Dr. Ooi Choon Jin

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About Dr. Ooi Choon Jin Dr. Ooi Choon Jin is a gastroenterologist having more than 25 years of expertise. Services provided by him includes nutrition and the treatment of conditions involving the stomach, intestines, liver, gall bladder and bile duct. He regularly conducts operations like balloon-assisted enteroscopy, capsule endoscopy, diagnostic and therapeutic gastroscopy, and colonoscopy. The National University of Singapore (NUS) awarded Dr. Ooi a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1989. In 1994, he received his higher degree from the Royal College of Physicians in the UK. He belongs to the Edinburgh branch of the Royal College of Physicians in the UK. He received his training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the USA’s Centre for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Unit from 1998 to 2000. From 2011 to 2015, Dr. Ooi served as the president of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore’s Chapter of Gastroenterologists. Additionally, he held the position of clinical associate professor at NUS’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.  Dr. Ooi’s research interests include problems caused by the helicobacter pylori bacteria, malabsorption, and inflammatory bowel diseases such ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.  He has published articles in a number of journals, including the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, Singapore Medical Journal, Annals of Academic Medicine (Singapore), Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Pathology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Gastroenterology, and Current Opinion in Gastroenterology..  Dr. Ooi Choon Jin is fluent in English, Malay, and Mandarin.