Medical director, Singapore National Eye Centre
Professor Wong Tien Yin is medical director of the Singapore National Eye Centre and a senior consultant ophthalmologist, practising as a retinal specialist. The President’s Scholar has won various awards for his service and research on retinal diseases: among these, he clinched the National University of Singapore’s Outstanding Researcher Award twice, and he is also a two-time recipient of the Singapore Translational Researcher Award.
Prof Wong’s other noteworthy accolades include the National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award, the President’s Science Award, and the President’s Science and Technology Award, which are deemed Singapore’s pre-eminent awards for research. He has also published more than 1,000 peer-reviewed papers, in publications such as The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine, and delivered more than 300 lectures globally.
Prof Wong is also the deputy group CEO, vice-dean and academic chair of the Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences programme at Duke-NUS Medical School. He sits on the boards of Singapore’s National Medical Research Council, the Asia-Pacific Vitreo-Retinal Society and the Council of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology.
Awards
2004
Outstanding Researcher Award—National University of Singapore
2008
Singapore Translational Researcher Award
2009
Outstanding Researcher Award—National University of Singapore
2010
National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award; President’s Science Award
2014
Singapore Translational Researcher Award; President’s Science and Technology Award
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