The Avenue Hospital
Part of Ramsay Health Care

The Avenue Hospital specialist Clara (Sze Ming) Wong

Dr Clara (Sze Ming) Wong

MB ChB, FANZCA, FFPMANZCA, FHKCA, Dip Pain Mgt (HKCA), FHKAM (Anaesthesiology), Dip Public Health

After completing her preclinical degree at Cambridge University, United Kingdom, Clara returned to the Asia Pacific region and completed her specialist training in anaesthesiology. She then obtained fellowships in Pain Medicine in both Australia and Hong Kong. She is the supervisor of pain training (SOT) at Pain Specialists Australia. With more than a decade's experience in managing patients with pain, Clara is also an avid teacher and examiner for the Board of Pain Medicine in Hong Kong. Having relocated to Melbourne, Clara is also an Anaesthetist in Box Hill Hospital, where she is experienced in managing patients with acute post-operative pain.

Clara is a Pain Medicine Physician with interests in intervention and is dedicated to giving the most appropriate multidisciplinary care to her patients.

Clara is passionate about helping patients with pain and understands the impact chronic pain can have on an individual. She believes everyone has a different story behind their pain and each person deserves tailor-made management.

Interventional techniques to treat pain; nerve blocks, joint blocks, radiofrequency, pulsed radiofrequency, neuromodulation and spinal cord stimulation. Peripheral nerve stimulation. Ultrasound guided blocks. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections. Pain conditions; back pain, facet joint pain, SIJ pain, shoulder pain, neuropathic pain, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), lumbar radicular pain and sciatica, neck, shoulder and arm pain, facial pain, headaches, trigeminal neuralgia,, male and female pelvic pain, post surgical neuropathic pain syndromes like post laminectomy pain, FBSS, ilioinguinal pain, thoracic pain. Chronic post-surgical pain. Diabetic neuropathy.