Dr. Wong

Dr. Jackson Wong. MB.BS. FRCP, FRCPCH, FRCP (Edin), DCH, FHKAM, FHKCPaed

Dr. Wong is a pediatric respirologist and clinician with 39 years of clinical experience practiced in the UK, Australia and Canada. Majority of his previous positions were held in national tertiary and international quaternary centers university teaching hospitals. He has extensive experience in treating complex and severe conditions and diagnosing challenging conditions. He treats children with diverse and complex upper airway, pulmonary and sleep respiratory conditions. He is passionate in empowering parents through patient education and delivering high quality individualised family centered care.

Dr. Wong completed his medical degree at the Imperial College, University of London, UK in 1987. He then completed training in General Pediatrics, Pediatric Respiratory Medicine and a Pediatric Respirology Research Fellowship at the University of Leicester, UK. His research involved infant bronchiolitis (a common infant cough and wheezing disease), inhaled steroids aerosol assessment and safety, nocturnal cough and oxygen saturation monitoring during sleep, infant lung function and respiratory cilia. Dr. Wong further completed an additional clinical fellowship in pediatric respiratory medicine at the Royal Children’s Hospital, University of Melbourne as well as lung transplant training at the Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Australia in year 2000. Dr. Wong had gained extensive experience working in multiple tertiary and quaternary centers in three continents including the Hammersmith Hospital and a Senior Fellowship at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, UK. In Canada, he had held positions as associate professor at the University of Alberta, founding subspecialty training program director in pediatric respirology and founding medical director in pediatric lung/heart-lung transplantation at the Stollery Children’s Hospital. Dr. Wong was associate professor and founding division chief in pediatric respiratory medicine at the McMaster University until 2016.

Dr. Wong participated in the revision of the 2011 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Pediatric Respirology training curriculum. He was an expert advisor for Health Canada in Cell, Tissue and Organ. He served as the secretary of the International Pediatric Lung Transplant Collaborative for five years until 2014. He chaired the Perfusable Organ for Transplantation Subcommittee at the Canadian Standard Association for 6 years till 2024 and Co-Chair of the Canadian Society of Transplantation Standard Committee for 11 years till 2025. He was a voting member of the Transmittable Disease Technical Committee at the Canadian Standard Association till 2024. He is an invited member of the Canadian Society of Transplantation Ethics Committee. He is a member of the Alberta Health Service, Respiratory Health Strategic Clinical Network Airway Working Group.

Dr. Wong’s publications include clinical innovations, monographs, state of the art papers and Canadian national standards. He has published in asthma, infant bronchiolitis, lung function, airway and exercise challenge, chronic and complicated infective lung diseases, aerosol medicine, bronchoscopy and lung/heart-lung transplantation. He is the senior author of a recent publication in Pediatric Pulmonology 2023 that studied 45,230 children with intermittent asthma in collaboration with the Texas Children’s Hospital, USA. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppul.26369 He is an active reviewer of multiple medical journals in respiratory medicine, allergy/immunology and transplantation.