Dato' Dr. Pua Kin Choo

DSPN, MBBS (Delhi), MS. ORL (Malaya) Fellowship in Head and Neck Surgery (Pittsburgh, USA) CMIA (Certified Medical Impairment Assessor) (NIOSH)

Dato’ Dr. Pua’s particular expertise focuses on the multi-modality treatment and oncological resections of head and neck cancers

Sialendoscopy

Dato’ Dr. Pua graduated from Lady Hardinge Medical College, University of Delhi, India. She was a Medical Officer in Johor Bahru before completing her Masters in Otorhinolaryngology at Universiti Malaya. She worked at Penang General Hospital as Head of Department and Consultant. She was also actively involved in teaching and training postgraduate doctors from UKM, UM and USM.

In between, Dato’ Dr. Pua pursued her subspecialty fellowship in Head and Neck Oncology at University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, USA under the mentorship of renowned E.N.T. Surgeon, Dr. Eugene Myers. Upon her return, she established the Head & Neck Surgery Unit at Penang General Hospital to treat complicated head and neck conditions and to train doctors within the subspecialty.

Dato’ Dr. Pua is one of the pioneers in the field of sialendoscopy in Malaysia and in Asia. She underwent her training in sialendoscopy under Dr. Francis Marchal at the European Sialendoscopy Training Centre (ESTC), Geneva, Switzerland. She is actively conducting sialendoscopy and has become a trainer for sialendoscopy courses locally and abroad.

She has been a lecturer and subsequently Adjunct Associate Professor at the Penang Medical College, teaching medical students for the past fifteen years.