Bio
Clinical Assistant Professor Ong Boon Hean is a Senior Consultant and Deputy Head (Thoracic) of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Director of Thoracic Surgery at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS). He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2006. He subsequently completed his training in cardiothoracic surgery at the NHCS and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 2014. He was then awarded the Singapore Ministry of Health-SingHealth HMDP Award in 2014 to pursue an advanced clinical fellowship in general thoracic surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in the United States of America.
In 2016, Asst Prof Ong returned from fellowship training to practice cardiothoracic surgery with clinical interests in minimally invasive thoracic surgery, thoracic oncology and lung transplantation at the NHCS. Currently, he is the service chief at the Singapore General Hospital campus for the SingHealth Duke-NUS Lung Centre, and a visiting consultant at KK Women's and Children's Hospital and Sengkang General Hospital.
Asst Prof Ong presently serves as the vice-chairman of the Chapter of Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Academy of Medicine Singapore. Aside from his clinical work, he is also actively involved in education and research in thoracic surgery. He is a core clinical faculty member of the SingHealth Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency programme, a clinical senior lecturer with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and an examiner for the Joint Committee on Specialist Training / Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) Joint Specialty Fellowship Exit Examination in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Asst Prof Ong is also a co-investigator for several studies related to lung cancer screening and novel treatment strategies for lung cancer.
Education
Fellow Academy of Medicine of Singapore
Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Fellow, Royal Coll of Surgeons, England
Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Member, Royal Coll of Surgeons
Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
National University of Singapore, Singapore
NUS Appointment(s)
Clinical Senior Lecturer
Department of surgery, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine,
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