After obtaining his basic medical degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1995, Dr Salleh Ibrahim furthered his training in the Royal College of Glasgow. He had worked at the General Surgery departments of Singapore General Hospital and Changi General Hospital (CGH) from 1996 to 2011. Prior to joining ACLDT in 2012, he was a Senior Consultant (General Surgery) and Director, Hepato-Pancreatic Biliary Surgery, at CGH, and Chairman of the Liver Transplant Committee of Eastern Health Alliance, Singapore.

Since 2003, Dr Salleh has been a Clinical Lecturer at NUS. He is a Visiting Specialist to international liver transplant centres in Taiwan and Brazil. He also sits on several Boards of Directors for Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) and charitable organisations in Singapore.

Dr Salleh has been accorded Merit Awards by the Taiwan and Japanese Surgical Associations, as well as for his research paper at the CGH Annual Scientific Meeting. Besides being a reviewer of several medical journals, he has also published extensively on the safety of living donors, treatment of advanced liver cancer and surgical techniques in pancreatic surgery. Dr Salleh's research and clinical interests are on the effective treatment of liver cancer and bioartificial liver.

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