Dr Jeeve Kanagalingam is an Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist Surgeon who sees adults and children with ENT conditions. He has a busy practice based at Mt Elizabeth Novena and Gleneagles Hospitals in Singapore. He sees and manages common and general ENT conditions and has a large volume of nose, sinus, allergy, snoring and sleep apnoea patients. He has a sub-specialty expertise in Thyroid, Head and Neck Cancer and Voice surgery.
Following graduation from the University of Oxford, he trained and worked in several large teaching hospitals and ENT centres in London, United Kingdom for 12 years before returning to Singapore in 2008. He is one of a handful of ENT specialists in Singapore on the General Medical Council's (GMC) ENT Specialist Register in the United Kingdom. He is also a registered as a medical practitioner in Malaysia. He is an Assistant Professor and House Tutor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the ENT Lead for the Medical School at its inception.
Dr Jeeve Kanagalingam studied pre-clinical medicine at the University of Cambridge as a Chevening Scholar before completing clinical medicine at the University of Oxford. He then pursued specialist ENT training within the National Health Service (NHS) in London. He spent three years at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, and a year each at the Royal Marsden Hospital – the world's oldest cancer hospital - and Charing Cross Hospital in West London. He received training in paediatric or children's ENT at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, St Mary's and Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals in London. These are busy paediatric hospitals that see many complex paediatric ENT conditions.
In 2004, he was awarded the prestigious Simpson-Smith Travelling fellowship to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, New York. He spent time here in the department of head and neck cancer surgery.
In 2006, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine for his outstanding performance in the intercollegiate FRCS ENT examinations. He completed his specialist ENT training in the UK in 2007 and then then pursued advanced training in Head and Neck Cancer Surgery in Australia with Professor William B Coman at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia.
During his specialist ENT training, Dr Jeeve worked with several world renown ENT specialist. He was the Professorial Unit Senior Registrar (Chief Resident) at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital. His mentor, Professor Valerie Lund is one of the world’s leading Rhinologists and Skullbase Surgeons (Nose and Sinus Surgoens). He also worked with many of the leading head and neck surgeons in London including
Dr Jeeve's main area of subspecialty interest is in head and neck surgery and voice surgery (laryngology). He has vast experienced gained in London, Australia and more recently in Singapore. As Chief of the Head and Neck Cancer Service at Tan Tock Seng Hospital until October 2012, he had the opportunity to treat complex head and neck cancer cases from the region and the Middle East referred to him by Johns Hopkins International Medical Centre. He has treated many patients with complex tumours of the thyroid, oral cavity, salivary gland, throat (larynx and pharynx) and nose (sinonasal). He is proficient in the use of ultrasound, lasers, minimal access surgery and nerve-integrity monitoring. He is trained in advanced robotic surgery and was one of the two-man team to perform the first transoral robotic surgery (TORS) case in TTSH for oropharyngeal cancer in 2012.
In 2011, he was awarded the Singapore Government's Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) award to pursue advanced training in voice surgery (laryngology) and care for the professional voice at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA.
Dr Jeeve is committed to excellence in clinical specialist ent care and evidence-based clinical practice. Having trained and worked in three continents, he brings his wide and rich clinical experience to help patients with their ENT problems. He believes that patients should be fully informed of their ENT conditions and share in the clinical decision making process.
