Prof Marcus Ong is a Senior Consultant, Director of Research, and Clinician Scientist, at the Department of Emergency Medicine in Singapore General Hospital.  He is also the Director of Health Services Research Institute (HSRI), Director of Health Services Research Center (HSRC), Singhealth Services; Professor and Director, Health Services and Systems Research (HSSR); Director, Prehospital and Emergency Research Center (PERC), Duke-NUS Medical School. Prof Ong also serves as Medical Director, Unit for Prehospital Emergency Care (UPEC) and Senior Consultant, Ministry of Health, Hospital Services Division. He is a current recipient of the NMRC Clinician Scientist Award. Finally, he is Chairman, Pan Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study (PAROS).

Prof Ong has worked relentlessly to improve healthcare on the national level. In his role as both a health services researcher and Medical Director of the Unit for Pre-hospital Emergency Care (UPEC), MOH, Prof Ong has the unique opportunity to supervise evidence-based implementation of the latest science in PEC in a world-class EMS ‘living’ laboratory.