Clin Assoc Prof Neville Teo Wei Yang

Dr Neville Teo is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, and visiting consultant with the Singapore National Eye Centre, and National Cancer Centre Singapore. He is appointed Clinical Associate Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School, and Clinical Lecturer with the National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He has a subspecialty practice in Rhinology.

Dr Teo graduated from the National University of Singapore School of Medicine and completed his specialty training in Otolaryngology in Singapore in 2013. He obtained the Ministry of Health’s Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) scholarship to sub-specialize in Rhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery in Stanford University, School of Medicine from 2014-2015.

Dr Teo has been heading the Rhinology service in the Department since 2016. He has also been Programme Director of the SingHealth Otolaryngology Residency Programme from 2017, and fellowship director of the Advanced Rhinology fellowship programme in SGH. He also organizes the annual Endoscopic Sinus and Skull Base Surgery Course, as part of the ENT Instructional Course Fortnight.

Dr Teo has published in peer reviewed journals, reviewed in international scientific journals, and co-written 2 book chapters. His main research interests are in chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal polyps, allergic rhinitis, and endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery.

• ​MBBS National University of Singapore, 2003
• MRCS (Glasgow), 2009
• MMed (Otolaryngology) National University of Singapore, 2010

• Recipient Human Manpower Development Programme 2013
• Singapore Health Quality Service Award 2014 – Silver
• Singapore Health Quality Service Award 2015 – Gold

​Publications

• Distribution of branchial anomalies in a pediatric Asian population.  Teo NWY, Izham SI, Tan HKK. Singapore Med J, Apr 2015;56(4):203-7.
  
• Development of a Microclip for Laryngeal Microsurgery: Initial Animal Studies. Lau DP, Chng CB, Choo JQ, Teo N, Bunte RM, Chui CK . Laryngoscope 2012;122:1809-1814.

Book Chapters

• Teo NWY, Hwang PH. Nasal Polyposis. In: Batra PS, Han JK, eds. Practical Medical and Surgical Management of Chronic Rhinosinusitis. Switzerland: Springer, 2015:111-129

Presentation

• Prevalence of Dry Eye in the Community. 7th Annual Scientific Meeting, Chapter of Public Health & Occupational Physicians, Sep 2001
• Inguinal Metastases from Mucinous Cystadenocarcinoma of the Pancreas: A Rare Presentation. NHG Annual Scientific Congress 2004
• Review of ECG Findings in 2DE Performed During Aircrew Selection. 7th Military Medicine Conference, Feb 2006
• Prevalence and Progression of Myopia Among Pilot Trainees. 8th Military Medicine Conference, Jan 2007
• Equalising the Middle Ear – A Review of Current Methods. 8th Military Medicine Conference, Jan 2007
• Sublingual Immunotherapy in Perennial Allergic Rhinitis – Systematic Review. SGH 17th Annual Scientific Meeting, Apr 2008
• Endoscopic trans-sphenoidal resection of pituitary tumors with adjunctive intra-operative magnetic resonance imaging – clinical experience. AAO-HNSF, Sep 2010.
• Does anterior advancement of the central hyoid bone increase the hypopharyngeal airway size? Intraoperative airway measurement during the Sistrunk operation. Surgery, Sleep & Breathing IV – International Symposium, March 2011.
• Development of a micro-clip and application technique for use in laryngeal microsurgery. 7th Malaysian-Singapore Joint Scientific Meeting, Nov 2011. 
• Branchial cleft cysts in a pediatric Asian population. AAO-HNSF, Sep 2012.