Dr. Wu Pang Hung

Dr Wu is a well known teacher in different countries in both uniportal and biportal endoscopic spine surgery where he gives lecture , Cadaveric workshop and live surgeries. Due to his teaching commitment he was conferred Visiting Professor in Henan Provincial Hospital. Dr. Wu is versatile in endoscopic spinal surgery , he had performed and published his results on cervical , thoracic and lumbar spinal conditions treated with spinal endoscopy. He is a strong proponent for ambulatory spine surgery and minimally invasive spinal surgery. He is one of the earliest Singaporean orthopaedic surgeon with Ministry Of Health Scholarship to complete a full 18 months fellowship in both open complex spinal surgery, pediatric and adult spinal deformity and spinal tumor fellowship in North America as well as endoscopic spine surgery (one of the least invasive form of spinal decompression and fusion surgery) in South Korea. His clinical and academic interest includes treatment of complex cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal problems through minimally invasive spinal approaches and motion preservation surgeries. His orthopaedic surgical mottos are “small is beautiful, less is more, tissue and motion conservation is key.”

Orthopaedic Surgery

Endoscopic Spine Surgery , one of the least invasive form of minimally invasive spine surgery
Minimally invasive Spine Surgery
Artificial Disc Replacement
Lateral Access Spinal Fusion

Clinical Work Experience And Ambulatory Spinal Surgery
Before entering private practice, Dr. Wu was an Orthopaedic Consultant, Director of Spinal Fellowship Program and Director of Orthopaedic Research in the Department Of Orthopaedic Surgery, Juronghealth Campus, National University Health System. Dr. Wu is also a Visiting Consultant to Orthopaedic Department in National University Hospital, National University Health System He is also a Visiting Consultant of Singhealth., Sengkang General Hospital, Department Of Orthopaedic Surgery.

Prior to entering private practice, Dr. Wu sets up LEADS (Local Endoscopic Awake Discectomy Surgery) protocol and ambulatory Uniportal and Biportal Endsocopic Spine Surgery for lumbar decompression and discectomy in Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. Together with his team of endoscopic spine surgeons in his government practice, they published their clinical results in established spinal and medical journals. He is the first Singaporean surgeon to lead his team to publish their results in European Spine Journal on “Ambulatory uniportal versus biportal endoscopic decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis” with an average stay for patients to be less than 24 hours in his cohort of patients who underwent spine surgery for spinal stenosis.
Other than his own government hospital, Dr. Wu was privileged to be able to provide the expertise and advice to start up a number of endoscopic spinal units in overseas hospitals before going to private practice. Dr. Wu was featured several times in English, Chinese and Tamil TV, Newspapers and Radio for his work in development of endoscopic spine surgery in Singapore for the past years. Due to his broad surgical expertise, he had been appointed consulting and education roles in several established pharmaceutical, spinal endoscopic and open spinal surgical implant companies.

Academic Achievement in Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Spine Surgery
Dr. Wu is a pioneer and an enthusiastic mentor as the one of the earliest Singaporean spine surgeon to perform and describe both forms of Uniportal and Biportal Endoscopic Lumbar Spinal Fusion techniques in the same year. He is also one of the earliest to describe some of the most updated endoscopic surgical treatments for cervical ,thoracic and lumbar conditions in both uniportal and biportal spinal endoscopy.

Singapore Spine Society
Asia Pacific Spine Society
AO Spine
Asean Minimally Invasive Spine Society
World Federation Of Endoscopic Surgery
World Federation Of Neurosurgical Society
World Unilateral Biportal Endoscopic Society
International Society Of Unilateral Biportal Endoscopy