Dr Wang Dehao Bryan

Language

English, Hokkien, Mandarin

Gender

Male

Last updated 12 Nov 2023

Experience

Dr Bryan Wang is an orthopaedic surgeon at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore.

He has a special interest in shoulder and elbow, knee and sports injuries. He also treats general orthopaedic conditions including musculoskeletal injuries and fractures of the upper and lower limbs.

He was a former senior consultant in the shoulder and elbow and sports division at Changi General Hospital (CGH). He is currently a visiting consultant there.

Dr Wang graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2005. He embarked on his training in orthopaedic surgery and was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK. After completion of his specialist training, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK.

Under the Eastern Health Alliance scholarship, he underwent further advanced training for a year in the field of shoulder and elbow, knee and sports injuries at the Pan Am Clinic in Canada. During his time there, he was involved in the care of professional athletes from the National Hockey League as an assistant team physician of the Winnipeg Jets.

At CGH, he was instrumental in setting up the shoulder and elbow service. Dr Wang is also one of the earliest proponents of all arthroscopic superior capsular reconstruction in the management of irreparable rotator cuff tears, and the use of elbow arthroscopy for the surgical management of tennis elbow.

Besides his clinical work, Dr Wang was a clinical lecturer at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He was also a clinical assistant professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. He has been involved in the training of orthopaedic surgery residents in his role as a core faculty member in the SingHealth orthopaedic residency programme. He is regularly invited as a teaching faculty for both local and regional courses to share his expertise with orthopaedic residents and surgeons on the latest concepts and technical advances of shoulder and elbow, knee and sports injuries. He has more than 15 years of experience practising medicine.

He has a keen interest in translational research and has multiple publications in international peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the Canadian Shoulder and Elbow Society, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine.

Dr Wang is a recipient of the Singapore Health Quality Service Award.

Research and publications

Yuen, W. L. P., Loh, Y. J., & Wang, D. B. (2022). SIRVA (Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration) following mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination: Case discussion and literature review. Vaccine, 40(18), 2546–2550.

Wang, B. D., et al. (2021). Early Outcomes with a New-generation Humeral Nail: An Institutional Experience. Acta Scientific Orthopaedics, 4(3), 61–66.

Tan, C. M. P., & De Hao Wang, B. (2021). POSTEROMEDIAL ELBOW DISLOCATION WITH IPSILATERAL DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURE. Journal of Musculoskeletal Research.

Foong, W., Teo, H. L. T., Wang, D. H. B., & Loh, Y. J. (2020). Challenges and adaptations in training during pandemic COVID-19: observations by an orthopedic resident in Singapore. Acta Orthopaedica, 91(5), 562–566.

Wang B., Lee K. T. (2015). Results of revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using a transportal technique. Acta Orthop Belg. 81(4), 752–758.

Heng, C. H. Y., De Hao Wang, B., & Chang, P. C. C. (2015). Distal femoral fracture after Double-Bundle anterior Cruciate ligament Reconstruction surgery. American Journal of Sports Medicine, 43(4), 953–956.

Dehao, B. W., Bing, T. K., & Young, J. L. S. (2015). Understanding the ligamentum teres of the hip: a histological study. Acta Ortopedica Brasileira, 23(1), 29–33.

Lie, D. T. T., & Wang, D. B. (2023). The Normal Shoulder: The Arthroscopic Routine in the Gleno-humeral Joint and the Subacromial Space. In Shoulder Surgery Made Easy! World Scientific Publishing Company.