Dr Wu Pang Hung

Dr. Wu Pang Hung is a world renowned orthopaedic and spine surgeon. Dr. Wu is known internationally as one of the few spinal surgeons in the world who mastered the surgical skillset in both Uniportal and Biportal Spinal Endoscopy to treat complex cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal condition. He is a strong proponent for ambulatory spine surgery, and education for spinal surgeons.
He is the first Singaporean orthopaedic surgeon with Ministry Of Health Scholarship to complete a full 18 months fellowship in both open complex spinal surgery, pediatric and adult spinal deformity and spinal tumor fellowship in North America as well as endoscopic spine surgery (one of the least invasive form of spinal decompression and fusion surgery) in South Korea. His clinical and academic interest includes treatment of complex cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal problems through minimally invasive spinal approaches and motion preservation surgeries. His orthopaedic surgical mottos are “small is beautiful, less is more, tissue and motion conservation is key.”

Orthopaedic Surgery

Endoscopic Spine Surgery , one of the least invasive form of minimally invasive spine surgery
Minimally invasive Spine Surgery
Artificial Disc Replacement
Lateral Access Spinal Fusion

Clinical Work Experience And Ambulatory Spinal Surgery
Before entering private practice, Dr. Wu was an Orthopaedic Consultant, Director of Spinal Fellowship Program and Director of Orthopaedic Research in the Department Of Orthopaedic Surgery, Juronghealth Campus, National University Health System. Dr. Wu is also a Visiting Consultant to Orthopaedic Department in National University Hospital, National University Health System He is also a Visiting Consultant of Singhealth., Sengkang General Hospital, Department Of Orthopaedic Surgery.

Prior to entering private practice, Dr. Wu sets up LEADS (Local Endoscopic Awake Discectomy Surgery) protocol and ambulatory Uniportal and Biportal Endsocopic Spine Surgery for lumbar decompression and discectomy in Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. Together with his team of endoscopic spine surgeons in his government practice, they published their clinical results in established spinal and medical journals. He is the first Singaporean surgeon to lead his team to publish their results in European Spine Journal on “Ambulatory uniportal versus biportal endoscopic decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis” with an average stay for patients to be less than 24 hours in his cohort of patients who underwent spine surgery for spinal stenosis.
Other than his own government hospital, Dr. Wu was privileged to be able to provide the expertise and advice to start up a number of endoscopic spinal units in overseas hospitals before going to private practice. Dr. Wu was featured several times in English, Chinese and Tamil TV, Newspapers and Radio for his work in development of endoscopic spine surgery in Singapore for the past years. Due to his broad surgical expertise, he had been appointed consulting and education roles in several established pharmaceutical, spinal endoscopic and open spinal surgical implant companies.

He published extensively in spinal and medical journals. Together with his Korean colleagues, his team pioneered several endoscopic spine surgical techniques in endoscopic fusion , Bertolloti endoscopic release and several cervical , thoracic and lumbar conditions. Some of the papers won the best paper awards in Journal Of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Techniques and being cover page journal of Journal Surgical Techniques Development. Dr. Wu was appointed Guest editorial board member in North American Spine Society (NASS)- Neurospine Journal special issue on Endoscopic Spine Surgery , Journal Of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and World Neurosurgery Journal Special Issue on Endoscopic Spine Surgery in 2019-2021. He was appointed the Editor of Medicina Journal Endoscopic Spine Special Edition in 2022 and Lead Editor for JMISST special issue of minimally invasive approach to the cervical-thoracic spine in 2023. Dr. Wu is a reviewer for a number of major scientific journals in spine, neurosurgery, pain management and orthopaedic surgery. He was described by Lin et al in Frontier Surgery Journal September 2022 edition, “Current Status and research hotspots in the field of full endoscopic spine surgery: A bibliometric analysis” as one of the world most productive authors in endoscopic spine surgery. He is also in AO spine taskforce in writing Endoscopic Spine Chapters and has authored several book chapters in various books.
Dr. Wu has been invited to deliver lectures in many major spine conferences around the world and has performed demonstration surgeries in different countries and had mentored fellows and observers from China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Europe, Australia and United Kingdom.

Academic Achievement in Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Spine Surgery
Dr. Wu is a pioneer and an enthusiastic mentor as the first Singaporean spine surgeon to perform and describe both forms of Uniportal and Biportal Endoscopic Lumbar Spinal Fusion techniques in the same year. He is also one of the first to describe some of the most updated endoscopic surgical treatments for cervical ,thoracic and lumbar conditions in both uniportal and biportal spinal endoscopy. Together with his South Korean and Singaporean team, he pioneered several endoscopic techniques in cervical spinal tumor resection, posterolateral endoscopic lumbar spinal fusion, treatment of complex lumbar spinal conditions such as Lumbar Bertoloti syndrome and Cauda Equina Syndrome. He is also a pioneer in describing the endoscopic surgical treatment of discogenic pain, he authored several pain related articles and he is an active reviewer of pain related journals.
He published extensively in spinal and medical journals, some of the papers won the best paper awards in Journal Of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Techniques and being cover page journal of Journal Surgical Techniques Development. Dr. Wu was appointed Guest editorial board member in North American Spine Society (NASS)- Neurospine Journal special issue on Endoscopic Spine Surgery , Journal Of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and World Neurosurgery Journal Special Issue on Endoscopic Spine Surgery in 2019-2021. He was appointed the Editor of Medicina Journal Endoscopic Spine Special Edition in 2022 and Lead Editor for JMISST special issue of minimally invasive approach to the cervical-thoracic spine in 2023. Dr. Wu is a reviewer for a number of major scientific journals in spine, neurosurgery, pain management and orthopaedic surgery. He was described by Lin et al in Frontier Surgery Journal September 2022 edition, “Current Status and research hotspots in the field of full endoscopic spine surgery: A bibliometric analysis” as one of the world most productive authors in endoscopic spine surgery.
Dr. Wu also authored several important orthopaedic, spinal textbooks and surgical atlas, including the prestigious AO spinal endoscopy online textbook which is a reference for most spine surgeons worldwide, a spine chapter in a reference Neurosurgical Textbook, Youmann and Winn for neurosurgical residency and postsurgical training.
Dr. Wu is a distinguished international speaker in a number of conferences around the world. He won several Best Oral Papers in local and overseas conferences for his work in spine surgery. He is an invited faculty and speaker in various topics from traumatic spine injuries, tumor surgeries, minimally invasive and endoscopic spine surgeries and complex spinal surgeries in numerous local and overseas conferences.
Dr. Wu had been chairman or table instructor for various cadaveric workshops for open and endoscopic spine surgeries in various hands-on workshops to train spinal surgeons in different countries.

Singapore Spine Society
Asia Pacific Spine Society
AO Spine
Asean Minimally Invasive Spine Society
World Federation Of Endoscopic Surgery
World Federation Of Neurosurgical Society
World Unilateral Biportal Endoscopic Society
International Society Of Unilateral Biportal Endoscopy