Dr Ng Peng Soon

MBBS (SINGAPORE), MRCP (UK), FRCP (UK)

Senior Consultant

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant Department of Neurology National Neuroscience Institute
Senior Consultant NNI @CGH Changi General Hospital

Profile

Dr Ng Peng Soon is a Senior Consultant Neurologist sub-specialised in Neuromuscular Disorders. He completed his fellowship training in Neuromuscular Disorders – Nerve at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, U.S.A in 2017. He has interest in Paraproteinemic Neuropathies, Transthyretin Amyloid Neuropathy and autoimmune neuromuscular disorders in particular Guillain Barre Syndrome, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Peripheral Neuropathy, Myasthenia Gravis and Myositis. In addition to neurophysiological assessments of neuromuscular disorders, he also reads nerve biopsies.

Education

MBBS (SINGAPORE), 2005
MRCP (UK), 2010
SCE NEUROLOGY (RCP, ABN), 2012
Fellowship in Neuromuscular Disorders- Nerve (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota), 2016-2017
FRCP (UK), 2022

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (London), 2022- present
Member, American Academy of Neurology. 2017 – present
Alumni, Mayo Clinic Alumni Association. 2017- present
Member, Singapore Medical Association. 2005- present

Awards

Singhealth Residency Faculty Appreciation Award, 2022
Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 2020
NNI Publish Award, 2019
Singapore Health Service Awards (Gold), 2017

Research Interests

Publications and Research Trials

Koh, JS, Fam SR , Ng PS, Umapathi T. ALS treatment – We still await the "magic cocktail' Ann Indian Acad Neurol 2022; 25(4): 577-578.
MV Pinto, PS Ng, RS Laughlin, P Thapa, CA Pinto, S. Shelly, K Shouman, PJ Dyck, P James B Dyck. Risk factors for lumbosacral radiculoplexus neuropathy. Muscle and nerve 2022; 65:593-598.
Chen Z, Saini M, Neo SXM, Ng PS, Koh JS, Prasad K, Verma K, Davila S, Lim WK, Phua Z, Li MM, Kang C, Tay KSS, Chai JYH. Acute to subacute atraumatic entrapment neuropathies in patients with CMT 1A, A report of a distinct phenotypic variant of CMT1A. Front Neurol 2022; 13: 826634.
Chen Z, Koh JS, Saini M,Tay KSS, Jayne Tan Y, Chai JYH, Fam SR, Juraidah AR, Lim PK, Ng ASL, Prasad K, Tan CB, Umapathi T, Verma KK, Yong MH, Yu C, Ng PS. Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis – Clinical and genetic characteristics of a multiracial South-east Asian cohort in Singapore. J Neuromuscul Dis 2021; 8(4): 723-733.
MV Pinto, PS Ng, BM Howe, RS Laughlin, P Thapa, PJ Dyck , P James B Dyck. Lumbosacral radiculoplexus neuropathy: Neurologic outcomes and survival in a population-based study. Neurology 2021; 96(16): e2098-e2108.
Peng Soon Ng, Yee-leng Tan, Ambihai Sivalingam, Shermyn Neo. Teaching Neuroimages: Electroretinographic artifacts in EEG. Neurology 2019; 93(17): e1660-e1661.
Ng PS, Pinto MV, Neff JL, Hasadsri L, Highsmith EW, Fidler ME, Gavrilova RH, Klein CJ. Cerebellar Ataxia Renal -failure, Neuropathy with Encephalopathy (MCARNE). Neurol Genet 2019; 5: e314.
PS Ng, P Dyck, P Thapa, RS Laughlin, MV Pinto, PJB Dyck. Lumbosacral radiculoplexus neuropathy – Incidence and the association with diabetes mellitus. Neurology 2019;92: e1188-e1194.
Ng PS, Ang LP, Kandiah N. Importance of mental capacity: Time for greater awareness and action. Singapore Med J 2015; 56(1): 646-648.
Ng PS, Lim CCT, Tan NC. Acute hyperammonemic encephalopathy. Oxf Med Case Rep 2014; 4: 69-70.
Ng PS, M Saini. Reversible metronidazole-induced subacute cerebellar syndrome. QJM 2014;107: 1051-1052.
Ng PS, Lee CC, K Tan. Multiple cranial neuropathies after a rash in 2 patients. J Clin Virol 2012;53:183-185.