Dr. Hu Shulin Jesse

Dr Jesse Hu is a general surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospitals, Singapore.

Her specialties are in managing benign and malignant breast and thyroid conditions, which includes breast cancer screening and treatment, evaluation and management of breast pain, breast lumps, breast cysts. She also manages thyroid lumps, thyroid cancers, goitre and hyperparathyroidism. She performs minimally invasive breast and thyroid surgery, including oncoplastic breast surgery for breast cancers.

Dr Jesse was a former senior consultant at the National University Health System, caring for patients at the National University Hospital (NUH) and Ng Teng Fong General Hospital.

After graduating and completing surgical training at NUH, she was admitted as a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK. She subsequently completed two Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) fellowships in Breast Surgery and Endocrine Surgery at the Oxford University Hospitals, UK.

She was the tumour group lead for breast oncology at the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore, and the lead for JCI accreditation, which focused on patient safety and care in the hospital. She was a clinical senior lecturer and surgical program director, as well as the assistant program director for the General Surgery National Residency program.

Minimally invasive breast surgery for benign (non-cancerous) and malignant (cancerous) lumps

Oncoplastic breast surgery – using plastic surgical techniques and approaches for breast cancer surgery to achieve good aesthetic outcomes along with good oncological (cancer) outcomes

Systematic Review comparing volume replacement oncoplastic techniques to other surgical techniques – wide local excision, simple mastectomy and mastectomy with reconstruction.

Eur J of Sur Onc 50(1):107182

Ak Nanda, J Hu et al

Mammography screening is associated with more favorable breast cancer tumour characteristics and better overall survival: case-only analysis of 3739 Asian breast cancer patients

BMC Medicine 20(1)

Z Lim, J Hu et al

Oncoplastic breast conserving surgery for women with primary breast cancer (Review)

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2021, Issue 10

Ak Nanda, J Hu et al

Partial Breast Reconstruction with Lateral Chest wall Perforator Flap to facilitate breast conservation in breast cancer: First 100 cases with cancer outcomes at 8 years follow-up and the lessons learnt

PG Roy, L Mustata, J Hu et al. Cancer Management and Research 2021:13:9453-9466

Thyroglossal cysts and lingual thyroid

Textbook of endocrine surgery (3 rd edition)

Jesse Hu, WK Cheah

Laparoscopic adrenalectomy

Evidence-based endocrine surgery

Jesse Hu, WK Cheah

Surgical management of Graves’ disease over 25-year period in a single institution:

comparison outcomes between subtotal thyroidectomy and total thyroidectomy

SA Lui, JL Teh, WB Tan, J Hu, WK Cheah. WJES 2018:10:2

Awarded best poster for Value Driven Outcome (VDO) Symposium for value driven care in breast cancer patients

Awarded Top 5 Quality Improvement Project for QIP on starting DS23 in NTFGH

Awarded JurongHealth Fund for research project on use of laparoscopic appendicectomy trainer for residents to

improve laparascopic skills

– Results were presented as poster in SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress 2021

Awarded Health Manpower Development Program (HMDP) for dual fellowship in Breast Surgery & Endocrine Surgery in Oxford University Hospital, UK

Long service award

Singapore Medical Association – member

Association of Women Doctors (Singapore) – member

Singapore Society of Oncology – member