Dr. Natascha Ekawati Putri Bunjamin

Dr Natascha Putri is a Senior Consultant Head & Neck Surgeon with subspecialty expertise in the treatment of conditions affecting the head and neck region, including thyroid disorders, salivary gland diseases, and head and neck cancers. She also provides general surgical care, including endoscopy services.

Dr Putri graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). She completed her surgical residency in General Surgery at SingHealth and obtained her Masters of Medicine in Surgery (MMed Surgery) from NUS. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSEd).

Dr Putri subspecialised in Head and Neck Surgery, completing an advanced fellowship at the internationally renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, one of the world’s leading cancer centres. There, she received specialised training in complex head and neck oncological surgery under the mentorship of global leaders in the field.

Prior to entering private practice, Dr Putri served as a Senior Consultant Surgeon at the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), where she was a core member of the Head and Neck Cancer multidisciplinary team. She also held a faculty appointment as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the NUS Faculty of Dentistry, and continues to serve as a Visiting Consultant at NCCS and Woodlands Health.

Dr Putri has contributed to research in head and neck surgery and surgical oncology and has published in international peer-reviewed journals. She is trained in the use of bedside ultrasound and fine needle aspiration (FNA) for the assessment of thyroid and salivary gland conditions, and performs nasoendoscopy for the evaluation of nasal, throat and voice box conditions.

Head & Neck Surgery; thyroid surgery; salivary gland surgery; surgical oncology; general surgery; colonoscopy; gastroscopy; PEG tube insertion

Head & Neck cancers ; minimally invasive treatment for thyroid nodules ; salivary gland surgery

A Tan, NG Iyer, N Putri, N Nadkarni, T Skanthakumar, TH Wong, G Tay. Factors driving frequent attendance at emergency departments for patients with head and neck cancer. Head & Neck. Aug 2019. doi: 10.1002/hed.25928.

Putri N, Lek SM, Shannon N, Tan J, Tan G, Chia C, Teo M, Thng CH, Tay T, Ong J, & Koh PT. Two Cancers Arising from Different Mesenchymal Origins: An Unexpected Connection over Time and Space. Case Reports in Otolaryngology. 2020; doi: 10.1155/2020/8841695.

Lek SM, Li K, Tan QX, Shannon NB, Ng WH, Hendrikson J, Tan JWS, Lim HJ, Chen Y, Koh KKN, Skanthakumar T, Kwang XL, Chong FT, Leong HS, Tay G, Putri NE, Lim TKH, Hwang JSG, Ang MK, Tan DSW, Tan NC, Tan HK, Iyer NG. Loss of Neurofibromin 2 (NF2) Expression is frequent in head and neck paragangliomas but not predictive of clinical aggression. Head & Neck 2020. doi: 10.1002/hed.26497.

Hao Li, Marlena McGill, Natascha Putri, Avery Yuan, Richard J. Wong, Snehal G. Patel, Ian Ganly. Margin Status, Local Control and Disease-specific Survival in Surgically Resected Parotid Carcinomas with Close or Positive Margins. Oral Oncology. 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2023.106478.

Guo JW, N Putri. Spontaneous diaphgramatic rupture in a young man with back pain. ANZ J Surg. July 2022. doi: 10.1111/ans.17932.

Advanced fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Adjunct Assistant Professor at NUS Faculty of Dentistry

Visiting Consultant at National Cancer Centre Singapore and Woodlands Health