SNEC Alumni | Singapore National Eye Centre

The SNEC alumni is the official world alumni association for all overseas and local fellows that have trained here in the last two decades.

SNEC has trained eye specialists from more than 15 countries and has provided the opportunity for our fellows to learn, train, conduct research and share their experiences on ophthalmology and eye care.

The SNEC alumni has two main goals:

To establish and maintain contact between fellows around the world and SNEC doctors
To facilitate the sharing and exchange of knowledge, skills and experience in ophthalmology and the different practices worldwide

The alumni is established with the active encouragement and support of former fellows who recognise the value of keeping in touch with SNEC and with each other, and to continue to be part of the SNEC family.

The SNEC Alumni was founded by Dr Cesar Gomezperalta from Mexico, who remains as its Chairman since the formation of SNEC Alumni.

SNEC's First Four International Fellows

Dr Marc Lawrence Weitzman
First Fellow (1992)

SNEC accepted the first overseas fellow, Dr Marc Lawrence Weitzman. He had completed his residency and served three years in Mt Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr Weitzman did a six-month overseas fellowship in vitreo-retinal during his attachment in SNEC. He then spent three months in China teaching general ophthalmology before returning to the US to take up another fellowship in glaucoma.

Dr Grace Gray Mugume
Second Fellow (1993)

The second doctor from overseas to be attached for six-month in SNEC was Dr Grace Gray Mugume from Mbuya Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. Sponsored by the Uganda government, Dr Mugume, a general ophthalmologist, started his fellowship programme in microsurgery in July 1993. Upon completion of his fellowship programme, Dr Mugume resumed his duties as a general ophthalmologist in Mbuya Hospital with the experience gained here.

Dr Zhao Shao-Zhen
Third Fellow (1994)

Dr Zhao Shao-Zhen, a senior resident from the International Intraocular Implant Training Centre in Tianjin, China, became SNEC’s third overseas Fellow when she accepted a one-year fellowship programme. Besides upgrading her knowledge in intraocular implant surgery and other eye surgical procedures, she also participated in excimer and glaucoma clinical research projects. She completed her fellowship in May 1995.

Dr Paul Foster
Fourth Fellow (1995-1997)

Dr Paul Foster, from the United Kingdom, was a Glaucoma fellow at SNEC from 1995 to 1997. During his first two years he was attached to the glaucoma service as a Research Registrar, where he participated in the multicenter randomised trials on 5-FU for filtration surgery. During his third year he took an active role at our Tanjong Pagar Community survey for glaucoma in the elderly. He also took time off to observe the prevalence of glaucoma in Mongolia.

List of International Fellows (From 1992 - Present)

Country	Name	Subspecialty	Start Date	End Date
Argentina	Dr Federico Luengo	Cornea	1 January 2010	31 December 2011
Australia	Dr Andrea Ang Yi-Ling	Cornea	16 October 2012	15 April 2013
Australia	Dr Vicky Lu Hsin-Ju	Vitreo-Retina	23 June 2014	22 June 2015
Australia	Dr Aristides Konstantopoulos	Cornea	1 September 2014	30 April 2015
Australia	Dr Sonia Suriya Moorthy	Paediatric Ophthalmology	1 April 2015	31 March 2016
Bangladesh	Dr Zafar Khaled	Vitreo-Retina	6 May 1996	28 March 1997
Bangladesh	Dr Nasima Ahmed	Vitreo-Retina	1 January 2003	22 November 2003
Bangladesh	Dr Mafruha Afrin	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology	18 July 2016	17 July 2017
China	Dr Zhao Shao Zhen	Anterior Segment	7 June 1994	14 November 1995
China	Dr Tan Yi	Vitreo-Retina	2 January 1996	25 April 1997
China	Dr Li Jian Ping	Cataract & Comprehensive	24 March 1997	23 September 1997
China	Dr Zhang Ming Zhi	Glaucoma	10 September 1998	25 August 1999
China	Prof Li Xiao Rong	Vitreo-Retina	11 September 1998	10 September 1999
China	Dr Feng Qi Gao	General Ophthalmology	8 September 2000	8 December 2000
China	Dr Li Jun Hong	Paediatric Ophthalmology	15 November 2000	13 August 2001
China	Dr Yang Jin	Glaucoma	30 November 2000	30 November 2001
China	Dr Wei Rui Hua	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	4 April 2001	October 2004
China	Dr Zhang Li Jun	Paediatric Ophthalmology	11 May 2001	11 February 2002
China	Dr Yang Hui	Paediatric Ophthalmology	2 November 2001	1 May 2002
China	Dr Cai Yu	Glaucoma/ General Ophthalmology/ Vitreo-Retina	17 February 2003	30 June 2004
China	Dr Bu Shao Chong	Cataract & Comprehensive	November 2003	May 2004
China	Dr He Jian Zhong	Vitreo-Retina	January 2004	Dec 2004
China	Dr Hu Bo Jie	Cataract & Comprehensive	8 March 2004	7 March 2005
China	Dr Xia WenQing	Glaucoma	26 March 2004	25 September 2004
China	Dr Wang Jing	Glaucoma	July 2004	July 2005
China	Dr Liu Shao Hui Andrea	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	October 2004	October 2005
China	Dr Liu Huan Ming	Cataract & Comprehensive	14 December 2004	13 December 2005
Egypt	Dr Mohamed Moustafa Abdel Rahman Hantira	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	1 May 2007	31 October 2007
Germany	Dr Boris Viktor Stanzel	Surgical Retina	7 March 2016	6 March 2017
Greece	Dr Tryfinopoulou Ioanna	Glaucoma	16 February 2011	15 February 2012
Hong Kong	Dr Ning Cheung Danny	Vitreo-Retina	8 September 2014	7 September 2015
India	Dr Meenakshi Sivakumar (Deceased)	General Ophthalmology	16 May 1995	3 November 1995
India	Dr Roy Lipika	Paediatric Ophthalmology	25 April 2005	24 October 2005
India	Dr Thacker Neepa	Paediatric Ophthalmology	27 March 2000	26 September 2000
India	Dr Dr Anand Parthasarathy	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	November 2004	January 2007
India	Dr Lavanya Raghavan	Cataract & Comprehensive	17 December 2007	16 December 2008
India	Dr Vanathi Murgesan	Cornea & Refractive	28 October 2008	27 January 2009
India	Dr Alok Agrawal	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology	29 November 2010	31 May 2011
India	Dr Svati Bansal	Neuro-Ophthalmology	27 February 2015	26 February 2016
India	Dr Sourabh Sharma	Glaucoma	1 July 2016	30 June 2017
India	Dr Kotecha Megha Ramnik	Advanced Cataract	26 October 2017	25 October 2018
India	Dr Ashish Kumar	Cornea & External Eye Disease	7 May 2018	6 May 2019
India	Dr Anusha Arvind	Neuro-Ophthalmology	5 June 2018	4 June 2019
India	Dr Nithin Keshav Srinivasan	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology	2 November 2018	1 November 2019
Indonesia	Dr Vira Wardhana Istiantoro	Glaucoma	6 January 2006	5 January 2007
Indonesia	Dr Made Susiyanti	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	27 February 2006	26 Febuary 2007
Indonesia	Dr Zeiras Eka Djamal	Glaucoma	15 September 2014	14 September 2015
Indonesia	Dr Sharita Siregar	Cornea & External Eye Disease	14 September 2015	13 September 2016
Iran	Dr Alireza Hedayatfar	Ocular Inflammation	15 July 2009	14 July 2010
Japan	Dr Yasuhiro Takahashi	Oculoplastic	7 July 2008	7 October 2008
Japan	Dr Kazuaki Nakauchi	Oculoplastic	4 May 2009	3 November 2009
Jordan	Dr Muath Ahmad M Arabiyat	Vitreo-Retina	23 July 2007	22 September 2008
Jordan	Dr Rania A.I Shibayeh	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	8 October 2007	7 October 2008
Malaysia	Dr Sivagnanam s/o Chidambaram	Glaucoma	2 February 1994	2 March 1994
Malaysia	Dr Ho Sed Ney	Glaucoma	10 July 2001	3 October 2001
Malaysia	Dr Ooi Say Gee	Oculoplastic & Aesthetic Eyeplastic Service	15 January 2003	14 July 2003
Malaysia	Dr K. Sivamalar	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology Service	2 March 2006	1 March 2007
Malaysia	Dr Norlina Binti Mohd Ramli	Glaucoma	8 September 2008	7 September 2009
Malaysia	Dr Sunder Ramasamy	Paediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus	6 April 2011	5 April 2012
Malaysia	Dr Tan Siow Wei	Oculoplastic	5 September 2011	4 September 2012
Malaysia	Dr Norhalwani Binti Husain	Glaucoma	17 October 2012	16 October 2013
Malaysia	Dr Fiona Chew Lee Min	Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus	26 August 2013	25 August 2014
Malaysia	Dr Lim Hsien Han	Glaucoma	23 September 2013	22 September 2014
Malaysia	Dr Lakana Kumar A/L Thavaratnam	Neuro-Ophthalmology	26 March 2014	25 March 2015
Malaysia	Dr Nurull Bahya Binti Suliman	Glaucoma	29 August 2016	28 August 2017
Mexico	Dr Cesear Gomezperalta	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	16 August 2000	15 August 2001
Mexico	Dr Ingrid Franco	Paediatric Ophthalmology	15 July 2009	14 July 2010
Mexico	Dr Karim Mohamed Noriega	Corneal & External Eye Disease	28 October 2011	27 October 2012
Mexico	Dr Mauricio Davila Gonzalez	Paediatric Ophthalmology	13 September 2017	12 September2018
Myanmar	Dr Ko Ko Tin	Anterior Segment	3 January 1994	25 March 1994
Myanmar	Dr U Ye Lwin	Anterior Segment	3 January 1994	25 March 1994
Myanmar	Dr Thet Naing	General Ophthalmology	2 May 1995	1 April 1996
Myanmar	Dr San Myint	General Ophthalmology	May 1996	May 1997
Myanmar	Dr Yee Yee Aung	General Ophthalmology	13 December 1999	12 June 2001
Myanmar	Dr May Zun Aung Win	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology	11 January 2016	10 January 2017
Myanmar	Dr Aung Yin Mon	Glaucoma	30 May 2016	29 May 2017
Myanmar	Dr Aye Thi Han	Neuro-Ophthalmology	13 June 2016	12 June 2017
Myanmar	Dr Nay Lin Oo	Oculoplastic	11 July 2016	10 July 2017
Myanmar	Dr Khin Oo May	Cornea & External Eye Disease	19 September 2016	18 September 2017
Myanmar	Dr Hla Sandar	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology	24 October 2017	23 October 2018
Myanmar	Dr Tha Zin Wuit Hmone	Oculoplastic	26 July 2017	25 July 2018
Myanmar	Dr Hla Myat Nwe	Glaucoma	28 August 2017	27 August 2018
Myanmar	Dr Wint Wah Hlaing	Advanced Cataract	17 January 2019	16 January 2020
Myanmar	Dr Ei Ei Lin Oo	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology	1 February 2019	31 January 2020
Myanmar	Dr Nyi Nyi Zaw	Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus	8 February 2019	7 February 2020
New Zealand	Dr Sims Joanna Lesley	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology Service	21 February 2007	20 February 2008
New Zealand	Dr Reece Hall	Cornea & Refractive	28 January 2009	27 January 2010
New Zealand	Dr Judy Ku Yu-Fen	Glaucoma	1 February 2010	31 January 2011
Nigeria	Dr Mahmoud Babanini Al Hassan	Vitreo-Retina	1 August 2002	10 February 2003
Pakistan	Dr Junaid Afzal	Vitreo-Retina	1 April 2010	31 March 2011
Pakistan	Dr Hassan Mansoor	Cornea & External Eye Disease	26 November 2018	25 November 2019
Philippines	Dr Jose Luis de Grano	Paediatric Ophthalmology	19 August 1999	10 August 2000
Philippines	Dr Maria Margarita Lat Luna	Glaucoma	1 April 2000	4 August 2000
Philippines	Dr Howard Yu Cajucom-Uy	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	19 January 2001	18 January 2002
Philippines	Dr Lim SY Joycelyn	Vitreo-Retina	31 January 2001	30 April 2002
Philippines	Dr Jessica Marie R. Abano	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	1 Febuary 2002	30 September 2003
Philippines	Dr Charmaine Yu Ang	Oculoplastic & Aesthetic Eyeplastic Service	10 April 2002	30 April 2003
Philippines	Dr Arlie R. Jaurigue	Paediatric Ophthalmology	January 2003	December 2003
Philippines	Dr Anna Lisa Yu	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	6 January 2003	5 January 2004
Philippines	Dr Mark Anthony Tianco Imperial	Oculoplastic & Aesthetic Eyeplastic Service	January 2004	January 2005
Philippines	Dr Kristine Bascal	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology	January 2004	December 2006
Philippines	Dr Javellana Juan Antonio Grau	Vitreo-Retina	12 May 2005	11 May 2006
Philippines	Dr Jesus Jacinto M. Bautista	Vitreo-Retina	14 August 2006	13 August 2007
Philippines	Dr Santos Christine Therese Amurao	Oculoplastic & Aesthetic Eyeplastic Service	19 March 2007	18 March 2008
Philippines	Dr Leandro Jose G Domalanta	Cataract & Comprehensive	11 June 2007	10 June 2008
Philippines	Dr Ma. Lorena Ruth G. Capinpin	Vitreo-Retina	12 August 2008	11 August 2009
Philippines	Dr Pia Regina E Galvante	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology	3 May 2012	2 May 2013
Philippines	Dr Celeste Pineda Guzman	Glaucoma	9 July 2012	8 July 2013
Philippines	Dr Bhambi Uellyn Anonuevo Gesite	Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus	13 July 2012	12 July 2013
Philippines	Dr Mejia Margarita Nahleen Naguit	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	3 June 2013	2 June 2014
Philippines	Dr Carlo Josemaria D Rubio	Glaucoma	26 August 2013	25 August 2014
Philippines	Dr Marco Antigua Tumalad	Oculoplastic	6 January 2015	5 January 2016
Philippines	Dr Jan Carlo Alegre	Medical Retina	22 February 2016	21 February 2017
Philippines	Dr Mayjane Joan Gamolo Tumulak	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology	11 January 2017	10 January 2018
Philippines	Dr Carlo Selibio Ladores	Medical Retina	6 March 2017	5 March 2018
Philippines	Dr Niccolo Zandro Rigor Valencia	Surgical Retina	28 July 2017	27 July 2018
Philippines	Dr Joel Magbanua Perez	Medical Retina	5 March 2018	4 March 2019
Philippines	Dr Denise Ramona Villar Carbonell	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology	12 March 2018	11 March 2019
Philippines	Dr Irene Ramos Felarca	Glaucoma	11 April 2018	10 April 2019
Philippines	Dr Bryan Jason Baltazar Atienza	Oculoplastic	16 July 2018	15 July 2019
Philippines	Dr Ricardo JR Ramos Ong	Medical Retina	16 August 2018	15 August 2019
Sri Lanka	Dr Samanthila Waduthantri	Cataract & Comprehensive Service	21 August 2006	20 August 2007
Sri Lanka	Dr Samanthila Waduthantri	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology Service	3 September 2007	2 September 2008
Sri Lanka	Dr Lasitha Saroj Jayasinghe	Cornea & External Eye Disease	2 May 2013	1 May 2014
Switzerland	Dr Anne Jansen	Ocular Inflammation & Immunology	4 May 2015	30 November 2015
Thailand	Dr Apiwat Pothikumjohn	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	26 August 2003	25 August 2004
The Netherlands	Liu Chang	Glaucoma	2 May 2019	1 May 2020
Uganda	Dr Grace Gray Mugume	Ophthalmic Microsurgery & Observed Glaucoma	26 January 1994	25 February 1994
UK	Dr Jan Van der Hoek	Cornea & Refractive Surgery	3 January 2002	2 July 2002
UK	Dr Peter David Cackett	Vitreo-Retina	3 September 2007	2 September 2008
UK	Dr Romesh Angunawela	Corneal & External Eye Disease	16 February 2011	15 February 2012
UK	Dr Geraint Powell Williams	Cornea & External Eye Disease	8 March 2015	13 September 2015
USA	Dr Marc Lawrence Weitzman	Vitreo-Retina	17 August 1992	15 February 1993
Vietnam	Dr Thruong Thi Thu Hong	Vitreo-Retina	2 May 1995	29 September 1995