Dr Phoon Wai Leng Jessie

Obstetrician & Gynaecologist

Specialty

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Languages

English

Gender

Female

Key achievements

Helmed the directorship of KKIVF Centre & National Sperm Bank in 2020
Co-founded the OncoFertility Clinic at KKH, the first co-joint gynaeoncology and fertility clinic in Singapore in 2020

Experience

Dr Jessie Phoon is an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.

Apart from performing general obstetrics and gynaecology, she performs minimally invasive surgeries/laparoscopic surgeries.

She was a former senior consultant at KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital (KKH) and was the director at the KKIVF Centre & National Sperm Bank. She also co-founded the OncoFertility Clinic, which is the first co-joint gynae oncology and fertility clinic in Singapore. She is currently a visiting consultant at KKH.

Dr Phoon graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and did her master’s degree in Singapore. She was conferred membership by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, UK. She further pursued her interest in fine-tuning in-vitro maturation into routine in-vitro fertilisation and fertility preservation at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden under the Health Manpower Development Plan award. She has been practising medicine for more than 15 years.

Her interest is also in clinical research. She received the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medicine Research grant for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial in comparing conservative treatment for atypical endometrial hyperplasia.

Dr Phoon is also involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. She was appointed associate programme director for SingHealth’s obstetrics and gynaecology residency programme and was a core faculty of the residency programme thereafter.

She is a recipient of several Singapore Health Quality Service Awards.

Associated treatments

Laparoscopic myomectomy for large fibroids
Laparoscopic hysterectomy
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART)
Assisted vaginal delivery
Caesarean section (classical / lower segment)

Awards and honours

2023
Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Star)
2022
Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Silver)
2016
Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Star)
2015
Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Gold)
2014
Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Silver)

Research & publications

Phoon, J., Hao, X., Barbunopulos, L., Sheikh, M., Palomares, A. R., & A Rodriguez-Wallberg, K. (2022). Exploring the development potential of human germinal vesicle oocytes aiming at fertility preservation: Can we increase the yields of competent oocytes through IVM combined with vitrification? Journal of Clinical Medicine, 11, 1703.

Ling, L. P., Phoon, J. W. L., Lau, M. S. K., Chan, J. K. Y., Viardot-Foucault, V., Tan, T. Y., Nadarajah, S., & Tan, H. H. (2014). GnRH agonist trigger and ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: relook at ‘freeze-all strategy.’ Reproductive Biomedicine Online, 29(3), 392–394.

Mubarak, S., Acharyya, S., Viardot-Foucault, V., Tan, H. H., & Phoon, J. W. L. (2019). A Comparison of the Miscarriage and Live Birth Rate for Frozen Embryo Transfer According to Two Endometrial Preparations: Natural or Primed with Estrogens. Fertility & Reproduction, 01(01), 43–49.

Lim, P. T., Tan, C. H., Chia, H. L., & Phoon, J. (2018). Management of a giant uterine leiomyoma. BMJ Case Reports, bcr-224052.