Senior Consultant
Department of Sarcoma, Peritoneal and Rare Tumours (SPRinT), Division of Surgery and Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore
Dr Claramae Chia is the Head and Senior Consultant in the Department of Sarcoma, Peritoneal and Rare Tumours (SPRinT), Division of Surgery and Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore. She graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2005. She obtained her membership diploma for surgery in 2008 from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In May 2013, she completed her advanced surgical training and joined as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She continued on to her subspecialty training in surgical oncology with a focus on peritoneal surface malignancies. In 2013, she was awarded the SingHealth Health Manpower Development Plan - Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Surgical Oncology Programme. She trained at the Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud in Lyon, France with Professor Olivier Glehen. Under her leadership, the SPRinT department was formed in 2019 in recognition of the advanced oncological work that the team had been performing. Dr Chia and the SPRinT department continue to push clinical boundaries by introducing new services and initiatives. Examples of this include the introduction of Pressurised Intraperitoneal Aerolised Chemotherapy(PIPAC) and a focus of palliative surgical care.
