John Isaac Singapore

John Isaac MBBS, FRCS, M.Med (Surgery) Mr Isaac qualified as a doctor in 1982 with an MBBS degree from the University of Singapore and commenced surgical traineeship in 1984. After qualifying with FRCS degrees form the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1987 and a Master of Medicine (Surgery) degree from NUS he went on to train in hepatobiliary and liver transplant surgery in Paris, France. On returningw to Singapore in 1992 He was appointed a senior lecturer in the surgery department of the university hospital and was appointed a consultant surgeon in 1993 and associate professor in 1998. In 2004, He was appointed Chief of the University Department of Surgery, and division of hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery as well as director of liver transplantation, at the National University hospital in Singapore and Head of the surgery department of NUS. He has sat on and chaired a number of academic and teaching committees, conference committees and higher surgical accreditation committees. His research interests are in clinical surgery and basic transplant science as well as development of teaching methodologies. On moving to the UK, in 2006, he joined the University of Birmingham Hospitals NHS trust at the Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, He was one of a team of consultant surgeons specialising in complex liver, biliary and pancreas surgery and liver transplantation. In 2014 he was appointed the head of the Liver Unit, leading the team to become a major liver and pancreas surgery centre and one of the largest liver transplant services in Europe. He sat on a number of expert committees such as the West Midlands expert advisory group for liver surgery and was the vice chairman of the UK’s national committee for liver transplantation. Mr Isaac retired from the NHS in July 2023 and returned to Singapore taking up a role as a visiting consultant in the National University Hospital until December 2024. He is now an advisor on liver transplantation to the National Organ Transplantation Unit of the ministry of health, Singapore He has a number of hobbies but his main leisure interests are evolutionary science, study of linguistics, history and astronomy. He is Married and has two children and two grandchildren.