RSNA 2024 Honorary Members: Steven Bak-Siew Wong, MD, MBChB
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A leader in cross-disciplinary research, Steven Bak-Siew Wong, MD, MBChB, is a musculoskeletal radiologist with interest in sports imaging, spine and emergency radiology.
“Dr. Wong is an accomplished radiology leader who brings people together,” said RSNA President, Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD. “He has led the formation of strong collaborative groups to develop advanced imaging methods and new artificial intelligence tools.”
Dr. Wong collaborates on research projects with both orthopedic surgeons and rheumatologists in Singapore, primarily on advanced imaging methods for articular cartilage degeneration and repair. He also develops and evaluates radiology AI modules along with data scientists at the National University of Singapore and A-Star.
As a consultant radiologist at Singapore General Hospital, coming off a Radiology Information Systems & Picture Archiving & Communications System (RIS-PACS) implementation project, Dr. Wong was tasked in 2013 with establishing and staffing the radiology department for a new 1,400-bed acute hospital being built in the Sengkang area of Singapore. Both hospitals are part of Singapore Healthcare Services, Pte., Ltd. (SingHealth).
Dr. Wong was appointed the inaugural head of the Department of Radiology for Sengkang General Hospital in 2016, the first radiology department in Singapore designed to handle a pandemic with isolation zones for imaging and lead-free glass in the wards to enable contact-free imaging. As a result, the department endured the COVID-19 pandemic without losing any staff to the disease. In 2022, the President of the Republic of Singapore awarded Dr. Wong the Public Administration Bronze Medal for services to Singapore health care.
Lauded for his remarkable leadership, this year Dr. Wong was awarded Honorary Membership by the Vietnamese Society of Skeletal Radiology and an Honorary Educator Award by the Korean Society of Radiology. Dr. Wong also received the SingHealth GCEO Excellence Award as Outstanding Clinician in 2022 and the Singapore Health Quality Service Hero Award in 2021.
In January 2024, Dr. Wong was appointed as chair of the Division of Hyperacute Care, comprising the emergency medicine, intensive care, anesthesiology and radiology departments. He also became the academic vice chair for Organisational Transformation, Innovation and Informatics for the SingHealth Radiological Sciences Academic Clinical Programme. He is now tasked with leading the SingHealth Enterprise Digital Imaging Archives and RIS-PACS-EPIC integration project, due to go live at the end of 2026.
A leader in organized radiology, Dr. Wong serves as president of the Asian Musculoskeletal Society and was recently the co-chair of the SIIM Global Outreach Committee. He has been involved in the SIIM Global project since 2020, working to increase worldwide imaging informatics knowledge. He also served on the executive committee of the Singapore Radiological Society and as vice president of the College of Radiologists, Singapore. He currently chairs the musculoskeletal radiology subsection of the Singapore Radiological Society. He was the organizing chair for the Singapore Congress of Radiology in 2018 and will be again in 2025. Dr. Wong is a member of the Board of Examiners for the National University of Singapore’s Master of Medicine degree, a conjoint Final Radiology examination with the Royal College of Radiologists, London.
Dr. Wong earned a medical degree from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. He completed a Master of Medicine in diagnostic radiology at the National University of Singapore. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore and the College of Radiologists, Singapore. He recently completed a certificate in Leading Organisations in Disruptive Times from INSEAD. Dr. Wong has so far managed to avoid having to complete an EMBA despite being told to do so for the last five years.
“Dr. Wong is an accomplished radiology leader who brings people together,” said RSNA President, Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD. “He has led the formation of strong collaborative groups to develop advanced imaging methods and new artificial intelligence tools.”
Dr. Wong collaborates on research projects with both orthopedic surgeons and rheumatologists in Singapore, primarily on advanced imaging methods for articular cartilage degeneration and repair. He also develops and evaluates radiology AI modules along with data scientists at the National University of Singapore and A-Star.
As a consultant radiologist at Singapore General Hospital, coming off a Radiology Information Systems & Picture Archiving & Communications System (RIS-PACS) implementation project, Dr. Wong was tasked in 2013 with establishing and staffing the radiology department for a new 1,400-bed acute hospital being built in the Sengkang area of Singapore. Both hospitals are part of Singapore Healthcare Services, Pte., Ltd. (SingHealth).
Dr. Wong was appointed the inaugural head of the Department of Radiology for Sengkang General Hospital in 2016, the first radiology department in Singapore designed to handle a pandemic with isolation zones for imaging and lead-free glass in the wards to enable contact-free imaging. As a result, the department endured the COVID-19 pandemic without losing any staff to the disease. In 2022, the President of the Republic of Singapore awarded Dr. Wong the Public Administration Bronze Medal for services to Singapore health care.
Lauded for his remarkable leadership, this year Dr. Wong was awarded Honorary Membership by the Vietnamese Society of Skeletal Radiology and an Honorary Educator Award by the Korean Society of Radiology. Dr. Wong also received the SingHealth GCEO Excellence Award as Outstanding Clinician in 2022 and the Singapore Health Quality Service Hero Award in 2021.
In January 2024, Dr. Wong was appointed as chair of the Division of Hyperacute Care, comprising the emergency medicine, intensive care, anesthesiology and radiology departments. He also became the academic vice chair for Organisational Transformation, Innovation and Informatics for the SingHealth Radiological Sciences Academic Clinical Programme. He is now tasked with leading the SingHealth Enterprise Digital Imaging Archives and RIS-PACS-EPIC integration project, due to go live at the end of 2026.
A leader in organized radiology, Dr. Wong serves as president of the Asian Musculoskeletal Society and was recently the co-chair of the SIIM Global Outreach Committee. He has been involved in the SIIM Global project since 2020, working to increase worldwide imaging informatics knowledge. He also served on the executive committee of the Singapore Radiological Society and as vice president of the College of Radiologists, Singapore. He currently chairs the musculoskeletal radiology subsection of the Singapore Radiological Society. He was the organizing chair for the Singapore Congress of Radiology in 2018 and will be again in 2025. Dr. Wong is a member of the Board of Examiners for the National University of Singapore’s Master of Medicine degree, a conjoint Final Radiology examination with the Royal College of Radiologists, London.
Dr. Wong earned a medical degree from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. He completed a Master of Medicine in diagnostic radiology at the National University of Singapore. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore and the College of Radiologists, Singapore. He recently completed a certificate in Leading Organisations in Disruptive Times from INSEAD. Dr. Wong has so far managed to avoid having to complete an EMBA despite being told to do so for the last five years.