For Patients & Visitors

Doctor Details

2024/01/23
Find a Doctor
Doctor Detail

Dr Kale Sugam Suvarn

Photo of Dr Kale Sugam Suvarn

Designations:

  • Senior Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital

Qualifications:

MBBS (Bombay), FRCA (Anaes) (UK)

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Anaesthesiology

Clinical Disciplines/Programmes:

Anaesthesiology (Anaesthesia)

Special Interests:

Neuro-anaesthesia, Regional Anaesthesia, Management of Difficult Airways

Biosketch

Dr. Kale Sugam Suvarn has been part of the NUHS family for over 23 years. He has provided professional expertise in several subspecialities over the years. His current work allows him to pursue his special interest in Neurosurgical anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia and management of difficult airway among others. 

He has always shown active interest in teaching. As Assistant Professor with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in past, he has been part of medical curriculum development and has been teacher and examiner at undergraduate examinations. As post graduate teacher as well as past Associate Program Director for anaesthesia, he has been associated with all aspects of postgraduate training. 

At various times, he has been actively involved in hospital accreditation process, Mortality review committee, Patient safety, and Medical Device Committee, amongst others.

He has published journal articles in Royal College of Anaesthesia (UK) publications, oral presentations, scientific posters in Asia, Europe, North America and Africa and has written textbook chapters in the field of anaesthesiology. He has also won award for best scientific paper in Europe. He has been invited to give lectures and run courses, mainly in regional anaesthesia in different countries. He has been the external examiner for M.Sc. (Regional Anaesthesia) post graduate degree course in University of East Anglia, UK for several years till date. 

He has been career mentor for medical officers, registrars and consultants in Singapore as well as in other countries.

2024/06/11
Last updated on
Best viewed with Chrome 79.0, Edge 112.0, Firefox 61.0, Safari 11
National University Health System
  • National University Hospital
  • Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
  • Alexandra Hospital
  • Jurong Community Hospital
  • National University Polyclinics
  • Jurong Medical Centre
  • National University Cancer Institute, Singapore
  • National University Heart Centre, Singapore
  • National University Centre for Oral Health, Singapore
  • NUHS Diagnostics
  • NUHS Pharmacy
  • Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
Back to Top