Asian American Medical Group Limited (AAMG), announced that its Executive Chairman Dato Dr. KC Tan passed away this morning while on a business trip in Hainan island, China. Dr. Tan, 68, was a leading liver cancer surgeon in Singapore whose patients came not only from Singapore but from around the region, and China. He was well known for his pioneering work in living donor liver transplants, having helped start the Liver Transplant Programme at the King's College Hospital London, United Kingdom, and having pioneered the highly successful Living Donor Liver Transplantation Programme in Singapore. He rose to prominence in the UK when he carried out trail-blazing surgeries in the early 1990s using livers donated by living persons. In 2002 in Singapore, he was the surgeon behind the high-profile operation of actress Andrea de Cruz from a part of a liver donated by her then-fiancé-now-husband Pierre Png. The Board of Directors of AAMG will convene a meeting soon to discuss the appointment of a Managing Director and/or Chairman.