Susan Lim

Susan Lim
Alma mater	Monash University University of Cambridge
Occupation(s)	Surgeon Scientist Entrepreneur
Website	Susan Lim Surgery

Susan Lim is a Singaporean surgeon who performed the first successful liver transplant in Asia.

She was born in Singapore, where she was educated at Singapore Chinese Girls' School and the Raffles Institution. In 1974, she was awarded a scholarship under the Colombo Plan to study medicine at Monash University in Australia.

In 2003, she started a biotechnology company, Stem Cell Technologies.

In 2004, she became a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the youngest fellow and first Singaporean to be conferred this honour.

She established together with her husband, Deepak Sharma, and friend, Satpal Khattar, the Indiapore Trust with the aim of providing assistance to underprivileged children from countries in the region. The first Singapore charity to be supported by the Indiapore Trust, through a donation of $50,000, was the Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund, which assists struggling parents to meet their children's school expenses. To date, the Trust has donated a science laboratory to the Raffles Junior College, and provided scholarships to underprivileged children in Singapore and India.

Wax figures of her hands are part of the display at Madame Tussaud's Exhibition in Singapore.

She sits on the Global Advisory Council of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 2011.

Susan Lim was a speaker at the TED Conference in Lavasa in December 2010 along with James Cameron and Deepak Chopra.

Investigation by SMC

In February 2011 the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) presented a case to investigate an accusation from the Ministry of Health following complaints by Brunei's Ministry of Health's (MOHB) regarding complaints of overcharging a member of Brunei's royal family in 2007. The bill for 7 months of breast cancer treatment or Pangiran Anak Hajah Damit, the cousin of the Brunei Sultan and sister of the Queen, came up to $USD 20 million (SGD$26 million) due to alleged significant markups. On 28th March, 2011, Lim requested the intervention of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore) stop the investigation by the SMC, as "she would need to disclose details of the royal family of Brunei which could impact the relationship between the two countries". The MFA rejected Lim's request, stating that it does not intervene in legal proceedings. Lim's counsel told the hearing that the medical bills had not been marked up.

At the core of the allegations against Dr.Lim is the principle of breach of trust in the relationship between the patient and Dr.Lim due to 'overcharging'. However as defensive testimony proves, there was in fact nothing but praise for Dr.Lim's services to the patient, and neither 'abuse of trust' or 'dishonesty' is alleged in any of the 94 charges laid against Dr.Lim. Said allegations were introduced in open court and later released to the public. ().

At the Hearing on 28th March, 2011, SMC's Counsel waved a letter purportedly written by Dr Lim to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore) giving them a heads up about the sensitive information in this case, including medical information relating to the Brunei Royal Family which may come to public domain (). The SMC counsel failed to mention in Court, that this letter was in fact redacted by the Court to black out highly senstive information contained in the letter.