Dr Ng Yew Poh Vincent

MBBS (Singapore), MMED (Surgery), MCI (Singapore), Msc (Oxford Endovascular), FRCS (Edinburgh), FAMS (Neurosurgery)

Senior Consultant

Specialty: Neurosurgery

Sub-specialties: Cerebrovascular Surgery, Neurovascular Bypasses and Revascularisation, Neurotrauma, Skull Base Surgery, General Neurosurgery

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Acoustic Neuroma, Brain Aneurysm, Brain Metastasis, Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, Cerebral Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas, Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Meningiomas, Moyamoya Disease, Neurotrauma, Sweaty Palms (Palmar Hyperhidrosis).

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant Neurosurgery Singapore General Hospital
Senior Consultant Department of Neurosurgery National Neuroscience Institute
Senior Consultant Division of Surgery ＆ Surgical Oncology National Cancer Centre Singapore

Profile

Dr Vincent Ng graduated from National University of Singapore in 2001. He completed his basic postgraduate surgical training in 2005 and obtained his membership in General Surgery conferred by the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (MRCS Ed). He completed his Master of Medicine in Surgery (MMed) conferred by the National University of Singapore in 2006.

Dr Ng started his Neurosurgical advanced surgical training at the National Neuroscience Institute (Singapore) where he worked at the Singapore General Hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Changi General Hospital. He completed his neurosurgical training and was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (FRCS) in 2011. He was conferred Fellowship in the Academy of Medicine in 2012.

He was awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Health (MOH) Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) in 2012 and went for a 1-year fellowship in Endovascular Neurosurgery at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, United Kingdom. He was conferred Masters of Science (Endovascular Neurosurgery) by Oxford University in 2013.

To further his budding interest in clinical research, Dr Ng was awarded NMRC Scholarship to undertake the Master of Clinical Investigation in 2011 in National University of Singapore.

For his contribution in teaching, Dr Ng was appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Professor by the DUKE-NUS graduate medical school in 2013. He is also Clinical Senior Lecturer in Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is in the Yew Tee Primary School Advisory Committee.

He is the current Vice Chairman of the Chapter of Neurosurgeons and Vice President of Clinical Neuroscience Society and a member of the Congress of American Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS).

In recognition of his service quality to patient care, he was awarded the Star Award in 2019 Singapore Health Quality Service Awards.

Education

SMU-SingHealth Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Management and Leadership, 2015
MSc Endovascular Neurosurgery (Interventional Neuroradiology) (Oxford) – Graduate Student, 2013
FAMS, 2012
Specialist Registration, 2012
USMLE Step 1/Step 2 CK/Step 2 CS/ECFMG 2011/Step 3, 2012
FRCS (Edinburgh), 2011
MCI (Singapore), 2011
MRCS (Edinburgh), 2005
MMED (Surgery), 2005
MBBS (Singapore), 2001

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Senior Consultant, Department of Neurosurgery, National Neuroscience Institute
Vice Chairman, Chapter of Neurosurgeons, Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Vice-President, Clinical Neuroscience Society
Adjunct Assistant Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Neuroscience Clinical Programme
Clinical Lecturer, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
Member, Residency Advisory Committee for Neurosurgery
Member, JCST Examination Committee Neurosurgery
Member, MOH National Neurosurgical Critical Services Advisory Workgroup
Member, MOH Workgroup on Imaging for Low Back Pain and Imaging for Headaches
Core Faculty, SingHealth Neurosurgery Residency Programme
Member, NNI Medical Council
Member, NNI Business Continuity Management
Member, NNI Accreditation and Credentialing Committee
Member, NNI Peer Review Learning Quality Assurance (Neurosurgery)
Member, NNI-TTSH Intraoperative MRI Committee
Co-Director NICU
Member, TTSH ICU Committee
Member, TTSH Brain Death Certification and HOTA
Member, TTSH Transfusion Committee
Member, SingHealth Procedural Safety Workgroup
Member, SingHealth Clinical Core Faculty for Neurosurgery Residency
Member, Woodlands Health Campus’ Clinical Board Resource Panel
Member, CGH Departmental Mortality & Morbidity
Member, CGH Stroke Committee
Member, SGH ICU Committee
Member, SGH Trauma Committee
Member, TTSH Surgical Care Committee
Clinical Path Champion, Hemorrhagic Stroke Pathway
Yew Tee Primary School Advisory Committee

Awards

Star Award SingHealth Quality Service Award, 2019
Gold Award SingHealth Quality Health Service, 2016
10-year Long Service Award, 2016
HMDP Award, 2012
Dermatology Society of Singapore Book Prize, 2001
Outstanding House Officer for General Surgery, NUH, 2001
NRF-MOH Healthcare Research Scholarship (MCI), 2010
Dean’s List Award, 1998 - 1999
Dean’s List Award, 1997 - 1998
Bailey Memorial Medal, 1998 - 1999
Albert Lim Liat Juay Bronze Medal Award, 1999 - 2000
Tan Siak Kew Scholarship, 1999 - 2000

Research Interests

Aneurysm / AVM / Cerebrovascular Diseases
Carotid Stenosis
Moya Moya
Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Head Injury

Publications and Research Trials

Prevalence of Asymptomatic Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms in a Southeast Asian Population. Thien A, See AA, Ang SY, Primalani NK, Lim MJ, Ng YP, Kam King NK, World Neurosurg. 2016 Oct 12. pii: S1878-8750(16)30975-5. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2016.09.118.
Comparison of gender differences in intracerebral hemorrhage in a multi-ethnic Asian society
Justin T Hsieh, Beng Ti Ang, Vincent Ng, John C Allen, Nicolas KK King PLoS One. 2016 Apr 6;11(4):e0152945. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152945. eCollection 2016.
Recovery of Oculomotor Nerve Palsy After Endovascular and Surgical Treatment of Intracranial Posterior Communicating Artery Aneurysms – A single institutional Experience
SKD Mak, LM Qiu, ZW Eyo, YP Ng
Use of programmable versus nonprogrammable shunts in the management of hydrocephalus secondary to aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a retrospective study with cost-benefit analysis Lee L, King NK, Kumar D, Ng YP, Rao J, Ng H, Lee KK, Wang E, Ng I, J Neurosurg. 2014 Oct;121(4):899-903. doi: 10.3171/2014.3.JNS131088. Epub 2014 Apr 18
Indocyanine Green Videoangiography with Flow Analysis in Arteriovenous Malformation Surgery - Its Utility and Pitfalls, YP Ng, NKK King, KR Wan, E Wang, I Ng J Clin Neurosci Feb;20(2):224-32, DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2011.12.038
Screening and Management of Tethered Spinal Cord in Children
JPOG May/Jun 105-114 Ng VYP, Gan BK, Seow WT
Extracranial-Intracranial (EC-IC) Bypass for Symptomatic Occlusion: A Review. V Ng, I. Ng – Invited Review on Medimond International Proceedings for 8th International Conference on Cerebrovascular Surgery ICCVS
Vesico-hip fistula from bladder puncture with subsequent infected total hip arthroplasty
Vishwanath J, Ng YP, Teo YS, De SD.
J Arthroplasty. 2007 Sep;22(6):939-41.
Cross section al Study of Near Work and Myopia in Kindagarten Children in Singapore
Tan GJ, Ng YP, Lim YC, Ong PY, Snodgrass A, Saw SM
Ann Acad Med Singapore 2000; 29: 740-4
Laparoscopic-assisted colon and rectal surgery - lessons learnt from early experience. Koh DC, Wong KS, Sim R, Ng YP, Hu ZQ, Cheong DM, Foo A. in Singapore Ann Acad Med Singapore 2005 Apr;34 (3) 25-34

Research Trials

TRANEXAMIC SDH TRIAL Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Efficacy and Safety Study Comparing EG-1962 to Standard of Care Oral Nimodipine in Adults with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Site PI
NEWTON Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Efficacy and Safety Study Comparing EG-1962 to Standard of Care Oral Nimodipine in Adults with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Principal Investigator
CAPTAIN Cerebrolysin Asian Pacific Trial in Acute Brain Injury and Neurosurgery Co-Investigator
Yellow 560 Evaluation of Efficacy of Simultaneous Steroscopic Visualization of Cerebral Blood Flow and Spatial Surgical Anatomy using YELLOW 560 with Fluorescite® in Neurosurgery Co-Investigator
SHUNT registry A Registry for comparing catheter-related infection rates among various shunt systems in the treatment of hydrocephalus Co-Investigator
Candidemia A phase III, double-blind, randomized study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of BAL8557 versus a Caspofungin followed by Voriconazole regimen in the treatment of Candidemia and other invasive Candida infections Co-Investigator
B-EVD Establishment of Baseline and Comparative Infection Rates for the Codman BACTISEALTM External Ventricular Drainage (EVD) System Co-Investigator
Consicious-2 A prospective, multi-center, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study to assess the efficacy and safety of clazosentan in reducing vasospasm-related morbidity and all-cause mortality in adult patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage treated by surgical clipping. Co-Investigator
CENTRIC Cilengitide for subjects with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme and methylated MGMT gene promoter – a multicenter, open-label, controlled Phase III study, testing cilengitide in combination with standard treatment (temozolomide with concomitant radiation therapy, followed by temozolomide maintenance therapy) versus standard treatment alone (CENTRIC) Co-Investigator
IVH Efficacy of clot thrombolysis in intraventricular haemorrhage Co-Investigator
STASH Simvastatin in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (STASH) – A multicentre Randomised Controlled Clinical Phase III Study Co-Investigator
Rescue ICP Randomised Evaluation of Surgery with Craniectomy for Uncontrollable Elevation of Intra-Cranial Pressure Co-Investigator
Consicious-3 A prospective, multi-center, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study to assess the efficacy and safety of clazosentan in reducing vasospasm-related morbidity and all-cause mortality in adult patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage treated by endovascular coiling Co-Investigator