Dr Chua Wei Chong
Institution
Woodlands Health (WH)
Designation
Chief, Department of Surgery, Woodlands Health
Senior Consultant, General Surgery, Tan
Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH)
Clinical Director, National Trauma Unit
(NTU), Ministry of Health (MOH)
Credentials
PPA (G), MBBS (Singapore), MMED (Surgery),
FRCSED (General Surgery), FAMS (General Surgery)
Specialty
General Surgery
Clinical Interests
Acute Care Surgery, General Surgery and
Trauma Surgery
Biodata
Dr Chua Wei Chong graduated from the
Faculty of Medicine, NUS in 1996. He obtained his MMED (Gen Surg) in 2003,
FRCSED (Gen Surg) and FAMS in 2007. He completed a Fellowship in Trauma Surgery
at Liverpool Hospital, Sydney in 2006 and is currently a Senior Consultant
Trauma and General Surgeon at TTSH, Visiting Consultant at Khoo Teck Puat
Hospital, Sengkang General Hospital and KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. He
was appointed Chief of Surgery and Chair of Trauma Committee, Woodlands Health
Campus in April 2020.
As Clinical Director of the NTU, Dr Chua
oversees the National Trauma Registry that monitors the national trauma data
and advises MOH on trauma policy making. He previously served as President, College
of Surgeons Singapore in 2017-2019, and Chief Army Medical Officer in
2009-2012. He was deployed on a number of peacekeeping and humanitarian
assistance and disaster relief operations with the Singapore Armed Forces in
Timor Leste, Indonesia and Afghanistan. In recognition of his service, he was
awarded the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) (Military) in 2011.
Dr Chua is actively involved in trauma
education in Singapore. He is an International Faculty of the Definitive
Surgical Trauma Care course and leads a number of trauma courses at the TTSH
Trauma Training Centre.
Woodlands Health Campus
Woodlands Health Campus (WHC) is a
1,800-bedded purpose-built Campus comprising a fully integrated acute and
community hospital, specialist outpatient clinics, and intermediate and
long-term care facilities. It is slated to open progressively from 2023.
WHC aims to reinvent the way care is
delivered and provide seamless integration of care within and beyond hospital
walls. To achieve this, WHC will be leveraging SMART technology to enhance care
within the hospital, and extend the reach of WHC healthcare professionals into
the community to partner and empower residents in their health journey. Work
has already begun at WHC pre-operations wards to test innovation and
user-friendly solutions for inpatient care, emergency medicine, pharmacy,
logistics and the community.
WHC has also started serving the community
through health talks, fitness sessions, health coaching and community nursing
posts. In September 2020, WHC introduced the GPFirst Programme in the North and
opened the first community-based Urgent Care Centre at Kampung Admiralty,
making urgent care more accessible to residents living nearby.
For more information about Woodlands Health
Campus, click here.
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