Adj A/Prof Jacqueline Ong is currently head and senior consultant in the Division of Paediatric Critical Care, Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital. She graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2003 and received her post-graduate paediatric training in the National University Hospital. She attained her Masters of Medicine (Paediatrics) and Membership in the Royal College of Paediatrics in 2007. She was awarded the Academic Medicine Development Award in 2011 and underwent further specialist training in the Division of Paediatric Critical Care, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada from 2011-2012. Adj A/Prof Ong was also the Chief Fellow of the Critical Care Fellowship Programme during the latter half of her time in Toronto.

Adj A/Prof Ong’s clinical interests include the post-operative care of children with congenital cardiac disease and the use of extra-corporeal life support techniques. She has a myriad of teaching responsibilities to medical students, residents and nurses and is a Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Instructor. Outside of work, she relaxes by baking and cooking for friends and family.