Prof Foo is currently an Emeritus Consultant and Advisor Department of Urology at the Singapore General Hospital having served as the Head of Department from 1988 to 2001.
He is a Clinical Professor, National University of Singapore, and an Adjunct Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School.
He is in the Board of Examiners for MBBS as well as M Med (Surgery) Degree and member of the Residency Advisory Committee (RAC) for Urology, under the Specialist Accreditation Board, Singapore having served as Chairman (STC Urology) previously.
He was conferred the honorary member of the Malaysian Urological Association in 1999, the Honorary member of the Singapore Medical Association in 2007, Honorary Member Chinese Urological Association in 2010 and Honorary Fellow Sri Lankan Association of Urological Surgeon in 2011. He was given the Wu Jieping Medical Foundation (China) trophy for his contributions to Urology, in 2000. He was accorded the Lifetime Achieving Award by World Chinese Urological Society in May 2008, Carl Storze Life Time Achievement award by the Endourological Society in Dec 2008 and SIU Distinguished Career Award: Societe Internationale d’Urologie in 2009. He was awarded the Distinguished Golden Achievement Award under GCEO Excellence Awards in 2011.
He was the Visiting Professor to Peking University in 2000 and, Fudan University Shanghai April 2007. He was the Dr Virendas Desai Visiting Professor 2007, to Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, Nadiad Gujarat, India. He was appointed Honorary Chief Consultant, Xiamen First Hospital, Xiamen, China Oct 2005.
He was awarded the Public Administrative Medal (Silver) in 2001 by the President of Singapore.
He is the Founder President of the Singapore Urological Association (President 1986 to 1988) and currently member, Board of Trustees for the Association, having served as Chairman previously.
He was the Vice-Chairman for the 5th International Consultation on BPH in Paris, July 2000 and was a member of the Steering Committee for the International Consultation on Urological Diseases (ICUD) (2000 to 2006).
He was the Secretary-General to the Urological Association of Asia from 1998 to 2006, Director of Asian School of Urology from 2006 to 2010 and currently is the Honorary Executive Director of the Urological Association of Asia (UAA) since 2006.