
MBBS (NUS, Singapore)
Surgery, Woodlands Hospital
Dr Serene Tang graduated from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2011. She embarked on her general surgical residency at the National Healthcare Group in 2011. She earned her Masters of Medicine in 2016. She subsequently obtained her admission to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, in 2017. She joined Woodlands Hospital in 2018.
She pursued her interest in breast cancer surgery with fellowship training in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. She was awarded the Health Manpower Development Program Fellowship Award from the Singapore Ministry of Health and subsequently trained at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States, and Royal Brisbane Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Australia, in 2020, in the areas of breast conservation and oncoplastic surgery. She subsequently completed a breast surgical fellowship in Showa University Hospital, Japan, in 2022.
Dr Tang is also active in breast cancer research and medical education. She is a lecturer at both the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singpaore, as well as Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University. She has won teaching awards from both the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, as well the National Healthcare Group. She has presented in local and international breast cancer conferences, and published in international journals. Her area of clinical interests includes oncoplastic breast surgery and breast cancer.
Dr Tang speaks English, Mandarin and Hokkien.
- Clinical lead for Woodlands Health Hospital Seminar
- Physician Faculty, National Healthcare Group General Surgery Residency Program
- Adjunct Lecturer, NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
- Clinical lecturer, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLL)
- 2015 :Best Free Paper Award at the World Congress of Surgery, Bangkok
- 2018 : Merit Award for e-paper at the Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference, Singapore
- National University of Singapore Medicine Junior Doctor Teaching Award for Academic Year 2017/2018
- 2019: 2nd Best Paper by Breast Surgery International at the World Congress of Surgery 2019, Poland
- National Healthcare Group Teaching Award for Senior Doctors
- National University of Singapore Medicine Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence for Academic Year 2018/2019
- 2020 : National University of Singapore Medicine Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence for Academic Year 2019/2020
- 2021 : National University of Singapore Medicine Dean’s Honour Roll for Teaching Excellence for Academic Year 2020/2021
- National University of Singapore Medicine Special Recognition Award for Academic Year 2020/2021
- National University of Singapore Medicine Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence for Academic Year 2020/2021
- 2023 : National Healthcare Group Teaching Award for Senior Doctors

