Author
Dr. Kenny Pang graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He attained his Fellowship exams from both the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and Ireland in 1999 and 2002 respectively. He also passed his Masters of Medicine (Otorhinolaryngology) in 2001. Dr Pang completed 6 years of ear, nose and throat surgical training, and was accredited as an ENT surgeon/specialist in 2004.
Dr Pang completed a year of sleep surgery and sleep medicine fellowship (with Prof David Terris) in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Georgia Sleep Centre, Medical College of Georgia, United States of America.
He is well trained in treating all forms of sleep disorders, including snoring, obstructive sleep apnoea, insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep walking, night terrors, bed wetting, and parasomnias.
Dr. Pang is a fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He has published over 30 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and written over 10 chapters in the various American textbooks. He has also been invited as a speaker in the various sleep surgery courses both regionally and in America.
He was the course director for Asia's first ever sleep surgery course in November 2006, March 2008 and October 2010. He has also introduced a new modified surgical technique in the treatment of snoring and sleep apnea, known as the Anterior Palatoplasty. He is a reviewer for the ENT journal, the Laryngoscope, the Singapore Medical Journal and the Canadian Medical Journal.
In 1993, Dr. Pang was awarded the Pathology Distinction and Margaret Ling Ming Yee Award. He was the first prize recipient of the Young ENT Investigator's Award at the Annual ENT Society Meeting in 2002. In 2003, he received the Dr. Lily Neo/People's Association Appreciation Award, for his volunteer work. The following year, Dr. Pang received the Ministry of Health, Overseas Specialty Training Program Award. He was under the HMDP, Sleep Surgery Fellowship, under the Mentorship of Professor D.J. Terris, Medical College Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America. In May 2006, he was awarded the Service Excellence, Star Award, in Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
Dr. Pang was the Course Director of 3 major international courses held in Singapore in November 2006, March 2008 and Octber 2010.
Dr. Pang is the Founder and President of the ASEAN Sleep Surgical Society which is an interest group comprised of ENT/Dental/Respiratory and Sleep Specialists from the Region & USA. Dr Kenny Pang is the Clinical Director of Pacific Sleep Centre, located at 290 Orchard Road, Penthouse #20-03, Singapore. He attends to all forms of Sleep Disorders, ENT conditions, Head & Neck and Thyroid Disorders. Dr Kenny Pang has been a volunteer at the Kim Seng Community Clinic for the poor from 1994 to 2003, where he ran free night clinics for the poor.
