Dr Wong is an infectious disease physician and has been in private practice for more than 20 years. Dr Wong helps to manage the Infectious Disease Specialists Group. He was previously Head, Department of Infectious Diseases at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Clinical Director, Communicable Disease Centre, the predecessor of the National Centre of Infectious Diseases.
He looks after inpatients at Gleneagles Hospital, Mt Elizabeth Orchard Hospital, Mt Elizabeth Novena Hospital and Farrer Park Hospital. He sees outpatients at our group’s clinics, and his clinic at Gleneagles Medical Centre was the first specialist clinic in private practice to receive JCI accreditation in 2013.
Dr Wong is actively involved in furthering medical education and continues to serve as a Visiting Consultant at Singapore General Hospital and Sengkang General Hospital. The ‘Meet the Infectious Disease Specialists’ seminars was started in 2011 and are focused on providing up to date topics on diagnosis, treatment and prevention in infectious diseases to family physicians.
Dr. Wong graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1984. He completed his training in internal medicine and attained the Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine) in 1989. He completed his advanced training in infectious diseases in Singapore and the US. He spent two and half years as a clinical and research postdoctoral fellow in infectious diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine and Research Institute, Palo Alto Medical Foundation (USA).
Dr. Wong's specialty interest is infections in immunocompromised hosts.
