Dr. Alvin Hong is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. He was previously the Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore General Hospital campus. Dr. Hong is also a Visiting Consultant to the National Neuroscience Institute, National Cancer Centre, National University Hospital, Singapore Gamma Knife Centre, and Singapore General Hospital.

He received MB BChir from Cambridge University, UK (1985) and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh – General Surgery in 1989, and Neurosurgery in 1994) and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore.  In 1994, he was awarded the Norman Dott Gold medal for the top mark in the Intercollegiate Examination in Neurosurgery.  In 1996, he spent time developing his expertise in spine surgery in the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, and radiosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco in the USA.

Dr. Hong looks after, and operates on, problems affecting the brain, spine and nerves. He performs stereotactic craniotomies, radiosurgery, endoscopic pituitary surgery, thoracoscopic sympathectomies, as well as microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm. He has subspecialty interests in surgery of the skull base, pituitary surgery and spine surgery.