Awards 2010

2010

Organisation Award

Award Name	Award Write-up
Singapore Health Award (Gold)	The Singapore HEALTH (Helping Employees Achieve Life-Time Health) Award is presented by the Health Promotion Board to give national recognition to organisations with commendable Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) programmes. It is an important way of honouring organisations that strive to help their employees lead healthy and vibrant lives. SNEC has progressed from the Bronze Award in 2002 to Silver then to the Gold Award in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012.

Award Name

Award Write-up

Singapore Health Award (Gold)

The Singapore HEALTH (Helping Employees Achieve Life-Time Health) Award is presented by the Health Promotion Board to give national recognition to organisations with commendable Workplace Health Promotion (WHP) programmes. It is an important way of honouring organisations that strive to help their employees lead healthy and vibrant lives.

SNEC has progressed from the Bronze Award in 2002 to Silver then to the Gold Award in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012.

Research & Education Awards

Conference/ Award	Category	Recipient	Date of Award
Asia Pacific Joint Glaucoma Congress (APJGC) Travel Grant	Travel Grant	Dr Leonard Yuen	4 December 2010
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)	Academic Centre of Excellence (ACE) Award	Dr Carol Cheung	1 December 2010
28th Malaysia-Singapore Joint Ophthalmic Congress	Best Poster Award (Local)	Dr Rachel Chong	20 November 2010
27th Malaysia-Singapore Joint Ophthalmic Congress	Best Free Paper - Session 1	Dr Annabel Chew	20 November 2010
26th Malaysia-Singapore Joint Ophthalmic Congress	Best Free Paper - Session 2	Dr Leonard Yuen	20 November 2010
3rd International Ophthalmic Congress	Allergan Merit Prize	Venkatramani Jayant	17 November 2010
NHG 3rd International Ophthalmology Congress	NHG Eye Institute Novartis Reasearch Prize	Dr Veluchamy A Barathi	16 November 2010
President's Science and Technology Award, A*Star	President's Science Award	Prof Wong Tien Yin	30 September 2010
NRF	NRF Clinician Scientist Award	Dr Tina Wong	22 September 2010
The 25th APAO Congress (A Joint APAO-AAO Meeting)	De Ocampo Lecture	Prof Wong Tien Yin	20 September 2010
The 25th APAO Congress (A Joint APAO-AAO Meeting)	Holmes Lecture	Clin A/Prof Ho Ching Lin	20 September 2010
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore	Tanoto Initiative for Diabetes Research Award	Prof Wong Tien Yin	9 July 2010
National Medical Excellence Awards	National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award	Prof Wong Tien Yin	29 June 2010
KAIST Joint Symposium on the Materials Science and Engineering for the 21st Century	KAIST Best Oral Presentation Award	Peng Yan	27 June 2010
NRF-MOH	NRF-MOH Healthcare Research Scholarship	Dr Marcus Ang	8 June 2010
Association of Vision and Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO)	Santen Pharmaceutical ARVO Travel Grant Award	Dr Jay Siak	2 May 2010
Association of Vision and Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO)	ARVO 2010 Travel Grant	Dr Zheng Yingfeng	2 May 2010
Association of Vision and Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO)	ARVO 2010 Travel Grant	Dr Wu Renyi	2 May 2010
Association of Vision and Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO)	ARVO 2010 Travel Grant	Evelyn Png	2 May 2010
Association of Vision and Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO)	ARVO 2010 Travel Grant	Dr Zhu Hong Yuan	2 May 2010
Association of Vision and Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO)	ARVO 2010 Travel Grant	Dr Belinda Cornes	2 May 2010
Association of Vision and Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO)	ARVO 2010 Travel Grant	Dr Jay Siak	2 May 2010
Association of Vision and Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO)	ARVO 2010 Travel Grant	Dr Jay Siak	2 May 2010
Association of Vision and Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO)	ARVO Basic Science Award	Dr Anita Chan	1 May 2010
American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (ASCRS)	ASCRS Best Paper of Session Award	Dr Leonard Yuen	1 April 2010
American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (ASCRS)	ASCRS Howard Lieberman MD, Memorial Award	Dr Leonard Yuen	1 March 2010
Saudi Ophthalmological Society	Saudi Ophthalmological Society Gold Medal Lecture Award	Prof Donald Tan	1 March 2010
APAO-AAO Joint Meeting	Hong Kong Vision Foundation (HKVF) - Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Travel Grant	Prof Jod Mehta	1 January 2010
American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting	Best Paper Award	Prof Aung Tin	1 January 2010
The 25th APAO Congress (A Joint APAO-AAO Meeting)	Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award	Prof Aung Tin	1 January 2010

Awards & Achievements