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Assoc Prof Wong Merng Koon

MBBS (Singapore), FRCS (Glasgow), FAMS

Senior Consultant

Specialty: Orthopaedic Surgery

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Joint Replacement, Trauma.

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgery Singapore General Hospital
Chairman Division of Ambulatory and Outpatients Care Sengkang General Hospital
Senior Consultant Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Sengkang General Hospital

Profile

Performing, teaching, researching for the last 22 years on Orthopaedic Traumatology.

Expertise in primary to tertiary reconstruction of fractures including joint replacement as final repair. Expertise extends to technology design and improvement of Orthopaedic Traumatology.

Education

MBBS (Singapore)
FRCS(Glasg)
FAMS

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Chairman, Division of Ambulatory & Outpatient Care
Deput Vice Chair, Strategi Initiatives (Innovation), Musculoskeletal Sciences Academic Clinical Programme, SingHealth

Associate Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Medical School

AO Research Network Clinic Principal Investigator

Senior AO Trustee, Singapore

SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Deputy Vice-Chair, Clinical Services (Sengkang General Hospital) ACP MSK

Director, AO Centre

Past Member of Ministry of Health Working Committee on Integrated Care Pathway

Past Member of MOH Hip Fracture Clinical Pathway Guidelines Workgroup

Awards

SingHealth Outstanding Clinician Award, 2017
National Day Award, Long Service Medal, 2015
Champion Blood Donor Bronze Award, 2015
Public Healthcare Clinician Special Recognition Award, 2013/2015
Top Faculty SingHealth Residency, 2012/2013
Service with a Heard Award, 2012
National Day Award, Commendation Medal, Military, Pingat Penghargaan Tentera, 2012

Research Interests

Publications

Preoperative Thyroid Dysfunction Predicts 30-Day Postoperative Complications in Elderly Patients with Hip Fracture. Ling XW, Joyce Koh SB, Howe TS, Wong MK. Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation, Vol. 4 Issue 2, June 2013, P43-46.
Robot-Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty Accurately Restores The Joint Line And Mechanical Axis - A Prospective Randomised Study. Liow MH, Xia Z, Wong MK, Tay KJ, Yeo SJ, Chin PLh. J Arthroplasty, 2014 Dec 14. pii S0883-5403(13)00899-1.
A vision on the future of Articular Cartilage Repair. M Cucchiarini, H, Madry, F Guilak, DB Saris, MJ Stoddart, M Koon Wong & P Roughley. European Cells and Materials Vol. 27s 2014 (Pg12-16).
To decrease the Post-op ALOS of Hip Fracture patient that are eligible for Inpatient Rehabilitation. SingHealth QI Project TE-IQC Gold Award, June 2016.
Autologous Bone Grafting and Revision Plating in a case of persistent High Tibial Osteotomy Non-Union. Tan SH, Wong MK. Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports, 6(3), July-Aug 2016.
Healing of Atypical Subtrochanteric Femur Fractures After cephalomedullary Nailing: Which Factors Predict Union? Cho, Jae-Woo, Oh Chang-Wug, Leung Frankie, Park, Ki-Chul, Wong, Merng Koon, Kwek Ernest, Kim Han-Ju, Oh, Jong Keon. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, 2017 Mar, Vol. 31 (3) Pg 1380145.
Robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty may lead to improvement in quality-of-life measures: a 2-year follow-up of a prospective randomized trial. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 2017 Sep 25 (9) P2942-2951.