Dr Yeo Tong Hong

Paediatrician

Specialty

Paediatric Medicine

Languages

English, Hokkien, Mandarin, Teochew

Gender

Male

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Key achievements

Head of service at KK Women's & Children's Hospital (KKH) in 2022
Set up the neurology complex movement disorder service, intrathecal baclofen pump programme, and Ministry of Health-funded paediatric integrated neuro-rehabilitation service at KKH since 2017
Set up the paediatric complex motor disorder service and tertiary inpatient paediatric neurorehabilitation service for Greater Glasgow and West of Scotland in 2012
Set up the paediatric physiotherapist-led pharmaco-modulation therapy programme for West of Scotland in 2014
Headed the UK nationally-funded arm of Galen malformation programme in Glasgow from 2012

Experience

Dr Yeo Tong Hong is a paediatrician and paediatric neurologist at Parkway East Hospital, Singapore.

His clinical expertise includes paediatric neurology, tics and Tourette syndrome, headache and migraine, seizures and epilepsy, movement disorders and cerebral palsy.

Dr Yeo was the head and senior consultant of the neurology service at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) and continues to be a visiting consultant there.

He completed his basic specialist training at the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales, UK, followed by higher specialist training at Southampton Children’s Hospital, UK. He further completed his subspecialty programme in paediatric neurology at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, UK. He was awarded completion of certified training in paediatric neurology and paediatrics by the Royal College of Paediatric & Child Health (RCPCH), UK and the General Medical Council, UK.

He was elected a fellow of the RCPCH and served as a consultant paediatric neurologist at the Royal Hospital for Children, Scotland. During this time, he was instrumental in establishing the paediatric complex motor disorders service, neuro-rehabilitation service, and pharmacological modulation therapy and service, providing multi-disciplinary care and treatments for complex motor and movement disorders. Dr Yeo also held an honorary consultant paediatric neurologist position at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Evelina London Children’s Hospital, UK, where he honed his skills in deep brain stimulation for complex movement disorders in children.

While at KKH, he was pivotal in setting up the paediatric complex motor disorders and movement disorder service, as well as the paediatric integrated neuro-rehabilitation service.

His work in clinical research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and contributions to national and international meetings. He has been awarded several research grants, including the Ministry of Health Singapore Health Service Development Programme award and the KKH Paediatric Academic Clinical Programme Tan Cheng Lim Innovation Grant.

Besides his clinical and research roles, Dr Yeo is a clinical assistant professor with SingHealth Duke-National University of Singapore, adjunct assistant professor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and senior lecturer at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

He is a recipient of several awards including the Service from the Heart award and the SingHealth Health Quality Service awards.

Associated treatments

Procedural sedation
Lumbar Puncture
EEG reading & reporting
Umbilical line insertion
Botulinum toxin injections

Awards and honours

2024
SingHealth Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Gold)
2019
SingHealth Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Gold)
2017
KK's Women's and Children's Hospital Service from the Heart Award

Research & publications

Yoon, S., Goh, H., Foo, C. P., Kao, M. I., Hie, S. L., Chan, S. L., Krishnappa, J., Ngoh, A. S. F., Ling, S. R., Yeo, T. H., & Chan, D. W. (2022). Parents’ priorities for decision-making of pediatric epilepsy treatments and perceived needs for decision support in multi-ethnic Asian clinical setting: A qualitative analysis. Epilepsy & Behavior, 135, 108880.

Rr, P., Douch, C., Koh, M. J. A., Lai, A. H. M., Lim, C. T., Hartley, L., Thomas, T., & Yeo, T. H. (2021). Speckled brain lesions in Incontinentia Pigmenti patients with acquired brain syndromes. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 33, 106–111.

Ng, Z. M., Lin, J. B., Khoo, P. C., Rajadurai, V. S., Chan, D. W., Ong, H. T., Wong, J., Choong, C. T., Lim, K. W., Lim, K. B., & Yeo, T. H. (2021). Causes, functional outcomes and healthcare utilisation of people with cerebral palsy in Singapore. Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore, 50(2), 111–118.

Tho-Calvi, S. C., Thompson, D., Saunders, D., Agrawal, S., Basu, A., Chitre, M., Chow, G., Gibbon, F., Hart, A., Tallur, K. K., Kirkham, F., Kneen, R., McCullagh, H., Mewasingh, L., Vassallo, G., Vijayakumar, K., Wraige, E., Yeo, T. H., Ganesan, V., . . . Yeo, T. H. (2018). Clinical features, course, and outcomes of a UK cohort of pediatric moyamoya. Neurology, 90(9).