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Prof Sng Ban Leong is the Head and Senior Consultant at Women's Anaesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore. He is also a Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Faculty of Engineering, NUS and Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He has attained several research grants including the NMRC National Healthcare Innovation Centre (NHIC) Innovation-to-develop (I2D) and Innovation-to-industry (I2) grants, two NMRC Clinician Scientist Award (CSA), NMRC Clinical Trials Grant, NMRC Transition Award, Centre Grant and SingHealth Foundation (SHF) Clinical Trials Grant, MOH Health Innovation (MHI) Fund with more than $6 million research funding attained. He also mentored junior researchers in SHF Transitional Award Grants, SHF Clinical Trials Grants, SHF-NHIC Medical Technology Grant, KKH Health Endowment Funds, and SingHealth Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Sciences (ANAES) Academic Clinical Program (ACP) pilot research grants. He has spearheaded several academic (NUS, NYP, Duke-NUS, Duke) and industry (Innovfusion, HiCura) collaborations to develop research projects involving clinical trials and/or novel medical devices. He is also the lead in KKH Centre Grant for Medical Technology Core and Women’s Pain and Mental Health Theme Platforms. He has more than 140 scientific publications and book chapters on obstetric anaesthesia, vasopressor delivery system, and pain management, with a H-index of 26. He is currently the Academic Vice Chair (Research) in ANAES ACP, and was appointed as director KKH Research Centre in year 2016 – 2018. He is a reviewer for various Anaesthesiology journals (Anaesthesia and Analgesia, Anaesthesiology etc.), Advisory Review Board Member for International Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia, and Associate Editor for BMC Anaesthesiology journal. In a recent bibliometric analysis, he was cited as the most frequent corresponding author with highest index among the articles published worldwide on labor analgesia (do.org/10.2147/JPR.S416142).
Prof Sng is also a mentor and co-mentor of the Duke-NUS Year 3 student projects (18 Duke-NUS students to date) with Khoo Student Research Award and Academic Medicine-Enhancing Training, Healthcare, Outcomes and Standards (AM-ETHOS) Medical Student Research Fellowships awarded. Apart from mentoring under National Clinician Scientist Residency program, he also provided guidance to residents from SingHealth Anaesthesiology Residency Program, Core Faculty in Women’s Anaesthesia and NUS Engineering Fellow. He is a faculty in teaching and examining in Anaesthesiology Part B Examination (Anaesthesiology). He was a member of the Education and Training Committee of the Specialist Training Committee and was the module supervisor for Obstetric Anaesthesia with the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA). He was awarded the SingHealth Excellence Awards - Distinguished Researcher Award in year 2017. A/Prof Sng was awarded the Human Manpower Development Program for Pain Medicine and completed his Pain Fellowship in Australia. He was awarded the Best Registrar Award by SingHealth and Best Trainee Award by the Singapore Society of Anesthesiologists and has several service excellences awards (Service from the Heart, EXSA Gold Award, Singapore Healthcare Quality (Star, Gold) awards). He also completed the NUS- Masters in Clinical Investigation and SMU-SingHealth Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Management and Leadership courses.
Education
Master of Medicine (Anaesthesics)
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
National University of Singapore, Singapore
NUS Appointment(s)
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS,
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