Clin Asst Prof Ong Boon Hean

Clinical Assistant Professor Ong Boon Hean is a Senior Consultant, the Director of Thoracic Surgery at the National Heart Centre Singapore, and the Deputy Head (Thoracic) of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery (NHCS). In 2006, he received his medical degree from the National University of Singapore. At the National Heart Centre in Singapore, he eventually finished his training in cardiothoracic surgery, and in 2014, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh). In order to pursue an advanced clinical fellowship in general thoracic surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School in the United States of America, he was then given the Singapore Ministry of Health-SingHealth HMDP Award in 2014. He returned from his fellowship training in 2016 to perform cardiothoracic surgery at the National Heart Centre Singapore with speciality interests in minimally invasive thoracic surgery, thoracic cancer, and lung transplantation. He presently serves as the service chief for the SingHealth Duke-NUS Lung Centre at the Singapore General Hospital campus as well as the director of the lung transplant programme at the National Heart Centre. Additionally, he previously held the position of honorary secretary for the Academy of Medicine Singapore's Chapter of Cardiothoracic Surgeons. In addition to his clinical work, he is actively involved in thoracic surgery education and research. He serves as a core clinical faculty member of the National Heart Centre Singapore Cardiothoracic Residency programme, a clinical lecturer at the National University of Singapore's Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and an examiner for the Joint Specialty Fellowship Exit Examination in Cardiothoracic Surgery administered by the Joint Committee on Specialist Training and the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh). Several research on lung cancer screening and cutting-edge lung cancer treatment methods included him as a co-investigator.

Qualification

• MBBS
• MRCSEd
• FRCSEd (CTh)
• FAMS