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Leading with Purpose
Messages of the Vice Chancellor SELECTED SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS

5 JANUARY 2026

oday, I had the honour of meeting the courageous and
222 dedicated multidisciplinary team at PPUM who recently
achieved a historic and life-saving milestone - the
Tsuccessful liver transplant of a four-month-old baby boy,
the youngest and lightest paediatric liver transplant recipient in our
nation’s history.

I also visited the baby and met his parents. To look into the eyes of a child who
was once fighting for every breath - now given a second chance at life - was deeply
humbling and profoundly moving. What this team demonstrated was not only world-
class medical expertise, but courage, compassion and extraordinary resilience in the
most critical hour.

Their success was made possible through clinical excellence, sharp judgement
under pressure, and seamless collaboration among more than 45 specialists and
departments - surgeons, intensivists, anaesthetists, paediatricians, radiologists,
nurses and many more - united by one mission: to save a life.
The Liver Transplant Team was led by Assoc. Prof. Dr Koh Peng Soon, Chairman of
the Liver Transplant Team and Senior Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgeon, together with
Prof. Shireen Anne Nah Han Yien, Senior Consultant in Paediatric Surgery, Dr Chew
Kee Seang, Consultant in Paediatrics Gastroenterology, Dr Chuah Soo Lin, Consultant
in Paediatrics (Paediatric Intensive Care), Prof. Ina Ismiarti binti Shariffuddin, Senior
Consultant in Anaesthesiology, Prof. Alizan bin Abdul Khalil, Senior Consultant
in Plastic Surgery, and Prof. Anushya a/p Vijayananthan, Senior Consultant in
Radiology - supported across hepatobiliary surgery, paediatric surgery, plastic
surgery, anaesthesiology, adult and paediatric ICU, paediatric gastroenterology and
hepatology, nursing, radiology, and blood bank and pathology services.