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About Me

Dr Susan Lim performed the first successful cadaveric liver transplant in Asia in 1990. She was named “Spirit of the Century” by the Singapore public in a national contest held to identify the role model for the 21st century. She is in active general surgery practice at the Mount Elizabeth and Gleneagles Hospitals with a special focus on breast cancer and surgery, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgery. Susan studied medicine through the Colombo Plan Scholarship in Melbourne, Australia, received the David Rosenthal Memorial Prize and graduated with First Class Honours in 1979. She obtained her Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1984, and was awarded the GB Ong Gold Medal for being the most outstanding candidate in General Surgery (shared) in that year. Susan received the Winston Churchill Scholarship (Gulbenkian), University of Cambridge, to pursue a PhD in transplantation immunology (1985 to 1988). In 2003, she founded her own Biotech start-up, Stem Cell Technologies (i) to research into adult stem cells for cell therapy.

In 2005, Dr Susan Lim became the youngest to be elected Fellow, Trinity College. Melbourne In 2006, she received the Monash University Distinguished Alumnus Award. In that same year, she was appointed Visiting Professor to the Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London. In 2007, Susan was appointed Honorary Professor at the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Australia. That same year, she was conferred an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Medicine (honoris causa) by The University of Newcastle, Australia. In November 2007, the Committee for Review & Recognition (CRR) named the American Academy of Continuing Medical Education (AACME) 28th award, the “DR SUSAN LIM AWARD” for the advancement in the field of Laparoscopic & Minimally Invasive Surgery.
Susan serves on the board of the Global Advisory Council for the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). Her recent added focus is on technology platforms in medicine. She pioneered the Robotic General Surgery Program for Singapore in 2006, and has founded two start-ups, iMobile Health and Medical Files Online with the vision of patient empowerment