About Dr Ivan Ng

In 1990, A/Prof Ng got his medical degree at the National University of Singapore (NUS) then trained at the Neurosurgical Unit at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge University. The next year, he got the inter-collegiate FRCS (Surgical Neurology) and received the prestigious Norman Dott Medal for excelling at the FRCS examinations.

Dr Ivan led the Neurosurgical Department at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Singapore General Hospital (SGH) under the National Neuroscience Institute from 2006-2012. He also held the co-director position for the Brain and Behavior programme at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School from 2007-2013. A man of firsts, he held a pioneering leadership as the director of the Khoo Teck Puat NNI Integrated Neuroscience centre at SGH. Other leadership positions he has held include being the Chairman, Chapter of Neurosurgeons, College of Surgeons Singapore and Vice President of the Asian Congress of Neurosurgeons.

Dr. Ng is also on the World Federation of Neurological Surgeons International Education Faculty, was on the executive committee of the International Cerebrovascular Society and the Asia-Oceanic Skull Base Society. Presently, he is an Associate Editor of CNS Oncology and on the editorial board for the Asian Journal of Neurological Surgeons.


Contact Dr Ivan Ng

Phone: 63577153

Education

  • MBBS
  • FAMS

Awards and Achievements

  • 1998 Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) Award for Neurosurgery
  • 1998 Young Investigator's Award for Best Clinical Paper, 32nd Singapore-Malaysia Congress
  • 1999 Asean Young Neurosurgeon Award for Best Clinical Paper, 8th Asean Congress of Neurosurgical Surgery
  • 2000 Norman Dott Award, the Intercollegiate Examinations Board United Kingdom in Neurosurgery
  • 2002 Best Clinical Paper, International Conference on recent Advances in Neurotraumatology, Bali
  • 2002 Douglas Miller AANS/CNS Travelling Fellowship, American Association of Neurological Surgeons / Congress of Neurological Surgeons
  • 2003 Technology Enterprise Challenge Award, Singapore

Dr Ivan Ng offers the following treatments

  • Trigeminal Neuralgia
  • Occlusive Disease
  • Moyamoya Disease
  • Degenerative Spine
  • Back And Neck Pain
  • Arteriovenous Malformations (AVMs)
  • Aneurysms
  • Brain and Spinal Tumours
  • Condition he treats:
  • Hydrocephalus

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Recent Answers

What treatments are available for Grade 4 brain cancer?

Unfortunately, grade 4 brain cancer( glioblastoma) has no cure. However several chemotherapy agents can prolong life in selected cases selected repeat surgery is possible. Experimental therapy in clinical trials but require patients to go to the United States.

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What causes myalgic encephalomyelitis, and what are the symptoms?

The cause is unknown but it may be due to a post viral infection or autoimmune condition that causes it.

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Dr Ivan Ng

Neurosurgeon

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Neurosurgery Partners Brain + Spine Solutions 38 Irrawaddy Road #10 - 60/62 Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centresingapore 329563

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* This profile has been last updated on May 11, 2020.