Professor Khong Pek-Lan

Appointment(s)

Head & Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Head & Senior Consultant, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, National University Hospital

Degree(s)

M.B.,B.S. The National University of Singapore (1989)
F.R.C.R. Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, UK (1995)
Doctor of Medicine, M.D., The University of Hong Kong (2007)

Biography

Professor Khong Pek-Lan is the Head of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Head and Senior Consultant of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging, NUH. She also helms at the Clinical Imaging Research Centre (CIRC) at NUS Medicine as Director.

She received her medical degree from the National University of Singapore, and her specialist degree from the Royal College of Radiologists, UK (FRCR). She completed a post-graduate Doctor of Medicine degree (MD) from the University of Hong Kong. For sub-specialty training, she trained in Paediatric Radiology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK, the Boston Children’s Hospital, USA, and Hybrid PET-CT in Oncology at the University Hospital Zurich.

Professor Khong’s research interest started with paediatric neuroradiology, in particular, the paediatric applications of diffusion-weighted and diffusion-tensor MR imaging. From 2007, she focused on Oncological Imaging, establishing hybrid-PET and molecular imaging in The University of Hong Kong where she served as the Head of Department of Diagnostic Radiology between 2008-2021. In particular, her research was on paediatric cancers, lymphomas and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Professor Khong’s expertise has led to her being elected to leadership roles of various radiology societies, including Honorary Member of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and Chinese Society of Radiology (CSR), Fellow and Board of Trustees of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Fellow of the International Cancer Imaging Society (ICIS) and President Elect (2024), Executive Board member of the International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology (IS3R), and past committee member of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP).

Selected Publications

Medical imaging and nuclear medicine: a Lancet Oncology Commission

Hricak H, Abdel-Wahab M, Atun R, Lette MM, Paez D, Brink JA, Donoso-Bach L, Frija G, Hierath M, Holmberg O, Khong P-L, Lewis JS, McGinty G, Oyen WJG, Shulman LN, Ward ZJ, Scott AM

COVID-19 pneumonia: what has CT taught us?

Lee EYP, Ng M-Y, Khong P-L

Introducing point-of-care ultrasound through structured multifaceted ultrasound module in the undergraduate medical curriculum at the University of Hong Kong

Coiffier B, Shen PCH, Lee EYP, Kwong TSP, Lai AYT, Wong EMF, Chiu KWH, Vardhanabhuti V, Khong PL

Cervical nodal volume for prognostication and risk stratification of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and implications on the TNM-staging system

Yuan H, Ai Q-Y, Kwong DL-W, Fong DY-T, King AD, Vardhanabhuti V, Lee VH-F, Khong PL

Radiation Dosimetry of Whole-Body Dual-Tracer ¹⁸F-FDG and ¹¹C-Acetate PET/CT for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Liu D, Khong P-L, Gao Y, Mahmood U, Quinn B, St Germain J, Xu XG, Dauer LT

Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Surveillance CT Schedule after Hepatectomy Based on Risk Stratification

Liu D, Fong DYT, Chan ACY, Poon RTP, Khong PL

Midtreatment ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT Scan for Early Response Assessment of SMILE Therapy in Natural Killer/T-Cell Lymphoma: A Prospective Study from a Single Center

Khong PL, Huang B, Lee EY, Chan KS, Kwong YL