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Early Life
Ang was born in Singapore in 1963. His father was a businessman and mother, a homemaker. He has two other siblings. Ang attended the First Toa Payoh Primary School, where he was a prefect. He obtained excellent results and was admitted to Raffles Institution (RI), a premier school in Singapore which accepted only the best students in the country. He attended the Cambridge GCE “O” and “A” levels at RI. he was the first prize (amber prize) winner in general paper. He studied Medicine at the National University of Singapore from 1982 to 1987. He won a scholarship from the people's scholarship fund in 1982 and 1983. He obtained his master degree in clinical dermatology from St John’s Institute of Dermatology, London University in 1994.

Personal Life
Ang attended Raffles Institution from 1976 to 1981. Amongst his class and school mates are Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Indranee Rajah, a senior Minister of State in the Singapore Government, and Goh Choon Phong, CEO of Singapore Airlines.

Career
Ang founded his Aesthetic practice in 1998, introducing the term Aesthetic or Esthetic Medicine into the local lexicology when he became a member of the Belgium Society of Esthetic Medicine and International Union of Esthetic Medicine in the same year. Dr. Ang graduated from the medical school at the National University of Singapore in 1987. He continued to pursue his postgraduate training at the St John’s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas’s Hospital from 1993 to 1994. He trained under Professor Malcolm Greaves, a world authority on Itch and Professor Roderick Hay, a world authority on fungal infections.

His practice interests include cosmetic dermatology, anti-ageing medicine and bariatric (slimming) medicine. He first acquired a Licence to Operate Laser in 1992, when laser treatment was still in its infancy in Singapore. When IPL (Intensed Pulsed Light) started making inroads into Singapore, he adopted the technology in 2000. He had been giving filler/collagen injections since 1999 and Botox injections since 2000.

He passed the American Board of Bariatric Medicine (written and clinical) Exams in 2002. The Board is now known as the American Board of Obesity Medicine.

Ang was a part-time clinical teacher at the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore from 2000 to 2010.

Previously, Ang was a member of the Beauty Task Force set up by the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) to look into beauty practices in Singapore.

Ang was a trainer in Botulinum injections for Singapore doctors. He also trained beauticians and estheticians at the Top to Toe College of Beauty, helping to develop the course syllabus in early 1995.

Ang had worked in the top management of various hospitals, including Singapore General Hospital, Changi General Hospital, National Cancer Centre and the now defunct Toa Payoh Hospital. He was the Chairman of the Healthy Lifestyle Committee at Toa Payoh Hospital and Changi General Hospital.

Credentials

 * MBBS (Singapore)
 * MSc Clinical Dermatology (University of London)
 * Designated Workplace Doctor
 * Graduate Diploma in Acupuncture
 * Fellow of American Academy of Dermatology
 * Member of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgeons
 * Past member of American Society of Bariatric Medicine
 * Member of Singapore Chinese Physicians’ Association
 * Registered Family Physician
 * Registered Acupuncturist
 * Registered with Singapore Medical Council and General Medical Council, United Kingdom

Awards
Dr Steven Ang has received the 2016 Promising SME 500 Award and the 2017 Singapore Prestige Brand Award for established brands.