Adjunct Associate Professor Chen Yongsheng is a Head & Consultant in the Division of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at both the National University Hospital (NUH) and Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH).
Adj A/Prof Chen graduated medical school at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2008, completed residency training in Orthopaedic Surgery at NUHS in 2017 and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.
He was awarded the Healthcare Manpower Development Program (HMDP) in 2019 and underwent fellowship training in complex orthopaedic trauma management at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH). He was also awarded the AOTrauma fellowship in 2023, where he underwent further training in complex pelvic and acetabular trauma management, bony reconstruction, and revision surgeries for fracture malunion, nonunion and infection across seven hospitals in Thailand.
His clinical practice covers all aspects of orthopaedic traumatology, including:
- fractures in older persons (geriatric fractures);
- peri-articular fractures (fractures around major joints in the body);
- pelvic and acetabular fractures;
- open fracture management;
- fracture related infections;
- osteomyelitis and severe soft tissue infections;
- bone loss, fracture malunion and nonunion;
- lower limb deformity correction;
- bone transport;
- limb length discrepancy; and
- complex diabetic foot problems including Charcot arthropathy.
He is a firm proponent of limb salvage surgery and regularly employs advanced techniques to avoid major amputation in patients with limb threatening conditions. This includes patients with complex injuries, severe bone and soft tissue infections, critical bone defects and diabetic foot complications, He regularly employs Ilizarov techniques, computer hexapod assisted deformity correction, customised 3d-printed implantable scaffolds and works in a multidisciplinary team with other specialists to help treat such patients. In May 2024, he first introduced the technique of Transverse Tibial Transport (TTT) to help improve limb salvage rates in patients with severe diabetic foot infections to Singapore. His team was awarded the GovInsider’s Moon Shot Award in 2025 for their innovative approach towards diabetic limb salvage.
Adj A/Prof Chen is a trained faculty with the AO Foundation. He has been invited to teach at local and international courses on trauma management and deformity correction. As the department lead for undergraduate medical education at NTFGH, he is actively involved in educating future doctors and surgeons. In 2023 he was conferred the NUS Dean’s Honour Roll for Teaching Excellence, having received undergraduate teaching awards for five consecutive years. At the postgraduate level, he is the Core Faculty for Trauma at NUHS Orthopaedic Residency. He is a regular MBBS exam convenor and examiner at NUS.
