Dr Alvin Ng Choon Yong

Dr Ng Choon Yong Alvin is a Consultant Respiratory Physician and Intensivist with The Respiratory Practice. He was the President of the Society of Intensive Care Medicine as well as the Vice President of the Singapore Thoracic Society. He was also an executive committee member of the Chapter of Intensivist, Academy of Medicine Singapore. Dr Alvin currently volunteers as the Deputy Chief Surgeon of the St John's Brigade Singapore Headquarters.

Dr Alvin was awarded the Singapore Armed Forces Medical Scholarship in 1996 to study Medicine in the National University of Singapore (NUS). He had graduated from NUS in 2001 and had went on to train successfully in Internal Medicine and became both a Specialist in Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. Dr Alvin has special interests in Obstructive Airway Disease like Asthma and COPD as well as Invasive Mechanical Ventilation for ICU patients.

He was a Consultant at Changi General Hospital’s Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and held the position of Deputy Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit. Dr Alvin was also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Singapore Armed Forces and his last appointment was Commanding Officer of the Medical Classification Centre (MCC) and he was in charge of PES (Physical Employment Status) assignments for all SAF and Mindef personnel. He holds the title and certification as the Singapore Armed Forces Consultant for Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine.

Dr Alvin has served as the Deputy Commander of the SAF Medical Training Institute which oversees all the medical training for the SAF. He was previously the Medical Director for the Singapore Armed Forces Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Centre and is currently the Medical Director of the St John Singapore National Association of Emergency Medical Technician Course. Dr Alvin also holds numerous training position including Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Instructor, Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Instructor, Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) Instructor, Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care (BASIC) Instructor and EuSim Advance Medical Training Simulation Instructor. Previously in Changi General Hospital, he held the teaching positions in the Respiratory Medicine Core Faculty, Internal Medicine Physician Faculty, Intensive Care Medicine Subspecialty Faculty as well as NUS Undergraduate Clinical Faculty.

Dr Alvin believes strongly in contributing back to the community and continues to be active in both the Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SICM) and the Singapore Thoracic Society (STS). He was also the Organising Chairman of the 2017 SGANZICS Asia Pacific Intensive Care Forum.

Contact Dr Alvin Ng Choon Yong

Phone: 6444 2448

E-Mail: clinic@respiratorypractice.com