Dr Fiona Lim

Dr Fiona Lim graduated from National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2010 as one of the top medical students in her cohort with distinction in surgery. She did her ophthalmology residency training in Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) and was awarded the Ministry of Health Training Award for her specialist training in 2013. She obtained her Master of Medicine (Ophthalmology) by National University of Singapore in 2016, completed her residency and attained specialist accreditation in 2018. She qualified as Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (FAMS) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmology (London) that same year. She completed a 2-year cataract and glaucoma fellowship in SNEC in 2020.

Subsequently, she won the NMRC Overseas clinical Research Training Award for an overseas fellowship - completing 2 fellowships in United Kingdom in glaucoma and paediatric glaucoma in world reknown centres Moorfields Eye Hospital and Addenbrookes Hospital (University of Cambridge Eye Hospital). She also completed a paediatric ophthalmology observership whilst in Cambridge. She is the recipient of the NMRC Clinician Innovator Award 2024 and attained her Mphil from University of Cambridge in 2024.  

On the clinical front, she has won several awards in recognition of exemplary dedication and consistent clinical excellence in patient care, including winning the Singhealth quality service award (gold medal) in 2022, Singhealth quality service award (Star) 2024, Gratiservice Star Awards 2025 (Star) and GEM awards for excellence in clinical services in 2013. She is currently a senior consultant in the glaucoma department in Singapore National Eye Centre and also subspecialises in cataract and pediatric glaucoma. 

Dr Lim is clinical assistant professor at Duke-NUS medical school. She is also a clinical instructor at the medical schools of Duke-NUS, NUS and NTU. She is a clinical faculty member and is actively involved in postgraduate and undergraduate education of ophthalmology trainees and medical students, as well as paramedical staff, including optometrists and nurses. She is also actively involved in research and has published several scientific papers in respected peer-reviewed medical journals, including Ophthalmology and British Journal of ophthalmology. She actively participates in presentations at international and local conferences and also takes on the role of course director and course instructor at these conferences. Her current research interests are glaucoma and cataract surgery, pediatric glaucoma, myopia and glaucoma, genetics, clinical innovations and bioengineering.

• Mphil (Cambridge University) (2024)
• FRCOphth (London) (2018)
• FAMS (Singapore) (2018)
• MMed (Ophth) (2016)
• MBBS (2010)

• Executive Committee (EXCO) member, Glaucoma Society Singapore (GLAS) (2023 – present)
• Member, Queen’s college MCR, University of Cambridge (2021 – present)
• Assistant Clinical Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School (2020 – present)
• Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (2018 – present)
• Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Duke-NUS Medical School (2018 – present)
• Adjunct Clinical Instructor, NTU School of Medicine (2018 – present)
• Member, Association of Women Doctors (2018 – present)
• Member, Singapore Medical Council (2011 – present)
• Member, Singapore Medical Association (2010 – present)
• Physician Faculty Member, Singhealth Ophthalmology Residency Program
• Member, Primary Eye Care Committee, Singapore National Eye Centre

• Gratiservice Star Award (2025)
• National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Clinician Innovator Award (2024)
• Singapore Health Quality Service Awards 2024 (Star Award) (2024)
• Singapore Health Quality Service Awards 2022 (Gold Medal) (2022)
• National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Overseas Research Fellowship Training Award (2021)
• Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Award for Quality Improvement Project, SingHealth (2017)
• MOH Specialist Clinical Training Award 2013- 2018 (2013)
• GEM AWARDS for clinical service Excellence 2013 (2013)
• Final MBBS Surgery Distinction, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (2010)
• Dean’s Recognition of top candidates of the year, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (2010)

1. Lens extraction versus laser peripheral Iridotomy for acute primary angle closure.Ariel Yuhan Ong, Paul McCann, Shamira Perera, Lim Pin Miao Fiona, Sueko M Ng, David S Friedman, Dolly Chang. Cochrane Database of Systemic reviews 28 Dec 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD0151162)
2. Lim Pin Miao Fiona, Ho Ching Lin.Congenital Ectropion Uveae with ptosis and glaucoma syndrome—long term treatment outcomes.Epublished October 2020 JAAPOS.
3. Jayant Iyer, Zhao Yang, Lim Pin Miao Fiona, Louis Tong, Tina WongOcular lubricant use in medically and surgically treated glaucoma: a retrospective longtitudinal analysis.Clin Ophthalmol. 2017 Jun 23;11:1191-1196.
4. Fiona Pin Miao Lim,  Chee Wai Wong,  Boon Kwang Loh, Choi Mun Chan,  Ian Yeo,  Shu Yen Lee,  Ranjana Mathur,  Doric Wong, Tien Yin Wong, Chui Ming Gemmy Cheung.Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Focal Choroidal Excavation in Eyes with Exudative Maculopathy.Br J Ophthalmol. 2016 Jul;100(7):918-923.
5. Marcus Ang, Lim Pin Miao Fiona, Hla Myint Htoon, Donald Tan, Jodhbir S M.Two year visual acuity outcome and contrast sensitivity following Descemet’s Stripping Automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) and the correlation with preoperative graft thickness.Br J Ophthalmol. 2016 Mar;100(3):307-11.
6. Lim Pin Miao Fiona, Loh Boon Kwang, Gemmy Cheung, Doric Wong.Clinical correlation of focal choroidal excavation detected by Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography.Eye (Lond). 2014 Sep;28(9):1088-94.
7. Lim Pin Miao Fiona, Soh Shui Yen, Tan Ah Moy, Handa Swati, Quah Boon Long.Clinical profile, management and outcome of retinoblastoma – a report from a Children’s Cancer Centre in Singapore.Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 2013 Mar-Apr;50(2):106-12.
8. Lim Pin Miao Fiona, Ting Shu Wei Daniel, Bobby Cheng, Shamira Perera.Severe Fibrin Block Angle Closure Secondary to Retinal Detachment Surgery.J Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2012, 3:4.
9. Marcus Ang, Jodhbir S Mehta, Lim Pin Miao Fiona, Saideep Bose, Hla Myint Htoon, Donald Tan.Endothelial cell loss and graft survival following Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty and Penetrating keratoplasty.Ophthalmology. 2012 Nov;119(11):2239-44.
10. Ivan Khoo Yi, Fiona Lim Pin Miao, Janice Wong, K.L. Narasimhan, Richard H.G. Lo, Low Yee, David Alexander Stringer, Annette Jacobsen Sundfor.Prophylactic embolization of Hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm following blunt abdominal trauma in a child.Journal of Paediatric Surgery (2010) 45, 837-839.
11. Intralesional sclerotherapy for orbital lymphangiomaLim Pin Miao Fiona, Audrey LooiCase reports. APSOPRS iPlastics Vol 1 Issue 3 September 2015.