Adj Asst Prof Gao Yujia graduated from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2011. He joined the Residency Program at the National University Hospital in 2012, and obtained his Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2013, and the Master of Medicine (Surgery) in 2017. After completing his Residency training in 2019, he obtained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and was accredited as a Specialist in General Surgery by the Specialist Accreditation Board. Adj Asst Prof Gao has a sub-specialty interest in hepatobiliary, pancreatic, and liver transplant surgery and joined the Division of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery in 2020. He is currently the Deputy Undergraduate Medical Education Director in the Department of Surgery, National University Hospital.
Apart from his clinical work, Adj Asst Prof Gao is deeply involved in undergraduate medical education at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, serving as a Clinical Lecturer and participating actively in curriculum planning and review. He is a member of the Systems Block Workgroup (Gastrointestinal and Metabolism) committee and Medical Education Technology Enterprise (METE) committee.
Adj Asst Prof Gao also has special interests in Health Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Transformation, and Medical Technology, taking the lead in NGEMR change for the Department of Surgery, and spearheading various other projects including the development of Holomedicine, Mixed Virtual Reality devices, and Applications for medical education and clinical medicine.
