Bio
Dr Ng Wai Hoe is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Changi General Hospital (CGH) and Senior Consultant with the Department of Neurosurgery at National Neuroscience Institute (NNI). He previously held the positions of Medical Director with the National Neuroscience Institute, Academic Chair with the SingHealth Duke-NUS Neuroscience Academic Clinical Programme as well as Deputy Chairman with the SingHealth Medical Board.
Dr Ng is a neurosurgeon and has an active clinical practice in neurosurgical oncology, epilepsy surgery and stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. He has interests in advanced neuro-imaging, intra-operative imaging, brain mapping and awake surgery. He is well regarded in his field and is a member of the Neuro-oncology Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) and recipient of the GCEO Outstanding Clinician Award.
He has a keen academic interest and has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters mainly on neuro-oncology, surgical neuronavigation and functional neurosurgery. He has been awarded research funding from the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) and Agency for Science , Technology and Research (A*Star) as Principle Investigator. He has an active grant in Neurodevice development which has been validated in a non-human primate and currently funded for a first-in-man clinical trial. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of several major neurosurgery journals such as the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, World Neurosurgery, CNS Oncology and Asian Journal of Neurosurgery.
He is active in local and international neurosurgery education and is a member of the Neurosurgery Residency Advisory Committee (RAC), Vice-Chairman of the Chapter of Neurosurgeons (Singapore), and member of the Education and Training Committee of the Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons (ACNS). He is the Programme Director for the WFNS Post-Graduate Training Centre at NNI which offers fellowship training for young neurosurgeons from developing countries.
Education
Master of Business Administration
INSEAD, Singapore
Fellow Academy of Medicine of Singapore
Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Doctor of Medicine
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Fell, R Aust Coll of Surg (Neurosurgery)
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Australia
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
National University of Singapore, Singapore