Practitioner Profile

Dr Khong is a specialist in musculoskeletal tumour surgery, orthopedic trauma, sports surgery, joint reconstruction and replacement. He is also part of the teaching faculty for institutions in Switzerland, Singapore and the USA and is an appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His other appointments included expert consultant to Zimmer Inc (USA), visiting consultant at St Luke’s Community Hospital and Lieutenant-Colonel during national service, when he was commanding a Combat Surgical Hospital. He was also the President of the Singapore Orthopedic Association (2004), concurrently the Programme Director of Specialty Training Committee (Orthopedics) of Academy of Medicine (Singapore), and held memberships with the Advisory Committee for Orthopedic Surgery (MOH) and Specialist Medical Board (Orthopedics) with the Singapore Armed Forces.

Prior to private practice, Dr Khong had worked at the Singapore General Hospital and Alexandra Hospital before being awarded a government scholarship at Mayo Clinic (USA) to be trained as the first surgeon to perform musculoskeletal tumour surgery in Singapore. He was later awarded a fellowship in orthopedic trauma at the Shock Trauma Centre in Baltimore, USA.

Dr Khong graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the NUS (1977). He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow) and completed his Master of Medicine (General Surgery).

Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow)