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Dr Wong Keng Lin (Francis)
Orthopaedic Surgeon
Specialty
Orthopaedic Surgery
Languages
English, Hainanese, Mandarin
Gender
Male
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Key achievements
- Earliest orthopaedic surgeon-scientist with a PhD in cartilage regeneration in Singapore
- Started Singapore's only International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation Society Center of Excellence
- Earliest in Asia to be awarded AMIC specialist by Geistlich’s AMIC Chondro Gide Competence Center
- More than 500 cartilage surgeries performed in Singapore
- Collaborated with the National University Hospital and Sengkang General Hospital for advanced cartilage treatments and imaging such as T2 cartilage mapping
Experience
Dr Francis Wong is an orthopaedic surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.
He specialises in all aspects of cartilage treatment and surgery. His subspecialty is in cartilage restoration, meniscus surgery, ligament repair and non-surgical orthobiologics. He is also experienced in advanced wound healing and diabetic limb salvage.
He was an orthopaedic surgeon at Sengkang General Hospital (SKH) and formed the diabetic limb salvage team there. He is currently a visiting consultant at the National University Hospital and SKH.
Dr Wong graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has performed more than 500 cartilage repairs in Singapore and is Singapore’s earliest orthopaedic surgeon-scientist with a PhD in cartilage regeneration. He was also the earliest Southeast Asian to be awarded the Vericel-International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation Society (ICRS) clinical travelling fellowship. He learnt cartilage restoration and regeneration techniques from centres in North America and Europe. He has been practising medicine for more than 15 years.
As a former research director at SKH and campus service chief at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Cell Therapy Centre, he led several nationally-funded projects in biologic cartilage repair, bone marrow-derived therapies and exosome research. He spearheaded and started Singapore’s only ICRS centre of excellence.
Besides his clinical work, he is an adjunct associate professor at NUS. Dr Wong has published more than 85 research papers and has won numerous national-level research grants.
He is an international faculty and deputy chair of the NexGen committee for ICRS.
Dr Wong is a recipient of several Singapore Health Quality Service awards.
Associated treatments
- Knee meniscal surgery
- Major joint reconstruction
- Knee ligament repair
- Joint injection
Awards and honours
- 2024
Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Best Team Award (Leader) – Diabetic Limb Salvage Team) - 2022
Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Star)
Research & publications
Ow, Z. G. W., Cheang, H. L. X., Koh, J. H., Koh, J. Z. E., Lim, K. K., Wang, D., Minas, T., Carey, J. L., Lin, H. A., & Wong, K. L. (2023). Does the choice of acellular scaffold and augmentation with bone marrow aspirate concentrate affect short-term outcomes in cartilage repair? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 51(6), 1622–1633.
Wong, K. L., Zhang, S., Wang, M., Ren, X., Afizah, H., Lai, R. C., Lim, S. K., Lee, E. H., Hui, J. H. P., & Toh, W. S. (2020). Intra-Articular injections of mesenchymal stem cell exosomes and hyaluronic acid improve structural and mechanical properties of repaired cartilage in a rabbit model. Arthroscopy the Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, 36(8), 2215-2228.e2.
Teo, A. Q. A., Wong, K. L., Shen, L., Lim, J. Y., Toh, W. S., Lee, E. H., & Hui, J. H. P. (2019). Equivalent 10-Year outcomes after implantation of autologous bone Marrow–Derived mesenchymal stem cells versus autologous chondrocyte implantation for chondral defects of the knee. The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 47(12), 2881–2887.
Wong, K. L., Lee, K. B. L., Tai, B. C., Law, P., Lee, E. H., & Hui, J. H. (2013). Injectable Cultured Bone Marrow–Derived mesenchymal stem cells in Varus knees with cartilage defects undergoing high tibial osteotomy: a prospective, randomized controlled clinical trial with 2 years’ follow-up. Arthroscopy the Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, 29(12), 2020–2028.
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