Lau Peng Choong Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur

Dr Lau Peng Choong is a Consultant Upper GI, Bariatric and General Surgeon at Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur and an Honorary Visiting Consultant Upper GI Surgeon to UMMC. He served as an Associate Professor and was Head of the Upper GI and Bariatric Surgery Unit at University of Malaya until August 2019. His subspecialty interest is in Upper Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Surgery. His training includes a fellowship in Advanced Gastric Cancer Surgery in Seoul, South Korea plus he also did a year of clinical fellowship in Upper GI and Bariatric Surgery in Coventry, United Kingdom under the sponsorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Dr Lau is the current Vice President of the Malaysian Upper Gastrointestinal Surgical Society (MUGIS) and also the Vice President 2 of the Malaysia Hernia Society(MHS). He helped pioneered the first POEM (Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy) service for achalasia in Malaysia with his gastroenterology colleagues in University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC). He was an early adoptor of using flourescent imaging in surgery in Malaysia and routinely uses it during laparoscopic gallbladder surgery and minimally invasive cancer surgeries. Dr Lau has helped trained many young doctors as well as surgeons for the country while serving as a faculty member in University of Malaya. He is currently appointed as the National Upper GI Surgery Subspecialty Training Committee Board Member which governs the training of Upper GI Surgeon in the country. He also currently serves as the National Specialist Register (NSR) Speciality Subcommittee Evaluator for Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery in Malaysia.

Day 2, 1 June 2024

Time Session
08:00
09:30
Kirubakaran a/l Malapan Chairperson Gleneagles Hospital Penang
Subhash Aggarwal Chairperson Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute
  • Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Plus Proximal Transit Bipartition - A Novel Procedure
    Rajkumar Vinayak Speaker Pantai Hospital Melaka
  • Recurrent Weight Gain After Gastric Bypass
    Ramen Goel Speaker Centre of Metabolic Surgery, India
  • Suboptimal Weight Loss And Weight Regain After Sleeve Gastrectomy
    Mustafa Mohamed Taher Al-Khafaji Speaker Cengild G. I. Medical Centre
  • Concomitant Hiatal Hernia Repair in Sleeve Gastrectomy
    Lau Peng Choong Speaker Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur
  • Complications in Bariatric Surgery in Malaysia that We Don't Talk About
    Abdul Gafoor Mubarak Speaker Island Hospital Penang
Sepilok
10:30
11:30
Mohana Raj Thanapal Chairperson Hospital Kuala Lumpur
Than Da Jun Chairperson Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  • Establishing Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernioplasty Services in a District Hospital
    Lai Chung Ket Speaker Hospital Duchess of Kent
  • Teleproctoring
    Kim Seon Hahn Speaker University of Malaya Medical Centre
  • MHS Roadshow
    Abdul Gafoor Mubarak Speaker Island Hospital Penang
  • Self-Grip Mesh: Redefining Mesh Fixation In Hernioplasty
    Lau Peng Choong Speaker Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur
  • Fellowship in Robotic Surgery- The ARIS concept and revolution.
    Subhash Khanna Speaker Swagat Super Speciality Surgical Institute (India)
Sepilok
15:00
16:30
Lee Pei Pei Chairperson Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Mohamad Aznan Shuhaili Chairperson MSU Medical Centre
  • Improving Outcomes In Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy With Limited Resources
    Ooi Wei Keat Speaker Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  • Is post-POEM Reflux A Myth? Real World Data On Patient Reported Reflux Symptom Scores
    Lau Peng Choong Speaker Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur
  • ICG navigation in laparoscopic D2 gastrectomy
    Wong Wei Jin Speaker UM Medical Centre
  • Robotic Fundoplication
    Subhash Khanna Speaker Swagat Super Speciality Surgical Institute (India)
Sipadan III