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Aymeric Lim Yu Tang

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name : Aymeric Lim Yu Tang

Date of birth : 7th February 1966

Professional : MBBS National University of Singapore 1985 - 1990
Qualifications FRCS (Glasg) Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow 1995

Awards and Honors :

Awarded the 3rd Combat Support Hospital Best Performance Award during its 6th-Year-In
Camp-Training, March 1996.

Winner of the Singapore Orthopaedic Association Young Orthopaedic Surgeon's Award, 1998.

Winner of the Annual Scientific Meeting of National University Hospital Young Doctor Award,
August 1999.

Awarded the FMN Nsman of the year 2000

Award for the Best Free Paper at the Comprehensive Review Course in Hand Surgery & SSHS
Annual Scientific Meeting, May 2001

Appointments :

Acting Chief, Dept of Hand & Reconstructive Microsurgery, NUH, 1 May 2004

Visiting Consultant to Orthopaedic Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 1 Dec 2002 to 31 Dec 2003

Administrative Posts:

a. Member of Singapore Medical Association since 1990.

b. Member of Singapore Orthopaedic Association since 1996.

c. Member of Singapore Society for Hand Surgery since 1997.

d. Treasurer and Secretary of Singapore Society for Hand Surgery from 1997 onward.

e. Member of Organising Committee of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Singapore
Orthopaedic Association 1997 and 1999.

f. Member of Organising committee of the 2nd Asian-Pacific Societies for Hand surgery
1999.

g. Course Director for the Hand & Reconstructive Microsurgery Training Programme since
2000 - 2004 (current).

h. Vice President of Singapore Society for Hand Surgery - Executive Committee Members, 2004

i. Symposium Faculty (NUH -Group Lecturer) & NUH Multi-Disciplinary Group for Symposium on Diabetic Foot Problems on 25 October 2003.

j. Course Director and Teaching Faculty for Hand Fracture Fixation Course & Workshop on
25 February 2004.

k. Teaching faculty and Secretary of Organising committee for the Review Course in Hand
Surgery, 26 to 28 February 2004.

Invited presentations

Overseas

i. Neurovascular compartments of the gracilis muscle
- Asia Pacific Society for Surgery of the Hand (Perth) March 1997.

ii. Two Functioning Neuromuscular Units in the Flexor Carpi Ulnaris.
- 7th Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (Vancouver) May 1998.
- 2nd Congress Asia Pacific Federation for Societies for Surgery of the Hand.

iii The Long Head of the Triceps Brachii as a Free Functioning Muscle Transfer
- 8th Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand
(Istanbul) June 2001.

iv Intramuscular Innervation of Skeletal Muscles - A Study on the human upper Limb
- Inaugural congress of the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
(Taipei, Taiwan) October 2001.

v Posterior Interosseus Flap and Sural Neurocutaneus Flap
- Flap Dissection Course and Workshop
(Surabaya, Indonesia) May 2004.

vi Burns: Treatment & Reconstructive Surgery
- Independent function in a tendon transfer of the split flexor carpi ulnaris muscle
(Hanoi, Vietnam) July 2004
vii International Symposium in Hand Surgery and the Advances In Hand Therapy
- Functional anatomy of nerve and muscle
- Split tendon transfer
- Peripheral nerve Injury and repair
- Fascial vascular Island flap In finger reconstruction
(Jakarta, Indonesia) August 2004

Local

i 25th Postgraduate Course In Orthopaedics
- Principles of tendon transfer and repair
- Advances In management of nerve Injuries
- Volkmann's Ischemia
(Singapore) July 2004

Publications

1. Wang ECM, Lim AYT, Yeo TT. Traumatic posterior fossa extradural haematomas (PFEDH). Singapore Medical Journal, 1998, 39(3), 107-111.
2. Lim AT, Kumar VP, Hua J, Pereira BP, Pho RWH. The neuromuscular compartments of the flexor carpi ulnaris. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1999, Mar; 103(3), 1046-51 quiz 1052, discussion 1053.
3. Hua J, Kumar VP, Pereira BP, Lim AY, Pho RWH, Liu J. Split flexor carpi radialis muscle Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1999, Mar; 103 (3), 930-4.
4. Lim AYT, Low CK, Lee PK. Necrosis of the index, middle, ring finger pulps after transfer of a heterodigital neurovascular island flap. Hand Surgery 1999, 3(2), 307-310.
5. Lim AY, Kumar VP, Pereira BP, Hua J. Independent function in a tendon transfer of the split flexor carpi ulnaris. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1999, Nov; 104(6): 1739-41; discussion 1742-3.
6. Chee BP, Lim A, Chia JC, Teh M. Soft Tissue Chondroma in the finger: a case report and review of the literature. Ann Acad Med Singapore 1999; Jul; 28(4):590-2 Review.
7. Chia J, Lim A, Peng YP. Use of an arterialised venous flap for resurfacing a circumferential soft tissue defect of a digit. Microsurgery 2001: 21(8): 374-8.
8. Lim AY, Pereira BP, Kumar VP. The long head of the triceps brachii as a free functioning muscle transfer. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 2001, Jun; 107(7), 7:1746-52.
9. Pistre V, Pelissier P, Martin D, Lim A, Baudet J. Ten years of experience with the submental flap. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 2001 Nov. 108(6): 1576-81.
10. Ng HP, Cheong KF, Lim A, Lim J, Puhaindran ME. Intraoperative single-shot '3-in-1' femoral nerve block with ropivacaine 0.5% or bupivacaine 0.25% provides comparable 48-hr analgesia after unilateral total knee replacement. Can J Anaesth. 2001 Dec, 48(11): 1102-8.
11. Pelissier P, Pistre V, Casoli V, Lim A, Martin D, Baudet J. Dorso-ulnar osteocutaneous reverse flow flap of the thumb. Journal of Hand Surgery (Br), 2001, Jun 26(3): 207-11.
12. Faivre S, Lim A, Dautel G, Duteille F, Merle M. Adjacent and spontaneous neurotization after distal digital replantation In children. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 2003 Jan; 111(1): 159-65 discussion 166.
13. Duteille F, Lim A, Dautel G. Free flap coverage of upper and lower limb tissue defects In children: a series of 22 patients. Ann Plastic Surgery 2003 Apr; 50(4):344-9.
14. Duteille F, Pasquier P, Lim A, Dautel G. Treatment of complex Interphalangeal joint fractures with dynamic external traction: a series of 20 cases. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 2003 Apr; 15; 111(5): 1623-9.
15. K Wieken, K Angioi-Duprez, A Lim, L Marchal & M Merle. Nerve Anastomosis with Glue: Comparative Histologic Study of Fibrin and Cyanoacrylate Glue. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Volume 19, Number 1, 2003.
16. Lim AYT, Lahiri A, Pereira BP, Kumar VP, Tan LL. Independent function in a split flexor carpi radialis transfer. Journal of Hand Surgery (AM) Jan; 29(1): 28-31, 2004.
17. Lim AYT, Pereiar BP, Kumar VP, De Coninck C, Taki C, Baudet J, Merle M. Intramuscular innervation of upper limb skeletal muscles. Muscle & Nerve Apr; 29(4): 523-30, 2004.

Book Chapter

Surgical techniques: neurolysis, sutures, grafts, neurotizations in Brachial Plexus Injuries, M. Merle, Aymeric Lim. Published in Association with the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand. Page 51 to 56.
Nerve Allograft - What is the future? Michel Merle, Aymeric Lim, Karen Wieken, Gui-Bei Lan, Christian Bour). Published in Composite Tissue Allografts by Jean-Michel Dubernard Page 35 to 40.

Current research

Changes in muscle architecture after tendon transfer.
NMRC grant no. NMRC/0317/1998 for $78 000.

Teaching

Lecture to Advanced Diploma in Nursing (Orthopaedics) course on 26 January 2004.
Clinical Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine for Academic Year 2003/2004, ending 30 June 2004.
Clinical Tutor in the Faculty of Medicine for the academic year 2001/2002.
3rd and 5th year medical students in clinic and on an ad hoc tutorial basis
Organisation of the following courses:
i. Hand Review course at SGH PGMI 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
ii. Oncology Review course at Academy of Medicine1998
iii. Organised the final MBBS examination in Orthopaedics at TTSH in 1998.
iv. Post graduate course in orthopaedic – 2001
v. Hand Exit Examination 2002 to 2003.
vi. Orthopaedic Teaching Courses for nurses 2002, 2003.
vii. Nurses Microsurgical Workshop 2002, 2003, 2004

Service

Battalion second-in-command (3 Combat Support Hospital), Year 2003 - 2004
Operation Flying Eagle 1999, Relief Mission for Taiwan Earthquake.
SIF Afghanistan Refugee Relief Mission, Year 2002

Sports

Tennis: National University of Singapore Champion 1985, 1986.

 

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