Assoc Prof. Seow Wan Tew

• A/Prof Seow Wan Tew is Senior Consultant, Department of Neurosurgery at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), Singapore, and formerly Head of Department of Neurosurgery. 


• He is also a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), Singapore, and was formerly Head of the Neurosurgery Service at KKH.


• A/Prof Seow is involved in the post-graduate training of neurosurgeons at the NNI and is a member of the Residency Advisory Committee for Neurosurgery Singapore and a member of the JCST Exit Examination Committee for Neurosurgery.


• He is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Duke-NUS Medical School. 


• The Conditions treated by the doctor are Hydrocephalus, Paediatric Neurosurgery, and Spasticity.


• His area of interest is in Paediatric Neurosurgery.


• He is also on the teaching faculties of Pediatric Neurosurgery Courses in Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa.

SingHealth Residency Outstanding Faculty Award Academic Year 2014/2015
Certificate of Outstanding Service, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 2014
National Day Award 2013, Long Service Medal
National Neuroscience Institute, Long Service Award 2013
SingHealth Quality Service Award (SHQSA) (Star Award) (April 2011 – March 2012)
SHQSA (Gold Award) (April 2010 - March 2011)
SHQSA (Silver Award) (April 2009 - March 2010)
KKH Service From The Heart (SFTH) Award Jan-Jun 2012
KKH SFTH Award Jan-Jun 2011
KKH SFTH Award FY09 Q4
KKH SFTH Award FY08 Q4
NHG Service Champion Award Jun/Jul 2002... Read Less

• Chua FH, Thien A, Ng LP, Seow WT, Low DC, Chang KT, Lian DW, Loh E, Low SY. Post-operative diffusion weighted imaging as a predictor of posterior fossa syndrome permanence in paediatric medulloblastoma. Childs Nerv Syst. 2017 Feb 11. doi: 10.1007/s00381-017-3356-7


• Foo AS, Khoo JC, Ong PL, Ho KH, Seow WT, Ng WH, Yeo TT. The Australasian contribution to the development of neurosurgery in Singapore. ANZ J Surg. 2016 Dec; 86(12):961-962. doi: 10.1111/ans.13743.


• Lee L, Low S, Low D, Ng LP, Nolan C, Seow WT. Late pediatric ventriculoperitoneal shunt failures: a Singapore tertiary institution's experience. Neurosurg Focus. 2016 Nov;41(5):E7.


• Tumors of the central nervous system in the Republic of Singapore. Das A, Yeo TT, Seow WT, Ong PL, Yap WM. Neurology 1999:52(6);A196-A196.


• Combined central diabetes insipidus and cerebral salt wasting after craniotomy. Loh TF, Lee WRW. Goh YCK, Seow WT Critical Care, 2000;4 (Suppl 1):178.


• Brain cancer in children - A surgical review of malignant brain tumours from a paediatric hospital. Seow WT, Tang KK. Med J Malaysia, 2004;58: 82.


• Cranial Reduction for Macrocrania from Neglected Hydrocephalus. Seow WT, Foo CL. Med J Malaysia, 2004;58:161.


• Complex fronto-ethmoidal encephaloceles and their outcomes. Seow WT, Gan BK. Childs Nerv Syst Aug 2005; 21: 841.