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2024/01/25
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Asst Prof Clement Yong Hsiang Rong

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Designations:

  • Head of Division & Senior Consultant, Division of Neuroimaging, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, National University Hospital
  • Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Qualifications:

MBBS (Honours) FRANZCR

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Diagnostic Radiology

Clinical Disciplines/Programmes:

Diagnostic Imaging/Radiology, Neuroimaging

Special Interests:

Advanced head and neck imaging, advanced neuroimaging, temporal bone and otological imaging, dual energy CT

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Asst. Prof Clement Yong is the Head of Neuroimaging and Senior Consultant at the National University Hospital. After graduating with honours from the University of Western Australia in 2006, he later obtained his fellowship with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists in 2016. He is now Director of Training for the RANZCR clinical radiology training program in Singapore and Assistant Professor of Radiology with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore. 

He sub-specialises in advanced head & neck and neuroimaging and is a clinical expert with advanced specialty training from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston USA through the Singapore Health Manpower Development Plan Award. In recent years, he has successfully pioneered the use of contrast clearance analysis for tumour response assessment in Singapore and also the application of dual energy CT in the assessment of laryngeal cancers. 

Dr. Yong has published multiple papers and book chapters on imaging, and regularly gives lectures and workshops internationally. He was won multiple teaching awards for his commitment to the field. A strong proponent for increased inter-professional education, he is also an advocate for greater regional collaboration across South East Asia and has participated in hospital outreach programs to Indonesia and Cambodia. 

Awards

  • Inter Professional Teaching Award NUHS 2018
  • Ministry of Health, Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) Award 2019
  • Best Quality Improvement Project Award 2021
  • Best Teacher Award (Radiology) 2022, 2023, 2024

Journals & Publications

  1. Diagnostic Imaging of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: C Yong, JC Ng, LK Khor, D Eu, BA Vellayappan, T Cheo, VFH Chong: Diagnostic Imaging in Head and Neck Cancer, 13-42
  2. Imaging of the Paranasal Sinuses and Their Surgical Relevance, C Yong, David S.Y. Sia, James T.P.D Hallinan: Skull Base Imaging 1, 21-38
  3. Case Report: MOGAD-a steroid-responsive autoimmune meningoencephalitis mimicking infection Y Goh, PPS Lye, PA Tambyah, DTL Soon, N Smitasin, JJY Ong, C Yong: Frontiers in Immunology 16, 1516178 2025
  4. Teaching NeuroImage: Prognostication of X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy Based on the Loes Neuroimaging Score: CYS Lim, NBH Ng, V Han, C Yong, KY Loke, JB Lin
    Neurology 103 (12), e210126 2024
  5. OA09. 04 Osimertinib with or without SRS for Brain Metastases from EGFRm NSCLC: Pooled Analysis of Two RCTs: C Ho, YY Soon, A Nichol, K Robledo, A Sahgal, M Pinkham, B Melosky, C Yong: Journal of Thoracic Oncology 19 (10), S28-S29 2024
  6. Protocol for a systematic review with prospective individual patient data meta-analysis in EGFR-mutant NSCLC with brain metastases to assess the effect of SRS+ osimertinib …
    KP Robledo, S Lefresne, YY Soon, A Sahgal, MB Pinkham, A Nichol, C Yong
    BMJ open 14 (7) 2024
  7. The different shapes of the fourth ventricle, CW Yap, Clement Yong, BKH Soon: Clinical Radiology 78 (12), 875-884 2023
  8. Cauda equina thickening: an approach to MRI findings, SWL Bee, RHM Hoe, AGW Goh, Y Goh, VEY Chan, C Yong, MC Lim, ... Clinical Radiology 78 (7), 497-508 2023
  9. Teaching NeuroImage: Prenatal Diagnosis of Limited Dorsal Myeloschisis, LJ Fu, VX Han, JB Lin, C Yong, BKH Soon, FS Wang, VDW Nga, Neurology 99 (13), 582-584 2022
  10. The Predictive Capacity of Pre-operative Imaging Analysis in Diffuse Glioma: A Comparison of Connectomics, Radiomics, and Clinical Perspective Models, R Harrison, BWQ Tan, HQ Tan, L Tan, MC Lim, C Yong, J Kuo, S Kesler, Neuro-Oncology 22 (Suppl 2), ii154 2020

Professional Memberships

  • Asian-Oceanian Society of Neuroradiology and Head & Neck Radiology
  • European Society of Neuroradiology
  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
  • Singapore Radiology Society

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