Dr Bok Chek Wai

About

Dr Bok completed his training in Rehabilitation Medicine in Singapore and was subsequently awarded a Fellowship in Neurorehabilitation from Harvard Medical School in 2008. He is currently a Senior Consultant in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in Singapore General Hospital and Program Director for Senior Residency Programme in Rehabilitation Medicine.

Dr Bok has a special interest in Neurorehabilitation especially in the management and rehabilitation of stroke and spinal cord injury patients.

He is a member of the Society of Rehabilitation Medicine in Singapore and is also a member of the International Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 

Education and Training

• National University of Singapore - Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), 1998 
  
• MRCP (UK), Master of Medicine (Int Med) Singapore, 2003
  
• Completed Advanced Specialist Training in Rehabilitation Medicine in Singapore, 2007
  
• Fellowship in Neurorehabilitation, Harvard Medical School (Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, USA), 2008
  

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

• Program Director, Senior Residency Programme – Rehabilitation Medicine 
  
• Honorary Treasurer, Society of Rehabilitation Medicine (Singapore) 
  
• Member, International Society of Rehabilitation Medicine
  
• Member, Singapore Medical Association
  

Publications

• Ng YS, Jung HY, Bok CW, Tay SS, Chiong Y, Lim PAC. Results from a prospective acute inpatient rehabilitation database : clinical characteristics and functional outcomes using the Functional Independence Measure. Ann Acad Med Singapore 2007;36(1):3-10 
  
• Karen Chua SG, Ng YS, Samantha Yap GM, Bok CW. A brief review of traumatic brain injury rehabilitation. Ann Acad Med Singapore 2007;36(1):31-42
  
• Bok CW. Stroke in young adults in Singapore – demographics, clinical characteristics and rehabilitation outcomes. Presentation at 5th World Congress of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, June 2009.
  
• Bok CW, Ng YS, Lim PAC: Rehabilitation of patients with physical de-conditioning – A look at laboratory markers, functional outcomes and lengths of stay. Ann Acad Med Singapore 34 (9, Suppl): S127, Oct 2005