Dr Wong Yuet Chen Michael

Dr Michael Wong is a urologist at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.

His subspecialty is in minimally invasive endourology. He also treats urinary stones, prostate, male fertility, cancer and female urinary dysfunction.

Dr Wong was the former director of the Singapore General Hospital’s (SGH) Urology Centre. He was also the director of endourology and stone disease, and director of female urology there. He continues to be a visiting consultant at SGH.

He graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his postgraduate degree from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK and was conferred a fellow of both the Academy of Medicine, Singapore and the International College of Surgeons. He left for the USA for 1 year to become the first Singaporean urologist to obtain an American fellowship in endourology and urolithiasis at the Institute of Kidney Stone Disease. Dr Wong continued training in the USA in a completely different subspecialty and obtained a fellowship in female urology and neuro-urology at the Methodist Hospital, USA.

Dr Wong set up a joint service, The Male Fertility Clinic, with a doctor from the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at SGH. This clinical service enabled couples to have their treatment managed together at the same time, especially benefitting couples with a male cause for infertility. When the robotic-assisted laparoscopic machine became available in Singapore, Dr Wong became the first to undertake a residency programme in robotic urologic surgery at the University of Irvine, California, USA, to perform procedures such as radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.

He has served as a senior transplant surgeon for the Ministry of Health’s Singapore kidney transplant surgical team.

Besides his clinical work, Dr Wong was a senior lecturer for postgraduate and undergraduate doctors at SGH and NUS. He was the principal director of the Asian School of Urology (ASU), where he oversaw the Urological Association of Asia (UAA) academic programme in 26 Asian national associations and facilitated collaboration with the American Urological Association and the European Urological Association. He is also the founder and chief trainer for SGH’s regional endourology fellowship programme.

He is the current associate editor of the British Journal of Urology International. He has also served as an editorial and committee member of the Journal of Endourology, and he has been on the editorial board of the International Journal of Urology. Dr Wong sits on the executive committee of UAA. He was the founder president of the Asian Society of Endourology and president of the Singapore Urological Association.

He has published more than 78 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, written five chapters in books on urology, is editor of four urology books, and delivered more than 150 international lectures.

Dr Wong is the president of the Endourological Society and World Congress of Endourology and Uro-technology, USA and was appointed the co-chairman of the WHO 2nd International Consultation on Stone Diseases in Paris. He has also sat on the International Scientific Committee of the World Congress of Endourology.

He has also travelled extensively to share his surgical skills and taught in surgical live demonstrations and technique-based workshops in many countries including the USA, Germany, Italy, Holland, Scotland, Mexico, South Africa, Canada, Australia, England, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Myanmar, Taiwan, Nepal, Brunei and China.

Dr Wong has won several Singapore Health Quality Service awards. He is also a recipient of the Urological Association of Asia Honorary Member Award and the American Urological Association Global Leadership Award.