Dr Lim Zhen Wei

MBBS (HONS) (Monash), M Med (Anaesthesiology), FAMS (Anaesthesiology)

Director, Acute Pain Services

Singapore General Hospital

Specialty: Anaesthesiology

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About

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Awards

Publications

Conditions Treated By This Doctor

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Degenerative Disc Disease Facet/Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction Fibromyalgia Knee/Hip Osteoarthritis Lumbar/Cervical Spondylosis Postherpetic Neuralgia Shoulder Rotator Cuff Injury Spinal Stenosis Trigeminal Neuralgia

Clinical Interests

Pain Medicine

Clinical Appointments

Director, Acute Pain Services

Pain Medicine

Consultant

Pain Management Centre

Consultant

Anaesthesiology

Consultant

Women's Pain Centre

Academic Appointments

Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Clinical Senior Lecturer, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Clinical Teacher, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

Tutor, Division of Graduate Medical Studies NUS

Master of Medicine (Anaesthesiology) Part B course

Examiner, Master of Medicine (Anaesthesiology) Part B

Instructor, Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Course

About

Dr Lim’s main area of clinical practice in pain medicine includes managing age-related degenerative spine conditions (such as spinal stenosis, facet/sacroiliac joint dysfunction and other chronic back/neck pain) and chronic joints pain/osteoarthritis (such as knee, shoulder and hip) through medications and minimally invasive interventional pain procedures. Dr Lim is familiar and performs regular procedures encompassing epidural steroid injections, intraarticular injections and radiofrequency ablation to reduce transmission of pain. He is regularly invited to speak as a key opinion leader at local and overseas conferences.

Dr Lim is also an Anaesthesiologist when he is not practising pain medicine.

Besides clinical work, Dr Lim is involved in medical education and research. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, Senior Clinical Lecturer at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Clinical Teacher at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He is also an examiner for Master of Medicine (Anaesthesiology) Part B (Division of Graduate Medical Studies, NUS) and an instructor for Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course.

Dr Lim graduated from Monash School of Medicine, Australia as one of the top final year clinical student in Southern Clinical School and was awarded the Ellice Jane Hammond Prize for excellence in student internship. He subsequently completed his Anaesthesiology training at Singhealth group of healthcare institutions and later went on to subspecialise in Pain Medicine.

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Director, Education, Singhealth Duke-NUS Pain Centre
Member, Blood Transfusion Committee SKH

Awards

Service with a heart award 2023
Singapore Health Quality Service Award 2024
Service with a heart award 2025

Publications

Lim ZW, Liu CW, Chan DX. Interventional therapies for management of hip fracture pain peri-operatively: A review article. Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare. 2022;31. doi:10.1177/20101058221106282
Teng ASW, Boo AYY, Lim ZW. Management of chronic non-cancer pain in primary care. Singapore Med J. 2023 Feb;64(2):115-120. doi: 10.4103/singaporemedj.SMJ-2021-126. PMID: 36814175; PMCID: PMC10071848.
Lin X, Liu CW, Goh QY, Sim EY, Chan SKT, Lim ZW, Chan DXH. Pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block for early pain management of elderly patients with hip fracture: a single-center double-blind randomized controlled trial. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2023 Apr 13:rapm-2022-104117. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2022-104117. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37055189.
Leong XYA, Lim ZW, Li LW, et al. A blended learning program focusing on comprehensive opioid management in pain (COMP): A pilot program. Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare. 2023;32. doi:10.1177/20101058231224494
Goh JCH, Gn YM, Tan DJA, Lim ZW. High spinal anaesthesia during local anaesthetic skin infiltration at the cervical facet joint. Anaesth Rep. 2024 Nov 18;12(2):e12334.