Dr Annabelle Leong

Education and Training

Dr Annabelle Leong received her MBBS with Distinction from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in London, United Kingdom. Having won multiple ENT prizes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, she undertook her basic surgical training in Cambridge and London. She completed her postgraduate specialist training in Otolaryngology in London, training at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and the National Hospital for Neurology/Neurosurgery, Queen’s Square. She then obtained the Intercollegiate Fellowship in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons, England.

In 2012, Dr Annabelle was awarded the prestigious Thomas-Wickham-Jones (TWJ) ear fellowship at Toronto General Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto. She was also awarded a Royal Society of Medicine travelling fellowship to the House Ear Clinic, USA. She is still the only Singaporean recipient of the Royal Society of Medicine national temporal bone prize for displaying the best surgical skill in ear dissection in the United Kingdom.

In 2013, Dr Annabelle returned to Singapore to become Consultant ENT surgeon at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital where she set up the Hearing and Balance service, which provides Cochlear implants and other hearing devices. From 2017, Dr Annabelle worked at Paragon Medical Centre before joining The ENT Clinic in 2018. She continues to run the Hearing and Balance service as Visiting Consultant to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.

Research and Teaching

Dr Annabelle is House Tutor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (Nanyang Technological University), Singapore. She has multiple peer-reviewed publications in all areas of ENT. She was the former Associate Program Director of the National Health Group (NHG) ENT residency specialist training scheme and Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (National University of Singapore). She regularly undertakes volunteer work as an ENT specialist for charity medical missions in Thailand, Cambodia and Sri Lanka.

Languages spoken

English, Mandarin, French, Malay

Qualifications

MBBS (Hons) (London)
BSc (Hons) (London)
MRCS (England)
DOHNS (England)
FRCS ORL-HNS (England)

Further information: www.drannabelle.com