About Our Podiatrist
Tye Lee Tze - the 1st Podiatrist in Singapore
Tye Lee Tze is recognised (by the Ministry of Health Singapore) as the 1st Podiatrist in Singapore when he was appointed to Tan Tock Seng Hospital in 1993.
Tye has been a Podiatrist for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge, Adidas Runners Day, New Balance Real Run, & Adidas Sundown Marathon.
Tye has been featured in various media including the Straits Times, Business Times, Channel News Asia – Prime Time Morning, Radio 93.8, and various magazines including Run magazine, Shape magazine, Harpers Bazaar, and Reader’s Digest. He has given talks on foot related topics and running shoes for various multinational companies and hospitals around the region.
Tye was a co-founder of “On-Track Shoe Reviews” – a Singapore Sports Council initiative for reviewing shoes in 2008 and for the Sports Medicine Association Singapore shoe reviews in 2018.
He has also been a lecturer for Diabetic Footcare for Doctors and Nurses in primary care and conducts workshops for various professional bodies including the Graduate Diploma in Sports Medicine program with NTU LKC School of Medicine.
30+
years of clinical experience
25,000+
custom-made foot orthotics handcrafted
100,000+
satisfied clients
4,500+
high performance, elite & national athletes treated
First Podiatrist in Singapore
As the first podiatrist in Singapore, Tye has a deep well of experience in all areas of podiatric practice that’s drawn from over 30 years of clinical experience in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore in both the hospital and private practice settings.
Working closely with many medical specialists, his approach is a wholistic form that takes the multi-disciplinary patient-centric approach. In this way, the patient gets the best of all areas of treatment.
Among the many medical specialists he has worked closely with are:
- Paediatric physiotherapists in Australia attending to children’s foot, leg & walking problems
- Sports medicine specialists in Singapore attending to athletes from the recreational to the elite
- Specialist diabetes teams helping to prevent foot infections and amputations
- Specialist geriatric & rehab teams helping patients regain mobility and quality of life
Since graduating from Queensland University of Technology in 1990, Tye has practised his university’s motto – university for the real world, which means the approaches must have a solid sound evidence-based foundation but they must be applicable in the real world. One example – Tye has found working solutions for ladies who fear they are destined to wear “grandma” shoes all the time.
At The Podiatry Centre, you will get the evidenced-based personal treatment that you deserve, the treatment that flows from the Golden Rule – to be treated as we ourselves would want to be treated.
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Founding President
The Singapore Podiatry Group (which evolved into the Podiatry Association Singapore) -
President
Sports Medicine Association Singapore (2019-2020, 2022 -2023) -
Member of Advisory Committee
Podiatry Association Singapore (2018 - current)
Graduate Diploma in Sports Medicine - Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (2020, 2022) -
Management Committee
Diabetic Society of Singapore (1996 - 2006) -
Member Sports Medicine & Science Subcommittee
Fencing Singapore (2017 - current) -
Working Group Member
Ministry of Health (Singapore) Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines on Diabetes Mellitus (1999) -
Work Group Member
WHO / IDF Western Pacific Region - Western Pacific Declaration on Diabetes (2000 - 2005) -
Working Group Member
Ministry of Health (Singapore) Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines on Diabetes Mellitus (2004) -
Member
Singapore Medical Council’s Complaints Panel (2022-2025)
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Professional Registration
Registration No: POD0001380666 (Australia)
Memberships
- Podiatry Association Singapore
- Australian Podiatry Association
- Sports Medicine Association Singapore
- Australasian Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine
Visiting Podiatrist to
- Singapore Sports Institute (2001 – current)
- Football Association Singapore (2016 – current)
- Singapore Sports School (2015 – current)
- School of the Arts Ballet Faculty (2014 – current)
- Raffles Hospital (2009 – 2011)
- Mt Elizabeth & Gleneagles Hospital (1998 – 2003)
- St Lukes Hospital (1998 – 2001)
In commemoration of Podiatry Day 2019, Podiatry Association Singapore presents a short production on ‘Podiatry Beginnings’, focused on two persons who have contributed greatly to the founding days of the podiatry profession in Singapore – Dr Shanta Emmanuel and Mr Tye Lee Tze.