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Dr Lee Kong Hwee

MBBS (Spore), MRCS (Edin), MMed, FRCS (Edin)

Senior Consultant

Specialty: Orthopaedic Surgery

Clinical Interest: Sports Service

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Knee (Ligament, Meniscus, Cartilage) Injuries, Knee Arthritis/ Replacement, Meniscus Transplant.

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgery Singapore General Hospital
Sports Service Orthopaedic Surgery Singapore General Hospital

Profile

Dr Lee Kong Hwee is a senior consultant with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). He sub-specialises in knee preservation work, namely realignment osteotomies, cartilage, meniscal and ligament surgeries.

Dr Lee is the Director of Sports service & President of Singapore Knee Preservation Society. He is spearheading SGH’s efforts in knee preservation surgeries, and helping patients retain their biologic knees

Special Interest

1. Knee Preservation Surgeries
a. osteotomy
b. cartilage and meniscal transplants
c. ligament repair and reconstruction

2. Total or partial knee arthroplasty

Education

FRCS Orthopaedics (Edinburgh) 2015
MMED Orthopaedics (Singapore) 2009
MRCS (Edinburgh) 2009
MBBS National University of Singapore 2005

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Director of Sports Service
Visiting consultant to Sengkang General Hospital
Core Faculty for the SingHealth Orthopaedic Program
Clinical Lecturer, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Adjunct Teaching Faculty, NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

Awards

2010

Best paper for “Clinical and Radiological outcomes of Open versus MIS TLIF”

Awarded at 2010 Society of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery annual meeting.

2008 – 2009
Band one in Performance

SingHealth Finance / Health services research.

2006
SingHealth Best Orthopaedic House Officer Award

2001– 2005 (4 consecutive years)
Shaw Foundation Scholarship for Medicine

Research Interests

Publications

PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH/TRIALS

“No significant post-operative limb length difference following medial opening wedge high tibial osteotomy in a multi-ethnic Southeast Asian population.” Betzler BK, Saggi SS, Liau MYQ, Koh DTS, Lee Kong Hwee, Bin Abd Razak HR. J Exp Orthop. 2023 Aug 30;10(1):89. doi: 10.1186/s40634-023-00654-4. PMID: 37644360; PMCID: PMC10465403.
“Large Versus Small Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomies Performed With a Protective Wire Over the Lateral Hinge: Incidence of Lateral Hinge Fracture and Early Clinical Outcomes.” Koh DTS, Soong JW, Yeo W, Marcus Tan, Teo SJ, Wilson A, Lee Kong Hwee, The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 2023;51(3):672-677.
“Distalization of hinge site with use of hinge wire reduces hinge fracture rates in closing wedge distal femoral osteotomy.” Teo SJ, Koh DTS, Soong JW, Yeo W, Wilson A, Lee Kong Hwee. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. Dec 2022.
“Fresh Femoral Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation Using a Single-Plug Technique for Large Osteochondral Defects of the Knee”. Chua YL, DTS Koh, Lee Kong Hwee. Arthrosc Tech. Published online: January 18, 2023
“Treatment of Chronic Dislocated Patella in a Skeletally Mature Down Syndrome Patient - A Case Report” Fong, Jiawen, Zeng Gerald Joseph, Lee Kong Hwee. JBJS Case Connector: April-June 2022 - Volume 12 - Issue 2 - e21.00710. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.CC.21.00710
“Vancomycin-soaked femoral head allograft in opening wedge high tibia osteotomy enables earlier postoperative recovery and reduces infection rates compared to allogenic bone chips”. DTS Koh, Lee Kong Hwee. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 30, 4054–4062 (2022). doi: 10.1007/s00167-022-06885-9.
“Medial Meniscal Allograft Transplantation With Bone Plugs Using a 3-Tunnel Technique”. SJ Teo , Marcus W P Tan, DTS Koh, Lee Kong Hwee. Arthrosc Tech. 2022 Jan 20;11(2):e217-e222.