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2024/01/25
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Dr Adriel Leong Zhijie

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Designations:

  • Associate Consultant, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Alexandra Hospital
  • Associate Consultant, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National University Hospital
  • Associate Consultant, National University Spine Institute, National University Health System

Qualifications:

MBBS (Singapore), MRCS (Ireland), Mmed (Surgery) (Singapore), MPH (Singapore), FRCS (SN) (Edinburgh)

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Neurosurgery

Special Interests:

Spine Surgery, Neurovascular Surgery, Skull-Base and Pituitary Surgery, Neuro-Oncology 

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Dr Adriel Leong practices as an Associate Consultant in the Division of Neurosurgery at Alexandra Hospital and National University Hospital. He studied medicine at the National University of Singapore. He graduated from the NUHS Neurosurgery Residency Program as the best performing resident at the conjoint Neurosurgery Joint Speciality Fellowship Examination and is accredited as a specialist in neurosurgery by the Specialist Accreditation Board, Singapore. He served as the NUHS Neurosurgery Chief Resident in his penultimate year of residency.

He completed a Master of Public Health and a Master of Medicine (Surgery) with the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine respectively. He also completed the NUHS Research Residency Program – a hallmark Programme for formal research training which runs in parallel with clinical training. He has numerous publications in international journals and has had his work presented both in overseas and local conferences. 

On top of clinical commitments, for which he has been recognised with commendations and compliments, he is actively involved in innovation projects and has keen interests in harnessing the power of innovation to enhance patient outcomes in spinal and neurovascular pathologies. He is also committed to the education of neurosurgery residents, junior doctors, medical students and allied health professionals.

Awards

  • Gold Medal (Neurosurgery), College of Surgeons, Academy of Medicine (Singapore)
  • COVID-19 Resilience Medal 2023 
  • Monthly Service Star Award 2021, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital 
  • Chief of Army – Letter of Appreciation Award 2017 

Journals & Publications

  1. Factors Impacting Mortality in Geriatric Patients with Acute Spine Fractures: A 12-Year Study of 613 Patients in Singapore – Asian Spine J. 2019 Mar 15;13(4):563-568. doi: 10.31616/asj.2018.0231. Print 2019 Aug – Soon EL, Leong AZ, Chiew J, Kaliya-Perumal AK, Yu CS, Oh JY.
  2. Psychosomatic symptoms during South East Asian haze crisis are related to changes in cerebral hemodynamics – PLoS One. 2019 Jan 7;14(1):e0208724. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208724. eCollection 2019 – Tan BY, Leong AZ, Leow AS, Ngiam NJ, Ng BS, Sharma M, Yeo LL, Seow PA, Hong CS, Chee YH, Chen J, Du Z, Wong LY, Batra A, Sarkar N, Teoh HL, Ho RC, Sharma VK.
  3. C1/C2 osteomyelitis secondary to malignant otitis externa complicated by atlantoaxial subluxation-a case report and review of the literature – AME Case Rep. 2020 Jul 30;4:19. doi: 10.21037/acr.2020.03.04. eCollection 2020. – Low G, Leong A, George R, Tan G
  4. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Response Measures-A Singapore Neurosurgical Academic Medical Center Experience in Emerging from the Worldwide Pandemic – World Neurosurg. 2020 Oct;142:526-527. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.07.159. – Lim JX, Leong AZ, Tan CH, Teo K, Nga VDW, Lwin S, Chou N, Yeo TT
  5. COVID-19 response measures – a Singapore Neurosurgical Academic Medical Centre experience segregated team model to maintain tertiary level neurosurgical care during the COVID-19 outbreak - Br J Neurosurg 2020 Jun 12;1-6. doi: 10.1080/02688697.2020.1758629 – Leong AZ, Lim JX, Tan CH, Teo K, Nga VDW, Lwin S, Chou N, Yeo TT.
  6. H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma presenting as synchronous lesions involving pineal and suprasellar region: A case report and literature review – J Clin Neurosci. 2020 Nov;81:144-148. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2020.09.029. Epub 2020 Oct 10. – Lim JX, Leong A, Tan AP, Tan CL, Nga VDW
  7. Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: An Approach in Primary Care – Singapore Med J. 2021 Sep; 62(9): 454–457.  doi: 10.11622/smedj.2021146 – Singaraju H, Leong AZ, Lim YC, Nga V, Goh LG
  8. An approach to neck pain in primary care. Singapore Med J. 2024 Jun 1;65(6):348-353. doi: 10.4103/singaporemedj.SMJ-2021-288. Epub 2024 Jun 4. PMID: 38834939; PMCID: PMC11232708. – Loh RHW, Leong AZ, Lwin S, Goh LG.
  9. Cerebral arteriovenous malformation. BMJ Best Practice. 2024. https://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-gb/1133?q=Cerebral%20arteriovenous%20malformation&c=recentlyviewed Lim M, Yeo L, Tan B, Leong AZ, Tan A, Bhogal P, Yang C, Gopinathan A

Professional Memberships

  • Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
  • Member, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland 
  • Member, Singapore Spine Society
  • Full Registration, General Medical Council, United Kingdom 

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