Dr Lau Peng Choong is a Consultant General and Upper GI Surgeon in UMMC/UMSC. He started his career in surgery in Penang after graduating from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2001. After serving the community in Penang, he joined the UMMC in 2005 and completed his Masters of Surgery in 2009. He currently serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Malaya. His subspecialty interest is in Upper Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Surgery. His training includes a fellowship in Advanced Gastric Cancer Surgery in Seoul, South Korea plus he also did a year of clinical fellowship in Upper GI and Bariatric Surgery in Coventry, United Kingdom under the sponsorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Dr Lau’s main area of interests are in upper gastrointestinal cancers, bariatrics and complex abdominal hernia repair. He also has a keen interest in new and emerging technologies. He was an early adoptor of using flourescent imaging in surgery in Malaysia. Together with the Gastroenterology Unit of University Malaya Medical Centre, they initiated the POEM (Per-Oral Endoscopic Myotomy) service in the country in 2015 as a new minimally invasive treatment option for achalasia. 

Dr Lau has helped trained many young doctors as well as surgeons in the country since joining UM. He is currently the Honarary Treasurer of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Society of Malaysia (PENSMA). He is also the council member for  Malaysian Upper Gastrointestinal Surgical Society(MUGIS), Society of Endoscopic Laparoscopic Surgery of Malaysia (SELSMA) and the Malaysian Metabolic and Bariatric Surgical Society (MyMBS).

He is also an active member in the College of Surgeons of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia(AMM), Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia(ELSA), Asia Pacific Hernia Society(APHS) and International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorder (IFSO).