General Surgery
Senior Consultant, Division of General Surgery (Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery), Department of Surgery, National University Hospital
A/Prof Asim Shabbir is Head & Senior Consultant with the Department of Surgery, National University Hospital (NUH) and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine). He is also Head of General Surgery at Alexandra Hospital. He completed his basic and advance surgical training at NUH, Singapore. He was awarded fellowships from Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and was accredited a surgical specialist by the Specialist accreditation board in 2007. In 2009, he did a clinical fellowship on Gastric cancer management with special interest in laparoscopic surgery for gastric cancer at the Seoul National University Hospital, South Korean. In 2010, he trained at Eda Hospital, I Shou University Kaohsiung, Taiwan in Bariatric and Metabolic surgery and was awarded as Fellowship. A/Prof Asim's specialty is general surgery and his special interests are upper gastrointestinal surgery, bariatric & metabolic surgery, advance endoscopy and laparoscopic surgery. He has been active in international as well as local meeting of his interest. His research interest includes obesity, surgery for type 2 diabetes and gastric cancer. He won the Best free paper award for his presentation "Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for the Treatment of Type II Diabetes Mellitus in Chinese Patients with Body 25-35kg/m2at Asia Pacific metabolic bariatric surgical society meeting 2010. He has published in reputed journals in his field of interest. Education and Fellowships MBBS (University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan), MRCS (RCSE), MMed (NUS), FCPS (College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan), FRCS (RCSE), Fellowship in Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery (Seoul National University Bundang Hospital), Fellowship in Bariatric Surgery (I-Shou University, Eda Hospital, Taiwan)
Selected publications from PubMed
Laparoscopic totally extra-peritoneal (TEP) approach for pelvic and iliac lymph node biopsy: a single-centre experience.
Ong ZC, Chi H, Ho WE, Tan GSW, Sujith WI, Chan EHL, Poon MLM, Koh MCY, Lee JWK, Lee SKF, Cheong WK, Lomanto D, Kim G, So JBY, Chia DKA, Shabbir A
Surg Endosc. 2026 Aug 5 doi: 10.1007/s00464-026-13220-7.
International expert Delphi consensus on thromboprophylaxis in metabolic and bariatric surgery.
Kermansaravi M, Cohen RV, Shikora SA, Parmar C, De Luca M, Shabbir A, Prager G, Poggi L, Chiappetta S, Nimeri A
Sci Rep. 2026 Jul 2 doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-60926-8.
An international multidisciplinary consensus statement on laparoscopic liver biopsy.
Lei SY, Han Y, Rockey DC, Alswat K, Wong VW, Jumaev N, Toro-Huamanchumo CJ, Taha S, El-Kassas M, George J, Muthiah M, Ghanem O, Yoneda M, Hang DV, Sebastiani G, Papatheodoridis G, Abu-Abeid A, Robertson AG, Kim SH, Weiner R, Mahawar K, Shabbir A, Kermansaravi M, Rajan R, Seki Y, Taskin HE, Shikora S, Oliveros E, Parmar C, Cheng Q, Thaher O, Ruiz-Úcar E, Oviedo R, Ribeiro R, Musella M, Ramos AC, Ryu SW, Abdelbaki T, Lee WJ, Chan MP, Garcia Flores JE, Skinovsky J, Madkhali A, Weiner S, Tacke F, Yang W, Neuberger J, Zheng MH, International Obesity Society Working Group on Steatotic Liver Disease
Cell Rep Med. 2026 Jun 16;7(6):102831 doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2026.102831.
Asia Pacific Gastroesophageal Cancer Congress (APGCC) 2024 consensus statement on stage 2 and 3 locally advanced gastric and Siewert 3 junctional adenocarcinoma.
Masuda Y, Fong KL, Yeo D, Yeo C, Chue KM, Araba SB, Lim CW, Yeung B, Lee J, Lin J, Chia C, Ng M, Ng K, Samol J, Chia D, Teh JL, Sundar R, Yong WP, Tan HL, Muro K, Lordick F, Wainburg Z, Tan BC, Kim G, Suda K, Law S, Sano T, Gurunathan R, Chiu P, Woo E, Duong C, Yang HK, Long VD, Kim HH, Mahendren HA, Lee HJ, Samarasam I, Gotoda T, Liew R, Shabbir A, Aung MO, Terashima M, Cheong E, So J, Tan J
J Gastroenterol. 2025 Sep;60(9):1079-1090 doi: 10.1007/s00535-025-02266-4.
International expert consensus on surgery for type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Kermansaravi M, Omar I, Finer N, Le Roux C, Carbajo MA, Sarwer D, Busetto L, Ponce J, Logue J, Parretti HM, O'Kane M, Shahabi S, Khunti K, Blakemore AI, Stenberg E, Abbott S, Alqahtani A, Aminian A, Amr B, Balibrea JM, Batterham RL, Behrens E, Bhatt DL, Chesworth P, Chowbey P, Clare K, Neto MG, Graham Y, Goel R, Hanif W, Herrera MF, Kasama K, Kassir R, Knop FK, Kothari SN, Kristinsson JA, McGowan B, McKechnie A, Miller K, Miras AD, Morton J, Ogden J, Peterli R, Pinkney JH, Pournaras D, Pouwels S, Prager G, Salminen P, Serlie MJ, Shabbir A, Singhal R, Taheri S, Tahrani AA, Weiner R, Shikora SA, Mahawar K
BMC Endocr Disord. 2025 Jul 1;25(1):151 doi: 10.1186/s12902-025-01961-w.
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