Bio
Prof Chong graduated from the University of Sydney with MBBS (First class honors). He did his general surgery training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston. Upon being awarded the John Homan’s fellowship, he pursued his subspecialty training in vascular and endovascular surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is double boarded by the American Board of Surgery in general surgery and vascular surgery. He was then recruited to Brown Alpert School of Medicine to develop their vascular and endovascular surgery program at The Miriam and Rhode Island Hospitals.
After four successful years of practice, he has relocated to Singapore with his family to be at SGH. An accomplished and respected clinician, Professor Chong currently serves as Head and Senior Consultant, Department of Vascular Surgery, Singapore General Hospital. Since joining Duke-NUS on 1 November 2012, he has brought significant clinical expertise and a strong linkage with the hospital system, greatly strengthening the integration between academic medicine and clinical education.
As a key opinion leader in the region, he frequently proctors cases in Complex Aortic, Peripheral Vascular and Venous territories. As the founding Head, SingHealth Duke Disease Center (Vascular), he is keen to improve the level of treatment in vascular diseases in all SingHealth institutions and focus on data driven improvements in clinical care. He also strongly believes in medical education of the next generation of doctors; he is currently Assistant Dean at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.
In 2025 he was appointed the Digital Health Readiness Lead helping oversee SGH onboard the next generation electronic medical record (EPIC), national billing system and national pharmacy system.
Education
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
University of Sydney, Australia