Dr Pradeep Durai, Consultant in the Division of Urology, Department of General Surgery at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH), graduated from the Madras Medical College, Chennai, in 2010 and received his surgical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2012. He completed his Urology Residency in 2019 at the National University Health System (NUHS) in 2019 and was awarded the College of Surgeons Gold Medal for Urology. He received specialist accreditation from the Ministry of Health, Singapore, and a fellowship from the Academy of Medicine, Singapore in the same year.
Dr Pradeep also secured the top score in the Urology fellowship examination of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and received his fellowship from RCPSG in 2019. He received a Master of Surgery (Urology) from the University of Edinburgh in 2021.
Dr Pradeep joined the Division of Urology at NTFGH in 2019, where he received speciality training in Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP). In 2022, he was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) scholarship from the Ministry of Health and completed a year of subspecialty fellowship training in managing Kidney Cancers (Upper urinary tract oncology) at The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH), Glasgow, United Kingdom. His special interests are kidney cancers, kidney stones, endo-urology, and benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH).
Currently, Dr Pradeep also holds a position as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, and the Associate Programme Director for the NUHS Urology Residency program. He published numerous research articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and has received grants for translational research.
Aside from his work in urology, Dr Pradeep is also interested in medical art, which has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and on the National University Hospital corporate website.
