Assoc Prof Audrey Chia

Associate Professor Audrey Chia graduated from the University of Sydney and  completed her ophthalmology training at the Sydney Eye Hospital. She returned to Singapore in 2000 and worked as an Ophthalmology Registrar at  Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) before doing a Paediatric Ophthalmology fellowship at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London. She is currently Head of the Paediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus Department and a Senior Consultant at the Eye Centre, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. 

Associate Professor Chia’s research interests include strabismus, amblyopia, retinopathy of prematurity, medical and non-medical control of myopia. She is a Senior Clinical Investigator and co-heads the Myopia research unit at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI).

 Associate Professor Chia also helps provide service at SNEC-SERI Visual ElectroDiagnostic Laboratory and is a member of the International Society of Electrophysiology Vision (ISCEV). Her interests here include functional changes in myopia and amblyopia, retinal dystrophy and drug-related toxicities. She is Vice-Chair, Faculty and Professional Development, Eye ACP, SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, and  enjoys her role in the development, training and education of young ophthalmologist, ophthalmology residents and scientists at the Singapore National Eye Centre and Singapore Eye Research Institute.

• President Science and Technology Award (2019)

• Distinguished Service Award, Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) (2017)

• Achievement Award, Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) (2017)

• Silver Award, Singapore Health Quality Service Award (2016)

• Gold Award, Singapore Health Quality Service Award (2014)

• Service from the Heart Award, KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital (2013)

• Silver Award, Singapore Health Quality Service Award (2013)

• Outstanding Faculty Award, SingHealth Residency (Academic Year 2012/2013)

• Innovative Educator Award, SingHealth Residency (Academic Year 2011/2012)

• Service Star Award, Singapore National Eye Centre

• Atropine for treatment of myopia 3: prevention and slowing early myopia in high risk children (PI)
  
• APPLE Study: RCT low dose atropine in children with mild-moderate myopia (PI)
  
• A retrospective study of Paediatric Thyroid Eye Disease (co-I)
  
• Investigation of genetic basis of Stargardt and ABCA4 related retinal dystrophies (site –PI)
  
• Strabismus, amblyopia and refractive error in Singapore children (STARS/ SCORM) follow up (co-I)
  
• Demographics and treatment trends in infectious conjunctivitis in Children (PI)
  
• Effects of treatment of refractive amblyopia on visual function (PI)
  
• Effect of treatment on VEP responses in children with refractive amblyopia (PI)