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Dr Kang Hean Wu is an orthopaedic surgeon and consultant in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, practising under the Division of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery as his primary specialty, with a secondary focus in the Division of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.
Dr Kang completed his undergraduate medical education at King’s College London School of Medicine. He went on to undertake the United Kingdom (UK) Foundation Programme in the East Midlands before progressing into Core Surgical Training and subsequently Specialty Surgical Training in Trauma & Orthopaedics (T&O) in Northern Ireland.
Upon completing his T&O training in the UK, Dr Kang pursued the Brisbane Shoulder Fellowship in Australia, at St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital and Greenslopes Private Hospital, focusing solely on the shoulder joint in all aspects of arthroscopic and reconstructive shoulder surgery. During this year long period, he also contributed to clinical research and published with the Queensland Unit for Advanced Shoulder Research (QUASR).
He subsequently undertook a further year of fellowship training at the Roth | McFarlane Hand and Upper Limb Centre (HULC) in London, Ontario, Canada—an internationally recognised surgical unit specialising in comprehensive and complex conditions of the upper extremity. His fellowship encompassed comprehensive training across shoulder, elbow, hand, peripheral nerve and microsurgical disciplines.
Following his fellowship training, Dr Kang served as a Locum Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon (Upper Limb) in Belfast, United Kingdom, before joining Ng Teng Fong General Hospital as a consultant and orthopaedic surgeon.
Publications:
• “Arthroscopic Latarjet” Book Chapter- Complex and Revision Problems in Shoulder Instability © 2025, ISAKOS, Springer; Mirek Karel, Hean Wu Kang, Christopher Child, Kenneth Cutbush, Emilio Calvo, and Ashish Gupta
• Kang HW, Child C, Italia K, Karel M, Gilliland L, Ingoe H, Maharaj J, Whitehouse S, Cutbush K, Gupta A. Allograft Prosthetic Composite (APC) for Proximal Humeral Bone Deficiency in Revision Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Technical Note and Systematic Review. J Clin Med. 2024 Oct 21;13(20):6290. doi: 10.3390/jcm13206290. PMID: 39458239; PMCID: PMC11508849.
• Ingoe H, Italia K, Gilliland L, Kang HW, Karel M, Maharaj J, Cutbush K, Gupta A. The Use of Glenoid Structural Allografts for Glenoid Bone Defects in Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty. J Clin Med. 2024 Mar 29;13(7):2008. doi: 10.3390/jcm13072008. PMID: 38610773; PMCID: PMC11012575.
• Barrie A, Kent B; Supra Man Collaborative. Supracondylar elbow fracture management (Supra Man) : a national trainee collaborative evaluation of practice. Bone Joint J. 2023 Jan;105-B(1):82-87. doi: 10.1302/0301-620X.105B1.BJJ-2022-1074.R1. PMID: 36587251.
• Kang HW, Graham J, Mullan C. Shoulder Examination for the MRCS Part B (OSCE). Surgery (Oxford), Elsevier, Volume 40, Issue 3, March 2022, Pages 169-175
• Kang HW, Bryce L, Cassidy R, Hill JC, Diamond O, Beverland D. Prolonged Length of Stay in a high-volume arthroplasty unit. Bone Jt Open. 2020 Aug 18;1(8):488-493. PMID: 33215143
• Jones M, Kang HW, O'Neill C, Maginn P. Iatrogenic Radial Nerve Palsy following Closed Reduction of a Simple Diaphyseal Humeral Fracture: Beware the Perfect X-Ray. Case Rep Emerg Med. 2016;2016:2636450. PMID: 27478658
• McDonald K, Kang HW, Eames N, Napier R. How 'up-to-date' should pre-operative scans be? The Spine Journal, 2016. ISSN: 1529-9430, Vol: 16, Issue: 4, Page: S48 https://ddei5-0-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=http%3a%2f%2fdx.doi.org%2f10.1016%2fj.spinee.2016.01.035&umid=E247CEC4-4C18-E406-8B6E-A570CFBECFC3&auth=1e4be8166c0e95fa5701eaa3515f34fbdd8d125c-024cdbcd10ee0fdd2f3a824c7cff0911e02fa4ea
• Jayatilaka MLT, As-Sultany M, Gabr A, Thornton L, Graham S, Mason L, Farrar NG; COVI-ORTH UK. Collaborative Overview of coronavirus impact on ORTHopaedic training in the UK (COVI – ORTH UK) Surgeon. 2021 Dec;19(6):e331-e337. PMID: 33762160
• BOTA Collaborators, Rashid MS. An audit of clinical training exposure amongst junior doctors working in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery in 101 hospitals in the United Kingdom. BMC Med Educ. 2018 Jan 2;18(1):1. PMID: 29291730
