Dr Bernard Lim is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and an accredited Console Surgeon for the Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System. He currently serves as President of the College of Surgeons, Singapore (2023–2025) and was formerly Chairman of the Chapter of General Surgeons (2015–2019). A life member of the Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA), he also served on the Medical Advisory Board at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital.
Trained at the Department of Colorectal Surgery at Singapore General Hospital, Dr Bernard has performed hundreds of colon and rectal surgeries using laparoscopic, single-port, and robotic techniques. He received a SingHealth HMDP fellowship to train in minimally invasive surgery at Queen Mary Hospital and has conducted multiple workshops on laparoscopic colorectal procedures. Dr Bernard has trained specialists both locally and regionally, remains a visiting consultant at Changi General Hospital, and has served as an adjunct assistant professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School as well as a clinical lecturer at the National University of Singapore.