Dr Alvin Hong is a Consultant Neurosurgeon who trained in Singapore General Hospital and Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, United Kingdom. His clinic is in the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, and he looks after in-patients mainly in the Mount Elizabeth and Gleneagles Hospitals. He also has privileges to look after patients in Mount Elizabeth Novena, Mount Alvernia and Parkway East Hospitals.
His practice includes stereotactic craniotomy for brain lesions, microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia & hemifacial spasm, video-endoscopic thoracic sympathectomies for sweaty palms, and Gamma Knife radiosurgery.
Dr Hong has subspecialty interests in endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary lesions, surgery of the skull base and spinal disorders, as well as Gamma Knife Radiosurgery.
In 1979, Dr Alvin Hong was awarded a scholarship to enter the Medical Science Tripos in Queens’ College, Cambridge University.