Dr. Chang Haw Chong is an Orthopedic Surgeon specialist who also specializes in orthopedic sports medicine. He graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Medicine in 1994. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow in 1998. The same year, he obtained his Master of Medicine in General Surgery. In 2001, he obtained his fellowship in orthopedics from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
Dr. Chang was awarded the Health Manpower Development Program (HMDP) scholarship from the Ministry of Health to train at the University of Louisville in USA as a clinical fellow in orthopedic sports medicine. He was mentored by Professor David N.M. Caborn, a leading sports orthopedic surgeon in the USA with a special interest in the use of allograft tissues for sports reconstructive surgeries and meniscus transplantations.
Dr. Chang served as a Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon in Changi General Hospital and as Deputy Head of the Changi Sports Medicine Centre (CSMC). He was instrumental in developing the Orthopedic Sports Service in CSMC, eventually becoming Director of Orthopedic Sports Service in 2007. Among his many achievements was the setting up of the CSMC Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Program in 2004, which has treated over 250 patients with anterior cruciate ligament injuries annually. Among his patients were national football players and Olympic athletes.
A firm believer in the need to contribute to teaching and training, Dr. Chang is a clinical lecturer with the National University of Singapore. For his contribution to undergraduate medical teaching of orthopedic surgery, he was awarded the Best Orthopedic Teacher award for consecutive terms. As Director of Orthopedic Sports Medicine at Changi General Hospital, he has trained surgeons from the Asian region in orthopedic sports medicine. He has also organized cadaveric workshops in shoulder arthroscopy, knee double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction as well as autologous chondrocyte transplantation for local and international orthopedic surgeons.
An avid researcher, Dr. Chang has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers, a majority of them on orthopedic sports medicine in prestigious sports medicine journals such as the American Journal of Sports Medicine and the Arthroscopy Journal. He has contributed a book chapter on “Allograft Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction” in the 4th edition of Insall and Scott Surgery of the knee; a textbook for knee surgeons. He also co-authored a paper on a new surgical technique in double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. He has been invited to speak on many issues related to sports medicine at local and international meetings. Dr. Chang also serves on the Editorial Board of the Singapore Medical Journal.
Dr Chang's specialty interests are robotic assisted partial knee replacement (makoplasty) surgery and use of allograpft tissues for sports reconstructive surgeries and in meniscus transplantations.
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