Dr Bong is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore. She serves as core faculty in the SingHealth Anaesthesiology Residency programme, deputy vice chair of research in the SingHealth Anesthesiology Academic Clinical Programme, member of the SingHealth Simulation Research Committee and Deputy Chairperson of the SingHealth Centralized Institutional Review Board.

Dr Bong is committed to improving the clinical anaesthesia care of children through research and education. Her research interests include studying the effects of general anaesthesia on infant brain development and the stress response in trainees during medical simulation training. She has received multiple research prizes and awards at international scientific meetings and several research grants. She collaborates with investigators from various local and international institutions, such as Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, A-Star, National University of Singapore, National Institute of Education, Massachusetts General Hospital and Duke University. Her current research projects include investigating the effects of anaesthetic agents on children’s brains, both in the short term as seen in intra-operative EEG monitoring, post-operative emergence delirium, as well as long term neurodevelopment. She recently developed a novel anaesthesia technique for inguinal hernia surgery for newborns and young infants using dexmedetomidine sedation and caudal anaesthesia, reducing the need for general anaesthesia and intubation in these young babies.