Wu Pang Hung

Dr Wu Pang Hung is an orthopaedic surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore. His subspecialty interest is in minimally invasive spine surgery (endoscopic spine surgery) for cervical, thoracic and lumbar degenerative conditions, pain management, spinal deformity, spinal tumour and spinal trauma. He was an orthopaedic consultant at the JurongHealth Campus, National University Health System (NUHS). He is currently a visiting consultant at NUHS, National Neuroscience Institute and Sengkang General Hospital. Dr Wu graduated from the National University of Singapore. He obtained a graduate diploma in family medicine and membership in the Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland). He completed his advanced orthopaedic surgical training by obtaining fellowship in Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), UK. He obtained several fellowship awards in Asia, Europe and North America. He received the ASEAN orthopaedic junior travelling fellowship to orthopaedic and spine centres in ASEAN regions to understand the regional orthopaedic disease patterns and treatment strategies. He also received the AO trauma fellowship to practice at BG Klinik Ludwigshafen Trauma Centre, Germany for spine and orthopaedic trauma fixation techniques. He had an observership in Wellington Hospital, New Zealand for lumbar anterolateral access minimally invasive spinal surgery. Dr Wu received the full-year AO spine North America fellowship at Toronto Western Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children and Sunnybrook Hospital, and was exposed to complex paediatric and adult spinal deformity, complex spinal trauma, spinal tumour and tubular microscopic minimally invasive surgery. After completing several fellowships ranging from open to microscopic tubular surgeries, he furthered his training in minimally invasive spine surgery by obtaining the Ministry of Health scholarship award and became the earliest Singaporean international fellow in endoscopic spine surgery at Nanoori Gangnam Hospital, South Korea. He later obtained the AO Asia Pacific spine fellowship to practice in Okayama Rosai Hospital, Japan. In 2023, he visited Wooridul Spine Hospital and St Peter’s Hospital, South Korea, to enhance his training in cervical and lumbar disc replacement surgeries. Before entering private practice, Dr Wu was the director of the spinal fellowship programme and director of orthopaedic research in the department of orthopaedic surgery, JurongHealth Campus, NUHS. He set up LEADS (Local Endoscopic Awake Discectomy Surgery) protocol and ambulatory uniportal and biportal endoscopic spine surgery for lumbar decompression and discectomy at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. He was also appointed adjunct assistant professor at NUS. He has been practising medicine for more than 15 years. Dr Wu authored several orthopaedic, neurosurgical textbooks. He is active in the world in different societies and conferences as an endoscopic expert to teach the next generation of endoscopic spine surgeon. He is a recipient of the NUHS Service Ambassador Award.