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Dr Lester Ong Wei Lin

MBBS (S’pore), M Med Surg (S’pore), MRCS (Edin), FRCS (Edin)

Consultant

Sengkang General Hospital

Specialty: General Surgery

Clinical Interest: Upper Gastrointestinal ＆ Bariatric Surgery

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Achalasia, Constipation, Gallstones, Gastric/Duodenal/Peptic Ulcer, Gastrooesophageal Reflux, General Surgery, Hernia, Obesity, Trauma.

Clinical Appointments

Consultant Department of Surgery Sengkang General Hospital
Consultant Upper Gastrointestinal and Bariatric Service Sengkang General Hospital

Profile

Dr Lester Ong is a consultant in the Department of Surgery in Sengkang General Hospital. He graduated from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore in 2008 and completed his general surgical specialist training in 2018. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

He is also part of the trauma committee, as well as the Total Perenteral Nutrition (TPN) team within Sengkang General Hospital.

Dr Lester Ong holds concurrent academic appointments as clinical lecturer in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (National University of Singapore), adjunct instructor in the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, and clinical teacher in the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (National Technological University).

Education

MBBS (Singapore)
M Med Surg (Singapore)
MRCS (Edinburgh)
FRCS (Edinburgh)

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Clinical lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Adjunct instructor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Clinical teacher, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Member of Junior Doctor Well-Being Committee Executive Committee, SKH (2020 – 2022)
Alternate member of Trauma Committee, SKH (2020 – 2022
Member of General Surgery Residency Program Evaluation Committee, SingHealth (2020 – 2022)
Member of Singhealth Procedural Safety Workgroup (2019 – 2021)
Member of Safety & Quality Benchmarking Subgroup, SingHealth (2019 – 2021)
Co-Chairperson of Clinical Quality Improvement Committee, Surgery ACP (2019 – 2020)
Co-Chairperson of Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Workgroup 2, Surgery ACP (2019 – 2020)
Member of the Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) team, SKH
Co-Chairperson of Residency Committee (2016 – 2017)
Member of Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC), SingHealth (2016 – 2017)

Awards

10 years Long Service Award, 2019
Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, 2019
Singhealth Residents' Committee Appreciation Award, 2017
Singhealth Outstanding Resident Award, 2014

Research Interests

Publications

Unusual location for an ingested foreign body. Ong LWL, Kabir T, Kam JH. ANZ J Surg. 2020. doi: 10.1111/ans.16317.
An unusual cause of ischemic colitis. LWL Ong, S Angkodjojo, J Huang, MH Chew. J Case Rep Images Pathol. 2020;6:100044Z11LO2020.
Para-oesophageal and parahiatal hernias in an Asian acute care tertiary hospital: and underappreciated surgical condition. Koh YX, Ong LW, Lee J, Wong AS. Singapore Med J. 2016;57:669-675.
Can venous base excess replace arterial base excess as a marker of early shock and a predictor of survival in trauma? Wijaya R, Ng JH, Ong L, Wong AS. Singapore Med J. 2016;57:73-76.