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Clin Prof Fock Kwong Ming

MBBS, M.Med (Int Medicine), FRCP (Lond & Edin), FRACP, FAMS, AGAF, FACP, FACG

Emeritus Consultant

Changi General Hospital

Specialty: Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Autoimmune Hepatitis , Colorectal Cancer Screening , Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy , Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) , Hepatitis B , Hepatitis C , Inflammatory Bowel Disease , Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) , Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) , Viral Hepatitis .

Clinical Appointments

Emeritus Consultant Gastroenterology and Hepatology Changi General Hospital
Emeritus Consultant Medicine ACP SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre

Profile

Prof Fock is an clinical professor of Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and a clinical professor with the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He was a master with the Academy of Medicine from 2008 to 2010. He was also chairman of the Medical Board of CGH (1999 – 2007). He has been president (2010 – 2014) and current board member of Asia Pacific Digestive Week Federation (APDWF) and counselor of APSDE.

Prof Fock has authored more than 180 papers and spoke at numerous Gastroenterology conferences and seminars. His research interests include H-pylori, GERD, gastric cancer, functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel disease. He has also authored consensus on H.Pylori Infection, gastric cancer and GERD. Prof Fock was named outstanding reviewer for GIE in 2015 to 2016 as well as 2016 to 2017.

Prof Fock has been a visiting professor at University of Arizona School of Medicine, Tuscon, USA since 2007 and University of Utah School of Medicine, Utah, USA since 2003. Prof Fock has fellowships at the American College of Gastroenterology (FACG) and American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) as well as American College of Physicians (FACP) and Royal College of Physicians (FRCP – London & Edinburgh). He is a honorary fellow of The Hong Kong Society of Gastroenterology and has served on editorial board of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology.

Education

MEDICAL SCHOOL :

• University of Singapore 1968 – 1973

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

CURRENT POSITIONS HELD:

Year Position

Jan 2018 – Sept 2019 Chief Risk Officer (CGH)

April 2013 – Dec 2017 Chief Risk Officer (EHA)

1 Nov 2009 to Oct 2012 Chief Risk Officer, Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd (Singhealth)

Nov 2011 - Dec 2017 ACEO, Eastern Health Alliance (EHA)

Aug 2017 – present Special Advisor, MOHH Enterprise Risk Management Implementation Steering

Committee

1 Feb 1999 to 30 Sep 2007 Chairman, Medical Board, Changi General Hospital

Jan 2018 – present Chair, Aesthetics Working Committee, Ministry of Health

1 Jul 2001 - present Clinical Professor, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore

15 January 2020 - present Master Academic Clinician, Medicine ACP, SingHealth Duke-NUS

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES :

• Master, Council of Academy of Medicine, Singapore (2008 – 2010)

• President, Gastroenterological Society of Singapore.(1992 – 1996)

• Asian Pacific Association of Gastroenterology (2004 – 2008)

• President, Asian Pacific Digestive Week Federation (2010 – 2014)

• Asia Pacific Association for Study of Liver .

• Asian-Pacific Society of Digestive Endoscopy.

• American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

• Member, Singapore Medical Council (19 May 2011 – 19 May 2014).

• Member, Complaints Committee, Singapore Dental Council

Awards

HONOURS AND AWARDS :

• SingHealth Duke-NUS, Inaugural Master Academic Clinicians Award 2021

• Public Administration Medal (Silver) 2010

• Long Service Medal 2010

Research Interests

Publications

• Huang KK, Ramnarayanan K, Zhu F, Fock KM, et al. Genomic and Epigenomic Profiling of High-Risk Intestinal Metaplasia Reveals Molecular Determinants of Progression to Gastric Cancer. Cancer Cell. 2018 Jan 8;33(1):137-150.

• Natalia Castaño-Rodríguez, Khean-Lee Goh, Kwong Ming Fock, et al. Dysbiosis of the microbiome in gastric carcinogenesis. Published online: 21 November 2017.

• Fock KM, Tiing Leong Ang. Editorial: Risk stratification for endoscopic surveillance of metachronous gastric cancer after endoscopic resection. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2017;46(10):1014-1015.

• Yoshida A, Ueno F, Morizane T, Fock KM et al. Asia Perspectives on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Report and Analysis of a Survey with Questionnaires. Digestion 2017;95:79-88

• Fock KM, Talley N, Goh KL et al. Asia-Pacific consensus on the management of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: an update focusing on refractory reflux disease and Barrett's oesophagus. Gut. 2016 Sep;65(9):1402-15.