Clin Assoc Prof Png Meng Ai

Dr Png Meng Ai is a Senior Consultant Radiologist at SGH and Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. She subspecialises in MSK Imaging, with a particular focus on MSK ultrasound. After attaining her FRCR (UK), she completed an advanced fellowship at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford.

A respected leader in her field, Dr Png has held several key clinical and administrative appointments. She was formerly Chief of the Musculoskeletal Radiology section and Deputy Head and Director of Clinical Services at SGH and served as Honorary Consultant to the Singapore Sports Council’s Sports Medicine and Research Centre. She was also a Visiting Consultant at Changi General Hospital.

Dr Png is a long-standing advocate for digital transformation in healthcare. From 2003 to 2024, she played a central role in major radiology informatics initiatives across SingHealth, including serving as Director of the SingHealth RIS-PACS Workgroup and was a member of its Steering Committee. Her cross-disciplinary contributions have bridged clinical practice, innovation, and enterprise IT strategy.

Dr Png has been vital in training the next generation of radiologists. She was a Visiting Senior Lecturer in NTU’s IT programme (2001–2008), a core tutor in the National Radiology Residency Programme (2000–2024), and lecturer in Duke-NUS Medical School. 

Dr Png’s research interests include musculoskeletal disorders, radiology informatics, and atypical femoral fractures. She is widely published in these areas, reflecting a career that integrates clinical excellence, education, and technological innovation.

• Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, United Kingdom (FRCR) (1991)
• Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore (FAMS) (1996)

• ​Director, Information Informatics, Division of Radiological Sciences, SGH, since 2004.
• Physician Faculty Member, Singhealth Radiology Residency program, since 2010. 
• Member, Singhealth RISPACS Steering committee, since 2012.   
• Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, since 2015.
• Clinical Lecturer, Yong Yoo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, since 2017
• Director, Singhealth RISPACS workgroup, since Feb 2019.
• Member, SGH Medical Informatics committee, since April 2019.
• Member, Research Committee, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, SGH, 2020 - present.
• Member, Singhealth Enterprise Imaging RFP Evaluation committee, 2020 - present.

• ​EBK Kwek, SK Goh, JSB Koh, MA Png, TS Howe. An emerging pattern of subtrochanteric stress fractures: A longterm complication of alendronate therapy? Injury (2008), Jan 25; 18222447.
• JSB Koh, SK Goh, MA Png, EBK Kwek, TS Howe. Femoral Cortical Stress Lesions in Long-Term Bisphosphonate Therapy: A Herald of Impending Fracture. J Orthop Trauma, February 2010, Volume 24 Issue 2.
• BJX. Teo, JSB Koh, SK Goh, MA Png, DTC Chua, TS Howe. Post-operative outcomes of atypical femoral subtrochanteric fracture in patients on bisphosphonate therapy. Bone Joint J May 2014 96-B:658-664.
• TP Tian, Y Chen, WK Leow, W Hsu, TS Howe, MA Png. Computing neck-shaft angle of femur for x-ray fracture detection. In Proc. Int. Conf. on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, LNCS 2756, 2003, p. 82-89.
• SE. Lim, Y Xing, Y Chen, WK Leow, TS Howe, MA Png. Detection of Femur and Radius Fractures in X-Ray Images. In Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Advances in Medical Signal and Information Processing, 2004.
• Ooi CC, Wong SK, Tan AB, Chin AY, Abu Bakar R, Goh SY, Mohan PC, Yap RT, Png MA. Diagnostic Criteria of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Using High Resolution Ultrasonography:  Correlation with Nerve Conduction Studies. Skeletal Radiol. 2014 Oct;43(10):1387-94. doi: 10.1007/s00256-014-1929-z. Epub 2014 Jun 12.
• Png MA, Koh JS, Goh SK, Fook-Chong S, Howe TS. Bisphosphonate-related femoral periosteal stress reactions: scoring system based on radiographic and MRI findings. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2012 Apr; 198(4):869-77.
• PC Mohan, TS Howe, JSB Koh, MA Png. Radiographic features of multifocal endosteal thickening of the femur in patients on long-term biphosphonate therapy.  Eur Radiol 2013 Jan; 23 (1): 222-7 doi: 10.1007/s00330-012-2587-y. Epub 2012 Jul 20