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Adj Asst Prof Daniel Yong is the Head of the Department of Urology at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He is a Senior Consultant with clinical interests in uro-oncology, robotic and minimally invasive surgery. His clinical practice focuses on complex urological surgeries, with an emphasis on achieving good oncologic control while preserving urinary continence and sexual function where appropriate.

He graduated from the inaugural batch of Duke–NUS Medical School (MD, 2011). His academic background includes a First Class Honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London (2005) and a Master’s degree in Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania (2007).

He completed his Urology Residency under the National Healthcare Group (NHG) in 2018 and was awarded the Singapore Urological Association–European Board of Urology Book Prize (nation’s top scorer) in the same year. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore in 2018.

Adj Asst Prof Yong has undergone further training at the Department of Urology, Okayama University Hospital (Japan) under Professors Mototsugu Araki and Yasutomo Nasu (JUA Scholarship, 2019). He also completed his Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) fellowship in 2023 at Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf and Martini-Klinik, Germany, where he was trained in advanced techniques including NeuroSAFE nerve-sparing robot-assisted prostatectomy under Prof Alexander Haese. He is an appointed proctor for robotic surgery.

He is actively involved in research and innovation, with publications in peer-reviewed journals and contributions to book chapters. He collaborates with industry in prostate cancer biopsy technologies and serves on the hospital Research Committee and Clinical Innovation Committee. He is also the inaugural recipient of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation Fellowship.

​​He is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, with adjunct faculty appointments at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS) and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (NTU), and serves as faculty for the urology residency programme and PGY1 training at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.