About Dr Wong Poo Sing
Expert In: Cardiothoracic Surgery
Specialty Interest: Chest Wall Surgery, Coronary Artery Bypass, Heart Valve, and Aorta Surgery, Surgery for Lung Diseases including Cancer, Infection, and Trauma
Clinic/Hospital: Farrer Park Hospital
Languages: English, Mandarin, Malay, Cantonese, Hokkien, Bahasa Indonesia.
Working hours
Sat: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
1 Farrer Park Station Rd, #07-12 Connexion, Singapore 217562
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Dr Wong graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School (now part of Imperial College London) with an MBBS from the University of London (1986). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (1990), Fellow of the United Kingdom Intercollegiate Specialty in Cardiothoracic Surgery (1995), the American College of Chest Physicians (2000), the European Board of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2000 ), the Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (2002) and the Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Malaysia (2006). Dr Wong was trained in heart and lung surgery at the Royal Brompton Hospital and London Chest Hospital in London (1991-1994).
Dr Wong is a specialist cardiothoracic surgeon and he specializes in coronary artery bypass, heart valve, and aorta surgery, surgery for lung diseases, including cancer, infection and trauma, and chest wall surgery. Prior to private practice, he was an Associate Professor in Surgery at the National University of Singapore, a Senior Consultant and Clinical Director (Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery) at the National University Hospital, the Director of Thoracic Surgery, The Heart Institute ( 2001 to 2006). He had also helped set up Cardiothoracic Surgery in Penang and Johor Bahru (1995-2001). He has published extensively in both local and international peer-reviewed journals and has been a speaker at medical conferences. Dr Wong has also been a reviewer for several journals including Asian Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Annals, European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and the Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. His previous research interests included the assessment of myocardial injury after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABG), CABG in patients with heart dysfunction, the roles of nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide in human arteries with diabetes and hypertension, fetal lung tissue in the co-culture of human embryonic stem cells with fetal lung tissue, and other projects related to cell lung cancers and tumor cells.
Dr Wong’s specialty interests are chest wall surgery, coronary artery bypass, heart valve and aorta surgery, and surgery for lung diseases including cancer, infection, and trauma.
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