Dr Chin Yung Ka

Dr Chin Yung Ka is a Gastroenterologist currently practising at Gastroenterology and Liver Specialist Clinic in Orchard.

With over 15 years' experience, he has performed more than 1,600 endoscopic ultrasound procedures since 2016.

His clinical practice covers general gastroenterology conditions and pancreatic disorders. He has a special interest in pancreatic disorders, particularly pancreatitis, pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs), and pancreatic cancer. He also manages conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), liver cirrhosis, and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD). In addition, he is proficient in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), including tissue sampling and drainage procedures.

Dr Chin graduated from University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor or Surgery (MBChB) in 2007 and became a Member of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (MRCP UK) in 2011. He subsequently obtained specialist accreditation in Gastroenterology and Hepatology from Singapore in 2015 and then completed advanced fellowships in endosonography (EUS) and pancreatology in 2016 from Spain. He also participated in World Endoscopy Organization (WEO) International School of EUS (WISE) for further advanced training on interventional EUS in 2019 from South Korea. 

Before entering private practice, Dr Chin served as Senior Consultant in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Singapore General Hospital (SGH), and he continues to work there as a visiting consultant.

Alongside his clinical work, Dr Chin has published in local and international peer-reviewed journals. He received a research grant for the assessment of pancreatic cystic lesions with needle-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (nCLE), and the results were published in a renowned peer-reviewed journal. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he also received the SGH COVID-19 Resilience Innovation Grant for research on aerosol prevention in endoscopy.

In education, he was the core faculty of the Singhealth Gastroenterology Senior Residency Program. He regularly teaches medical students from Yong Loo Lin, Lee Kong Chian, and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. The medical schools also awarded him academic appointments for his contributions to undergraduate education. He has also been invited to deliver lectures and serve as demonstrator and faculty at EUS workshops held in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Dr Chin is accredited to Thomson Medical Centre.