Dr. Ronnie Mathew

Biography

Dr. Ronnie Mathew is a Senior Consultant in General Surgery, with over 27 years of surgical experience. He is one of the few surgeons currently in private practice in Singapore, who has a dual Specialist Registration in General Surgery: from both the United Kingdom (General Medical Council) and Singapore (Singapore Medical Council).

His Sub-speciality interest is in Colorectal Surgery, particularly Minimally Invasive Surgery (Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery). He was amongst the first group of six colorectal surgeons in Europe to be formally accredited to undertake Robotic Colorectal Surgery by the European Association of Robotic Colorectal Surgery. He is the Director of ‘Colorectal Care Specialists’.

Before joining private practice, he was a Senior Consultant Surgeon at the Department of Colorectal Surgery, Division of Surgery & Surgical Oncology, Singapore General Hospital, and National Cancer Centre Singapore. Here he held the post of Director of Research along with various board memberships including in Robotic Surgery at SGH. He was also a Clinical Asst Professor at Duke NUS and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Yong Loo Lin Medical School.

Dr. Mathew undertook all his Surgical training in the United Kingdom. The last seven years of this was in a comprehensive Higher Surgical Specialist training in General Surgery and its various Sub-Specialities. He completed an additional three years of Clinical Research in Surgery.

Following the attainment of Specialist Registration in the UK in 2011, he undertook various International Fellowships from 2012-2013 (in Singapore [SGH], South Korea, and Switzerland). In 2013, he then returned to the UK to take up a Consultant position in one of the UK’s busiest Tertiary Hospitals. It regularly ranks within the top three hospitals in the UK for the highest Colorectal Cancer workload as well as high Emergency General Surgery volume. Here he was instrumental as a co-lead, in setting up the Robotic Surgery programme. He was part of sub- specialist group for treating Pelvic Floor Disorders in the regional county of Leicestershire and for Trans-Anal Minimally Invasive Surgery (TEO/TAMIS) for early rectal cancer in the East Midlands region. He was a UK National level Faculty Trainer for TEO operations.

In addition to his decades of clinical experience and specialist expertise, Dr. Mathew has been recognised with multiple international and national awards. In 2021, he received the award of ‘International Trainer of the Year’. This award from the Association of Coloproctology Great Britain and Ireland was given ‘in recognition of the delivery of exceptional training and creating a learning environment in which to provide outstanding patient care’. To date, he is the sole recipient of this award outside of the UK. He won the prestigious ‘British Travelling Fellow to USA’ award in 2015 (awarded to only one specialist each year). In recognition of this award, the American Association of Colon and Rectal Surgeons invited him to present at their Annual Scientific meeting as well as the opportunity to undertake Travelling Fellowships in any of the major hospitals in the USA. He decided to undertake Fellowships at Cleveland Clinic Hospital and the University of California Irvine Hospital.

Dr. Mathew continues to maintain his passion for clinical excellence and commitment to keeping patients at the heart of all he does. With his wide-ranging senior specialist level experience, he aims to provide advanced and high-quality healthcare for all his patients.

Dr. Mathew's speciality interest is in minimally invasive surgery, colonoscopy and gastroscopy, proctology, gall bladder conditions, hernias, colorectal cancer, pelvic floor disorders, healthy gut & microbiome.