Dr Kang Wee Lee

Dr Kang Wee Lee is a Consultant at the Singapore General Hospital and Sengkang General Hospital Department of Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose & Throat). He holds the concurrent appointment of Chief Operating Officer in Sengkang General Hospital. He is also a Senior Consultant in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine.

Dr Kang received his medical degree from the National University Singapore School of Medicine in 1993, and completed his ENT specialist training in 2007. He also completed a Rhinology Fellowship in University of Auckland in 2016, receiving sub-specialty training in advanced endoscopic sinus surgery & skull base surgery.

Prior to joining SingHealth in July 2016, Dr Kang worked for more than 20 years in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) before retiring from active military service as the SAF Chief of Medical Corps. For his contributions, he received the National Day Award - Public Administration (Silver, Military) in 2012.

• MBBS (Singapore)
  
• DFD, CAW
  
• MRCSEd
  
• MMed ORL
  
• FAMS ORL
  

• Chairman, National Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Committee, July 2011 - May 2015
  
• Member, National HIV/AIDS Committee, July 2011 - May 2015
  
• Member, Board of the Agri-food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) of Singapore, Apr 2010 - March 2015
  
• Co-Chairman, Asean Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) Expert Working Group in Military Medicine, July 2011 - October 2013
  
• Member, Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 2007 - present
  
• Member, Singapore Society of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery 2007 - present
  

• ​2012 National Day Award - Public Administration (Silver, Military)
  

• Operative workload of a paediatric otolaryngology department over a five-year period.  Kang WL, Balakrishnan A. Singapore Med J. 2006 Jul;47(7): 614-616.
  
• Future synergism in diving accident management: The Singapore model.  Chong SJ, Liang W, Kim SJ, Kang WL. Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, 2010 Mar; 40(1): 41-3.
  
• A tale of three divers: recompression therapy for divers with severe type II decompression sickness with neurological deficits.  Liow MHL, Chong SJ, Kang WL. Singapore Med J. 2009 May; 50(5):e173-5.
  
• Oseltamivir ring prophylaxis for containment of 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreaks.  Lee VJ, Yap J, Cook AR, Chen MI, Tay JK, Tan BH, Loh JP, Chew SW, Koh WH, Lin R, Cui L, Lee CW, Sung WK. N Engl J Med, 2010 Jun 10; 362(23): 2166-74.
  
• Effectiveness of public health measures in mitigating pandemic influenza spread: a prospective sero-epidemiological cohort study.  Lee VJ, Yap J, Cook AR, Chen MI, Tay JK, Barr I, Kelso A, Tan BH, Loh JP, Lin R, Cui L, Kelly PM, Leo YS, Chia KS, Kang WL, Tambyah PA, Seet B. J Infect Dis, 2010 Nov 1; 202(9): 1319-26.
  
• Maintaining Operational Readiness through the Influenza A H1N1-2009 Pandemic.  WL Kang, V Lee. International Review of the Armed Forces Medical Services, March 2012; 85(1): 31-36.