Consultant
SingHealth Duke-NUS Head and Neck Centre
Consultant
Division of Surgery & Surgical Oncology
Consultant
Head & Neck Surgery
Dr Rena Dharmawan believes the with the right innovation, one can improve the lives of millions at a time. She is a Consultant Surgeon at Division of Surgery & Surgical Oncology in National Cancer Centre Singapore and Singapore General Hospital. Dr Rena also holds a joint appointment as Assistant professor (Clinical Innovation) and Entrepeneur-in-Residence at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
Her clinical interest is in thyroid and parathyroid surgery, thyroid oncology, benign thyroid and parathyroid conditions and completed her Head & Neck Surgery Fellowship, with a focus on thyroid & parathyroid surgery, in Singhealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Center in 2020.
In 2014, she was one of four nationally-selected fellows in the Singapore-Stanford Biodesign (SSB) Programme, a year-long fellowship that aims to train and nurture the next generation of medical technology innovators for Singapore and Asia. After the fellowship, she co-founded a few Singapore-based medtech startups and is currently Programme Director for the Duke-NUS Healthcare Innovation Fellowship to train & develop the next generation of Clinician-Innovators.
Prior to medicine, Rena graduated summa cum laude with a BSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She then joined the inaugural batch and completed her medical degree at Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore) in 2011. She is currently pursuing an MBA in INSEAD Global Executive MBA programme.
· Dharmawan AR, Henry Ho, Ng HHM, Gopal Iyer, Tan HK, Tan NC
Implementing the Biodesign Process for Medical Device Innovation in Head and Neck Surgery. Surgical Innovation 2020. Vol. 0(0) 1-6, JIF: 1.42, CI: NA
· Yang Y, Kulangara K, Lam RT, Dharmawan R, Leong KW
Effects of topographical and mechanical property alterations induced by oxygen plasma
modification on stem cell behaviour.
ACS Nano. Oct 2012; 6(10):8591-8, JIF: 13.942, CI: NA
· Tan WJ, Chew MH, Dharmawan AR, Singh M, Acharyya S, Loi CT, Tang CL.
Critical appraisal of laparoscopic vs open rectal cancer surgery
World J Gastrointest Surg. June 2016; 8(6): 452-460, JIF: 2.813, CI: NA
· Huang HL, Dharmawan AR, Tan CJ, Thang SP.
A rare case of thymoma first detected on gallium-68 PSMA PET/CT.
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. Nov 2017. 44(12):2148-2149, JIF: 7.277, CI: NA