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Dr See Xinyin Anna

MBBS, MRCS, MMed (ORL), MPH

Consultant

Singapore General Hospital

Specialty: Otorhinolaryngology/ENT

Clinical Interest: Head ＆ Neck Surgery

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Acute Pharyngitis and Tonsillitis, Enlarged Neck Lymph Nodes, Head and Neck Cancer, Hypopharyngeal Cancers, Laryngeal Cancer, Larynx Cancer, Mouth Cancer, Mouth Ulcers, Nasopharyngeal Cancer (Nose Cancer), Neck Lumps, Oropharyngeal Cancers, Paranasal Sinus Tumours, Salivary Gland Tumours, Sialendoscopy, Swallowing Difficulties, Thyroid Cancer, Thyroid nodules, Thyroid Nodules, Tonsils and Adenoids.

Clinical Appointments

Consultant Otorhinolaryngology - Head ＆Neck Surgery Singapore General Hospital
Consultant SingHealth Duke-NUS Head and Neck Centre
Consultant Division of Surgery ＆ Surgical Oncology National Cancer Centre Singapore
Visiting Consultant Children's ENT Centre KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Academic Appointments

Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Profile

Dr Anna See graduated from National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2012 and became a certified ENT specialist in 2018 upon completion of her residency training in Singapore. After specialist qualification, she further obtained a Masters in Public Health from the Imperial College London, UK, in 2022.

In 2023, she was awarded the Ministry of Health Healthcare Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) Scholarship to pursue a year-long fellowship at Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, focusing on Head and Neck surgical oncology.

Dr See's main interests are in the treatment of Head and Neck cancers and thyroid lesions. Her practice also covers general adult ENT conditions. She is concurrently appointed as Clinical Assistant Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School and is the SGH ENT Undergraduate Curriculum Director.

Education

MBBS (Singapore)
MRCS (Edinburgh)
MMed (ORL)
MPH (London)

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Awards

Professional Awards:

Service with a Heart - June 2020
Residency in SingHealth Excels Awards - Outstanding Resident Award 2018
Residency in SingHealth Excels Awards - Outstanding Resident Award 2017
Residency in SingHealth Excels Awards - Outstanding Resident Award 2016
Residency in SingHealth Excels Awards – Outstanding Resident Award 2014

Research Awards:

Best Poster Award (Merit) – SingHealth Duke-NUS Surgical & Anaesthesia Congress 2017
Best Oral Presentation Award – 1st Asia Pacific Thyroid Surgery Congress, Seoul, South Korea 2015

Research Interests

Publications

See A, Go LK, Teo CEH, Teo NWY, Toh ST. Adaptations of a Tertiary Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Department in Singapore during the COVID-19 Outbreak. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2020 Jul 29:3489420946779. Epub ahead of print.
See A, Toh ST. Respiratory sampling for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2: An Overview. Head Neck. 2020 Jul;42(7):1652-1656.
See A, Lim AEL, Wong J, Choong HL, Iyer NG, Tan HK, Tan NC, Ng JCF. The effect of parathyroidectomy on patients' symptoms in tertiary hyperparathyroidism. Head Neck. 2019 Aug;41(8):2748-2755.
See A, NG Iyer, C Teo, NC Tan, J Ng, KC Soo, HK Tan. Distant Metastasis as the Sole Initial Manifestation of Well-Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2017 Jul;274(7):2877-2882.
See A, Sudirman SR, Huang XY. Spontaneous multilevel airway haemorrhage in acquired haemophilia A. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2017 Jun;274(6):2657-2660.
See A, Tan TY, Gan EC. Atypical Culture-Negative Skull Base Osteomyelitis Masquerading as Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma. Am J Otolaryngol. 2016 May-Jun;37(3):236-9.
See A, Gan EC. Orbital compartment syndrome during endoscopic drainage of subperiosteal orbital abscess. Am J Otolaryngol. 2015 Nov-Dec;36(6):828-31.
Chee M, See A, Teo M. Metastatic urinary bladder transitional cell carcinoma to the oral cavity and oropharynx. European Surgery 2015, 47(6): 350-2.
See AX, MCC Teo. Spontaneous Regression of Dermal Metastases in Merkel Cell Carcinoma. Am J Cancer Case Rep 2014, 2:154-8.
See AX, Prakash V, Tan KK. Recurrent Kawasaki disease presenting as acute airway obstruction. Singapore Med J 2012 Dec;53(12):e264-6.
See AX, Chua DY, Chan YM, Goh CH. Obstructive sleep apnoea in a case of thyroglossal duct cyst carcinoma. J Laryngol Otol. 2012 Aug;126(8):864-6.
See A, Teo B, Kwan R, Lim R, Lee J, Tang MB, Verkooijen HM. Use of complementary and alternative medicine among dermatology outpatients in Singapore. Australas J Dermatol. 2011 Feb;52(1):7-13.