Profile
A/Prof Jon Yoong is Senior Consultant Physician in the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital (SGH RHI). He began his training in Rheumatology and Immunology with the London Deanery in St George’s Hospital and University College London, United Kingdom, before returning to Singapore. He is alumni of Harvard Macy Institute, Harvard University.
Dr Yoong has published in Singapore and international medical journals including The New England Journal of Medicine in 2006 and again in 2008. In close collaboration with Professor E. Armstrong of Harvard Medical School, one of the highlights of his work in education was a large inter-departmental, cross Academic Clinical Programme effort with SGH Departments of Hand Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery and Plastic Surgery that resulted in an oral presentation in Harvard University’s Annual American Medical Education Conference.
As the Department’s Director of Medical Student Education and Clinical Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, Dr Yoong is committed in developing and refining undergraduate rheumatology curriculum in SGH. He leads the way in which Rheumatology is taught by embracing AI and cloud-based learning for all three Singapore Medical Schools namely Duke-NUS, Yong Loo Lin NUS and Lee Kong Chian NTU. He is course director for the well-received department’s annual Rheumatology Review Course for final year medical students.
SGH RHI is poised to maintain the delivery of rheumatology education through hybrid models developed by Dr Yoong and his department colleagues which involves theory e-learning, virtual clinical teaching and standardised true patients, nimbly adapting to various levels of safe-distancing measures, should those be required at any time.
Education
- FRCP (Edin), Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom
- MRCP (London), Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom
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Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships
- Senior Consultant Physician, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital
- Director, Undergraduate & Medical Student Education, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital
- SGH Lead for Rheumatology education at Duke-NUS, YLL-NUS and LKC-NTU, Singapore
- Clinical Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU
- Clinical Senior Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
- SingHealth Internal Medicine Residency Faculty
- Autoimmunity and Rheumatology Centre Media and Communication Strategy Lead and Coordinator for inaugural opening in 2013
- SGH Program Director, Rheumatology Review Course for Medical Students
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Awards
- Singapore General Hospital Service Quality Award 2017-2022
- Spring Singapore, Gold Award 2012
- Excellent Service Award (EXSA), Superstar Service Award 2009
- Singapore General Hospital Service Quality, Heart of Gold Award 2008
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Publications
- Fong W, Yoong J. Mycophenolate Mofetil as a therapeutic option for Neuropsychiatric Lupus. Proc Singapore Healthc. 2014 Oct
- GG Teng, Cheung P, Manjari Lahiri, Jane A Clayton, Swee Cheng Ng, Bernard Y Thong, Archana R Vasudevan, Yoong J, Keng Hong Leong. Singapore Chapter of Rheumatologists Consensus Statement on the Eligibility for Government Subsidy of Biologic Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Agents for Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2014 Aug. 43. 400-11
- Ng X, Low AH, Chew LC, Chong YY, Fong KY, Lui NL, Sim E, Tan YK, Yoong J, Thumboo J. Disease patterns of rheumatology outpatients of a tertiary hospital serving a multi-ethnic urban population in Asian population in Singapore. Int J Rheum Dis. 2013 Jun;16(3):273-8
- Yoong J, Lui NL.. Educating the Future of Rheumatology. Proc Singapore Healthc (Review Article) 2013;22:172-8
- Fong W, Loh Y, Yoong J. Hematopoietic stem cell transplant in systemic lupus erythematosus : A case report. Proc Singapore Healthc. 2013; 22;56-63
- Fong W, Thumboo J, Fong KY, Yoong J. IgG4-related disease in Singapore. Int J Rheum Dis. 2013 Feb;16(1):93-7. doi: 10.1111/1756-185x.12027.
- Yoong J. Ankylosing Spondylitis. New England Journal of Medicine 2008;18:359
- Yoong J, Thumboo J. Drug Profile: Etanercept (Review Article). Medical Progress, 2008;35(6): 290-294.
- Yoong J, Chew LC, Quek R, Lim CH, Zai JQ, Fong KY, Thumboo J. Cardiac lymphoma in primary Sjogren syndrome: a novel case established by targeted imaging and pericardial window. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007;134(2):513-4.
- Yoong J, Fong KY, Tang KK, Tan RK, Thumboo J. Rheumatoid-Atlantoaxial disease associated syringomyelia. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2007 Feb;36(2):150-1
- Yoong J. Heavy-metal meals of mercury. New England Journal of Medicine 2006;19:354
- Yoong J, Thumboo J. Pseudocalcification in a patient with inflammatory arthritis. Rheumatol Int 2006;26:855-6
- Yoong J. Mobile phones can be a pain: Text messaging tenosynovitis. B J Hosp Med 2005;66:370
- Carty SM, Yoong J, Lawson TM, Bevan MA. An unusual case of extra bone formation. Rheumatology(Oxford) 2005;44:767
- Yoong J. Coxibs and serious adverse cardiovascular events: a class-effect? J R Soc Med 2004;97:609
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