Kang Ler Fong

Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, 2024

Current Projects

Asia-Pacific Gastroesophageal Cancer Congress (APGCC) 2024 Consensus Statement on Stage 2 and 3 Locally Advanced Gastric and Siewert 3 Junctional Adenocarcinoma, minor review but accepted for publication under Journal of Gastroenterology as 2nd author

4th Edition of the University of Toronto Surgical Oncology Manual, Revision of Chapter “Esophageal Cancer”, 1st author

Laparoscopic Completion Gastrectomy: A Viable and Safe Approach – A Single-Center Experience, Singapore General Hospital, Poster Presentation, 16th International Gastric Cancer Congress (IGCC) 2025

Presentations

Transoral Antegrade T-Tube Insertion for management of Oesophageal Leak following Minimal Invasive Oesophagectomy, Video Presentation, 21st ISDE World Congress for Esophageal Diseases, 2024

Unveiling the Uncommon: Broad Ligament Internal Hernia – A Diagnostic Conundrum, Postal Presentation, 50th World Congress of the International Society of Surgery ISS/SIC, 2024

A Quick and Effective Fix for Jejunojejunal Stenosis Post Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, Video Presentation, 54th Congress of Korean Endo-Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery, 2024

Laparoscopic Trans-Gastric Abscess Septotomy to Treat Mediastinal Collection from a Tear at the Gastro-Oesophageal Junction, Video Presentation, 54th Congress of Korean Endo-Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery, 2024

Blood Transfusion in Orthotopic Liver Transplant (OLT) Does Not Affect Long-Term Survival – A Single Centre Study, Verbal Presentation, Transplantation Science Symposium, Asian Regional Meeting, Taiwan, 2018

No Tumour Recurrence after Renal Cell Carcinoma Resected Kidney Transplantation, Verbal Presentation, RACS Annual Scientific Conference, Perth, 2015

Publications

All Tangled Up: Meter-Long Gastric Trichobezoar Causing Multiple Intussuscepting Points in an Adult. Cureus 15(3): e36651. doi:10.7759/cureus.36651. Lee D, Fong K, Tee Y, et al. (March 24, 2023) 

Mycotic Aneurysm of the Hepatic Artery Causing Haemobilia, 2018, ANZ J Surg, 2018 Apr; 88(4)doi: 10.1111/ans.13351

Kang Ler Fong, Monika Zwierzchoniewska, Dhruv Patel, Linjun Mou, Luc Delriviere 

Very Rare Cause of Sepsis, 2014, ANZ Journal of Surgery, ANS12769. https://doi-org.ezproxy.surgeons.org/10.1111/ans.12769

Kang Ler Fong, Alistair Spiers, Roshanak Kamyab

• General Registration with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, 2013 to current
• Conjoint Committee for the Recognition of Training in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy / GESA, 2024
• Care of the Critical Ill Patient Course (CCRISP), 2019
• Basic Surgical Skills Course, 2018
• Advanced Trauma Life Support, 2018
• Advanced Life Support Level 2, 2014
• CTEC - Foundations of Minimal Access Surgery, 2014
• Applied Surgical Anatomy – Abdominal, Pelvic and Inguinal Regions Workshop, 2012