Neurosurgeon Keith Goh, who enjoyed far more success separating Nepalese conjoined babies in 2001 and South Korean baby twins in August, will leave Raffles Hospital to become associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong next month, the Today newspaper said.

Goh told the paper he was not leaving Singapore because of the controversial deaths of Iranian twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani in July, rather because of the opportunity to research, teach and practise at the same time.

"I figured out what's important to me and I felt I had to pursue my dream," he told Today.

Goh led an international team of 24 doctors and six neurosurgeons in trying to separate the 29-year-old Bijani twins. It was the first time the procedure had ever been attempted on adults and they died on the operating table.

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