Our Awards FY17-18

Local Awards

• National Medical Research Council: Clinician Scientist Award (Senior Category) [Dec 2017]
  "Translational program in ocular surface and dry eye"
  Assoc Prof Louis Tong

• Wong Hock Boon Society Symposium (WHBSS): Oral Presentation – 1st Prize [Nov 2017]
  "Antimicrobial Contact Lenses"
  Mr Edward Lim

• Wong Hock Boon Society Symposium (WHBSS): Oral Presentation - People's Choice Award [Nov 2017]
  "Antimicrobial Contact Lenses"
  Mr Edward Lim

• National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre: President's Volunteerism & Philanthropy Award [Nov 2017]
  Dr Marcus Ang

• National Medical Research Council: Clinician Scientist Award [Oct 2017]
  "Role of polarized macrophages and long noncoding RNAs in the pathogenesis of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy"
  Assoc Prof Yasuo Yanagi

• AMC Research Forum: SingHealth Publish! Award [Oct 2017]
  "Meta-analysis of gene-environment-wide association scans accounting for education level identifies additional loci for refractive error"
  Dr Amutha Barathi

• AMC Research Forum: SingHealth Publish! Award [Oct 2017]
  "Bio-inspired in situ crosslinking and mineralization of electrospun collagen scaffolds for bone tissue engineering"
  Dr Chetna Dhand

• National Medical Research Council: Transition Award [Sep 2017]
  "The applications of Terahertz scanning system on corneas"
  Dr Liu Yu-Chi

• 3rd SingHealth Duke-NUS Education Conference: First in Oral Presentation [Sep 2017]
  Dr Kiew Sieh Yien

• 3rd SingHealth Duke-NUS Education Conference: Merit Poster Award [Sep 2017]
  Ms Karen Zhang

• 3rd SingHealth Duke-NUS Education Conference: 2nd Runner Up – Best Oral Presentation Award [Sep 2017]
  "Beware of Sharps in Residents' Training Programme"
  Ms Aw Ai Tee

• SingHealth Healthcare Management Congress: Poster Presentation Award [Aug 2017]
  "Improving Discharge Rate in Subsidised General Eye Clinic (Clinic 1)"
  Dr Audrey Looi and ECS team

• Nanyang Technological University National Level 3 Minute Thesis 2017: Runner Up [Aug 2017]
  Ms Vidhya Venkatraman

• AM-ETHOS Academic Administrator Fellowship FY2017/18 [Aug 2017]
  Ms Sharmila Kannan

• National Medical Research Council: Clinician Scientist Award (Senior Category) [May 2017]
  "Deep Phenotyping and Genetic Landscaping of Primary Angle Glaucoma"
  Assoc Prof Cheng Ching-Yu

• SingHealth GCEO Excellence Awards: Outstanding Clinician Researcher Award [May 2017]
  Dr Gavin Tan

• SingHealth GCEO Excellence Awards: Distinguished Champion of Change Leader Award [May 2017]
  Assoc Prof Edmund Wong

• SGH 22nd Annual  Scientific Congress Meeting 2017: Outstanding Research Award (Clinical Research) [Apr 2017]
  Dr Danny Cheung Ning

• SGH 22nd Annual  Scientific Congress Meeting 2017: Young Investigator Award (Clinical Research) [Apr 2017]
  Dr Daniel Ting

International Awards

• The 6th Fuchs Symposium: 2018 Charles Tillet Lecturer [Mar 2018]
  Prof Donald Tan

• Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology 2018: APAO Achievement Award 2018 [Feb 2018]
  Dr Marcus Ang

• Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology 2018: APAO Achievement Award 2018 [Feb 2018]
  Dr Choo Chai Teck

• Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology 2018: APAO Achievement Award 2018 [Feb 2018]
  Dr Ti Seng Ei

• Australia and New Zealand Corneal Society 2018: Douglas Coster Medal Lecture [Feb 2018]
  Assoc Prof Jodhbir Mehta

• Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology 2018: APAO Senior Achievement Award 2018 [Feb 2018]
  Prof Aung Tin

• Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology 2018: APAO Achievement Award 2018 [Feb 2018]
  Dr Gary Yam

• Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology 2018: Distinguished Service Award [Feb 2018]
  Dr Mohamad Rosman

• Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology 2018: Fellow of AAPPO (Academy of Asia-Pacific
  Professors of Ophthalmology) [Feb 2018]
  Prof Chee Soon Phaik

• 19th Global Ophthalmology Summit: Conference Series – Best Young Researcher Award 2018  [Feb 2018]
  "Oral presentation on "Antimicrobial coated lenses: Crosslinked organosilane and gelatin films"
  Mr Edward Lim

• 11th Asia-Pacific Vitreo-retina Society (APVRS) Congress: 2nd Prize of e-poster [Dec 2017]
  "Comparison of OCT Angiographic Changes After Anti-VEGF Monotherapy Alone or in Combination With Photodynamic Therapy in Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy"
  Dr Kelvin Teo

• American Academy of Ophthalmology 2017: Senior Achievement Award [Nov 2017]
  Assoc Prof Jodhbir Mehta

• American Academy of Ophthalmology 2017: Achievement Award [Nov 2017]
  Assoc Prof Gemmy Cheung

• American Academy of Ophthalmology 2017: Achievement Award [Nov 2017]
  Assoc Prof Cheng Ching-Yu

• American Academy of Ophthalmology 2017: Achievement Award [Nov 2017]
  Dr Choo Chai Teck

• Education Academy of Computational Life Sciences International Summer School 2017: 2nd Place Best Poster Award [Sep 2017]
  "TGIFp-associated corneal dystrophy: exploring structure-based drug development strategies for disease prevention and treatment"
  Ms Vidhya Venkatraman

• EVER-Acta Lecture: Acta Ophthalmologica Gold Medal  [Sep 2017]
  Prof Leopold Schmetterer

• 18th Australasian Research Management Society Conference (ARMS) 2017: Travel Award  [Sep 2017]
  Ms Sharmila Kannan

• The 22nd Congress of Chinese Ophthalmological Society: 2017 International Gold Award of Chinese Ophthalmological Society [Sep 2017]
  Prof Wong Tien Yin

• 2017 International Congress on Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome (ICOMES): Travel Grant  [Aug 2017]
  Assoc Prof Charumathi Sabanayagam

• 2nd Asia Pacific Tele-Ophthalmology Society (APTOS) Symposium: APTOS Young Innovator Travel Grant [Jul 2017]
  Dr Daniel Ting

• Macula Society: Young Investigator Award [Jun 2017]
  Assoc Prof Gemmy Cheung

• The Glaucoma Foundation: The Dr Robert Ritch Award for Excellence and Innovation in Glaucoma [Jun 2017]
  Prof Aung Tin

• ARVO 2017: Travel Grant [May 2017]
  Dr Tham Yih Chung

• ARVO 2017: Travel Grant [May 2017]
  Dr Ong Hon Shing

• The Ophthalmologist: Top 50 "Rising Stars" of 2017 [Apr 2017]
  Dr Marcus Ang

• The Ophthalmologist: Top 50 "Rising Stars" of 2017 [Apr 2017]
  Dr Chelvin Sng