Dr Kah Hoong Chang

Colorectal Surgeon

MB BCh BAO (Hons) MD FRCSI FRACS

Special areas of interest

Dr Kah Hoong Chang is a specialist colorectal surgeon with expertise in both minimally invasive surgery and highly complex pelvic exenteration for pelvic malignancy as well as cytoreductive surgery and peritonectomy for peritoneal malignancy. He graduated from the National University of Ireland with an honours degree in Medicine in 2004 and completed his training as a specialist Colorectal and General Surgeon in Ireland. During his training, he accumulated experience at the National Peritoneal Malignancy Unit in Dublin and undertook a clinical visit at the pelvic malignancy unit in Edinburgh, UK. He was the inaugural clinical fellow in robotic colorectal surgery in 2017 using the state-of-the-art dual-console Da Vinci XI. In 2018, Dr. Chang was awarded a highly prestigious scholarship to undertake a clinical fellowship in pelvic exenteration at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney.

Dr Chang’s academic achievements include a laboratory-based MD thesis which established a colorectal cancer Biobank facility and explored the molecular biology of microRNAs and protein expression in colorectal cancer. Along with other clinical research and trials, Dr. Chang has a burgeoning portfolio of numerous publications, national and international presentations, scholarships, awards and prizes. He is a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Sydney and is committed to academia both in clinical and translational research, under- and postgraduate training and education.

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Dr Chang speaks English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Bahasa

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