DR ANDREW TAY

Dr Andrew Tay is a consultant plastic surgeon in private practice. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1990, and upon completion of basic surgical training, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1995. It was during his basic surgical training that he first became exposed to the fascinating specialty of Plastic Surgery, and this prompted him to enter the advanced specialty training program in Plastic Surgery, at the Singapore General Hospital. He was subsequently awarded the Health Manpower Development Programme scholarship to further his training in plastic surgery and the subspecialty of craniomaxillofacial surgery at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.

Upon his return to Singapore and successful completion of his Plastic Surgery training in 2002, he was admitted to the Register of Specialists and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He was appointed as Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Singapore General Hospital in 2003, and commenced private practice in 2006. He maintains his ties with the public healthcare sector as a visiting consultant to Singapore General Hospital and to Changi General Hospital, and has been appointed as a clinical teacher at the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

Dr Tay’s main clinical interests are cosmetic surgery of the face and body, as well as in craniomaxillofacial surgery (reconstructive surgery of the facial skeleton). He has a particular interest in the management of facial trauma, and has served as a member of the AO Centre Executive Committee (Craniomaxillofacial Surgery). He has participated actively as a member of the AO international teaching faculty for craniomaxillofacial courses. Dr Tay is a member of The Singapore Association of Plastic Surgeons, The Singapore Society of Cosmetic (Aesthetic) Surgeons and The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

Dr Tay has always had a keen interest in clinical and laboratory research. These include research in the fields of skin and cartilage regeneration, and craniomaxillofacial trauma. These have been presented at international medical conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals such as Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Tissue Engineering.

• Consultant Plastic Surgeon, The Plastic Surgery Practice, Novena Medical Center
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, Singapore General Hospital
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Changi General Hospital

• Pan-facial fractures : a 3-year review from 1991 to 1993

  7th Asean Congress of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Bangkok, August 1994

• A three year review of mandibular fractures in a craniomaxillofacial trauma unit

  31st Annual Combined Surgical Meeting, Singapore, November 1997

• Evaluation of the Vacuum Assisted Closure (VAC) system for wounds

  9th Annual Scientific Meeting, Singapore General Hospital, April 1998

• Cultured subconfluent keratinocytes on polymers in the treatment of burns wounds

  10th Annual Scientific Meeting, Singapore General Hospital, April 1999 (Awarded Best Surgical Poster Presentation)

• Cultured subconfluent keratinocytes on polymers in the treatment of burns and wounds Inaugural Meeting of the Wound Healing Society, Singapore, October 1999

• Chest Wall Reconstruction

  33rd Annual Combined Surgical Meeting, Singapore, November 1999

• The Epidemiology of Cleft Lip and Palate in Singapore – A 10 year Hospital Based Study

  57th Annual Meeting, American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, Atlanta, USA, April 2000

• Skin culture and growth factors in relation to wound healing

  Seminar on “Trends in management of complex wounds”, Singapore, March 2001

• Human cartilage engineering: evaluation of auricular, nasal and rib cartilage as a chondrocyte source

  Plastic Surgery Research Council 48th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, April 2003

• Yield, Proliferation, Post-expansion Differentiation Capacity and Growth Factor Responsiveness of Human Ear, Nasal and Rib Chondrocytes

  International Society of Craniofacial Surgery 10th International Congress, Monterey, September 2003
• Teaching faculty, AO/ASIF Craniomaxillofacial Course, Singapore (2002)
• Teaching faculty, 1st AO Craniomaxillofacial Symposium in Orbital Surgery, Singapore (2004)
• AO International Faculty, AO Craniomaxillofacial Course, Bangkok (2005)
• AO International Faculty, AO Craniomaxillofacial Course, Ho Chi Minh City (2006)

• Singapore Association of Plastic Surgeons
  - http://www.plasticsurgery.org.sg/member.html
• Singapore Society of Cosmetic (Aesthetic) Surgeons
  - http://www.plasticsurgery.org.sg/member.html
• International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
  - http://www.isaps.org/members-by-country-singapore-57.html
• Cleft Lip and Palate Association of Singapore

• Tay AG, Yeow VKL, Tan BK, Sng K, Huang MHS, Foo CL.

  A review of mandibular fractures in a craniomaxillofacial trauma centre

  Ann Acad Med Singapore 1999; 28:630-3

• Tay AG, Phan TT, See P, Lee ST, Song C

  Cultured subconfluent keratinocytes on polymers in the treatment of burns and chronic wounds Wounds

  2000; 12(5):127-133

• Rohner D, Tay AG, Chung SM, Hutmacher DW, Hammer B

  The sphenozygomatic suture as a key site for osteosynthesis of the orbitozygomatic complex in panfacial fractures: a biomechanical study in human cadavers based on clinical practice.

  Plast Reconstr Surg 2002 Nov; 110(6):1472-5

• Rohner D, Tay AG, Chung SM, Hutmacher DW.

  Interface of unloaded titanium implants in the iliac crest, fibula, and scapula: a histomorphometric and biomechanical study in the pig.

  Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants 2004 Jan-Feb; 19(1):52-8.

• Tay AG, Farhadi J, Suetterlin R, Heberer M, Pierer G, Martin I

  Yield, proliferation, post-expansion differentiation capacity and growth factor responsiveness of human ear, nasal and rib chondrocytes

  Tissue Eng 2004 May-Jun; 10(5-6):762-70

• Koh PK, Tan BK, Hong SW, Tan MH, Tay AG, Song C, Tan KC

  The gluteus maximus muscle flap for reconstruction of sacral chordoma defects

  Ann Plast Surg 2004 Jul;53(1):44-9.

• Kang CW, Sng K, Tay AG

  Modified technique for frontal sinus obliteration using calvarial bone and tisseel glue

  Accepted for publication, Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

• MBBS (Singapore)
• FRCS (Edinburgh)
• Advanced Specialist Training in Plastic Surgery (Plastic Surgery Specialist Training Committee, Singapore)
• Specialist Accreditation in Plastic Surgery (Specialist Accreditation Board, Ministry of Health, Singapore)
• FAMS (Plastic Surgery) (Academy of Medicine, Singapore)