Dr. Lim Beng Hai is a Senior Consultant at the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor (Department of Orthopaedic Surgery) at the National University of Singapore. He was previously an Adjunct Assistant Professor (Department of Surgery) at the University of Louisville, USA, a Consultant Hand Surgeon at the Singapore General Hospital and the Chief of the Department of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery at the National University Hospital (NUH).

He obtained his MBBS (1985) and Master of Medicine (General Surgery)(1991) from the National University of Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)(1991) and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (Orthopaedic Surgery)(1997).

Dr. Lim took up an advanced Hand Surgery Traineeship in 1990 and was accredited as a Specialist in Hand Surgery in September 1998. He did his fellowship in Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery at the Christine Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery in 1994 and was awarded the prestigious Senior Fellowship in Hand Surgery by the University of Louisville Hospitals in 1995 to 1996.

He was the Associate Chairman of the Medical Board in 2001/2002 and Vice Chairman of the Medical Board 2003/2004 at the National University Hospital. Dr. Lim set up the Microsurgical Training Laboratory in NUH in 2001 and was Program Director for the laboratory and started the joint training program in microsurgery with Aesculap Academy in 2003. The success of the Microsurgical training laboratory propelled him to set up the STAR (Skills, Training And Research) Laboratory in NUH in 2003. The STAR lab was further expanded to include Digital Medicine Laboratory. 

As the Chief to the Department of Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery, he started the Department’s annual cadaveric symposium and workshop for General Practitioners in 2000 and in 2001 the Foundations in Musculoskeletal Surgery for advanced trainees in Hand, Plastics and Orthopaedic surgery.

His research interests include the Wrist and Distal Radial Ulnar Joint, flexor tendon repairs and training and certification in microsurgery. His publications including some of his innovative surgical techniques are recognized by the international Hand Surgery community. Some of the techniques were cited in texts such as Green’s Operative Hand Surgery, Atlas of Hand Clinics and Grabbs Enclyclopedia for Flap Surgery.