Training Centre (ASTC), level 2, Kent Ridge Wing 2

National University Hospital, Singapore 119074

A/Prof Aymeric Lim

President/Organising Chairman, Singapore

 

Download the registration form here.

 

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