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Awards & Presentations

Awards & Presentations

Academic Staff

Prof Wong Tien Yin

• NUS Outstanding Researcher Award 2009
• 2008 StaR Investigator Award, National Medical Research Council, Ministry of Health.
• Inaugural Singapore Translational Researcher (STaR) Award 2008
• 2007 Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, USA
• 2007 AMGEN Medical Research of the Year Award for "Outstanding Contribution to Translational Research"; Australian Society of Medical Research
• SingHealth Group CEO Excellence Award in Research (Open Category), 2007
• Alcon Research Institute Award for "Outstanding Contributions to Ophthalmology and Vision Science"; 26th Alcon Research Institute Symposium at Forth Worth, Texas; February 2007
• Novartis Prize (Global, Young Investigator) in Diabetes 2006
• Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research 2006

A/Prof Aung Tin

• 2009 President's Science Award
• Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2008
• 2008 Clinician Scientist Award, National Medical Research Council, Ministry of Health
• Nakajima Award from the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology for "Outstanding Contribution to Research in Ophthalmology", 2007

Prof Donald Tan

• 2009 President's Science Award
• Asia-Pacific Association of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (APACRS) 2008: Grand Prize for video at the Annual Film Festival
• European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) 2008 Annual Meeting: Award for video on Endothelial Keratoplasty: Please Don't Fold
• American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) 2008 Annual Meeting: First Prize in the Annual Film Festival for video on Endothelial Keratoplasty: Please Don't Fold
• 2008 National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award, Ministry of Health's Inaugural National Medical Excellence Award Ceremony
• Runner-Up, ASCRS Film Festival; American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, 2007 for feature "Cut Away the Bugs but Spare the Endothelium: New Deep Lamellar Approach to Therapeutic Keratoplasty for Severe Infectious Keratitis"
• American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Meeting (ASCRS), 17-22 March 2006 (Best Paper of Session: Cornea: Orthokeratology, Tissue, Presbyopia)

Prof Chee Soon Phaik

• 2007 Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, USA
• Best Reviewer Award, International Ophthalmology, 2007

Dr Tan Woon Teck

• Dean's Award For Teaching Excellence For Academic Year 2007/2008

Student

Dr Sabanayagam Charumathi

• President Graduate Fellowship, Aug 2009.

Research Awards

Residents' & Research Day, April 2009

• Best Scientific Paper (MO) - Dr David Law
• Best Scientific Paper (Registrar) - Dr Mandeep Singh
• Most Entertaining Award - Dr Harold Choi
• Best Speaker - Dr Mandeep Singh
• Best Scientific Paper Award (Overall) - Dr Mandeep Singh

Presentations & Conferences Attended

Prof Paul Chew Tec Kuan

• Glaucoma Drainage Device
  "All You wanted to know about glaucoma Drainage Devices but we afraid to ask"
• Invited speaker, WOC 2008, Hong Kong, 28 Jun - 2 July 2008
  "Symptomatic vs Epidemiologic Classification of PACG"
• Invited speaker, 1st ISEC Scientific Symposium, 5 - 6 January 2008
  "Updates on Angle closure for general opthalmologists"

Dr Loon Seng Chee

• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Florida USA. (April 08) (Poster Presentation)
• European Glaucoma Society Meeting. Berlin, Germany (June 08) (Participant)
• South East Asian Glaucoma Interest Group (SEAGIG). Seoul, Korea (Sept 08) (Invited Speaker)
• Bangladesh Eyes Mission. Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Nov 08) (Invited Speaker)

Dr Jovina See

• HVF instruction course (Carl Zeiss). Jakarta, Indonesia (23rd-25th May 08) (Invited instructor)
• Future Management of Glaucoma at World Ophthalmology Congress Hong Kong, Hong Kong (27th - 30th July 08) (Invited Speaker)
• Optimising The Use of HRT in Glaucoma at SEAGIG conference. Seoul, Korea (24th - 30th Sept 08) (Invited Speaker)
• Use of ASOCT in Detecting Angle Closure at ARVO. Fort Lauderdale, USA (May 08)

Clinical A/Prof Shantha Amrith

• 18th International Meeting of Singapore National Eye Centre. Singapore (14th - 17th March 08)(Invited to be part of a Teaching Course on Ptosis)
• 5th Meeting of Asia-Pacific Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (APSOPRS) and the International Meeting of Korean Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (KSOPRS). Seoul, Korea. (20th - 22nd June 08)
• American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic And Reconstructive Surgeons' Annual Meeting. Atlanta, USA (12th - 13th November 08)
• Periorbital Necrotizing Fasciitis - A Case Report And Review (Poster Presentation)
• Optimizing Orbicularis Muscle Biopsy in Mitochondrial Myopathies (Poster Presentation)
• Asia - ARVO, Hyderabad, India (Invited Speaker)
• Symposium "Hot Orbit" - Recent Advances In The Management Of Orbital Lymphomas (Invited Speaker)

Dr Inez Wong

• 24th Singapore-Malaysia Joint Meeting in Ophthalmology, Singapore (23rd - 24th Aug 08) Intraocular Lens Implantation In Infant Cataract Surgery (Invited Speaker)
• 2nd Asia-ARVO Meeting, Hyderabad, India. (15th-18th Jan 09) Ocular Growth, Visual Development And Timing Of Surgery For Pediatric Cataract (Invited Speaker)
• Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology-American Academy of Ophthalmology Joint Meeting Bali, Indonesia. (16th-19th May 2009) Aphakic And Pseudophakic Glaucoma:What Do We Know Now? (Invited Speaker)
• First World Congress of Paediatric Opthalmology And Strabismus. Barcelona, Spain. (12th-13th Sept 09) Strabismus Syndrome: An overview. (Invited Speaker)
• American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) Annual Meeting, Washington USA. (2nd-6th April 08) External Diseases For The Pediatric Ophthalmologist (Workshop Presentation)
• American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) Annual Meeting, San Francisco USA. (17th-21st April 09) Managing a Child With An External Ocular Disease (Workshop Presentation)
• World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC), Hong Kong, 2008 Unusual Ocular And Orbital Presentation Of Familial Glomangiomatosis (Poster Presentation)
• Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) -American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Joint Meeting, Bali, Indonesia, 2009. Retcam Gonioscopy (Poster Presentation)

Dr Cheng Jin Feng

• APSOPRS/KSOPRS Seoul, June 2008 A Quality Of Life Survey of Patients With Ocular Prosthesis (Presented a paper)
• RANZCO, Aug 2008 (Participant)
• Bangladesh Eye Seminar, Nov 2008 Blowout Fractures-A review (Presented a paper)