Dr Wong Weng Kin – StarMed Specialist Center
Dr Wong Weng Kin Profile Details
Designation: Visiting Senior Consultant, Renal Medicine
Specialty: Renal Medicine
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (Malaya)
- Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (United Kingdom)
- Fellow, Academy of Medicine (Singapore)
- Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh)
Clinical Interests:
- Diagnostic and interventional nephrology procedures such as ultrasound vascular access, ultrasound kidneys, kidney biopsy, catheter thrombolytic therapy, tunneled hemodialysis catheter insertion and removal, tunneled hemodialysis catheter exchange, and fibrin sheath disruption
- Glomerular and genetic kidney diseases
- Acute kidney injury and continuous kidney replacement therapy
- Advanced dialysis
Current Appointments
- Member of the Malaysia Medical Association
- Member of the Singapore Medical Association
- Member of the Singapore Society of Nephrology
- Member of the Society of Transplantation, Singapore
- Fellow, Academy of Medicine, Singapore
- Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
- Treasurer, Society of Dialysis Access Specialists (SoDAS)
- Visiting Senior Consultant, National University Hospital, Singapore
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Languages
- English
- Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese)
- Malay
Training
- Obtained Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur in 2004.
- Completed his Basic Specialist Training in Internal Medicine at the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital, Malaysia, and obtained Membership in the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 2009.
- Completed Advanced Specialist Training in Renal Medicine at the National University Hospital, Singapore in 2013 and obtained specialist certification from the Specialist Accreditation Board Singapore.
- Elected as the Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore in 2014.
- Completed one-year fellowship training in vascular access endovascular intervention at the Division of Vascular Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan in 2016 under the Academic Medicine Development Award.
- Elected as the Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh in 2018.
- Obtained Professional Certificate in Health Informatics from the National University of Singapore in 2021 under the Ministry of Health SkillsFuture Study Award for Healthcare Sector.
About Dr Wong Weng Kin
- Dr. Wong is a renal physician with clinical interests in diagnostic and interventional nephrology, glomerular and genetic kidney disease, advanced dialysis, acute kidney injury and continuous renal replacement therapy.
- Dr Wong served as the Clinical Services Director and Patient Safety Officer of the Department of Nephrology at the National University Hospital, Singapore from 2016 to 2021. He was previously Senior Consultant Nephrologist at the National University Hospital, Singapore and Assistant Professor at Yong Lu Lin. School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He has won multiple institutional and national clinical quality improvement awards. He has multiple research findings in various areas of Nephrology.
- He is a firm believer in reshaping the future of nephrology using health data, artificial intelligence, and precision medicine.
Gmail: info@starmedspecialist.com
Phone: +65 6322 6333
Address: 12 Farrer Park Station Road, Singapore 217565
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