Marcus Ong MPH, FRCS, EDIN

Dr. Marcus Eng Hock Ong, MPH, FRCS, EDIN is a Professor and Director at the Duke-NUS Medical School. Prof Ong also serves as Medical Director, of the Unit for Prehospital Emergency Care (UPEC), and Senior Consultant, at the Ministry of Health, Hospital Services Division. He is also Chairman of, the Pan Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study (PAROS).

Prof Ong has obtained more than S$47 million in research grants for his studies, which include geospatial diseases mapping, clinical drug trials, resuscitation, and cardiovascular sciences, pre-hospital emergency care, and biomedical engineering. He is the Principal Investigator for an international, multi-center cohort study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest across the Asia-Pacific. This clinical research network has published more than 36 articles in peer-reviewed journals since 2009. In total, Prof Ong has published more than 250 articles in international and local journals, such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, American Journal of Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Resuscitation, Annals of Emergency Medicine, etc.

In 2014, Prof Ong started a Data Science team at SingHealth Health Services Research Centre (HSRC) and was appointed Head of Data Science at SingHealth. He is the SingHealth Co-Principal Investigator of the AI Singapore Grand Challenge addressing diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. He is considered a leading proponent of Data Science in Healthcare in Singapore. He is also a Scientific Advisor for Global Healthcare, a start-up company providing medical cooling solutions, and TIIM Healthcare, an AI start-up.