Prof Tan Kiat Tee Benita (Benita Tan)

MBBS (S'pore), MRCSEd, MMed (Surg), FRCS (Edin), FAMS, PhD (SSHSPH, NUS)

Chairman and Senior Consultant

Sengkang General Hospital

Specialty: General Surgery, Breast Surgery

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About

Education and Training

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Awards

Publications

Conditions Treated By This Doctor

Atypical Hyperplasia Benign Breast Change and Symptoms Benign Breast Diseases Benign Breast Neoplasms Breast Cancer Breast Cancer (Breast Health) Breast Cancer (Diagnosis to Treatment) Breast Cancer (Early Detection and Screening) Breast Clinical Assessment Breast Infection Breast Lumps Breast Radiological Evaluation Breast Reconstruction Breast Screening - Self-Exam and Mammogram Breast Surgery Duct Ectasia Fibroadenoma Fibrocystic Change Gynaecomastia Hereditary Breast Cancer Syndromes High Risk Breast Changes Intraductal Papillomas Lobular Carcinoma in Situ Mastitis

Clinical Interests

Breast Surgery, Oncoplastic Breast Surgery

Clinical Appointments

Chairman and Senior Consultant

Division of Surgery

Senior Consultant

Department of Surgery

Senior Consultant

Breast Service

Senior Consultant

SingHealth Duke-NUS

Breast Centre

About

Professor Benita Tan is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Surgery in Sengkang General Hospital, and the current Chairman of the Division of Surgery at Sengkang General Hospital. She is also a Senior Consultant at the Department of Breast Surgery, Singapore General Hospital and Division of Surgical Oncology in National Cancer Centre, Singapore.

Prof Benita holds concurrent appointments serving various administrative positions in SingHealth and Sengkang General Hospital such as Member of the Academic Medicine Council for Surgery ACP as the Vice-chair of Fellowship and Professional Development (FAPD), Office of Academic & Clinical Development, Academic Development Department (OACD, ADD), Duke-NUS Medical School, Co-chair of the SKH Office of Value based healthcare, Co-chair of the SingHealth Office of Sustainability and various others. She is also a Member of the Singapore Complaints Committee. Prof Tan also drives the Office of Value Based Healthcare looking to improve the value and outcomes of patient care. She is also passionate about the health of our environment, chairing the SKH Go Green committee since 2017, driving sustainability projects and events over the years and now extends that interest in the SingHealth cluster as the Co-chair of the SingHealth Office of Sustainability

Prof Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in the National University of Singapore in 1995. She trained as a general surgeon, completed her Membership examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1999 and obtained Master of Medicine (Surgery), National University of Singapore a year after in 2000. She continued to pursue the advanced specialty training in General Surgery and was accredited as a specialist in General surgery in 2003, with the Fellowship Examinations of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (General Surgery), before sub-specialising in breast surgery in particular breast cancer surgery. She attained her Doctor of Philosophy, at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore in 2013.

Her breast and surgical oncology practice covers breast cancer screening and detection, benign breast diseases, breast cancer evaluation, diagnosis, counselling, surgical...

Education and Training

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), National University of Singapore
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MRCSEd)
Master of Medicine (Surgery), National University of Singapore (MMed Surgery)
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSEd)
Fellow of the Academy of Medicine (FAMS), Singapore

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Clinical Associate Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Medical School, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Content expert, Clinical Teacher and Clinical Practice Facilitator, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Chairman, Division of Surgery, Medical Board
Member, SKOOP Editorial Committee
Member, Medical Audit Committee

SKH Scientific Review Committee
Member, SKH Quality and Risk Management Committee
Vice-Chair, Faculty Affairs and Professional Development (FAPD), Academic Medical Centre, SingHealth
Member, SingHealth Cluster eSignature Platform Steering Committee, SingHealth Cluster IT Council
Member, SingHealth Tissue Repository Tissue Release Committee
Member, SingHealth Tissue Repository Advisory Committee
Joy at Work Taskforce Transformation of ward rounds (JAW TF-WG)
Member, Strategy Retreat 2021 Group 2: Population Health Standing Committee
Member, Bundled Care & Capitation Workgroup, SingHealth, Regional Health System
Institution Lead for Partners Buddy Rollout at SKH, SingHealth
Co-Programme Director – Associate Consultant Readiness Programme (ACRP), Office of Academic & Clinical Development, Academic Development, Duke-NUS
Member of Junior Faculty Advisory Committee to SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Council, OACD, Duke-NUS Medical School
Member of the Breast Cancer Clinician Workgroup, Value-Driven Care (VDC) Initiative, MOH
Member, Clinical Researcher, Asian Breast Cancer Network, Korean Breast Cancer Society
Member, Singapore Society of Oncology – Breast Cancer Group
Member, Singapore Medical Council, Complaints Committee

Awards

SingHealth Game Changer Award 2023
Singapore Health Quality Service Awards 2023 – Star Award
Singapore Health Quality Service Awards 2022 – Gold Award
You Sparkle Award 2022 – Gold Award
Long Service Medal

You Sparkle Award 2021 – Silver Award
Singapore Health Quality Service Awards 2021 – Hero Award
Outstanding Clinician Award, 2019
Certificate of Commendation, Role Model to the medical class of 2013, NUH
Service with a Heart Award, SGH – YR 2010, 2011, 2015
Singapore Totalisator Board Medical Research Fellowship, National Medical Research Council, Singapore, 2004

Publications

A strong believer of collaborative efforts and interest in breast cancer research, she works with local partners from National Cancer Centre, SingHealth Research, Genomic Institute of Singapore, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology and the other local hospitals; as well as internationally with the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Universiti Malaya, Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Asian Breast Cancer Network and the Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

1. Carcinoma of the rectum with a single penile metastasis. Tan BKT, Nyam DCNK, Ho YH. Singapore Med J. 2002 Jan;43(1):39–40.

2. Abdominal apoplexy: A potentially fatal enigma. Tan YM, Tan BKT, Chow PKH. ANZ J Surg. 2003 Jun;73(6):461–2.

3. Management of inpatients exposed to an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Tan Y-M, Chow PKH, Tan B-H, Kurup A, Tan BKT, Tan FLS, Seldrup J, Heng DMK, Ang B, Green J, Wong C-Y, Soo K-C. J Hosp Infect. 2004 Nov;58(3):210–5.

4. Management of acute bleeding per rectum. Tan BKT, Tsang CBS, Nyam DCNK, Ho YH. Asian J Surg. 2004 Jan;27(1):32–8.

5. Targets of genome copy number reduction in primary breast cancers identified by integrative genomics. Chen W, Salto-Tellez M, Palanisamy N, Ganesan K, Hou Q, Tan LK, Sii LH, Ito K, Tan B, Wu J, Tay A, Tan KC, Ang E, Tan BK, Tan PH, Ito Y, Tan P. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2007 Mar;46(3):288–301.

6. Clinical validation of a customized multiple signature microarray for breast cancer. Tan BKT, Tan LK, Yu K, Tan PH, Lee M, Sii LH, Wong CY, Ho GH, Yeo AWYY, Chow PKHH, Koong HN, Yong WS, Lim DTHH, Ooi LLPJPJ, Soo KC, Tan P. Clin Cancer Res. 2008 Jan 15;14(2):461–9.

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