Saminathan Suresh Nathan

Education

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, National University Singapore, 1992. Master of Medicine in Surgery, National University Singapore, 1999.

Career

Internship Ministry Health, Singapore, 1992—1993, basic surgery residency, 1993—1999. Orhtop. surgery residency National University Hospital, 1999—2002, associate consultant orthopedic surgeon, 2002—2005, consultant orthopedic surgeon, since 2005, assistant professor, 2006—2010, tenured associate professor, since 2010, head musculoskeltal oncology div. Visiting consultant KK Woman Children's Hospital, Singapore, 2005—2008.

Fellow musculoskeletal oncology Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, 2003—2005, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 2003—2005. Research fellow Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, 2004—2005, Albert Einstein College Medicine, Bronx, 2004—2005.

Achievements

• Certified in orthopedic surgery Singapore, 2003. In medical Educational Commission Foreign Medical Graduate, 2003. Achievements include research in converting fat to cardiac muscle, cartilage and bone.
  
  Discovery of a hitherto undescribed role of ambient pressures in tumors in regulating cell growth and angiogenesis.

Works

• Other Work

  • Contributor articles to professional journals.

Membership

Lecturer demonstrator Joint Replacement Techniques, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, 2007. Lecturer National University Singapore, Surabaya, Indonesia, 2008. Member of Asia Pacific Musculoskeletal Tumor Society, Academy Medicine Orthopaedics, Singapore (fellow 1999—2002), Royal College Surgeons, Edinburgh 1996-1999, International Symposium Limb Salvage Surgeons, Singapore Orthopaedics Association, Singapore Pediatric Oncology Group.