Woffles Wu

Dr. Woffles Wu Tze Liang (; born 1960), , is a Singaporean plastic surgeon.

Early life Wu was born in Singapore but he grew up in London, UK His mother, a beautician who later became a lawyer, affectionately nicknamed him "Woffles", after a rabbit from the novel The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton, and he grew to accept this nickname. In his childhood, he helped his mother with manicures, pedicures and make-up application.

At the age of 12, Wu returned to Singapore and attended Saint Andrew's School.

Wu is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. In 1987, he worked under his mentor and friend, Prof. ST Lee, a cleft palate surgeon. Three years later, Wu won the Young Surgeon of the Year Award for his research on nasal anatomy. In the same year, he was awarded the SEAMIC scholarship that allowed him to visit and study under other reconstructive and aesthetic surgeons in Thailand, the Philippines and Japan.

Wu is known for reinventing and promoting the concept of Non Surgical Facial Rejuvenation (NSFR), through a combination of BOTOX, fillers, IPL photorejuvenation, and his personal invention, the 'Woffles Lift'. He is also an advanced BOTOX trainer in the Asia Pacific region and is constantly training physicians worldwide on his techniques. Wu has also refined the art of breast augmentation surgery by introducing a technique, developed by him, called the 'WW Stealth (Invisible) Incision'.

Wu's other hobbies include sports and the arts. He was a national level ten-pin bowler in his teenage years before switching to billiards and snooker, where he represented Singapore on an international level between 1984 and 1988. He is also interested in painting and sculpting, inspired by his grandfather, who was a Chinese painter. He collects Chinese pop art, such as paintings of Mao Zedong. He has also exhibited his style of psychoerotic paintings in Taiwan and Singapore, and has used his art to raise money for charity. In June 2012, he was fined S$1,000. The charge and sentence were the subject of some public discussion. The Attorney General's Chambers explained that both were in accordance with the law. In addition, Wu's medical license was suspended for 4 months in early 2014.