MBBS (Singapore), FRCS Edinburgh
FRCS Glasgow, FAMS Academy of Medicine Singapore

Dr. Imran Nawaz graduated from the National University of Singapore with a degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1982. He started his surgical career as a trainee at the Singapore General Hospital, rotating through departments of general surgery, orthopedics and cardiothoracic surgery. On completion of his basic surgical training and after passing all the requisite examinations, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of both Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1987.

He returned to Singapore and was appointed as a Registrar in the Department of Surgery at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where he underwent advanced training in general surgery.  He was promoted to Senior Registrar and then Consultant Surgeon over the next 6 years. He was also appointed by NUS as a Clinical Tutor in Surgery for teaching of under- and postgraduate medical students.

In 1990, he was awarded the Singapore Government’s Higher Manpower Development Scholarship in General and Vascular Surgery and spent a year of further training in Sydney, Australia, as a Fellow with the Department of Surgery of the University of New South Wales.

Dr. Nawaz left the public sector in 1995 to set up his own private practice at Parkway East Hospital (previous known as East Shore Hospital), as a Senior Consultant, in the speciality of General Surgery.

Over and above the routine general surgical procedures, like operations for hernia, hemorrhoids, appendicitis and gallstones, Dr. Nawaz is also trained and experienced in minimally invasive surgery.  He has special interest in surgical oncology (cancer surgery) for cancers of the colon and rectum, stomach, thyroid and breast.