Dr Lee Jiah Min

Dr Lee Jiah Min is a Senior Consultant with 21 years of experience in Obstetrics and Gynecology. She completed her MBBS degree in NUS in 2002 and her MRCOG in UK London in 2007. She is an accredited MOH specialist since 2011. She has been doing many laparoscopic surgeries since her residency years. She is an avid obstetrician delivering 40-60 babies each month and is well versed in antenatal care and vaginal, assisted vaginal (vacuum and forceps) and caesarean deliveries. She also has a lot of gynecology patients who see her for menstrual problems – heavy irregular, prolonged menses, intermenstrual bleed, postcoital bleed, menstrual pain, pelvic masses or growths, pelvic pain, endometriosis, subfertility and pre conception, pap smear abnormalities, urogynaecological issues and early malignancy.

She specialises in Minimally Invasive Surgery and is an advanced level 3 laparoscopic surgeon for removal of uterus, fibroids, cysts, and endometriosis deposits and adhesions, relieving patients of their pain, heavy menstrual flow and pressure symptoms with fast recovery, minimal pain and minimal scars.

She has in recent 3 years been doing most cases by VNOTES (vaginal natural orifice transendoluminal endoscopic surgery) for hysterectomy, cystectomy, oophorectomy and selected cases for myomectomy. She was the main trainer in the recent VNOTES single port surgery workshop held in KKH on the 13th July 2024. She has learnt the technique since her HMDP in 2013 in Taiwan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and in recent few years managed to develop the technique for more types of patients and conditions. (including patients with non descent uterus, previous caesarean and large uteri) With VNOTES surgery patients can achieve the same surgical procedure without abdominal incisions hence greatly lessening their pain of recovery from surgery and making it a truly scarless surgery.

She is also an advanced hysteroscopic surgeon and skilled at removing intra uterine polyps, fibroids and intrauterine adhesions, treating heavy menstrual bleeding , pre invasive disease of the womb lining and enhancing fertility with a scarless approach with minimal pain.

She believes in doing minimally invasive surgery as much as possible for patients so that they have enhanced fast recovery with minimal pain.

She has completed her HMDP training in complex pelvic laparoscopic surgery (including benign, oncologic, urogynecological , VNOTES surgeries and hysteroscopic surgeries) in Taiwan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in 2013 under Prof Lee Chyi Loong.

She is able to deal with large uteruses, fibroids and cysts laparoscopically and cases with difficult adhesions from previous surgeries and endometriosis, releasing pelvic and tubal adhesions and removing endometriosis deposits, endometriotic cysts and adhesions to reduce pain and optimise fertility She is a very careful surgeon with minimal complications.

She had brought in the idea of laparoscopic contained bag morcellation to KKH for uterine fibroids to prevent spread of potential malignancy so that laparoscopic myomectomy could still be possible for patients without open surgery.

Going one step further she has brought in the technique of VNOTES (vaginal natural orifice transendoluminal endoscopic surgery) approach to hysterectomy avoiding the need for any open abdominal or laparoscopic incisions thereby resulting in almost painless and scarless surgery with fast recovery. VNOTES surgery is able to go beyond the normal reach of vaginal hysterectomy due to the camera view and longer reach of laparoscopic instruments used from the vaginal singe port approach. To date she has done more than 100 cases of VNOTES surgeries, for hysterectomy, ovarian cystectomy, oophorectomy and selected cases of myomectomy.

Dr Lee Jiah Min is an accredited colposcopist with the SCCPS (The Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology of Singapore) and does colposcopy for diagnosis and and treatment (LEEP excision and laser vaourisation and laser cone excision of cervical pre invasive conditions of the cervix and pap smear and HPV abnormalities. She has been an accredited and practicing colposcopist since 2012.

Dr Lee Jiah Min is a doctor who cares for her patients and is very friendly and approachable. She always ensures their well being and is detailed and professional in her consultations, surgeries and deliveries. She answering all queries from patients and is detailed in her explanation of their condition and management options and strategies that would best fit each patients needs and symptoms. She has good clinical judgement and is medically and surgically also very competent especially in using the minimally invasive approach for best patient care, comfort and recovery. She has won the Singhealth Quality Service STAR award for year 2023,2022, and GOLD award for 2021, silver award for 2020, STAR award for 2015, GOLD award for 2014 and Silver award for 2013. She has won the Service from the heart award in KKH from 2009-2022 and the long service award in 2015.She has also won her 20 years long service award in Jan 2024.

• HMDP in Advanced Laparoscopic Pelvic Surgery Taiwan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital 2013
• FAMS 2011
• SMC and MOH Specialist Registration Accreditation Obstetrics and Gynecology 2011
• MRCOG (UK, London) Member of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 2007
• MBBS National University of Singapore 2002
  

• Senior Consultant, Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit, Department of General Obstetrics and Gynecology KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital 2019 – present
• Teaching Faculty APAGE (Asia Pacific Association of Gynecological Endoscopy) Annual Regional Congress and Hands on Laparoscopic Workshop July 2012 – 2019
  
• Core Member of Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit Peer Review Learning Quality Assurance Committee 2015 till present Member of Asia Pacific Gynecological Endoscopy Association (APAGE) 2013 – present
  
• Member of The Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology Singapore 2012 – present
• Member of The Obstetrical and Gynecological Association of Singapore (OGSS) 2012 – present
• Clinical Physician Faculty Member Obstetrics and Gynecology Singhealth Residency Program 2012 – 2015 
• Clinical Faculty Scheme Adjunct Clinical Educator NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine 2012 – 2014

• SingHealth Quality Service Award (Star Award) April 2022 – Jan 2023
• SingHealth Quality Service Award (Gold) April 2021 – Mar 2022
• SingHealth Quality Service Award (Silver) April 2019 – Mar 2020
• SingHealth Quality Service Award (Star) April 2015 – Mar 2016
• SingHealth Quality Service Award (Gold) April 2013 – Mar 2014
• SingHealth Quality Service Award (Silver) April 2012 – Mar 2013
• KKH Long Service Award 2015
  
• Health Manpower Development Plan Award 2013 Advanced Laparoscopic Pelvic Surgery Taiwan
• KKH Service from the Heart Award for Excellent Service 2022
• KKH Service from the Heart Award for Excellent service 2015
• KKH Service from the Heart Award for Excellent service 2012
  
• KKH Service from the Heart Award for Excellent service 2010
• KKH Service from the Heart Award for Excellent service 2009

• Novel Neovaginoplasty Using Rudimentary Uterine Horn Serosa and Pelvic Peritoneum as a graft in Mullerian Anomalies with Vaginal Agenesis.
  Lee CL, Lee JM et al
  Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology 2019 May-June:26(4):657-666
• Comparison of Morcelllator and Culdotomy for extraction of uterine fibroids laparoscopically.
  CJ Wang, JM Lee et al
  European Journal of Obstetrics Gynecol Reproductive Biology 2014 Dec;183:183-7
• Ectopic Ovary at Ectopic Pregnancy
  JM Lee, Siraj M, A. Siow
  Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynaecology
  Mar-Apr 2011;18(2):148
• Cyclosporine as an Adjunct to Steroids for Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome in Pregnancy
  JM Lee, KH Tan
  Singapore Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Mar 2009;40(1):22-26