Associate Professor Alfred Kow is the Head & Senior Consultant of the HPB Surgery Division at the National University Hospital Singapore. His main area of interest is liver transplantation and minimally invasive HPB surgery.

He is the Assistant Dean (Education) at NUS Medicine and VCMB (Edu) at NUH. He has received many teaching awards for teaching excellence, including the Outstanding Educator Award in NUS. His main research areas of interest include development of surgical techniques in MIS HPB surgery and outcome of surgical treatment for HPB malignancies, and liver transplantation.

He is also the Chairperson of the Medical Education, Technology & Enterprise committee. He is one of the main drivers that helps to introduce advanced technology such as virtual reality and mixed reality technology in medical education and training. He also actively looks out for gamification technology that can be used in medical training.

He has been actively involved in activities at the International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS) and is a Council member of the ILTS for 2023 to 2027. He was the local organizing chair for the ILTS Annual Congress in Singapore in 2025. He is a member at large of the council of ISLS.