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Adj Asst Prof Daniel Yong is the current Head of the Department of Urology and a senior consultant with a specialised clinical focus in Uro-Oncology, Robotic, and Minimally-Invasive Surgery. He is widely regarded for delivering exceptional oncologic and functional outcomes in complex urological surgeries — outcomes that have set new benchmarks for cancer control, continence, and potency preservation.

A graduate of the inaugural batch of Duke-NUS Medical School (M.D., 2011), Dr Yong's diverse academic background spans Electrical and Electronics Engineering (First-Class Honours, Imperial College London, 2005) and a Master's in Biotechnology (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). His cross-disciplinary foundation has shaped his precise, data-driven, and innovative approach to modern urologic care.

Upon completing his Urology Residency with the National Healthcare Group in 2018, he received the Singapore Urological Association–European Board of Urology Book Prize for the nation's top scorer and was admitted as a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore the same year.

Dr Yong further honed his craft through international fellowships and scholarships under world-renowned mentors. He trained at the Department of Urology, Okayama University Hospital (Japan) under Professors Mootoo Araki and Yasutomo Nasu (JUA Scholarship 2019), and later completed his Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) fellowship at Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf / Martini-Klinik (Germany) in 2023, where he mastered advanced techniques such as Neuro-SAFE bilateral nerve-sparing robot-assisted prostatectomy under Prof Alexander Haese. He is currently an appointed proctor for robotic surgery, training surgeons in high-precision minimally invasive techniques.

A dedicated clinician-scientist and innovator, Dr Yong has published multiple peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and collaborates actively with industry partners in prostate cancer biopsy technology and robotic surgical innovation. He is a co-inventor of Uromasters, an AI-assisted robot  transperineal prostate biopsy machine. He serves on both the Hospital Research Committee and Clinical Innovation Committee, and was the inaugural recipient of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation Fellowship.

As an educator, he is committed to nurturing the next generation of surgeons, holding adjunct faculty appointments at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS) and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (NTU). He is also a faculty of the urology residency program and is corefaculty for PGY1 at Tan Tock Seng.​​