He is accredited as a Certified Wound Specialist Physician (CWSP) by the American Board of Wound Management (ABWM) and has managed some of the most complicated diabetic foot complications involving gangrene and wound infection. He uses some of the most state of the art tissue therapies such as topical oxygen and wound care products to achieve impressive clinical outcomes by nurturing at risk wounds towards optimal healing endpoints. In recognition of his dedicated clinical service contributions to his patients, he has been awarded both the Silver and Long Service Awards by SingHealth and Service with a Heart Award by SGH. He was also given the Residency In SingHealth Excels (RISE) award for outstanding teaching faculty in 2019. After four successful years of practice as a consultant in vascular and endovascular surgery at Changi General Hospital, he subsequently built a large and productive portfolio of academic vascular and endovascular interests at Singapore General Hospital, including international randomised controlled trials and endovascular device evaluation. He has attracted S$1.5M+ in individual grant funding from both industry and national bodies. His recent works has been featured in local and international media/news. He was appointed the Research Director of the newly formed Singhealth Duke Vascular Centre to co-ordinate research across all three SingHealth campuses and lead the Vascular Quality Initiative program to improve lower limb angioplasty outcomes for peripheral artery disease in SGH. 

He has written or co-authored 300+ peer – reviewed publications and has 10 book chapters and 5 books to his name. Regionally, he has travelled extensively to run multiple endovascular lower limb revascularisation workshops, serves as an expert proctor and case demonstrator for superficial and deep endovenous surgery devices and is a regularly invited speaker at international and regional vascular conferences. He is also a proven leader in the vascular surgery field nationally. He was a co-founding member of the Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery of Singapore (SVESS) in 2016. He currently serves as a member of the Ministry of Health National Diabetic Foot and Cardiovascular Devices Workgroups. He is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and is a MRCS Examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

A/Prof Tang graduated from Queens’ College in Cambridge, UK and qualified from Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge in 2000 with a Distinction in Surgery. He trained on the higher surgical training program in East Anglia, UK and was awarded his Doctorate of Medicine (MD) by the University of Cambridge in 2009 for research into carotid plaque inflammation. Just after completion of surgical training in late 2012, he was awarded a prestigious Cook British Society of Endovascular Therapy (BSET) fellowship and undertook further endovascular training at Leicester Royal infirmary, UK followed by a postgraduate fellowship at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He has dual accreditation in both general and vascular/endovascular surgery.