Ng Yew Poh (Vincent)

Dr Vincent Ng is a neurosurgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore. His clinical interests are cerebrovascular surgery, neurovascular bypasses and revascularisation, neurotrauma, skull base surgery and general neurosurgery. He treats various conditions including acoustic neuroma, brain aneurysm, brain metastasis, cerebral arteriovenous malformation, cerebral dural arteriovenous fistulas, intracerebral haemorrhage, meningiomas, Moyamoya disease, neurotrauma, and sweaty palms (palmar hyperhidrosis). He was the former head of department and senior consultant at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) @ Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He was also the past regional head of neurosurgery (north) for the National Healthcare Group, and the former head of service for neurosurgery at Woodlands Health. Dr Ng graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS). He then obtained his membership in general surgery conferred by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK. He completed his master’s at NUS. He was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan award and went for a 1-year fellowship in endovascular neurosurgery at John Radcliffe Hospital, UK. He was conferred a master’s degree in endovascular neurosurgery by Oxford University, UK. To further his clinical research interest, he was awarded a National Medical Research Council scholarship to undertake a master’s in clinical investigation at NUS. At Woodlands Health, he started the neurosurgery service. He has been practising medicine for more than 20 years. Besides his clinical work, Dr Ng was an adjunct assistant professor at the DUKE-NUS Medical School. He is also a clinical senior lecturer at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and he sits on the Yew Tee Primary School advisory committee. He was previously the chairman of the Chapter of Neurosurgeons, Academy of Medicine, Singapore and the president of Clinical Neuroscience Society. He is currently the assistant secretary of Asian Australasian Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He is also member of a few organisations such as the Congress of American Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and AO Spine. He was awarded the GCEO Excellence Award for Outstanding Clinician Award, several Singapore Health Quality Service awards, and the National Award (COVID-19) Public Administration Medal.