Dr Sze Ling Wong, MD FRCSC FRACS

Dr Sze Ling Wong is a leading Endocrine Surgeon in Perth, Australia who upholds excellence in personalised patient-centered care.

She is a highly trained and experienced General Surgeon specialising in Endocrine Surgery with specific interests in all aspects of thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal procedures. Having completed her training in General Surgery with the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 2012, Dr Wong then spent 2 years of post-fellowship training in Endocrine Surgery at The Alfred in Melbourne and Royal Perth Hospital in Perth.

Dr Wong has performed thousands of successful surgeries. She is sought after for minimally invasive procedures to treat cancers, including ‘Scarless’ Transoral Thyroidectomy. As a pioneer of Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach surgery in Australia, she has set the benchmark in scarless neck thyroid surgery.

To achieve the best possible clinical outcomes for her patients, Dr Wong therefore devotes time to training, mentoring, leadership, and community roles.  She was awarded the 2019 General Surgeons Australia Excellence in Surgical Teaching Award.

Tending to patients at both private and public hospitals, her compassionate team (which includes her secretary and anaesthetist) works closely with each hospital to ensure every patient is well informed and well looked after.

Practice Highlights

• Promotes advancements in surgery of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands as WA Representative in Australian and New Zealand Endocrine Surgeons (ANZES) Council (Current). 
• Audits clinical performance indicators with WA Endocrine Surgeons association through annual peer reviews to uphold best practice standards in recurrent injury, hematoma, hypoparathyroidism, and infection rates (Current). 
• Reduces patients’ wait time from 3 months to less than 2 weeks at the new Rapid Access Thyroid Clinic at Fiona Stanley Hospital (Current).
• Led audit team to ensure safe and high quality surgical patient care as Chair of General Surgery Audit at SJOG Midland Hospital (2017 – 2021).
• Served on Medical Advisory Committee to uphold delivery of healthcare of the highest quality at Royal Perth Hospital by conducting formal reviews of clinical management and outcomes (2016 to 2021).
• Won the General Surgeons Australia Excellence (WA) in Surgical Teaching Award based on trainee nominations (2019). 
• Introduced ‘Scarless’ Transoral Thyroid Surgery to Australia as member of surgical team at Royal Perth Hospital (9NEWS coverage in 2018). 
• Treated patients with life-threatening goitre: an example of an Ethiopian lady with severely large goitre (7NEWS FIRST coverage in 2017).
• Provided voluntary surgical services in Kenya (2019) and Nepal (2016) .

Publications

For summaries of the following academic papers published by Dr Wong, please visit our Patient Information page:

• Synchronous Bilateral Retroperitoneoscopic Cortical Sparring Adrenalectomies – Case Series and Literature Review (2022).
• How to Do It: Tips and Tricks in Laparoscopic Appendicectomy for the Junior Trainee (2020).
• Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy Vestibular Approach: Initial Experience in Australia (2019).
• Anticoagulation-induced unilateral adrenal haemorrhage and pseudoaneurysm (2019).
•  Electromyographic Amplitude Changes in the Laryngeal Adductors during Thyroidectomy with Vagal Nerve Stimulation: A Marker of Tensile Stress in the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve? (2015).
• Anti‐thyroid antibodies as a predictor of thyroid cancer (2013).

Qualifications

• MD (Doctor of Medicine) degree from University of Calgary, Canada (2006)
• General Surgery Residency Program  at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (2012)
• FRCSC (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada) 2012
• FRACS (Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons) 2014

Languages Spoken

Dr Sze Ling Wong and her team would love to support culturally and linguistically diverse patients. We are fluent in English, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), and Malay.

Watch Dr Wong in the news

February 2017: Royal Perth Hospital Doctor performed a life saving surgery | 7NEWS