DR ANNABELLE LEONG | ENT SPECIALIST FOR ADULTS & KIDS

Dr Annabelle Leong is an Otolaryngologist with twenty years of ENT experience, having trained and worked in the United Kingdom, Canada and Singapore. She received her MBBS with Distinction from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in London, UK, winning the Roger Warwick Prize in ENT and Negas Cawthorne Essay Prize in ENT as an undergraduate. She has managed a wide range of both paediatric and adult ENT conditions throughout her postgraduate specialist training in London at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the Evelina Children’s Hospital, the Hearing Implant centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, Charing Cross Hospital, King’s college hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology/Neurosurgery, Queen’s Square.

She is the only Singaporean recipient of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) National Temporal Bone Prize for displaying the best surgical skill in ear dissection in the United Kingdom. She was awarded a travelling fellowship to the House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, USA in 2011. The following year, she was awarded the prestigious Thomas-Wickham-Jones (TWJ) ear fellowship in hearing, dizziness/balance and skull base disorders at Toronto General Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto, Canada.

She returned home to Singapore to become the Head of the Hearing Implant and Vestibular/Balance Services at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, setting up a cochlear implant program to serve the multitude of patients with hearing loss and dizzy problems. She continues to run the Ear and Hearing service as Visiting Consultant to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.

Dr Leong was the Associate Program Director of the National Health Group (NHG) ENT residency specialist training scheme and senior clinical lecturer at Yong Loo Lin medical school (National University of Singapore). She continues to teach medical students as a House Tutor at Lee Kong Chian medical school and is also regularly invited as teaching faculty at local ENT training courses. She has also had the privilege of being invited to speak at many international conferences. Her passion for clinical research has culminated in numerous peer-reviewed publications and the regional Kilcoyne Prize in London for Best Original ENT Research. She served as Treasurer to the Singapore Society of ENT surgeons and is part of the organising committee for the regional ASEAN ORL conference to be held in Singapore in 2019. She now serves on the Executive Board of the Singapore Association for the Deaf, helping the deaf community integrate with society.

CLINICAL ETHOS

Dr Leong’s experience of having worked in the National Health Service (NHS) for 12 years has taught her to firmly believe in delivering patient-centred care supported by evidence-based clinical practice. This approach earned her a Service Champion award from Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in 2016. She always strives to involve patients fully in the clinical decision-making process, providing them and their families with a thorough explanation of their condition so that they may make an informed decision. Dr Leong regularly undertakes volunteer work as an ENT specialist for charity medical missions in Thailand, Cambodia and Sri Lanka. She believes that healthy doctors can take better care of their patients so she runs 6 km thrice a week to keep fit. Whatever spare time she has left is kept occupied by her two young and very active sons.