Tan Tock Seng Hospital appoints SAF’s former chief of medical corps as new CEO from April 1

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Dr Tang Kong Choong helped set up the hospital's intensive care unit headquarters during the pandemic.

Dr Tang Kong Choong has taken over from Professor Eugene Fidelis Soh as the CEO of Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

Dr Tang joined TTSH in 2020 and served as a senior consultant in the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine. The statement said that he had “crucially contributed” to the set-up of TTSH’s intensive care unit headquarters, emergency planning, and operations command during the Covid-19 pandemic.

He also did a three-week stint in Afghanistan in 2008 to prepare for SAF’s first medical team deployment to that country. Prof Soh took on a new role at the National Healthcare Group on April 1 as the group chief executive of population health. He will help with strategies to “build a healthy and engaged population” in the central and north parts of Singapore, said the statement.

 

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