Prof Marcus Ong is a Senior Consultant and Clinician Scientist, at the Department of Emergency Medicine in Singapore General Hospital. He is also Director of the 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 obtained more than S$64 million in research grants for his studies, which include data science, geospatial diseases mapping, clinical drug trials, resuscitation and cardiovascular sciences, pre-hospital emergency care, and biomedical engineering. He is the Principal Investigator for an international, multi-centre cohort study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest across the Asia-Pacific. The PAROS study involves 16 countries across Asia-Pacific and has now enrolled over 200,000 patients since 2010 and published over 40 collaborative papers. To date, Prof Ong has published more than 460 articles in international and local journals, such as Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, American Journal of Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Resuscitation, Annals of Emergency Medicine, etc. Prof Ong has also patented inventions using Artificial Intelligence and Heart Rate Variability for risk prediction of acutely ill patients and cooling solutions for therapeutic hypothermia. The technology is currently being developed into bedside triage devices that can help in risk stratification of critically ill patients and he has spun-off three companies from these inventions.

Prof Marcus Ong Eng Hock's Session:

• Emergency Medicine Innovation Plenary
  Date: 19 Sep 2025, Friday | Time: 1310 — 1355 | Venue: The NAK Auditorium