Dr Tang Tjun Yip

Dr Tang Tjun Yip is a Senior Vascular/Endovascular and General Surgeon currently practising at the Vascular & Endovascular Clinic in Naiper, Orchard, Novena, Farrer Park and Siglap. 

Dr Tang has developed a large academic portfolio in vascular and endovascular surgery. His work includes international randomised controlled trials, endovascular device evaluation studies and first-in-man industry registries to aid FDA device approval. He has written or co-authored 300+ peer-reviewed publications, 10 book chapters and 5 books. 

His speciality is general surgery, with a sub-speciality in vascular surgery. Dr Tang’s clinical interests include diabetic foot wound salvage and ulcer healing. His venous practice covers superficial and deep endovenous surgery for varicose veins, venous leg ulcers, swollen legs and deep vein thrombosis. He also provides vascular access solutions for dialysis-dependent end-stage kidney disease, including arterio-venous fistula (AVF) and arterio-venous graft (AVG) creation and Tenckhoff peritoneal catheter placement. For peripheral artery disease, his practice includes lower limb angioplasty, stenting, surgical bypass and artery widening procedures for leg artery blockages. 

Dr Tang graduated from Queens' College in Cambridge, UK, and qualified from Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, in 2000 with a Distinction in Surgery. He obtained an MA Honours in 1998 and an MB BChir with Distinction in Surgery in 2000. This was followed by MRCS Glas in 2004 and an MD from the University of Cambridge in 2009. His MD research focused on carotid plaque inflammation. Further qualifications include FRCS (Gen) in 2011, FAMS in 2015, CWSP in 2017 and an MBA in 2023. Higher surgical training was completed through the East Anglia programme in the UK. After completing surgical training in late 2012, he was awarded the Cook British Society of Endovascular Therapy (BSET) fellowship. Further endovascular training was undertaken at Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK, followed by a postgraduate fellowship at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He has dual accreditation in general and vascular/endovascular surgery. 

Prior to private practice, Dr Tang practised at Singapore General Hospital as a senior academic vascular and endovascular surgeon. Before joining Singapore General Hospital, he spent four years as a consultant in vascular and endovascular surgery at Changi General Hospital. At SingHealth, he was appointed Research Director of the newly formed SingHealth Duke Vascular Centre to coordinate research across all three SingHealth campuses. He also led the Vascular Quality Initiative programme to improve lower limb angioplasty outcomes for peripheral artery disease at Singapore General Hospital. Dr Tang currently serves as a member of the Ministry of Health National Diabetic Foot and Cardiovascular Devices Workgroups. 

His academic appointments include regular-rank Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, and Clinical Senior Lecturer and Adjunct Associate Professor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Regionally, Dr Tang has conducted multiple endovascular lower limb revascularisation workshops. He has also served as an expert proctor and case demonstrator for superficial and deep endovenous surgery devices. In addition, he is an MRCS Examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and has been invited to speak at international and regional vascular conferences. Dr Tang was a co-founding member of the Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery of Singapore (SVESS) in 2016. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. His service recognitions include the Silver and Long Service Awards from SingHealth and the Service with a Heart Award from Singapore General Hospital. In 2019, he received the Residency In SingHealth Excels (RISE) award. Dr Tang was also the first ever vascular surgeon in Singapore to be awarded the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Clinician Scientist Award for work on diabetic chronic limb threatening ischaemia. 

Dr Tang is accredited to perform surgical procedures at Thomson Medical Centre.