Dr. Thong Meow Keong

Name: Dr. Thong Meow Keong
Item: Dr. Thong Meow Keong
Author: admin

Professional Registration Numbers

124386 (National Specialist Register of Malaysia, 2007)
27642 (Malaysian Medical Council, 1989)

Specialties

General Paediatrics
Clinical Genetics

Qualifications

MBBS (University of Malaya, Malaysia) 1988
MPaeds (University of Malaya, Malaysia) 1995
Clinical Genetics (Australasian Association of Clinical Geneticists, Australia) 2000
MD (University of Malaya, Malaysia) 2004

Places of Practice

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (Primary)
UM Specialist Centre, Kuala Lumpur
Sunway Medical Centre, Petaling Jaya

About

Dr Thong Meow Keong studied medicine and trained in Paediatrics at the University of Malaya. He underwent training in genetics in Singapore and established the first Genetics Clinic at the University Hospital Kuala Lumpur in 1995. He spent three years working in the field of clinical genetics in Australia as a Fellow in Clinical Genetics at the South Australian Clinical Genetic Service at the Women and Children Hospital, Adelaide for two years and later, as a Senior Fellow at the Victorian Clinical Genetic Services of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia.

He returned to Malaysia in 2000 as the first clinical geneticist in Malaysia. He established and headed the Genetics & Metabolism Unit at the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. In 2003, he was awarded the 8th Royal College of Physicians of London and Academy of Medicine of Malaysia Annual Research Award. He was also the Visiting Fulbright Scholar (2003/2004) at the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States of America.

His area of expertise include clinical genetics, genetic counselling, paediatrics (birth defects and dysmorphology), adult genetic diseases (cancers, reproductive genetics) and inborn errors of metabolism.

Kinderasia

Health Care Providers Children in Malaysia and Singapore

Dr. Thong Meow Keong

Dr. Thong Meow Keong

Claim "Dr. Thong Meow Keong"

Login