Keith Goh
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Dr. Keith Goh (Template:Zh) is a neurosurgeon from Singapore. Dr. Goh is known for his operations in separating conjoined twins with two known successful cases and a failed attempt in separating Ladan and Laleh Bijani.
Career
In 2001, Dr. Goh had successfully led a surgical team in separating a set of conjoined twins. It was the first surgery on such separation of conjoined twins in Singapore.
In 2003, Dr. Goh was a consultant neurosurgeon at Raffles Hospital.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> In the same year, he led an international medical and surgical team and attempted to separate adult conjoined twins, Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who were joined at the head.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The operation, carried out in Raffles Hospital, was unsuccessful leading to the deaths of the twins shortly after separation.<ref name=":0" />
Shortly after the operation on the Bijani twins, Dr. Goh successfully led a team to separate a pair of conjoined twins, 4-month-old Korean girls who were joined at the base of their spine, on 22 July.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite magazine</ref> The family of the Korean twins had consulted Goh before the Bijani twins and managed to raise funds for the operation shortly after the Bijani twins' operation.<ref name=":1" />
As of 2004, Dr. Goh became an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.<ref name=":0" />
In 2009, he agreed to operate on another pair of conjoined twins, Vani and Veena, in India. The Indian government consented to fund the cost of the separation operation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>After further assessment, the operation did not go ahead.