Dr Wang Lushun

Orthopaedic Surgery

Credentials MBBS (S’pore), MRCS (Edin), MMed (Ortho), FRCS (Ortho) (Edin)
Language English, Mandarin Chinese, Hokkien Dialect
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Dr Wang Lushun is a highly skilled and high-volume surgeon with more than 18 years of experience. As a Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and former Head of the Hip and Knee Division in Ng Teng Fong Hospital, he has won awards for superior patient outcomes (value driven), service quality and enhanced recovery programmes. His patients include current and former national athletes and sporting professionals.

Having trained in world renowned centres of excellences in UK and France, he has extensive experience in ligament, meniscal and cartilage sports surgeries and complex revision hip and knee replacement surgery. In UK, Dr Wang was awarded the Sir John Charnley Arthroplasty and Sports Reconstruction Fellowship in Wrightington Hospital, a UK designated Centre of Excellence. In France, Dr Wang underwent further training at the Albert Trillat Orthopaedic Centre which is an ISAKOS (International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery / Sports Orthopaedics Medicine) and ESSKA (European Society of Sports and Knee Arthroscopy) approved centre as well as a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence.

Dr Wang also pioneers advanced minimally invasive techniques for enhanced recovery such as robotic knee surgery and hip surgery (direct superior and direct anterior approaches). He is international recognised and is highly sought after to instruct and has accreditated surgeons from China, Japan, India, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore in hip and knee surgery.

Dr Wang is trusted by the Orthopaedic community. He has been appointed as Adjunct Asst Professor with the National University of Singapore and is a Member of the National Residency Advisory Committee for Orthopaedics. He also acts as examiner and is a member of the Masters of Medicine (Orthopaedics) Committee with the National University of Singapore) and is a core faculty member of the NUHS Orthopaedic Residency Program.

Outside of work, Dr Wang Lushun is an avid sports person who plays football and futsal on a regular basis. In his younger days, he was captain of his medical university team in NUS and also covering medical doctor for then SAFFC (Singapore Armed Forces Football Club). He has an avid interest in tropical fish keeping and aquascaping.

Achievements

• Performed more than 1,500 hip and knee arthroscopic and joint replacement surgeries
• Head of the hip and knee division in Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) from 2017 to 2022
• Established enhanced recovery protocols for lower limb arthroplasty (hip and knee) in NTFGH
• Established day surgeries for total knee, total hip, and partial knee replacement in NTFGH
• Robot trainer for ROSA robotic total knee replacement
• Performed the earliest bilateral knee replacement using the ROSA robotic knee system in Singapore’s private practice
• Earliest to introduce the direct superior MIS hip approach in Singapore

Awards and Honours

2021 – 2022
• Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) Monthly Service Stars Award

2020
• NUHS Value-Driven Outcomes Award (Individual surgeon)

2019
• NTFGH Service Quality Award (Service Champion)
• NTFGH Service Quality Award (Service Ambassador)