About

Dr Rebecca Heywood is a British ENT surgeon at Thomson Surgical Centre. She has over 20 years of ENT experience in hospitals in the UK, Australia and Singapore, and treats all ENT conditions in adults and children. Dr Heywood specialises in otology/hearing implants and disorders of the ear, hearing, balance, facial nerve and skull base.

She graduated from the University of Manchester, UK in 1998 and did her postgraduate surgical training in London at world-renowned institutions such as Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the Royal Marsden Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital and Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital. She then undertook subspecialty fellowship training at the Ear Science Institute Australia, where she refined her skills in surgery of the ear and skull base, performing many middle ear, cochlear and other hearing implant and acoustic neuroma operations.

She co-founded the hearing implant programmes at Ng Teng Fong and Sengkang General Hospitals and has been an expert advisor on the provision of cochlear, middle ear and bone conduction implants. Dr Heywood was awarded grant funding in 2016 to investigate hearing loss and dementia in the ageing population in Singapore and led a research team spanning five institutions in Singapore, Australia (Ear Science Institute Australia) and the USA (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health). She is also involved in clinical research in the area of cochlear implantation and other auditory implants.