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 Co-Clinical Director of the Myopia Centre at SNEC 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.