Dr Jonathan Tang is a specialist emergency physician and clinical toxicologist at the NUH Emergency Medicine Department and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He graduated from NUS in 2012, completed his emergency medicine residency training in 2019 and was admitted as a fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He also holds a graduate diploma in Geriatric Medicine from NUS Medicine.
He was awarded the NUH Learning Development Award (HMDP) and completed a fellowship in clinical toxicology at the Victorian Poisons Information Centre (VPIC) at Austin Health, Melbourne in 2023. He is actively involved in developing the clinical toxicology service in NUHS, providing specialist toxicology consultation within the cluster. Nationally, he serves as core faculty for the local toxicology fellowship programme and is a member of the Section of Clinical Toxicologists, Academy of Medicine Singapore as well as the Australasian and European clinical toxicology associations. He has contributed chapters to the Hazmat Medical Life Support course and Koenig & Schultz’s Disaster Medicine: Comprehensive Principles & Practice, 3rd edition (Chapter on Hazardous Material, Toxic, and Industrial Events).
His clinical interests extend to clinical quality, patient safety and Emergency Department design. He has served on the NUH EMD Safety and Quality workgroup since 2020 and was appointed the department's Patient Safety Officer in 2025. At the hospital level, he is also the cluster ED lead for the NUHS Healthcare Workforce of the Future Steering Committee and ED planning lead for the NUH Redevelopment project, overseeing the planning for the future hospital campus in 2033. He welcomes collaboration in the area of ED design for the future and optimizing operational efficiency.
Dr Tang is committed to interdisciplinary education and collaborative practice. He teaches in prescribing programmes for advanced practice nurses, pharmacists and physiotherapists. He organises combined rounds with Advanced Internal Medicine (AIM) to foster collaborative learning and actively mentors junior EM residents.
