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About Us
Dr Ho Kok Sun
Consultant Colorectal & General Surgeon
MBBS (Singapore), M Med (General Surgery) (Singapore)
FRCS (General Surgery) (Edinburgh), FAM (Singapore)
Dr Ho Kok Sun graduated from National University of Singapore in 1993. He obtained his Master of Medicine in Surgery from National University of Singapore in 1998 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in the same year.
He completed his training in general surgery in 2002. He went to Cleveland Clinic Florida in 2002 for his fellowship and has been subspecialising in colorectal surgery since he completed his general surgery training.
Dr Ho is currently assistant master of the Academy of Medicine Singapore, the professional institute for specialists in Singapore.
He previously served as President of College of Surgeons Singapore, President of the ASEAN Society of Colorectal Surgeons, and President of the Society of Colorectal Surgeons (Singapore). He was also vice president of the Singapore-China Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology. He is a founding member of the Eurasian Colorectal Technologies Association. He has served as Organizing Chairman of 2 major international colorectal conferences.
Dr Ho also held concurrent appointments of Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and Assistant Professor with the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. He was a core faculty member of the SingHealth General Surgery Residency Program and developed the syllabus for the Colorectal Surgery training program.
Dr Ho has a strong special interest in minimally invasive colorectal surgery. He does laparoscopic (keyhole) colon and rectum surgeries regularly, and progressed to performing numerous single incision port (single keyhole) colon and rectum surgery. He is one of the first few surgeons in Singapore accredited to do robotic colorectal surgery. In the field of laparoscopic surgery and endoscopy, he has conducted more than 20 animal laparoscopic workshops to teach overseas surgeons. He has also taught laparoscopic and endoscopic skills using simulation machines to medical students and advanced specialty trainees.
Dr Ho’s other area of interest is in advanced therapeutic endoscopy (gastroscopy and colonoscopy) including the use of colon stents in the relief of symptoms from complication of colon cancer. Another area of expertise would be that of anal diseases; this includes conditions like haemorrhoids (piles), anal fistula, anal fissures, and abscesses.
Dr Ho has published more than 45 articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. He is also a reviewer and is on the editorial board of numerous journals. In 2018, Dr Ho was appointed by the Singapore Ministry of Health to sit on a 13-member committee to come up with "reasonable" national benchmarks for medical fees.
Dr Ho is effectively bilingual in both Chinese and English and can speak Cantonese and Hokkien as well. He has travelled to speak and perform live surgery demonstrations and teach in countries such as China, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
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