Doctor's Profile

Website
https://www.areteortho.com.sg/

Website
https://drlswangortho.com.sg/

General Enquiry Email
[email protected]

Clinic

Arete Orthopaedic Centre

Address

Mount Alvernia Hospital
820 Thomson Road
Medical Centre D #05-51
Singapore 574623

Clinic Hours

8.30am to 5.30pm (Mon – Fri)
8.30am to 12.30pm (Sat)

About

Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
MBBS (S’pore), MRCS (Edin), MMed (Ortho), FRCS (Ortho) (Edin)

Dr LS Wang is a highly skilled and high-volume surgeon with more than 18 years of experience. As a Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and former Head of the Hip and Knee Division in Ng Teng Fong Hospital, he has won awards for superior patient outcomes (value driven), service quality and enhanced recovery programmes. His patients include current and former national athletes and sporting professionals.

Having trained in world renowned centres of excellences in UK and France, he has extensive experience in ligament, meniscal and cartilage sports surgeries and complex revision hip and knee replacement surgery. In UK, Dr Wang was awarded the Sir John Charnley Arthroplasty and Sports Reconstruction Fellowship in Wrightington Hospital, a UK designated Centre of Excellence. In France, Dr Wang underwent further training at the Albert Trillat Orthopaedic Centre which is an ISAKOS (International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery / Sports Orthopaedics Medicine) and ESSKA (European Society of Sports and Knee Arthroscopy) approved centre as well as a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence.

Dr Wang also pioneers advanced minimally invasive techniques for enhanced recovery such as robotic knee surgery and hip surgery (direct superior and direct anterior approaches). He is international recognised and is highly sought after to instruct and has accreditated surgeons from China, Japan, India, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore in hip and knee surgery.

Dr Wang is trusted by the Orthopaedic community. He has been appointed as Adjunct Asst Professor with the National University of Singapore and is a Member of the National Residency Advisory Committee for Orthopaedics. He also acts as examiner and is a member of the Masters of Medicine (Orthopaedics) Committee with the National University of Singapore) and is a core faculty member of the NUHS Orthopaedic Residency Program.

Outside of work, Dr LS Wang is an avid sports person who plays football and futsal on a regular basis. In his younger days, he was captain of his medical university team in NUS and also covering medical doctor for then SAFFC (Singapore Armed Forces Football Club). He has an avid interest in tropical fish keeping and aquascaping.

BRITISH, FRENCH AND SINGAPORE-TRAINED

• Graduated from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2005, having been placed on the Dean’s List
• Appointed as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2015
• Undertook Sir John Charnley Hip and Knee Arthroplasty and Sports Soft Tissue Reconstruction Fellowship at world-renowned Wrightington Hospital in 2017. UK designated Centre of Excellence
• Completed Lower limb Sport Soft Tissue Reconstruction and Arthroplasty Fellowship at FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence Lyon Croix-Rousse University Hospital in 2017

MORE THAN 18 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

• Former Senior Consultant, Hip and Knee Division (Adult Reconstruction and Sports Surgery) Orthopaedics, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
• Former Head of Division of Hip and Knee Service, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
• Visiting Consultant at National University Hospital
• Visiting Consultant at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
• Former Visiting Consultant at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital
• Adjunct Asst Professor with the National University of Singapore
• Member of the National Residency Advisory Committee for Orthopaedics.
• Examiner on the Masters of Medicine (Orthopaedics) Committee with the National University of Singapore)
• Core faculty member of the NUHS Orthopaedic Residency Program.