Clin Assoc Prof Mohammad Ashik Bin Zainuddin

Dr Mohammad Ashik obtained his basic medical and postgraduate qualifications from the National University of Singapore and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in the UK.

Dr Ashik is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, KK Women's and Children's Hospital. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

He was awarded the SingHealth Human Manpower Development Program in 2013, allowing him to pursue a 1 year clinical fellowship in Germany.

Dr Ashik is instrumental in advocating minimally invasive surgical approaches (small incisions/keyhole surgery) with the aims of achieving less patient discomfort, shorter hospital stay and faster recovery.

Dr Ashik's areas of interests are;

1. Sports injuries in children and adolescents
2. Arthroscopic (keyhole) surgeries of the hip, knee, ankle, shoulder and elbow and wrist
3. Patella dislocation and reconstructive surgery
4. Paediatric trauma
5. Lower limb malalignment and deformity correction
6. Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and Hip preservation

• Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery) (FRCSEd (Orth), UK ), 2012
• Masters of Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) (MMed (Ortho), Singapore), 2008
• Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MRCSEd, UK), 2007
• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS Singapore), 2000

• Senior Consultant, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
• Site Chief, Singhealth Duke-NUS Sport and Exercise Medicine
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical and Academic Faculty, DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU
• Committee member, Key Validation and Standard Setting for Paediatric examination
• Faculty core member, SingHealth Orthopaedic Residency Program, Singapore
• Faculty core member, National HealthCare Group Orthopaedic Residency Program, Singapore
• Member, Medical Devices Committee, Ministry of Health
• Member, Singapore Orthopaedic Association
• Committee Member, AO Trauma Singapore, (Paediatric Orthopaedics)
• Ministry of Manpower, Designated Workplace Doctor for Compressed Air Works
• Committee Member, KKH Division of Surgery GP forum
• Faculty member, Junior Officer Surgical Skills Course, KKH
• Team Leader, SingHealth EPIC Project (AMI Wave 7), Dec 2012
• Instructor and Teacher, KKH Children's Emergency Introductory Teaching Program For MOs and Residents
• Member, Scientific Committee, KK Women's and Children's Hospital Annual Scientific Meeting

• Service from the Heart Award (2021)
• SingHealth 20 Year Long Service Award (2021)
• NUS Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence 2018/2019
• Orthopaedic Teaching Excellence Award, NUS (2017)
• Singapore Health Quality Service Award - Gold Award (2016)
• Orthopaedic Teaching Excellence Award, NUS (2016)
• Singapore Health Quality Service Award - Gold Award (2015
• Orthopaedic Teaching Excellence Award, NUS (2015)
• Singapore Health Quality Service Award - Silver Award (2014)
• SingHealth Human Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) Award (FY2013)
• KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital Service from the Heart Award (2012)
• Young Orthopaedic Investigator Award, Singapore Orthopaedic Association - Merit Award (2008)

• Patella instability
• Multiligament knee injuries
• Cartilage and joint preservation
• Paediatric Trauma

• Alpha Angle as a Predictor of Impending Contralateral Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis in an Asian Population; Chloe Xiaoyun Chan, MBBS, Youheng Ou Yang, FRCS, Gloria Hui Min Cheng, MBBS, Sumanth Kumar Gera, MS and Ashik bin Zainuddin Mohammad, FRCSEd; Clin Orthop Surg. 2019 Dec;11(4):466-473 
• Paediatric Supracondylar Humeral Fractures - A Technique for Safe Medial Pin Passage with a Zero Incidence of Iatrogenic Ulnar Nerve Injury; CY Woo, HL Ho, MBZ Ashik, KBL Lim;Singapore Medical Journal 2018; 59(2): 94-97
• Obturator Internus Pyomyositis in A Child; XL Chong, M Ashik, M Arjandas; Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal 2014 Vol 8 No 1
• Hip pain in the Paediatric Age Group- Transient Synovitis versus Septic Arthritis; GT Tay, M Ashik, B Tow , Kevin BL Lim; Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal 2013 Vol 7 No 3
• Primary renal adenosquamous carcinoma; Zainuddin MA, Hong TY. Urol Ann 2010;2:122-4
• Comparison Of The Different Modalities Of Post Operative Analgesia In Unilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients ; Mohammad Ashik Zainuddin, Chia Shi-Lu, Yeo Seng Jin, Tan Mann Hong, Lo Ngai Nung, J.Orthopaedics 2010;7(1)e11