About Our Medical Director
Lieutenant
Colonel (NS) Dr Michael Ong Chin Cheong graduated
from NUS in 1991 with a
Bachelor in Medicine
and Surgery. In addition to
his basic medical degree, he also holds a Master's
Degree in Occupational Medicine.
In addition
to his clinical role as a Medical Director of
HMS, he is also the medical consultant to several
tunneling companies and to the Singapore Land
Transport Authority in the area of compressed
air works and underground tunneling. He is an
Adjunct Associate Professor in the National University
of Singapore.
In his working
career, he was in the Navy for 12 years during
which he received training in diving and hyperbaric
medicine from the world renown Defence and Civil
Institute of Environmental Medicine (DCIEM), the
Canada Navy as well as in the USA.
He has also headed the Naval Medicine and Hyperbaric
centre in the Republic of Singapore Navy and was
responsible for all hyperbaric medical matters
ranging from clinical treatment of patients, selection
of divers to setting up chamber systems and conducting
safety and health audits on hyperbaric chamber
systems.
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