Our Awards FY10-11

Local Awards

• 2011 SingHealth Excellence Awards -Distinguished Leader Award Series (Visionary Leader) [Mar 2011]
  Prof Donald Tan, MD, SNEC & Chairman, SERI

• 2011 SingHealth Excellence Awards -Outstanding Nurse Award [Mar 2011]
  Sister Peck Chye Fong, Asst Director, Research Clinic, SERI

• 2011 SingHealth Excellence Awards -Outstanding Administrative Staff Award [Mar 2011]
  Ms Sharmila Kannan, Deputy Director, Admin & Corp Affairs, SERI

• Duke-NUS Khoo Clinical Scholar Programme [Jan 2011]
  Dr Carol Cheung, Research Scientist, SERI

• Duke-NUS Khoo Clinical Scholar Programme [Jan 2011]
  Dr Gemmy Cheung, Consultant, SNEC

• Duke-NUS Khoo Clinical Scholar Programme [Jan 2011]
  Dr Peggy Chiang, Clinical Research Fellow, SERI

• NHG Eye Institute Novartis Research Prize [Nov 2010]
  Dr Veluchamy A Barathi, Head, Ocular Disease Model Laboratory, SERI

• Clinician Scientist Award [Sep 2010]
  Dr Tina Wong, Assistant Director and Head, Translational Clinical Research, SERI

• President's Science and Technology Award (PSA) [Sep 2010]
  Prof Wong Tien Yin, Director, SERI

• Tanoto Initiative for Diabetes Research Award [Jul 2010]
  "An Automated Computer Imaging Program for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection and Screening"
  Prof Wong Tien Yin, Director, SERI

• NRF-MOH Healthcare Research Scholarship [Jun 2010]
  Dr Marcus Ang, Registrar, SNEC

• National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award 2010 [Jun 2010]
  Prof Wong Tien Yin, Director, SERI

International Awards

• ARVO Travel Grant [Feb 2011]
  Dr Romesh Angunawela, Registrar, SNEC

• ARVO Travel Grant [Feb 2011]
  Dr Gary Peh, Postdoc Research Fellow, SERI

• 1st Singapore Health & Biomedical Congress, Singapore Young Investigator Award 2010, Clinical Research [Feb 2011]
  "Novel Quantitative Retinal Vascular Changes in Diabetes and Retinopathy"
  Dr Carol Cheung, Research Scientist, SERI

• APJGC 2010 Travel Grant [Dec 2010]
  Dr Leonard Yuen, Registrar, SNEC

• 26th MSJOC Best Poster Awards [Nov 2010]
  "Electrocautery for Lower Lid Involutional Entropion"
  Dr Leonard Yuen, Registrar, SNEC

• 26th Malaysia-Singapore Joint Ophthalmic Congress 2010 - Best Free Paper – Session 1 [Nov 2010]
  "Effect of Intracameral Injection of Fibrin Tissue Sealant on the Rabbit Anterior Segment"
  Dr Annabel Chew, Registrar, SNEC

• 26th Malaysia-Singapore Joint Ophthalmic Congress 2010 Best Free Paper – Session 2 [Nov 2010]
  "Elevated MCP-1 in Tears is an Indicator of Early Post-operative Scarring Following Trabeculectomy"
  Dr Rachel Chong, Chief Resident, SNEC

• APAO Holmes Lecture [Sep 2010]
  Dr Ho Ching Lin, Senior Consultant and Head of Glaucoma Services, SNEC

• APAO De Ocampo Lecture [Sep 2010]
  Prof Wong Tien Yin, Director, SERI

• Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology - American Academy of Ophthalmology, APAO-AAO Travel Award [Sep 2010]
  Dr Leonard Yuen, SNEC

• KAIST Best Oral Presentation Award [Jun 2010]
  "Study of Shape Memory Biodegradable Polymer in Post-Ophthalmological Surgery Treatment"
  Ms Peng Yan, NTU

• ARVO Basic Science Award [May 2010]
  Dr Anita Chan, Consultant, SNEC

• Santen Pharmaceutical ARVO 2010 Travel Grant Award [May 2010]
  "Nuclear-Factor Kappa B: A Potential Role in Pterygium Formation"
  Dr Jay Siak, Registrar, SNEC

• The Vision Research community Best Publications 2010 [Apr 2010]
  "Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy and neovascular age-related macular degeneration: same or different disease?"
  Laude A, Cackett RD, Vithana EN, Yeo IY, Wong D, Koh AH, Wong TY, Aung T

• ASCRS Best Paper of Session Award [Apr 2010]
  "Adult-Onset Keratoconus and Occupational Exposures"
  Dr Leonard Yuen, Registrar, SNEC

• American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), ASCRS Howard Lieberman MD, Memorial Award [Apr 2010]
  Dr Leonard Yuen, SNEC