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Consultant Medical Oncologist and Physician
Dr Kong Hwai Loong
HL Kong Medical Oncology Centre Pte Ltd
3 Mount Elizabeth #11-08
Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre Singapore 228510
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Dr Kong Hwai Loong is a Consultant Medical Oncologist and Physician at the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore and a Visiting Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist at the National University Hospital. He is a Full Member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Association for Cancer Research, the Royal College of Physicians (UK), the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, and the Singapore Society of Oncology.
Dr Kong was previously the Executive Director of the Biomedical Research Council (Singapore’s equivalent of USA’s NIH and UK’s MRC), Deputy Managing Director (Integrative Sciences) of the Agency for Science, Technology And Research (A*STAR), Associate Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore, and Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist at the National University Hospital. Dr Kong was also was the Founding Director of the Singapore Genomics Program.
Dr Kong received his MBBS from the National University of Singapore in 1988, when he graduated top of his medical class. He subsequently qualified in the Internal Medicine specialty in 1993 by earning his Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine) from the National University of Singapore, as well as his Membership to the Royal College of Physician (UK). In 1998, he received his specialist qualification in Medical Oncology from the Ministry of Health of Singapore, and was elected to be a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (Medical Oncology). Dr Kong also received a Masters of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 2002. In 2004, Dr Kong was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh).
Dr Kong received his postgraduate medical fellowship training at the New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Centre between 1995 and 1997.
Dr Kong has won numerous awards, including Singapore’s Public Administration Medal (Silver) from the President of Singapore, two-times winner of the Singapore Youth Award (the highest accolade awarded to youths in Singapore), American Society of Clinical Oncology Merit Award (first Singapore doctor to win this award), Singapore Young Scientist Award, as well as many other academic awards during his medical career. Dr Kong was also listed in The Peak’s ‘Who’s Who of Singapore’.
Dr Kong specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of adult cancers, with special interests in gastrointestinal/liver cancers, breast cancers and lung cancers. His research interests are in tumour angiogenesis (formation of blood vessels in cancers) and anti-angiogenesis (using drugs to destroy blood vessels in cancers), and cancer gene therapy. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and has lectured widely on oncology-related topics.
Dr Kong sits on a number of national committees. He is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Ministry of Health’s Specialist Training Committee (Medical Oncology), which oversees the training and accreditation of medical oncologists in Singapore. He is also a Member of the Board of Governors of Raffles Girls’ School, the top girls’ secondary school in Singapore.
