Wai Yoong

Mr Wai Yoong MBBCh Belf, MD London, FRCOG UK, Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (Tech. Member.): is a consultant Obstetrician and Urogynaecologist at North Middlesex University Hospital London and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London and Associate Professor at St George’s International School of Medicine. In 2014, he was awarded the Sims Black Travelling Professorship by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to teach Basic Surgical Skills and PPH management in Jordan. He received the RCOG Berhard Baron Travelling Scholarship in 2018 to observe surgical management of placenta accreta spectrum with Professor Jose Palacios in Argentina. He received his general O&G training in Birmingham and London and completed a Urogynaecology Fellowship in Sydney, Australia. He was also Clinical Research Fellow at the Royal Free Hospital, London and was awarded his MD degree by the University of London. He is the senior organiser of the RCOG Masterclass in Management of Massive Obstetric Haemorrhage and senior founder trustee of Haemorrhage After Childbirth Foundation, a charity dedicated to teaching skills to doctors and midwives on how to manage obstetric haemorrhage. He was a past RCOG National Convenor of Basic Practical Skills Course and is currently on the RCOG Joint Standing Committee for Patient Safety. Wai is an Associate Editor for the Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (TOG) and the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He leads a team of clinicians partnering with British Airways Flight Training to deliver a collaborative aviation-healthcare Human Factors training course using flight simulators and interactive facilitation to reduce medical errors. He has published 150 papers in peer review journals on subjects such as vaginal surgery, surgical management of PPH, neuromodulation and enhanced recovery.