Associate Professor and Consultant Surgeon
Office : +603 79492441
Email : kohps@um.edu.my; kohps@ummc.edu.my
UMExpert Link: https://umexpert.um.edu.my/kohps.html
Publons Link: https://publons.com/researcher/2805964/peng-soon-koh/
Research Keywords : Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery | HPB Surgery | Liver Transplantation
Research Summary
- A multi-national cohort study on the impact of intra-tumoural genomic heterogeneity and the immune micro-environment on the clinical trajectory of resected hepatocellular carcinoma., Co-Investigator, 2017 – 2020, International Funding, (International)
- Phase 3 Multi-Centre Open Label Randomized Controlled Trial of Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) Versus Sorafenib In Locally Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (SIRveNIB), Co-Investigator, 2014 – 2016, Singapore Cancer Research Institute (SCRI), (International)
- Pre-operative Prophylactic Biliary Stenting In Patients Who Achieve ERCP Stone Clearance for Choledochocystolithiasis : A Single-Centre Randomised Controlled Trial, Principal Investigator(PI), 2016 – 2018, (National)
Main Research Interest / Goals
- Liver, biliary and pancreas cancer especially hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
- Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in HPB Surgery
- Liver transplantation in Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT)
Selected Publications
- Koh, P.S. and Chan, S.C. (2017) Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation: Operative techniques to optimize the recipient’s outcome. J Nat Sci Biol Med. Jan-Jun;8(1):4-10. doi: 10.4103/0976-9668.198356.
- Koh, P.S., Chan, A.C.Y., Cheung, T.T., Chok, K.S, Dai, W.C., Poon, R.T. and Lo, C.M. (2016) Efficacy of radiofrequency ablation compared with transarterial chemoembolization for the treatment of recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma: a comparative survival analysis. HPB (Oxford). Jan;18(1):72-8. doi: 10.1016/j.hpb.2015.07.005. PMID: 26776854
- Koh, P.S., Chan, S.C., Chok, K.S., Sharr, W.W., Wong, T.C., Sin, S.L. and Lo, C.M. (2015) The friendly incidental portal vein thrombus in liver transplantation. Liver Transplantation. 2015 Jul;21(7):944-52. doi: 10.1002/lt.24149. PMID:25891227