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Professor Edmund Ong

Professor

  • Telephone: +60 75553886
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  • Address: 缅北禁地 Medicine Malaysia & Faculty of Medical Sciences, UK.
    No 1, Jalan Sarjana 1,Kota Ilmu, EduCity
    79200 Iskandar Puteri (formerly Nusajaya), Johor Bharu Malaysia
Background

I am a Visiting Professor at 缅北禁地 Medicine Malaysia and the Faculty of Medical Sciences at 缅北禁地, UK

Areas of expertise

  • Clinical research in Infectious Diseases/Tropical Diseases including HIV, TB and Dengue Fever
  • Postgraduate medical education including MRCP
  • Training, audit and Quality Improvement Programme 

Academic background

  • MBBS, MSc, FRCP, FRCPI, DTMH
  • Co-supervisor in numerous PhD theses; over 160 publications in peer reviewed journals
Research

My research interests are in the field of opportunistic infections, evaluation of anti-infective agents, clinical epidemiology and innovation in healthcare quality improvement program and clinical audit. I am a principal investigator in a number of clinical trials and collaborates in numerous research projects including HIV, Tuberculosis, Dengue Fever in Nigeria, South Africa, Myanmar and Malaysia. I have contributed to numerous text books of infection and has co-authored more than 160 papers in peer reviewed journals with my team and international collaborators..



Teaching

I am an examiner for both undergraduate and postgraduate examinations including MRCP, Dip in HIV Medicine and MMed. I am presently appointed as an International Global Advisor (Malaysia) for the Royal College of Physicians, London. I am a former Chairperson of the British HIV Association Audit and Standard of Care Committee.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Ngan,WH,Tumin,M,Kan,FK,Tuang,WX,Nazri,M,Ong,ELC. . BMJ Case Reports 2026, 19(2), e270521.
    • Kee,CRH,Lee,KS,Zaid,M,Ong,ELC. . The Open AIDS Journal 2026, 20, e18746136423964.
    • Heng W, Ho MH, Mah XH, Lim JJ, Syamsury NHBA, Haagensen E, Ong ELC, Hubbard P. . Medical Education 2025, 59(6), 615-629.
    • Kok SY, Abraham RE, Ali SNJ, Tuang WX, Ong ELC. . Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 2025, 10(2), 30.
    • Wong JW, Tan JH, Navindran S, Ong E. . Journal of Global Health Economics and Policy 2024, 4, e2024012.
    • Stohr W, Arenas-Pinto A, Clarke A, Williams I, Johnson M, Orkin C, Chen F, Lee V, Winston A, Gompels M, Fox J, Sanders K, Dunn DT, Fisher M, Hadley W, Stacey D, Byrne P, De Esteban N, Pellegrino P, Haddow L, Hand J, De Souza C, Murthen L, Crawford-Jones A, Wilson R, Green E, Masterson J, Patel K, Howe R, Mullaney S, Jennings L, Beeching N, Tamaklo R, Teague A, Jendrulek I, Tiraboschi JM, Wilkins E, Clowes Y, Thompson A, Brook G, Trivedi M, Aderogba K, Jones M, DeBurgh-Thomas A, Jones L, Reeves I, Mguni S, Chadwick D, Spence P, Nkhoma N, Warwick Z, Price S, Read S, Herieka E, Walker J, Woodward R, Day J, Hilton L, Harinda V, Blackman H, Hay P, Mejewska W, Okolo O, Ong E, Martin K, Munro L, Dockrell D, Smart L, Ainsworth J, Waters A, Kegg S, McNamara S, Taylor S, Gilleran G, Gazzard B, Rowlands J, Allan S, Sandhu R, O'Farrell N, Quaid S, Martin F, Bennett C, Kapembwa M, Minton J, Calderwood J, Post F, Campbell L, Wandolo E, Palfreeman A, Mashonganyika L, Balachandran T, Kakowa M, O'Connell R, Tanawa C, Jebakumar S, Hagger L, Quah S, McKernan S, Lacey C, Douglas S, Russell-Sharpe S, Brewer C, Leen C, Morris S, Obeyesekera S, Williams S, David N, Roberts M, Wollaston J, Paton N, Paton N, Scott K, Dunn D, Beaumont E, Fleck S, Hall M, Hennings S, Kummeling I, Martins S, Owen-Powell E, van Hooff F, Vivas L, White E, Angus B, Freedman A, Cromerty B, Mercey D, Fidler S, Torok E, Babiker A, Peto T, Lalloo D, Phillips A, James R. . eClinicalMedicine 2024, 69, 102457.
    • Nelson M, Bracchi M, Hunter E, Ong E, Pozniak A, van Halsema C. . HIV Medicine 2024, 25(S4), 3-25.
    • Kong SWW, Yong JL, Cheong SPY, Ong ELC. . International Journal of Medical Students 2023, 11(3), 174-183.
    • Ong CY, Yee MM, Myat Soe K, Abraham RE, Tan OJH, Ong ELC. . Educación Médica 2022, 23(6), 100767.
    • Kong SW, Cheong SPY, Yong JL, Ong ELC. . Journal of Global Health Reports 2022, 6, e2022063.
    • Chang CY, Ong ELC. . Clinical Case Reports 2022, 10(7), e6073.
    • Chang CY, Lee JL, Ong ELC. . Oxford Medical Case Reports 2022, 2022(7), 251-252.
    • Chang CY, Gan YL, Radhakrishnan AP, Ong ELC. . Oxford Medical Case Reports 2022, 2022(1), omab145.
    • Chang CY, Jayabalan M, Gan YL, Radhakrishnan AP, Ong ELC. . Oxford Medical Case Reports 2022, 2022(9), 319-321.
    • Chee JCC, Kong SWW, Tan ZJ, Lim YK, Pearce MS, Ong ELC. . Journal of Global Health Reports 2021, 5, e2021002.
    • Chang CY, Rajappan M, Zaid M, Ong ELC. . Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad 2021, 33(1), 172.
    • Weixiang K, Leong A, Ong ELC. . Frontiers in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology 2021, 1(1), 103.
    • Goh WP, Evans G, Hurn E, Leong A, Lim YK, Saw YT, Subramaniam B, Tan ZJ, Ong ELC. . Journal of Global Health Reports 2021, 5, e2021003.
    • Chang CY, Wahid AA, Ong ELC. . Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 2021, 54, e0896-e2020.
    • Maggiolo F, Rizzardini G, Raffi F, Pulido F, Mateo-Garcia MG, Molina J-M, Ong E, Shao Y, Piontkowsky D, Das M, McNicholl I, Haubrich R. . The Lancet HIV 2019, 6(10), e655-e666.
    • Widdrington JD, Emmerson I, Cullinan M, Narayanan M, Klejnow E, Watson A, Ong ELC, Schmid ML, Price DA, Schwab U, Duncan CJA. . Medical Sciences 2018, 6(4), 96.
    • Widdrington JD, Bond H, Schwab U, Price DA, Schmid ML, McCarron B, Chadwick DR, Narayanan M, Williams J, Ong E. . Infection 2018, 46(6), 785-792.
    • Raben D, Mocroft A, Rayment M, Mitsura VM, Hadziosmanovic V, Sthoeger ZM, Palfreeman A, Morris S, Kutsyna G, Vassilenko A, Minton J, Necsoi C, Estrada VP, Grzeszczuk A, Johansson VS, Begovac J, Ong ELC, Cabie A, Ajana F, Celesia BM, Maltez F, Kitchen M, Comi L, Dragsted UB, Clumeck N, Gatell J, Gazzard B, Monforte AD, Rockstroh J, Yazdanpanah Y, Champenois K, Jakobsen ML, Sullivan A, Lundgren JD, HIDES Audit Study Group. . PLoS ONE 2015, 10(11), e0140845.
    • Moyle GJ, Orkin C, Fisher M, Dhar J, Anderson J, Wilkins E, Ewan J, Ebrahimi R, Wang H, Ainsworth J, Waters A, Anderson J, Morumba L, Brook G, Chikohora M, Hay P, Adebiyi A, Cockerill M, Ndoro M, Johnson M, Carroll A, Turner F, Moyle G, Fletcher C, Osorio J, Orkin C, Hand J, Desouza C, Fisher M, Perry N, Maher T, Bray A, De Burgh Thomas A, Bunting M, Jones L, White D, Groves J, Ross J, Brown L, Hood K, Dhar J, Johnson S, Morgan E, Hewart R, Ong E, Wilkins E, Stockwell E, Robertson A, Leen C, Morris S, Ellis L, Maw R, McKernan S, Herath DC, Ewan J, Hui Wang M, Ebrahimi R. . PLoS ONE 2015, 10(2), e0116297.
    • Lavender TW, Barrett A, Magee J, Ong ELC. . Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2013, 19(11), 1078-1081.
    • Payne BAI, Hateley CL, Ong ELC, Premchand N, Schmid ML, Schwab U, Newton JL, Price DA. . HIV Medicine 2013, 14(4), 247-251.
    • Manousaridis K, Ong E, Stenton C, Gupta R, Browning AC, Pandit R. . Eye 2013, 27(4), 480-486.
    • Ellis S, Curtis H, Ong ELC, BHIV, BHIVA Clinical Audit Stand. . International Journal of STD & AIDS 2013, 24(4), 329-331.
    • Jones L, Ong ELC, Okpokam A, Sloan P, Macleod I, Staines KS. . British Dental Journal 2012, 212(10), 477-480.
    • Ellis S, Curtis H, Ong ELC, British HIV Assoc BHIVA, BHIVA Clinical Audit Stand. . Clinical Medicine 2012, 12(5), 430-434.
    • Beck EJ, Mandalia S, Sangha R, Sharott P, Youle M, Baily G, Brettle R, Gompels M, Johnson M, McCarron B, Ong E, Pozniak A, Schwenk A, Taylor S, Walsh J, Wilkins E, Williams I, Gazzard B, NPMS-HHC Steering Grp. . PLoS One 2011, 6(12), e27830.
    • Houlihan C, Ndlovu C, Price A, Ong EL, Schwab U, Schmid ML. . Journal of Infection 2011, 63(6), e72-e73.
    • Ellis S, Graham L, Price DA, Ong ELC. Offering HIV testing in an acute medical admissions unit in 缅北禁地 upon Tyne. CLINICAL MEDICINE 2011, 11(6), 541-543.
    • Nademi MR, Snow MH, Price DA, Ong EL, Schmid ML. . Journal of Infection 2008, 56(4), 306-307.
    • Wahie S, Ong E, Charlton FG, Reynolds NJ. . The American Journal of Medicine 2006, 119(12), 1039-1042.
    • Price DA, Schmid ML, Ong ELC, Adjukeiwicz KMB, Peatson B, Snow MH. . HIV Medicine 2005, 6(1), 33-36.
    • Blasdale C, Turner RJ, Leonard N, Ong ELC, Lawrence CM. . Clinical and Experimental Dermatology 2004, 29(5), 480-482.
    • Price DA, Ong ELC. . Lancet Infectious Diseases 2003, 3(5), 296-.
    • Thaker HK, Ong ELC. . CPD Infection 2002, 3(1), 22-23.
    • Mustafa M, Price DA, Schmid M, Snow M, Ong ELC. . Journal of Infection 2002, 44(2), 110.
    • Thaker H, Neilly IJ, Saunders PG, Magee JG, Snow MH, Ong ELC. . Journal of Infection 2001, 42(3), 213-214.
    • Pauriah M, Ong ELC. . Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2000, 6(1), 14-18.
    • Camidge R, Ong E, Lucraft H. . Postgraduate Medical Journal 2000, 76(892), 103-104.
    • Gompels MM, Simpson N, Snow M, Spickett G, Ong E. . Journal of Infection 1999, 38(2), 111-115.
    • Melzer M, Colbridge M, Keenan F, Stainsby D, Ong ELC. Cryptococcosis: An unusual opportunistic infection complicating B cell lymphoproliferative disorders. JOURNAL OF INFECTION 1998, 36(2), 220-222.
    • Shipsey D, Griffith CDM, Viswanath YKS, Wood KM, Hemming D, Ong ELC. AIDS-related non-Hodgkin's lymphoma presenting as gynaecomastia. BREAST 1998, 7(6), 344-344.
    • Clark JE, Ong ELC. A UK centre's experience of mycobacterial infections in HIV-infected patients. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STD & AIDS 1998, 9(10), 613-615.
    • Dorrell L., Hassan I., Marshall S., Chakraverty P., Ong E. Clinical and serological responses to an inactivated influenza vaccine in adults with HIV infection, diabetes, obstructive airways disease, elderly adults and healthy volunteers. Int J STD and AIDS 1997, 8, 776-779.
    • Hassan ISA, Snow MH, Ong ELC. Overwhelming pneumoccoccal sepsis in two patients splenectomised more than ten years previously. SCOTTISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1996, 41(1), 17-19.
    • DORRELL L, MCCALLUM AK, SNOW MH, ONG ELC. DAPSONE/PYRIMETHAMINE VERSUS AEROSOLIZED PENTAMIDINE AS PROPHYLAXIS AGAINST PCP IN HIV-INFECTION. AIDS PATIENT CARE 1995, 9(5), 224-228.
    • COLBRIDGE MJ, BAILY GG, DUNBAR EM, ONG ELC. ANTIBIOTICS CARRIED IN GENERAL-PRACTITIONERS EMERGENCY BAGS - 4 YEARS ON. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1995, 310(6971), 29-30.
    • Vedhara K, Nott KH, Richards SM, Bradbeer C, Davidson EAF, Ong ELC, Snow MH. A technique for accurate use of CD4+ cell counts. AIDS PATIENT CARE 1995, 9(6), 276-280.
    • FIFE A, DORRELL L, SNOW MH, ONG ELC. GIANT-CELL ARTERITIS - A CAUSE OF PYREXIA OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN. SCOTTISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1994, 39(4), 114-115.
    • Bradford CR, Ong ELC, Hendrick DJ, Saunders PWG. Use of colony stimulating factors for the treatment of drug-induced agranulocytosis. Br J Haematol 1993, 84, 182-6.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Bargiela D, Bogowicz P, Ong E. . In: Third Joint Conference of BHIVA and BASHH. 2014, Liverpool, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
    • Green E, Mabillard H, Ong E. . In: Journal of Infection. 2011, W.B. Saunders Co. Ltd.
    • Ellis S, Wilkinson M, Green EW, McLoughlin C, Campbell I, Price A, Schmid M, Ong E, Schwab U. . In: Second Joint Conference of the British HIV Association and the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV. 2010, Manchester, UK: HIV Medicine, Wiley-Blackwell.
    • Premchand N, Golds K, Ong ELC. . In: HIV Medicine: 15th Annual Conference of the British HIV Association. 2009, Liverpool, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

  • Editorial

    • Ajdukiewicz KMB, Ong ELC. . Journal of Infection 2007, 54(3), 209-211.

  • Letters

    • Manousaridis K, Ong E, Stenton C, Gupta R, Browning AC, Pandit R. . Eye 2014, 28(1), 111-112.
    • Duncan CJA, Schmid ML, Schwab U, Price DA, Ong E. . AIDS 2014, 28(17), 2638-2639.
    • Ellis S, Graham L, Price D, Ong E. . Clinical Medicine 2011, 11(6), 541-543.
    • Ong E, Nikhil P, Golds K. . The Lancet 2009, 374(9687), 377.
    • Goldsmith P, Jones RE, Ozuzu GE, Richardson J, Ong ELC. . British Journal of Ophthalmology 2000, 84(5), 546.
    • Thaker H, Ong ELC. . Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2000, 6(10), 564-566.
    • Melzer M, Ong ELC. A spotted fever and melaena: acute HIV seroconversion. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STD & AIDS 1997, 8(8), 535-536.
    • ONG ELC, HASSAN ISA, SNOW MH. PNEUMOCOCCAL SEPSIS IN A SPLENECTOMIZED PATIENT. BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE 1995, 45(398), 502-503.
    • HASSAN ISA, ONG ELC. FEVER IN THE RETURNED TRAVELER - REMEMBER MURINE TYPHUS. JOURNAL OF INFECTION 1995, 31(2), 173-174.
    • ONG ELC. ANTITUBERCULOUS THERAPY AND ACUTE LIVER-FAILURE. LANCET 1995, 345(8958), 1171-1171.
    • COLBRIDGE MJ, ONG ELC, BAILY G, DUNBAR EM. ANTIBIOTICS CARRIED IN GENERAL-PRACTITIONERS EMERGENCY BAGS. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1995, 310(6984), 942-942.
    • BRADFORD CR, ONG ELC, HENDRICK DJ, SAUNDERS PWG. USE OF COLONY-STIMULATING FACTORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DRUG-INDUCED AGRANULOCYTOSIS. BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY 1993, 84(1), 182-183.
    • ONG ELC, MANDAL BK. PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA. NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 1993, 328(21), 1569-1569.
    • DORRELL L, WARDROPPER AG, ONG ELC. HELICOBACTER-PYLORI INFECTION IN AN HIV-SEROPOSITIVE PATIENT WITH DIARRHEA. AIDS 1993, 7(6), 900-901.
    • DORRELL L, FIFE A, SNOW MH, ONG ELC. TOXICITY OF CLINDAMYCIN IN HIV-INFECTED PERSONS. SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1992, 24(5), 689-689.
    • ONG ELC. MANAGING TUBERCULOSIS AND HIV-INFECTION. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1992, 304(6841), 1567-1567.
    • ONG ELC. INFLUENZA AND ASTHMA. LANCET 1992, 339(8789), 367-367.
    • WARDROPPER A, ONG ELC. CONTACT TRACING IN HIV-INFECTION. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1992, 305(6854), 652-652.

  • Notes

    • Lee KS, Zaid M, Ong ELC. . Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 2023, 56, e0289-2023.
    • Chang CY, Ong ELC. . Oxford Medical Case Reports 2022, 2022(4), 142-143.
    • WARDROPPER AG, SANKAR KN, ONG ELC. RISKS AND BEHAVIOR IN PATIENTS REQUESTING HIV TESTS. JOURNAL OF INFECTION 1995, 30(1), 71-73.
    • Wardropper AG, Ong ELC. Erythema multiforme secondary to dideoxycytidine (ddC). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STD & AIDS 1995, 6(6), 450-450.
    • WARDROPPER AG, SANKAR KN, ONG ELC. SURVEILLANCE OF SEXUAL-BEHAVIOR AND PATIENTS REASONS FOR REQUESTING HIV TESTS. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STD & AIDS 1994, 5(5), 375-375.
    • DORRELL L, FULTON B, ONG ELC. INTRAVENOUS AZITHROMYCIN AS SALVAGE THERAPY IN A PATIENT WITH LEGIONNAIRES-DISEASE. THORAX 1994, 49(6), 620-621.

  • Reviews

    • Curtis H, Yin Z, Clay K, Brown AE, Delpech VC, Ong E, BHIVA Audit Stand Sub-Comm. . BMC Infectious Diseases 2015, 15, 315.
    • Ong ELC. . Journal of Infection 1999, 38(1), 6-8.
    • ONG ELC. THE ROLE OF AEROSOL PENTAMIDINE PROPHYLAXIS. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STD & AIDS 1993, 4(2), 67-69.