Dr Samantha Ang is a Consultant in the Department of Neurosurgery at National Neuroscience Institute. She was educated at Nanyang Primary School and Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary) under the Gifted Education Programme (GEP). She attended Raffles Junior College and completed her Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level Examination in 2007 with 8 distinctions. She then studied medicine at the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS YLLSoM) and was placed on the Dean’s list in 2012. She received her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 2013 and obtained her membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (MRCS Edin) in 2015.

She started her Neurosurgery residency training under SingHealth in 2014 and subsequently obtained her fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (FRCS Ed) in Neurosurgery in 2021. Her clinical research interests lie in Neuro-oncology, Functional Neurosurgery and Traumatic Brain Injury. She is currently the Neuro-Oncology Clinical Services Co-Lead and Research Service Co-Lead at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), as well as the Neurosurgery Combined Oncology and NEuroScience (CONES) Programme Clinical Lead at Woodlands Health (WH).

Dr Ang speaks English and Mandarin.