Dr Teh Lip Bin

Gastroenterologist

Specialty

Gastroenterology

Languages

English

Gender

Male

Experience

Dr Teh Lip Bin is a gastroenterologist practising at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. He subspecialises in digestive endoscopy, which includes examining the gastrointestinal tract and endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP) (examination of the pancreatic and bile ducts).

Dr Teh graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1975 from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was then awarded the Singapore Government Fellowship to undertake his Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine) in 1978. He subsequently became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 1979. Dr Teh was also awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) scholarship from the Ministry of Health, Singapore to train in gastroenterology at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK in 1982.

Dr Teh was formerly the deputy head of the Department of Medicine and a senior consultant physician at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). He had also been designated as the head of the endoscopy centre at SGH. For his service, Dr Teh achieved the employee customer service award.

Dr Teh's research interests include malabsorption, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), breath hydrogen tests and lactose intolerance, abdominal tuberculosis, drug-induced gastrointestinal bleeding and antibiotic-associated diarrhoea.