Dr. Dr Ong Joo Haw

Dr Ong Joo Haw is a Sports Medicine Specialist at Orthopaedics International. He was Director and Senior Consultant at the KTPH Sports and Medicine Centre. He manages the spectrum of recreational sports people to elite athletes across age groups and sporting disciplines, with a wealth of experience in the management of both acute injuries and chronic degenerative conditions. He has special clinical interest in interventional ultrasound guided to aid individuals return to activity through non-surgical means. 

He graduated from Faculty of Medicine, NUS and has obtained Masters of Medicine in Family Medicine. He is also a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Section of Sports Physicians. He has post graduate qualifications in Occupational Medicine and is a Designated Workplace Doctor of MOM. In 2015, he was awarded a Double Fellowship from MOH in MSK Ultrasound Guided Interventions and High-Performance Sports Medicine at the London Independent Hospital and Australian Institute of Sports. 

Dr Ong has published in multiple peer-reviewed medical journals and oversees research activities at the level of various institutional review boards. He is also invited faculty to various local and overseas conferences and courses, particularly in the area of musculoskeletal ultrasound. He is involved in both under and post graduate teaching, notably serving on the sports medicine advanced specialty training committee, as program director of AACES musculoskeletal ultrasound course and as site directors for various residency programs. 

As an elite athlete, he is an accomplished competitive powerlifter, having won top lifter awards at national level competitions and holding multiple national records. He also trains in long distance running and cycling with the long term aim of achieving excellence in the strength and endurance domains of fitness. 

Musculoskeletal and joint pain

Sports and exercise related conditions and injuries

Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

Extra-corporeal Shockwave Therapy

Ultrasound guided musculoskeletal and joint injections

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

“Shoulder Injuries” Book Chapter

JH Ong, Ng CS, Exercise is Medicine Prescription Guide 2nd Edition, 2022

“Extensor Digitorum Brevis Manus Muscle: An Unusual Case of Dorsal Wrist Pain and Swelling with Weight Lifting”

1. Sim, JH Ong, New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine, 2021

“Morel-Lavallee Lesion of the Knee After Low-Energy Impact in a Healthy Non-Athlete”

M Tay, JH Ong, Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 2020

“Microvascular Volume in Symptomatic Achilles Tendons is Associated with VISA-A Score”

SFE Praet; JH Ong; C. Purdam; et al., Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 2018

“The Effects of Eccentric Conditioning Stimuli on Subsequent Counter-Movement Jump Performance”

Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, 2016

Conference Presentations:

Invited International Speaker, Australian Sonographer Association (ASA), 2021-2024

Invited International Speaker, Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM), 2020

Invited International Speaker, World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) 2019

Chairman and Medical Director, Medical and Anti-Doping Committee, Powerlifting Singapore (2016- Current)

Member, SAFRA Gym Management Committee (2024-Current)

Board )

International and National Classifier (Para-powerlifting), International Paralympic Committee and Singapore Disability Sports Council, Sport Singapore (2017- Current)

Member, Therapeutic Use Exemption Committee, Anti-Doping Singapore, Sport Singapore (2020- Current)

Executive Committee Member, Singapore Disability Sport Council (2014- 2015)

Executive Treasurer, Singapore Sports Medicine Association (2013-2014)

Executive Committee Member, Singapore Sports Medicine Association (2010-2012)

Chief Medical Officer, Singapore National Olympic Council, XXI Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast 2018

Chief Tournament Physician, Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Finals, Sport Singapore, 2017-2018

Team Doctor, Singapore National Olympic Council, 27th South East Asian Games, Myanmar 2013

Member Advisory Committee, Graduate Diploma in Sports Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, (2020- 2024

Board Chairman, Institutional Review Board, Republic Polytechnic (2020- 2024)

Board Member, Institutional Review Board, Singapore Sports Institute, Sport Singapore (2018- 2024)

Member, Sports and Exercise Medicine Workgroup, National Healthcare Group  (2021- Current)

Member, Appropriate use of MRI workgroup, Agency for Care Effectiveness, Ministry of Health (2020-202)