Dr Wong Yuet Chen, Michael

Biography

 ·         Dr Michael Wong is a urologist practising at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore. He specialises in minimally invasive surgery in endourology and female urology. ·         He specialises in procedures including percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) (a minimally invasive procedure to remove stones from the kidney), complex surgical treatment of urinary incontinence which have failed previous surgical treatments, and the repair of bladder-vaginal fistula as a result of complications from previous operations. ·         Dr Wong was a Public Service Commission scholar for Medicine and graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1985. He obtained his postgraduate degree in general surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1990, Singapore in 1990, and was conferred a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, and Fellow of the International College of Surgeons in 1995. ·         In 1993, after completing his post-graduate fellowship in general surgery from Edinburgh and Singapore, Dr Wong obtained the Fellowship in Endourology and Urolithiasis at the Institute of Kidney Stone Disease in Indiana, USA. Dr Michael worked with Dr James E. Lingemann, who remains his mentor and friend. ·         Dr Michael Wong was inspired to continue training in America in a completely different subspecialty and obtained a fellowship in female urology and neurourology at the Methodist Hospital in Indiana. He worked with Dr Peter Knapp, who invented the Vaginal Wall Sling to treat urinary incontinence in women with abnormal urethral function. ·         Dr Wong undertook a residency programme in robotic urologic surgery in 2004 at the University of Irvine, California, USA, to perform procedures such as radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer. ·         Dr Wong is the founder and chief trainer for the Singapore General Hospital Regional Endourology Fellowship Programme. Since 1998, urologists from Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Pakistan, China and Indonesia have come to Singapore under this programme to learn minimally invasive techniques in endourology and female urology, in particular, percutaneous nephrolithotomy.

Research Interest

  Urology nephrology