Clin Asst Prof Chua Yang Chong

Clinical Assistant Professor Chua Yang Chongwon was awarded a national scholarship to study medicine at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Upon graduation, he completed his housemanship and basic surgical training in Glasgow. He then gained further experience in general and trauma surgery at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Hospitals. During this period, he was appointed as a surgical research fellow and embarked on a research project that led to a doctorate in surgery. He was awarded the Rosetree’s Research Fellowship, and his projects eventually attracted full funding from the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom. He presented orally at the American Gastroenterological Association, British Society of Gastroenterology, and Society of Academic and Research Surgery in the UK. He was awarded the Young Investigator Award and was the invited oral speaker at the World Congress of Esophageal Diseases (OESO) in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D from the University of London in 2011.

Dr Chua returned to Singapore and was appointed as an AST registrar in cardiothoracic surgery at the National University Hospital (NUH) in 2011. He exited from the program with the FRCS C-Th (Edinburgh) in 2015. Upon entering the specialist register, he joined the National Cancer Centre Singapore as a thoracic surgeon (Associate Consultant). In 2018, he went to Toronto to do his fellowship in thoracic surgery, funded by Singapore’s Ministry of Health. While in Toronto, he was awarded full funding by Toronto General Hospital for a second fellowship in lung transplant surgery. Toronto performed the first successful human lung transplant in the world in 1983 and is currently the largest lung transplant center in the world. He returned to Singapore and joined the National Heart Centre Singapore as a Consultant, and Thoracic and Lung Transplant Surgeon in November 2020. He is also the Director of Lung Transplant Program at NHCS.

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