Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery – Programme Directors / Specialist Committees
Programme Director
Associate Professor Asher Lim
Associate Professor Asher Lim graduated from the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Dentistry in 1990. He obtained his Masters in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from the University of Hong Kong in 1996. He was awarded the Wang Guang Wu Scholarship while pursuing his Masters in Hong Kong. In 2001, he was awarded the scholarship for Healthcare Manpower Development Programme from Ministry of Health. Associate Professor Lim spent a year in Harvard as a clinical fellow. He is currently a Senior Consultant, with the National University Centre for Oral Health. His special interest is in Oral and Craniofacial Deformity, temporomandibular disorder/diseases. He had a fellowship in Hadassah Medical Centre, Jerusalem to learn more about management in temporomandibular joint diseases.
Associate Professor Lim has been a Director of Residency Programme in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, NUS since 2013. He has been in many leadership roles, such as Vice-dean(Clinical Affairs), Clinical director of the National University Centre for Oral Health, Head of OMS and Chairman of Dental Specialist Accreditation Committee. He is currently serving in the Ministry of Health, Audit Committee and is also the Executive Secretary of Singapore Dental Council.
Associate Programme Director
Dr Rahul Harshad Nagadia
Dr Rahul completed his Masters in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery from National University of Singapore in 2007 and was conferred as a specialist in 2010. With a keen interest in Head and Neck Oncosurgery, he pursued medical studies at the University of Queensland, Australia with a scholarship from National Dental Centre Singapore. He was awarded the degree of MBBS in 2014. He further completed a two-year Oncosurgery fellowship at the National Cancer Centre Singapore and Singapore General Hospital.
He is currently a Senior Consultant with Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, National Dental Centre Singapore as well as Department of Head and Neck Surgery, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore General Hospital. His clinical interest is in Head and Neck cancers and is also actively involved in research looking at molecular markers for malignancy. Dr Rahul has been the Associate Program Director of Residency Programme in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, NUS since 2022. He is also an examiner for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Specialist Accreditation Board and Education Director, Singhealth Duke Disease Centre Head and Neck Surgery.
Committee Members
Adjunct Associate Professor Loh Fun Chee
Associate Professor Raymond Wong
Dr Tan Mei Hui
