Prof Soo is the Director of the National Cancer Centre Singapore. In addition, Prof Soo holds the positions of Deputy CEO (Research & Education) at SingHealth as well as Vice Dean of Clinical and Faculty Affairs at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore. He is also Visiting Senior Consultant at the Department of Surgery in Singapore General Hospital, as well as Professor of Surgery at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in National University of Singapore.
After graduating from the University of Singapore’s Medical School in 1975, Prof Soo moved to Australia where he was a Resident and Registrar at the Prince of Wales-Prince Henry Hospitals in New South Wales. Following that, he obtained his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1982. Choosing to specialise in Head and Neck Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Prof Soo spent further time in that field at the Royal Marsden Hospital at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Department of Surgery.
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