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Dr. Lui Hock Fong

Biography

Gastroenterologists are doctors who are trained to diagnose and treat problems in your gastrointestinal (GI) tract and liver. These doctors also do routine procedures such as colonoscopies, which look at the inside of your colon. They get 5-6 years of specialized education after medical school.

Dr Lui Hock Foong is a gastroenterologist currently practicing at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. He specializes in treating common and complex disorders of the digestive tract and liver, undertaking diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy and his special areas are treatment of advanced chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, digestive disorder, portal hypertension, and liver transplantation for liver diseases such as liver cancer and liver failure.

Dr Lui completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the National University of Singapore in 1990. He then underwent his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine with the Ministry of Health in Singapore, before leaving for the United Kingdom for his advanced specialty training. Dr Lui trained in gastroenterology and hepatology at the Lister Postgraduate Institute, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit and the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (London). In addition to clinical practice, Dr Lui is active in the various local and international forums of Gastroenterology & Hepatology.

  • Speciality

    Gastroenterology

  • Subspeciality

    gastroenterology and Digestive

  • Medical Qualifications

    MRCP, MBBS

  • Areas of Expertise
    • Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
    • Hepatology and liver transplantation
    • Chronic hepatitis
    • Liver cirrhosis
    • Portal hypertension
    • Liver transplantation
    • Digestive disorder
    • Liver cancer and failure
  • Office

    H F Lui Digestive & Liver Clinic Gleneagles Hospital Annexe Blk #05-36A, 6A Napier Road, Singapore, 258500
    The Gastroenterology Group Pte Ltd Gleneagles Hospital Annexe Blk #05-7, 6A Napier Road, Singapore, 258500

Awards And Honours

Chairman of the National Foundation of Digestive Disease

Secretary of the Chapter of Gastroenterology of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore

College of Physicians of Singapore

Social Chairperson of the Organising committee of the Asia Pacific Digestive Disease Week 2011

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Asia Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver Meeting 2011e

Scientific Chairman of the Gastroenterological Society of Singapore and Editor of GutViews

Publication arm of the Gastroenterological Society of Singapore

Member of the Ministry of Health Singapore Working Party on Guidelines for Hepatitis B and Guidelines for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Member of Asia Pacific Association for Study of Liver and International Liver Transplant Society (APASL)

Member of Asia Pacific Association Working Party on Portal Hypertension and Acute Variceal Bleeding

Past member of the European Association for Study of the Liver and British Association for the Study of the Liver

European Association of Study of the Liver Travelling Fellowship to the 3rd International Consensus Workshop on Portal Hypertension

Past scientific chairperson of the gastroenterological Society of Singapore

Medical Director at Mt Elizabeth Liver Transplant Service at Mount Elizabeth Hospital

Member of the Sing-Kobe Transplant Centre

Visiting consultant with Singapore General Hospital (Liver Transplantation and Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology)

Visiting consultant at the Kobe International Foundation Medical Centre in Kobe, Japan

Beecham Book Prize for Anatomy

The Hoops Medal for Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Seah Cheng Siang for Best Free Paper of the 17th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gastroenterological Society of Singapore in 2000

Lee Choon Seng Memorial Scholarship for Medicine 1996

Final Professional MBBS Examination- overall best performance

Third Professional MBBS Examination- overall second

Gastroenterologist with admission rights at Parkway Hospitals Singapore & Mt Alvernia Hospital

Medical Education

1990

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at National University of Singapore

Masters of Medicine at Internal Medicine

Trained at Lister Postgraduate Institute

Trained at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Trained at Scottish Liver Transplant Unit

Trained at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (London)