NSW Health Pathology Senior Staff Specialist in Haematology Professor Beng Chong has been named a highly ranked scholar for 2024 by ScholarGPS for the outstanding quality of his research work into blood clots and bleeding disorders.

As a 2024 High­ly Ranked Schol­ar, Prof Chong has ranked in the top 0.05% of all schol­ars world­wide in recog­ni­tion of his “excep­tion­al schol­ar­ly per­for­mance, the high impact of his work, and the out­stand­ing qual­i­ty of his schol­ar­ly contributions.”

Prof Chong was also ranked in the top 0.19% of all schol­ars glob­al­ly in Med­i­cine, 0.25% in Pathol­o­gy and in Throm­bo­sis 0.1%.

He has pub­lished 255 research papers since 1982.

He is involved in clin­i­cal work as NSW Health Pathology’s Senior Staff Spe­cial­ist in Haema­tol­ogy at St George and Suther­land Hos­pi­tals but main­tains a strong focus on research.

“My research ranges from basic sci­ence research to clin­i­cal trials/registry stud­ies and trans­la­tion research,” Prof Chong explains.

“My basic sci­ence stud­ies focus on mech­a­nisms of throm­bot­ic and bleeding/thrombocytopenia dis­or­ders, as well as mech­a­nisms of throm­bo­sis in car­dio­vas­cu­lar (heart) dis­ease and stroke.

“I’ve been involved in exten­sive clin­i­cal tri­als of anti­co­ag­u­lants, which are now wide­ly used for the pre­ven­tion and treat­ment of throm­bot­ic (blood clot) disorders.

“My cur­rent focus in mech­a­nisms of throm­bo­sis is inves­ti­ga­tion of the role of white cells, par­tic­u­lar­ly neu­trophils, and red cells besides the tra­di­tion­al roles of platelets and blood coag­u­la­tion in the for­ma­tion of blood clots.”

Dr Bente Talseth-Palmer, NSWHP Research Oper­a­tions Man­ag­er, says the organ­i­sa­tion places a high pri­or­i­ty on sup­port­ing its researchers.

“NSW Health Pathol­o­gy aims to build a bet­ter health and jus­tice sys­tem by lead­ing vital research that dri­ves inno­va­tion,” she said.

“It’s inspir­ing to see researchers like Prof Chong being recog­nised for their work—because it’s this kind of research that leads to faster, more accu­rate care for peo­ple affect­ed by blood clots and bleed­ing disorders.”

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