Dr Karmen Wong

DR KARMEN WONG
MBBS (Adelaide), MRCP (UK), MMed (Int Med), FAM (Singapore)

Dr Karmen Wong is regarded as one of Asia’s foremost oncologists with close to 20 years of clinical practice. She received her oncology training in the National University Hospital, National Cancer Centre, Singapore and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) under the HMDP scholarship.

She pioneered the first multi-disciplinary breast cancer treatment in Singapore some 15 years ago. This involved establishing a platform for treatment in other cancers with different disciplines of doctors.  Dr Wong also initiated the bone marrow transplant programme in solid tumour in Singapore in 1997. She spearheaded the multi-disciplinary  tumour board and Breast Cancer Clinic in Singapore General Hospital.  

Dr Wong presented the 1^st Asian study in attitudes of cancer treatment among Asian patients in the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in 1999. She has also written peer review articles and published chapters in textbooks.

Her sub specialty interests are in cancer chemotherapy in breast, gastro-intestinal, lung and HIV related cancers.

Credentials:

• Granted the status of Fellow to the Academy of Medicine in Singapore in 1994.
• Certified with the Singapore Medical Council, the Medical Board of South Australia, the Medical Board of Victoria (Australia), the General Medical Council of UK and the Hong Kong Medical Council,
• Member of the American Society of Medical Oncology, the Singapore Oncology Society.
• Specialist accreditation in Medical Oncology with the Singapore Ministry of Health
• Member of the International Breast Cancer Study Group.
• Committee member of Breast Cancer Foundation, Singapore.