He has been a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore since 2018.
He obtained his 1st class honours in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Imperial College, London in 2005.
He completed a Masters in Biotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007.
As the inaugural batch of Duke-NUS Medical School, he graduated with a Doctor of Medicine in 2011.
During his study, he was a recipient of the Duke University Research Scholarship and spent 1 year in North Carolina completing a research fellowship under Prof. Glenn Preminger, Prof David Albala and the esteemed faculty of the Department of Urology there.
Dr Yong was a recipient of the Japan Urological Association scholarship 2019 and was attached to the Dept of Urology at Okayama University Hospital in 2019 under the tutorship of Prof Mootoo Araki and Prof Yasutomo Nasu.
He completed his HMDP in 2023 at Universitatsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf / Martini-Klinik (Germany) where he learnt advanced surgical techniques such as Neuro-SAFE (Bilateral nerve-sparing Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy) from Prof Alexander Haese.
Currently, he is the Deputy Head and Consultant at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore.
TTSH is a Multi-specialty medical center established in the year 1844.
It is recognized as Asia’s finest Medicine Hospital. and has an Individualized patient-centered, medical science-based approach to treating various diseases and spreading wellness.
Popularly known as one of the best medical centers providing disease treatment services.
Provide a wide range of medical services in various specializations.
Areas of service are Cardiology, Plastic Surgery, Hematology, Oncology treatments and Surgeries, Urology, Vascular Surgery, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Gastroenterology, Cosmetic Surgery, and many more.
Their ultimate aim is to take out the patient from major and minor diseases with the help of advanced treatments.
Recognized as the hospital with the busiest trauma center in the country and served more than 1.4 million patients.
Received the Asian Hospital Management Award (2021).
Received the Techblazer Awards (2021).
Received the NHG Recognition Awards (2021).
Received the Employee Experience Awards (2022).
