In 2022, Prof Wong was appointed the Founding Head and Chair Professor of Tsinghua Medicine, a new academic health system based at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
From 2014 to 2021, Prof Wong was Arthur Lim Professor of Ophthalmology and Medical Director at SNEC, one of the largest tertiary eye hospitals globally, with 100 ophthalmologists across 10 sub-speciality departments, managing >400,000 outpatient visits. Prof Wong was concurrently Deputy Group CEO (Research and Education) and Vice-Dean at SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, with 30,000 staff and managing >2.5 million outpatient clinical appointments per year. In this role, he leads four cluster-wide offices (Group Research, Group Education, Joint Office of Academic Medicine, Office of Academic Clinical Development), which plan and coordinate clinical and translational research, innovation, enterprise and industry collaboration across 11 hospitals and healthcare institutions, including Singapore General Hospital (ranked #8 best hospital, https://www.newsweek.com/best-hospitals-2020), and 5 national specialty centers (Cancer, Heart, Neuroscience, Eye, Dental). His offices also oversee appointments, promotion and tenure of >2,000 faculty (Asst, Assoc and full Professors) and leads an education enterprise training medical students, residents and fellows, as well as nursing students and a diverse range of allied health professionals (e.g., physiotherapists, pharmacists).
Prior to these roles, Prof Wong was Group Director of Research, SingHealth, Head of the Academic Medicine Research Institute (AMRI), Executive Director of the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at National University of Singapore, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Managing Director of the Centre for Eye Research Australia.
