
General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Dr Low Jee Keem is a Senior Consultant specializing in open and minimally invasive, Hepato-Pacreatico- Biliary and General surgery. He graduated from University Sheffield Medical School and completed the specialist surgical training in United Kingdom. He has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, England, and England (Gen Surgery). After completing a basic science research on Protein and Cell Treatment in Liver Disease, at the Department of Medicine/Centre for Hepatology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, he was awarded a Doctor of Medicine (MD). Subsequently, he spent another year as a Fellow in Living and Deceased donor Liver transplant at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (Taiwan) supported by Royal College of Surgeons, England, Ethicon Foundation Travelling Fellowship and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Scholarship.
He is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (National University of Singapore) MBBS examiner and a core faculty for NHG surgical residency. Dr Low initiated and helped set up the pre-habilitation program (Recovery Of Surgery in Elderly, TTSH) for elderly/frail patients undergoing major abdominal surgery. He has been involved in research, publications, and clinical innovations in HPB surgery.
Publications
1. Intraoperative Celiac Plexus Block With Preperitoneal Infusion Reduces Opioid Usage in Major Hepato-pancreato-biliary Surgery: A Pilot Study.
2. Recovery of surgery in the elderly (ROSE) program: The efficacy of a multi-modal prehabilitation program implemented in frail and pre-frail elderly undergoing major abdominal surgery.
3. Perceptions of Singaporeans towards informed consent: a cross-sectional survey.
4. Microenvironmental Hypoxia Induces Dynamic Changes in Lung Cancer Synthesis and Secretion of Extracellular Vesicles.
5. Associated liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy: a review.
6. Application of Advanced Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics to Study Hypoxia Driven Cancer Progression.
7. Cholecystectomy for asymptomatic gallstones: Markov decision tree analysis.

