Consultant Pathologist
Dr Wang Lai Mun is a specialist in gastrointestinal, pancreaticobiliary and liver pathology.
Upon completion of her training in pathology at St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin, Ireland, Specialist Centre for Colorectal Disease and Liver Transplant Unit in 2009, she was appointed as Consultant in Cellular Pathology at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK specializing in gastrointestinal, pancreaticobiliary and liver pathology. She was the lead pathologist for the Oxfordshire Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, Oxford Neuroendocrine Tumour Centre (ENETS Centre of Excellence) and Liver Pathology. She was also the named core pathologist for reviewing complex inflammatory bowel disease for the Oxford IBD multidisciplinary team meeting. To enrich her expertise, Dr Wang has done observership in liver pathology at University of California, San Francisco, USA; and gastrointestinal with liver pathology, including molecular diagnostics at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Canada. Dr Wang relocated back to Singapore in 2016. She worked as a senior consultant pathologist in the Division of Anatomical Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Changi General Hospital, SingHealth, with a special interest in gastrointestinal, pancreaticobiliary and liver pathology.
Dr Wang has been active in academic activities throughout her professional career. While in Oxford, Dr Wang engaged in academic research activities at the Ludwig Institute, Wellcome Trust, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and Translational Gastroenterology Unit. She has always maintained active research collaboration with gastroenterologists, surgeons, and pathologists in gastrointestinal, pancreaticobiliary and liver cancer, primary sclerosing cholangitis, steatotic liver disease and inflammatory bowel disease. She was co-author of the Royal College of Pathologists (UK) Dataset for histopathological reporting of neuroendocrine neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract, Singapore clinical guideline on endoscopic surveillance and management of gastric premalignant lesions and clinical guidance on endoscopic management of colonic polyps in Singapore. Her previous professional academic appointments include Honorary Senior Lecturer University of Oxford, Clinical Associate Professor Duke-NUS Medical School and Physician Faculty Member, SingHealth Residency Program. She is a scientific committee member for the annual Alpine Colorectal Meeting. She previously served as a committee member and secretary for the Pathology Section of the British Society of Gastroenterology and was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Colorectal Disease.
Currently she also holds an appointment as a visiting consultant pathologist for the Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology at Changi General Hospital, SingHealth.