Dr Leong Yun Hao

Dr Leong Yun Hao is an Anaesthesiologist in the Department of Pain Medicine, Division of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Singapore General Hospital.

Dr Leong completed his MBBS at the National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2016. He subsequently obtained his Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 2017. He then completed his residency training in Anaesthesiology and was conferred the Master of Medicine (Anaesthesiology) by the National University of Singapore in 2024, receiving the Tan Seng Huat Gold Medal for being the top performing candidate in the Exit Examinations. In 2025, he was awarded the European Diploma of Pain Medicine (EDPM) by the European Pain Federation (EFIC).

His subspeciality interest is in Pain medicine and Regional Anesthesia. He also has an interest in Medical Education and is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE).

• EDPM (EFIC)
• MMed (Anaesthesiology) (S'pore)
• MRCS (Edinburgh)
• MBBS (S'pore)

• SingHealth Residency RiSE Award - Outstanding Faculty Award (2025)
• Tan Seng Huat Gold Medal Award (2024)
• SingHealth Anaesthesia ACP Senior Resident Talent Development Award (2023)
• SingHealth Residency RiSE Award – Inspiring Resident Educator Award (2023,2024)
• SingHealth Associate in Education (2023)
• SGH Anaesthesia Inspiring Teacher Award (2023, 2025)
• Junior Doctor Teaching Award, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (2017)

1. Ke Y, Leong YH, Jin L, et al. Differential reasoning and chain-of-thought processes in Deepseek-R1 and Open AI o3-mini-high for determining American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status, British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2025, ISSN 0007-0912, https://www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(25)00364-2/abstract.

2. Ke Y, Tay VY, Leong YH, et al. The role of wearable technology in home-based prehabilitation: a scoping review. Br J Anaesth. 2025;134(1):228-231. doi:10.1016/j.bja.2024.09.024

3. Leong, Y.H., Khoo, Y.L., Abdullah, H.R. et al. Compliance to ventilator care bundles and its association with ventilator-associated pneumonia. APS 2, 20 (2024). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44254-024-00059-1

4. Leong, Y. H., Tay, V. Y. J., & Chua, H. W. (2024). Unmasking Subglottic Stenosis in an Asthmatic Emergency Needing Front-of-Neck Access: A Case Report. Cureus, 16(11), e74847. https://www.cureus.com/articles/321257-unmasking-subglottic-stenosis-in-an-asthmatic-emergency-needing-front-of-neck-access-a-case-report#!/

5. Ke, Y., Ng, R. R. G., Elangovan, S., Leong, Y. H., Goh, Z. H., Graves, N., Shannon, N. B., & Abdullah, H. R. (2023). Prehabilitation programs - a systematic review of the economic evidence. Frontiers in medicine, 10, 1281843. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2023.1281843/full

6. Ng, Kennedy Y. Y., et al. “Factors Influencing Protective Behaviours during
Haze Episodes in Singapore: A Population-Based Study.” Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, vol. 50, no. 7, 2021, pp. 514–26, https://doi.org/10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2020614.