Lorenz K. Ng is a neurologist and an educator. He was born in Singapore and came to the United States in 1958. He earned his B.A. from Stanford University and his M.D. from Columbia University. Ng did his neurology residency at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and from 1969 to 1971 was a research fellow at NIMH in Bethesda, Maryland. From 1972 to 1981, Ng was Special Assistant to the Director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Rockville, Maryland.

From 1986 to 1991, Ng was the director of the Washington Pain Center, and from 1991 to 1998 he was the medical director of the Chronic Pain Program at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington. Ng is currently the director of medical and regulatory affairs at Greater China Eli Lilly & Co. in Shanghai, a position he has held since 1998.

Ng has also been a clinical professor at the Department of Neurology of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. since 1995. Ng has been a visiting lecturer at the Department of Neurosurgery of Johns Hopkins Medical School, and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Alternative Medicine Program at NIH in Bethesda from 1996 to 1998. He was on the Boards of Directors of the American Academy of Pain Medicine in Chicago from 1990 to 1993 and the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association in New Jersey from 1993 to 1998.

Ng has co-authored many publications, including Principles and Practice of Contemporary Acupuncture (with S. Liao and M. Lee, 1994), Alternatives to Violence (editor, 1968), Strategies for Public Health (with D. Davis, 1981), Pain, Discomfort, and Humanitarian Care (with J. Bonica, 1980), and Population Crisis: Implications and Plans for Action (with S. Mudd, 1965). Ng was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cosmos Club Foundation in Washington (1993-1998), and has been a member of the Advisory Council of the Third World Foundation since 1994. Ng was also President of the American Division of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1982 to 1993. He was the recipient of the S. Weir Mitchell Award from the American Academy of Neurology in 1971, the A.E. Bennett Award in Social Biological Psychiatry in 1972, and the Commendation Medal USPHS in 1981.