Dr Danny Wong Jon Nian

MBBS, BSc, MRCP(UK), FRCA, PhD

Consultant

Specialty: Anaesthesia

Clinical Appointments

Consultant Anaesthesiology Singapore General Hospital

Profile

Dr Wong obtained his undergraduate medical degree in 2008 from King’s College London, UK. He subsequently completed his specialty training in anaesthesia in London, during which he completed fellowships in complex airway anaesthesia and regional anaesthesia. He was appointed a Consultant Anaesthetist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in 2021, before relocating in 2024 to Singapore and taking up a post as a Consultant in the Department of Anaesthesiology at Singapore General Hospital.

During his training in the UK, Dr Wong undertook a period of research with the Royal College of Anaesthetists' NIAA Health Services Research Centre (HSRC) and UCL where he obtained his PhD in 2020. His PhD research investigated the epidemiology of critical care provision after surgery. He co-led intubateCOVID, a large international multicentre prospective observational cohort study, which looked at the risks to emergency airway operators performing, and patients undergoing emergency airway management for COVID-19. He was a 2017 Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, a UK national facility for cultivating and improving research software to support world-class research.

Education

2020: PhD – University College London
2014: FRCA – Royal College of Anaesthetists
2013: MRCP(UK) – Royal College of Physicians
2008: MBBS – King’s College London
2005: BSc (Neurosciences with Basic Medical Sciences) – King’s College London

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Awards

2020: Junior Doctor of the Year (Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust)
2019: Royal College of Anaesthetists President’s Commendation
2019: James Rink Prize (Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust)
2018: 1st Prize, Association of Anaesthetists Winter Scientific Meeting, London 2018, Original Research Poster

Research Interests

Risk prediction, perioperative outcomes and epidemiology,

Publications and Research Trials

SA. Watson, DJN. Wong. Anaesthetic recruitment interview performance and ethnicity. Anaesthesia. 2023 Jun 28. doi: 10.1111/anae.16076
T. Potter, JN. Cronin, J. Kua, E. Nurmi, DJN. Wong, I. Ahmad, et al. Aerosol precautions and airway complications: a national prospective multicentre cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2023;78(1):23–35. doi: 10.1111/anae.15851
Ahmad, DJN. Wong. Recognising oesophageal intubation. Anaesthesia. 2022. doi: /10.1111/anae.15894
J. Subramaniam, F. Durrant, S. Edwardson, S El-Ghazali, C. Holt, R. McCrossan, I. Pramanik, DJN. Wong. Recruitment to higher specialty training in anaesthesia in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey. Anaesthesia. 2022. doi: 10.1111/anae.15660P
P. Perella, R. Conway, DJN. Wong. Anaesthetic training during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anaesthesia. 2021. doi: 10.1111/anae.15587
COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative. Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2021. doi:10.1111/anae.15560
DJN. Wong, CR. Bailey, K. El-Boghdadly. Staff: our most valuable asset. Anaesthesia. 2021. doi: 10.1111/anae.15543
AJ. Wickham, DT. Highton, S. Clark, D. Fallaha, DJN. Wong, DS. Martin. Treatment threshold for intra-operative hypotension in clinical practice—a prospective cohort study in older patients in the UK. Anaesthesia. 2021. doi: /10.1111/anae.15535
CYM. Carvalho, J. Schumacher, PR. Greig, DJN. Wong, K. El-Boghdadly. Prospective observational study of gender and ethnicity biases in respiratory protective equipment for healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Open. 2021. 11: e047716.
DJN. Wong, K. El-Boghdadly, R. Owen, C. Johnstone, MD. Neuman, P. Andruszkiewicz, et al. Emergency Airway Management in Patients with COVID-19: A Prospective International Multicenter Cohort Study. Anesthesiology. 2021. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000003791
COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative. SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study. BJS (British Journal of Surgery). 2021. doi: 10.1093/bjs/znab101
COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative. Timing of surgery following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2021. doi: 10.1111/anae.15458G.
G. Nair, DJN. Wong, E. Chan, T. Alexander, R. Jeevananthan, A. Pawa. Mode of Anesthesia and Quality of Recovery After Breast Surgery: A Case Series of 100 Patients. Cureus. 2021. doi: 10.7759/cureus.13822
J. Kua, R. Patel, E. Nurmi, S. Tian, H. Gill, DJN. Wong, et al. healthcareCOVID: a national cross-sectional observational study identifying risk factors for developing suspected or confirmed COVID-19 in UK healthcare workers. PeerJ. 2021. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10891
S. Hashim, DJN. Wong, L. Farmer L, SK. Harris, SR. Moonesinghe. Perceptions of UK clinicians towards postoperative critical care. Anaesthesia. 2020. doi: 10.1111/anae.15302
DJN. Wong, S. Harris, A. Sahni, JR. Bedford, L. Cortes, R. Shawyer, et al. Developing and validating subjective and objective risk-assessment measures for predicting mortality after major surgery: An international prospective cohort study. PLOS Medicine. 2020. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003253
Ahmad, J. Jeyarajah, G. Nair, SC. Ragbourne, B. Vowles, DJN. Wong, et al. A prospective, observational, cohort study of airway management of patients with COVID-19 by specialist tracheal intubation teams. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. 2020. doi: 10.1007/s12630-020-01804-3
K. El‐Boghdadly, DJN. Wong, R. Owen, MD. Neuman, S. Pocock, JB. Carlisle, et al. Risks to healthcare workers following tracheal intubation of patients with COVID-19: a prospective international multicentre cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2020. doi: 10.1111/anae.15170
V. Krishnamoorthy, D. McLean, T. Ohnuma, SK. Harris, DJN. Wong, M. Wilson, et al. Causal inference in perioperative medicine observational research: part 2, advanced methods. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2020. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.03.032
V. Krishnamoorthy, DJN. Wong, M. Wilson, K. Raghunathan, T. Ohnuma, D. McLean, et al. Causal inference in perioperative medicine observational research: part 1, a graphical introduction. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2020. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.03.031
COVIDSurg Collaborative. Global guidance for surgical care during the COVID-19 pandemic. BJS (British Journal of Surgery). 2020. doi: 10.1002/bjs.116461
P. Perella, E. Palmer, R. Conway, DJN. Wong. A retrospective analysis of case‐load and supervision from a large anaesthetic logbook database. Anaesthesia. 2019. doi: 10.1111/anae.14843
T. Pollard, I. Chen, J. Wiens, S. Horng, DJN. Wong, M. Ghassemi, et al. Turning the crank for machine learning: ease, at what expense? The Lancet Digital Health. 2019. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(19)30112-8
DJN. Wong, S. Popham, AM. Wilson, LM. Barneto, HA. Lindsay, L. Farmer, et al. Postoperative critical care and high-acuity care provision in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2018.12.026
DJN. Wong, SK. Harris, SR. Moonesinghe, SNAP-2: EPICCS Collaborators. Cancelled operations in the UK – a 7 day cohort study of planned adult inpatient surgery in 245 NHS hospitals. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2018.07.002
E. Palmer, S. Ciechanowicz, A. Reeve, S. Harris, DJN. Wong, P. Sultan. Operating room-to-incision interval and neonatal outcome in emergency caesarean section: a retrospective 5-year cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2018. doi: 10.1111/anae.14296
SR. Moonesinghe, DJN. Wong, L. Farmer, et al for the SNAP-2 Project team and Steering Group. SNAP-2 EPICCS: the second Sprint National Anaesthesia Project—EPIdemiology of Critical Care after Surgery: protocol for an international observational cohort study. BMJ Open. 2017. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017690
HW. Gan, DJN. Wong, B. Dean, AS. Hall. Do expanded seven-day NHS services improve clinical outcomes? Analysis of comparative institutional performance from the "NHS Services, Seven Days a Week" project 2013–2016. BMC Health Services Research. 2017. doi: 10.1186/s12913-017-2505-8
DJN. Wong, CM. Oliver, SR. Moonesinghe. Predicting Postoperative Morbidity in Adult Elective Surgical Patients using the Surgical Outcome Risk Tool (SORT). British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2017. doi: 10.1093/bja/aex117
DJN. Wong, J. Bedford, S. Luck, R. Bloomer. Evaluating Services at a Major Trauma Centre Before Helipad Construction. Air Medical Journal. 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.amj.2016.11.007
DJN. Wong, A. Wickham. A Survey of Intensive Care Unit Discharge Communication Practices in the United Kingdom. J Intensive Care Soc. 2013. doi: 10.1177/175114371301400411
M.L. Starkey, M. Davies, P.K. Yip, L.M. Carter, DJN. Wong, S.B. McMahon, E.J. Bradbury. Expression of the regeneration-associated protein SPRR1A in primary sensory neurons and spinal cord of the adult mouse following peripheral and central injury. J Comp Neurol. 2009. doi: 10.1002/cne.21944