Dr Cheow Xunqi

Dr Cheow Xunqi is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and the Sports Surgery Service Lead at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sengkang General Hospital. 

Dr Cheow graduated from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine with an MBBS in 2011 and was awarded the Meritorious House Officer Award in 2012 for his outstanding performance. He commenced his Orthopaedic Surgery specialist training in 2016 and was awarded the Outstanding Resident Award in 2018 for exemplary academic and clinical performance. He was appointed Chief Resident in 2021 and completed the Singapore Chief Residency Programme in 2022, subsequently attaining the FRCSEd (Ortho) in the same year. 

In 2025, Dr Cheow completed his fellowship in Sports Surgery and Upper Limb Trauma at the renowned Sporthopaedicum Regensburg, Germany – a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence – under the SingHealth Health Manpower Development Plan scholarship. During his fellowship, he specialised in shoulder, elbow, and knee surgery and trained under world-renowned surgeons, including Prof. Andreas Voss, Prof. Stefan Greiner, Prof. Peter Angele, and Prof. Johannes Zellner. 

Committed to both undergraduate and postgraduate education, Dr Cheow contributes actively as faculty in surgical training courses, imparting his expertise in shoulder and knee arthroscopy to junior surgeons. He also serves as a Clinical Core Faculty Member for the SingHealth Postgraduate Year 1 Programme and as an Assistant Convenor for the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine MBBS Examinations. In addition, he holds the role of Site Chief for the SingHealth-Duke Sports & Exercise Medicine Centre in SKH.

Dr Cheow’s subspecialty interests include sports injuries of the shoulder, elbow, and knee, arthroscopic (minimally-invasive) surgery, and shoulder arthroplasty. He has published in various peer-reviewed journals, presented at international, regional, and local scientific meetings, and co-authored book chapters in arthroscopic shoulder surgery.

• FRCSEd (Ortho)
• MMed (Ortho)
• MRCS (Glasgow)
• MBBS (Singapore)

• You Sparkle! Gold Award, 2025
• Singapore Health Quality Service Awards 2025 – Silver
• You Sparkle! Silver Award, 2024
• ​Meritorious House Officer Award, 2022
• Outstanding Resident Award, SingHealth Residency Programme RISE Awards, 2018
  

• Injury Chronicity Does Not Affect Outcomes Following Ligament Repair with Suture Tape Augmentation for Post-Traumatic Elbow Instability. Cheow X, Schramm S, Voss A, Greiner S. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. Epub 2025 Dec 13

• Assessment of radiographic parameters in diagnosing discoid lateral meniscus: A retrospective MRI-based study. Fong J, Wong KC, Lee M, Cheow X, Koh JSB, Howe TS, Png MA. J Exp Orthop. 2025 Nov 14;12(4):e70564

• Do We Ever Need to Fix Clavicle Fracture in Adolescents? Lim KBL, Olandres RA, Cheow X, Thng M, Teo NMHZ, Pereira N, et al. Malays Orthop J. 2023;17(3):33-41
  
  
• No Difference in Outcome Between Articular-Sided and Bursal-Sided Tears: Comparative Study With Minimum 2-Year Follow-Up of Arthroscopic Repairs in 104 Patients in a Single-Surgeon Series, Xunqi Cheow, Andy Yew, Benjamin Fu Hong Ang, Denny Tjiauw Tjoen Lie, Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, May 2021, 37(5): 1449-1454

• Arthroscopic Single Lateral Row Repair Technique for Small Rotator Cuff Tears, Xunqi Cheow, Denny Tjiauw Tjoen Lie, Arthroscopy Techniques, Feb 2021, 10(3): e775-e780

• 90o Rotation of Talus in a Closed Medial Subtalar Dislocation: A Unique Case, Xunqi Cheow, Mehta Kinjal Vidyut, Journal of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rehabilitation, Dec 2020, 27(2): 240-246 

• Midterm Functional Outcomes in Operatively Treated Adolescent Lisfranc Injuries, Xunqi Cheow, Kai Yet Lam, Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics (B), Sep 2018, 27(5): 435-442

• Book Title: Shoulder Surgery Made Easy! The Singapore Shoulder & Elbow Society Guide to Arthroscopic and Open Shoulder Procedures, Author: Denny TT Lie, Chapter Contribution: Partial Tears: Articular Surface, Bursal Surface