Our Radiologist

Dr Kenneth Sheah is an experienced Consultant Radiologist, reviewer for Skeletal Radiology and the Singapore Medical Journal, and co-author of the chapter on Shoulder in Haaga’s CT and MRI of the Whole Body, and Kamarkar’s Atlas of Sonoanatomy.

Qualifications

• MBBS (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine)
• Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists (UK)
• MMed (Diagnostic Radiology)(NUS, S’pore)
• Cert Pain Mgmt (UCSF)
• Fellow of Academy of Medicine, Singapore

Designation
Consultant Radiologist (Musculoskeletal)

Specialty: Radiology (Musculoskeletal)
Spine and joint pain management, degenerative spine and joint conditions, injection for sports injuries, verebroplasty and nucleoplasty, image guided soft tissue biopsies (fine needle aspiration of thyroid, breast), radiofrequency ablation, varicose vein sclerotherapy and ablation, venous port and catheter access.

Languages Spoken:
English, Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese & Malay

Radiology is at the cutting edge of medicine, and Dr Sheah has been trained to interpret MRI investigations of numerous musculoskeletal injuries, ranging from elite soccer players from the English Premier league, to spine fractures in the elderly.

He routinely performs injections into knee, shoulder, ankle and hip joints, as well as spine for pain relief and diagnostic purposes. These spine injections include facets, sacroiliac joints, nerve root and epidurals, vertebroplasty and nucleoplasty, radiofrequency procedures, and are guided with imaging equipment. Patients go usually home the same day after these procedures. Ken’s ultrasound guided trigger finger injections have also met with anecdotal success.

He also has an interest in venous access (such as implantable ports, PICC lines), varicose vein ablations and sclerotherapy, and radiofrequency ablation of thyroid nodules.

Dr Sheah read Medicine at the Imperial College School of Medicine, Science and Technology, post-graduate trained in Singapore (Singhealth), was awarded Young Radiologist of the Year in 2002, and did a research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He believes that the most important thing in being a doctor is to have empathy for patients.