Dr Desmond Wai obtained his basic medical degree at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1994. He passed his membership for the Royal College of Physicians (UK) and Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine) in 1998, and completed his specialist training in internal medicine in 1999.

Dr Wai completed his advanced specialist training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology in 2002. Following that, Dr Wai went to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, to do his fellowship in hepatology, under the mentorship of world renowned Hepatologist, Professor Anna Lok.

Since 2003, Dr Wai has been a consultant hepatologist and gastroenterologist with the National University Hospital, Singapore.

He joined NUS as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in 2005, and had published extensively on liver transplantation, viral hepatitis B and C, and endoscopy.

Dr Wai joined the Asian Centre for Liver Diseases & Transplantation at the Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore, in November 2006 and is currently working as a transplant hepatologist and gastroenterologist.

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