Andrew Yuan CHIN Senior Consultant Department of Hand & Reconstructive Microsurgery Singapore General Hospital

Dr Andrew YH Chin was formerly the Head of Department of Hand Surgery, Singapore General Hospital from 2009-2018. He is the current director of Wrist services at the Department of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery, Singapore General Hospital. He is also Clinical Associate Professor at the Duke-NUS School of Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Dr Chin chairs the Joint Co-ordinating Committee of the Hand Surgery Integrated Residency Programme in Singapore that oversees the conduct of training and curriculum competency of the hand surgery residency programme in Singapore. He is actively involved as speaker and faculty in the teaching and education circuit for the Asia Pacific Wrist Association (APWA), the International Wrist Arthroscopy Society (IWAS), Singapore Society for Hand Surgery (SSHS) and the AOTrauma (orthopaedic trauma) organization. As Chairman of the 8th APWA congress held in Singapore from 31 May to 3 June 2023, Dr Chin oversaw the planning and successful execution of the event held jointly with the 13th Asia Pacific Federations of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (APFSSH), the marquee Asia Pacific Hand Surgery meeting. He sits on the executive board of APWA as Secretary-General and also in the IWAS board as the Course Co-ordinator for South Asia region. He is also a Regional Education Training Team member for AO Asia Pacific. He has extensive clinical experience in the field of wrist surgery for the past 17 years following fellowship in 2006-7 at centres of excellence in Europe under the tutelage of renown wrist surgeons, the late Prof John Stanley and Dr Marc Gracia-Elias.