Prof Ng Wai Hoe

MBBS, MD (NUS), FRACS (Neurosurgery), FAMS

Senior Consultant

National Neuroscience Institute

Specialty: Neurosurgery

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About

Education and Training

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Awards

Research Interests

Research Trials

Publications

Conditions Treated By This Doctor

Brain Tumour Epilepsy Surgery Functional Neurosurgery General Neurosurgery Neuro-Oncology Neurotrauma

Clinical Interests

Epilepsy Surgery, Functional Neurosurgery, General Neurosurgery, Neuro-Oncology, Neurotrauma

Clinical Appointments

Group Chief Executive Officer

Senior Consultant

Department of Neurosurgery

Academic Appointments

Professor

Neuroscience Academic Clinical Programme

About

Professor Ng Wai Hoe is currently the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) at SingHealth and Senior Consultant with the Department of Neurosurgery at National Neuroscience Institute (NNI). He was previously Deputy Group CEO (Strategy & Planning) of SingHealth, CEO of Changi General Hospital, Medical Director of NNI, Academic Chair of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Neuroscience Academic Clinical Programme as well as Deputy Chairman of the SingHealth Medical Board.

Prof Ng is a neurosurgeon with clinical interests in neurosurgical oncology (brain tumours), stereotactic and functional neurosurgery and epilepsy surgery.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) and underwent residency training in Singapore (NNI) and Australia (Royal Melbourne Hospital and Royal Children's Hospital). He underwent subspecialty training at the Royal Melbourne and Royal Children's Hospital in Neuro-Oncology, Toronto Western Hospital in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) in Paediatric Neurosurgery. He was also a Sugita Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Nagoya University.

Education and Training

MBBS
MD (NUS)
FRACS (Neurosurgery)
FAMS

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Group Chief Executive Officer, SingHealth
Senior Consultant, Department of Neurosurgery, NNI
Professor (Regular Rank), Duke-NUS Medical School
Member, Surgery-in-General (SIG) Residency Advisory Committee (RAC)
Member, Neuro-Oncology Committee, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)

Awards

Most People Focused CEO, HR Excellence Awards (Singapore), 2023
The Public Administration Medal (Gold) (COVID-19), 2022
The Long Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Setia), 2020
Outstanding Faculty Award, SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Awards, 2017
Yahya Cohen Memorial Lectureship, College of Surgeons, 2017
Long Service Award (20 Years), SingHealth, 2016
GCEO Outstanding Clinician Award, SingHealth, 2014
Sugita Scholarship, Nagoya University, 2010
Khoo Clinician Scholar Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School, 2009
Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) Fellowship, SingHealth, 2008
Singapore Millenium Foundation (SMF) Fellowship, 2003
Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) Fellowship, Ministry of Health, 2001

Research Interests

Neuro-Oncology
Neurotechnology
Surgical navigation

Research Trials

Principle Investigator: NMRC-NIG: Investigating role of electrical subthalamic and pallidal stimulation of the brain on the expression of GDNF family of ligands and GFRα receptor splice isoform and neurogenesis.
Principle Investigator: Agency for Science, Technology & Research Science & Engineering Research Council Neurodevice Inter-RI Programme: Wireless Fully-Implantable Neuroprobe Microsystem for Motor Prosthesis & Neuroscience. Project IX: Nonhuman Primate Experiments.
Principle Investigator: Agency for Science, Technology & Research Science & Engineering Research Council Neurodevice Inter-RI Programme: Wireless Fully-Implantable Neuroprobe Microsystem for Motor Prosthesis & Neuroscience Phase 2.

Publications

Human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells suppress human glioma growth through inhibition of angiogenesis, IAW Ho, HC Toh, WH Ng, YL Teo, CM Guo, KM Hui, PYP Lam, Stem cells 31 (1), 146-155, 2013
Diffusion-weighted MR imaging: diagnosing atypical or malignant meningiomas and detecting tumor dedifferentiation, VA Nagar, JR Ye, WH Ng, YH Chan, F Hui, CK Lee, CCT Lim, American Journal of Neuroradiology 29 (6), 1147-1152, 2008
Matrix metalloproteinase 1 is necessary for the migration of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells toward human glioma, IAW Ho, KYW Chan, WH Ng, CM Guo, KM Hui, P Cheang, PYP Lam, Stem cells 27 (6), 1366-1375, 2009
Comparison of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and perfusion-weighted imaging in presurgical grading of oligodendroglial tumors, M Xu, SJ See, WH Ng, E Arul, MF Back, TT Yeo, CCT Lim, Neurosurgery 56 (5), 919-926, 2005
Augmented reality neurosurgical planning and navigation for surgical excision of parasagittal, falcine and convexity meningiomas, D Low, CK Lee, LLT Dip, WH Ng, BT Ang, I Ng, British journal of neurosurgery 24 (1), 69-74, 120

Refer to Google Scholar for full list of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=OtdD85EAAAAJ