Dr Tan Guoping Kelvin

Dr Kelvin Tan is an orthopaedic surgeon at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore.

He is proficient in robotic-assisted surgeries primary and revision hip and knee joint replacement surgeries; complex hip reconstruction including impaction bone grafting for failed hip replacements/hip dysplasia; direct anterior approach to hip replacement; and trauma surgeries including peri-prosthetic fracture fixation and sports surgeries.

He is also a proponent of the use of cutting-edge technology such as robotics and computer navigation to perform hip and knee replacement, including unicompartmental (partial) knee replacement.

Dr Tan was the previous head of adult reconstruction/joint replacement unit and senior consultant at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH).

He graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and did his master’s there. He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK. He did his fellowship in complex/revision arthroplasty at Prince Charles Hospital and Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He received a team Health Manpower Development Plan award for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) knee replacement at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Scotland and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, UK.

Dr Tan was the clinical champion in TTSH Knee Replacement Clinical Pathway and clinical lead of the ERAS Knee Replacement Taskforce at TTSH and the National Healthcare Group (NHG). He is an advocate of ERAS after knee replacements, reducing the patients’ length of hospital stay and transforming TTSH knee replacement to ambulatory surgery. He also started the Institution Knee Registry database.

He has performed more than 500 MAKO robotic-assisted joint replacements (MAKOplasty). He is also the region's first few certified MAKO robotic trainers in partial knee, total knee as well as total hip replacement. He has been practising medicine for more than 15 years.

Dr Tan is an opinion leader locally and regionally in robotic-assisted joint replacements as well as ERAS, and has sat on various national committees.

Besides his clinical work, he is an adjunct assistant professor at NUS, and a core clinical faculty member and clinical competencies committee member of NHG’s orthopaedic residency programme. He is an examiner for NUS and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine’s undergraduates as well as in the orthopaedic master’s programme.

Dr Tan has published extensively in international peer-reviewed medical journals, and presented at local and international conferences.

He is currently the chairman of the Singapore Arthroplasty Society, representing Singapore at various international conferences.