A/PROF PHILIP ENG
MBBS, M.MED (INT MED), FAMS,
FCCP (US), FRCP (US),
FRCP (LONDON),
SENIOR CONSULTANT RESPIRATORY PHYSICIAN
Professor Philip Eng graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1984 and subsequently completed his Masters of Medicine (Internal Medicine) in 1989. He then went on to do advance training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the University of California, San Diego, both in USA.
In 1997, Prof Eng was appointed Head, Department of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) at the age of 37. He was one of the youngest Head of Department in Singapore at that time. In Prof Eng's 9-year tenure at SGH, he built one of the strongest departments in the region in Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine with strong linkages with Chest Radiology, Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Oncology.
Prof Eng specialises in the evaluation and management of lung conditions including chronic cough, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, pneumonia, lung cancer, smoking cessation and pleural effusion.
Prof Eng's interests are in Lung Cancer, Bronchoscopy (both flexible and rigid), Intensive Care management and Chest Radiology. He has performed more than 400 rigid bronchoscopies, stents, NdYAG lasers and Argon Plasma photo-coagulation.
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