Dr Natascha Ekawati Putri Bunjamin

General Surgeon

Specialty

General Surgery

Languages

Bahasa Indonesia, English, Hokkien, Malay, Mandarin

Gender

Female

Insurance Panel

Singlife, HSBC Life, Prudential^

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Experience

Dr Natascha Putri is a general surgeon at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore.

She treats head and neck cancers as well as other conditions including thyroid and parathyroid conditions, parotid and other salivary gland conditions, melanoma and skin cancers, lymph node cancer, nasopharyngeal (nose) cancer, oral cavity and throat cancers, and nasoendoscopy and endoscopic gastrostomy procedures. She also does general surgery for benign and malignant disease including hernia, gallstones and haemorrhoids (piles), and health screenings including esophago-gastroduodenoscopy (OGD) and colonoscopy.

Dr Putri was a former consultant head and neck surgeon with the division of surgery and surgical oncology at the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and the Singapore General Hospital. She is currently a visiting consultant at NCCS and the National University Centre for Oral Health.

She graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and pursued subspecialty clinical training at SingHealth-Duke NUS Head and Neck Centre, concomitantly with the International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies’ global online fellowship programme. She also completed a clinical fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA. While at NCCS, she spearheaded the telemedicine video consultation services.

Dr Putri was a clinical tutor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and a clinical assistant professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. She was also appointed physician faculty of the SingHealth general surgery residency programme.

She is a recipient of several Singapore Health Quality Service Awards and the SingHealth Long Service Award.

Awards and honours

2020 - 2022
Singapore Health Quality Service Award
2019
SingHealth Long Service Award

Research & publications

Ariwoola, A., Elagab, E. a. M., Fardous, T., Oyewale, S., Parisi, S., Williams, H., Shediwah, A. M., Mahmoud, I. A., & Khillan, R. (2023). Bortezomib-Induced Bilateral Eye Swelling and Cutaneous Adverse Reaction in a Patient with Plasma Cell Leukemia—A Case Report. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 12(11), 452–456.

Li, H., McGill, M., Putri, N., Yuan, A., Wong, R. J., Patel, S. G., & Ganly, I. (2021). Margin status, local control, and disease‐specific survival in surgically resected parotid carcinomas with parapharyngeal extension. Head & Neck, 43(9), 2644–2654.

Lek, S. M., Li, K., Tan, Q. X., Shannon, N. B., Ng, W. H., Hendrikson, J., Tan, J. W., Lim, H. J., Chen, Y., Koh, K. K., Skanthakumar, T., Kwang, X. L., Chong, F. T., Leong, H. S., Tay, G., Putri, N. E., Lim, T. K. H., Hwang, J. S., Ang, M. K., . . . Ong, C. J. (2020). Pairing a prognostic target with potential therapeutic strategy for head and neck cancer. Oral Oncology, 111, 105035.

Tan, A. L., Iyer, N. G., Putri, N., Nadkarni, N., Skanthakumar, T., Wong, T. H., & Tay, G. C. A. (2019). Factors driving frequent attendance at emergency departments for patients with head and neck cancer. Head & Neck, 41(11), 3798–3805.