Neurosurgery Partners

Dr Ernest Wang is a senior consultant neurosurgeon with experience in spine surgery, brain tumour surgery, stroke surgery, neurotrauma, functional neurosurgery and skull base surgery. He is the President of the Clinical Neuroscience Society, a professional society for neurologists, neurosurgeons and other clinically related neuroscience professionals in Singapore. In 2001, he was awarded a 2-year fellowship to train with the world renowned Professor John Pickard in Cambridge. In 2008, he completed his 2nd HMDP fellowship (in spinal surgery) in South India - sub-specialising in spinal navigation. As a Spine neurosurgeon, he has spearheaded the use of navigation in both routine spinal cases and complex spinal surgery. He has adapted these techniques in

Minimally Invasive Spine (MIS) Surgery or Minimally Access Spinal Technologies (MAST) and is instrumental in a successful alliance between spinal neurosurgeons and spinal orthopaedic surgeons at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, the first fully combined spinal unit in Singapore. Dr Wang was the former head of the division of neurosurgery at the Changi General Hospital, providing specialized care to acute trauma and stroke patients. Together with the management of such patients in Singapore General Hospital and Tan Tock Seng Hospital, he has managed the largest cohort of these patients in Singapore. Dr Wang’s other clinical work in neurosurgery includes cerebrovascular surgery and the management of complex cerebrospinal fluid problems including normal pressure hydrocephalus.

Dr Wang also heads the clinical trials section at the National Neuroscience Institute. He oversees and runs all industry and academic clinical trials in the department. This includes multi-center studies on head injury, stroke and spinal injury. He is a Regional Study Advocate and Clinical Study Advisor to two international multi-center clinical trials and is also a member of the SingHealth medical ethics board. His personal clinical research interests focuses on multimodality monitoring techniques in characterizing brain physiology and neurochemistry in acute brain injury. 

As the Head of Department of Neurosurgery at both the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) and Singapore General Hospital since 2006, Associate Professor Ivan Ng is responsible for the 2 largest neurosurgical units in the country. He is also the Deputy Director of the NNI since 2009. He is the co-director of the Brain and Behavior program at the Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School where he has been an associate professor since 2007. He is currently the co-director of the Neurointensive care unit of TTSH and director of the Khoo Teck Puat NNI Integrated Neuroscience centre at SGH.

A/Prof Ng obtained his medical degree at the National University of Singapore in 1990

and trained at the world renowned Academic Neurosurgical Unit, Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge University where he was chief resident from 1999-2000. He obtained the inter-collegiate FRCS (Surgical Neurology) in 2000 and was awarded the prestigious Norman Dott Medal for being the most outstanding candidate during the FRCS examinations. 

His previous appointments include Chairman, Chapter of Neurosurgeons, College of Surgeons Singapore and Vice President of the Asian Congress of Neurosurgeons. International committees which A/Prof Ng sits on include the World Federation of Neurological Surgeons International Education Faculty, the ex-co-committee of the International Cerebrovascular Society and the Asia-Oceanic Skull Base Society. He is currently an associate Editor of CNS Oncology and is in the editorial board for the Asian Journal of Neurological Surgeons.