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Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
Suite 12-10,
3 Mount Elizabeth Road,
Singapore 228510
Tel: (65) 6738 2628
Fax: (65) 6738 2629
East Shore Medical Centre
Suite 03-05A,
319 Joo Chiat Place,
Singapore 427989
Tel: (65) 6348 2605
Fax: (65) 6348 2606
Gleneagles Medical Centre
Suite 05-13,
6 Napier Road,
Singapore 258499
Tel: (65) 6474 0600
Fax: (65) 6474 0700
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Curriculum Vitae
Dr Jeffrey Chew is a practicing orthopaedic consultant at Mount Elizabeth Hospital and East Shore Hospital.
His special interests are in managing arthritis, and in doing hip and knee joint replacements. He also manages
sports injuries including ligament reconstructions.
Dr Chew completed his postgraduate degree in 1994.He received several scholarships to conduct biomechanics
research at the Mayo Clinic Biomechanics Laboratory where he studied patello femoral tracking on various knee
designs. He presented his work as a finalist for the Insall Award at the American Knee Society.
He was subsequently awarded a clinical fellowship at the Adult Reconstructive Division,Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota from 1998 to 1999 where he did his subspecialty training.
He has presented and published at the American Knee Society, the American Academy for Orthopaedic Surgeons as well
as at the American Orthopaedic Research Society. He is a member of the American Orthopaedic Research Society as
well as a member of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons.
He has won numerous awards for his research work in the past, including the Russell Hibbs Award from the Scoliosis
Research Society.
Together with Johnson and Johnson Medical, Dr Chew helped co-design the PFC Sigma RPF High Flex Knee prosthesis.
This knee prosthesis was designed especially for the Asian population, to allow for better range of knee flexion.
This new knee design is the only MOBILE BEARING HIGH FLEXED knee prosthesis that is currently approved for use by
the FDA. This knee implant design allows both increased flexion angles as well as imparting higher stability at
high flexion angles eg : during squatting postures.
Dr Chew also frequently conducts instructional courses on hip and knee reconstruction both locally and regionally.
He also frequently conducts courses for General Practitioners both in the local as well as in the region.
In 2004, he was awarded the prestigious Insall Travelling Fellowship Award from the American Knee Society for the
year 2005, spending more than a month traveling to a large number of prestigious medical institutions throughout
USA and Canada to both teach and learn with the top surgeons in the field.
Despite his busy schedule, Dr Chew makes time for world community efforts. In January 2005, he spent 3 weeks in Sri
Lanka helping the Tsunami devastated country. He received a Minister of Health award for his efforts.
His current research interests are in patella designs and tracking. He is also interested in cartilage transplantation
in the arthritic model.
He resides in Singapore with his wife who is a neonatologist as well as with his 3 sons.
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