About the Editors
Roger W. Beuerman, PhD
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Duke-NUS
SRP Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders
Ophthalmology
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Roger Beuerman is currently Senior Scientific Director of the Singapore Eye Research Institute; Professor of Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders at the DUKE-NUS School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology at the National University of Singapore; Adjunct Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University; and Senior Scientist at the Bioinformatics Institute. He has more than 20 years’ experience in translational research in ophthalmology. He is an ARVO Fellow; a Fellow of the Alcon Research institute, and the Paolo Foundation in Helsinki, Finland. He has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Helsinki, and the Department of Ophthalmology of Tianjin, China. He has received many awards, including the CIBA-CVO Research Excellence Award, the Everett Kinsey Award (CLAO), the 2nd Chew Sek-Jin Lecture, Bireswar Chakrabarti Memorial Oration of the Indian Eye Research Group, LA Technology Award, and recently the President’s (Singapore) First Science and Technology Award. He has previously edited books on corneal wound healing and dry eye, has more than 220 publications, and sits on several editorial boards, including Cornea, Ocular Surface, and Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
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Seang-Mei Saw, MBBS, MPH, PhD
Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Seang-Mei Saw is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Vice-Dean (Research Preclinical), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her MBBS degree from NUS and both her MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her primary research interests are related to the epidemiology, genetics and gene-environment interactions for myopia and other eye diseases. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, including the Lancet and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She is currently the PI and Co-I of grants totaling >$15 million from the BMRC, NMRC, NIH and NHMRC (Australia). She supervises 30 research staff, 3 post-doctoral research fellows and 6 PhD and MSc students.
Seang-Mei is an Editorial Board member of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Ophthalmic and Physiologic Optics, and the Annals Academy of Medicine (Singapore). She is the recipient of the Garland W. Clay Award (2006); the Great Women of our Times Award, Science and Technology Category, Singapore (2006); the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Achievement Award (2009); and the NUS School of Medicine Faculty Research Excellence Award (2009). Seang-Mei was the past Chair of the 11th International Myopia Conference held from 16th to 18th August 2006 in Singapore, and is currently Chair of the Program Committee, Clinical/Epidemiologic section, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).
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Donald T.H. Tan, FRCSG, FRCSEd,
FRCOphth, FAMS
Singapore National Eye Centre
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Donald Tan is the Medical Director of the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), Chairman of the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) and tenured professor at the Department of Ophthalmology at the National University of Singapore. He heads the SNEC Cornea and Refractive Services and is also Medical Director of the Singapore Eye Bank.
A corneal and refractive surgeon by training, Professor Tan’s research contributions lie in new forms of lamellar keratoplasty, ocular surface and stem cell transplantation, and artificial cornea surgery, refractive surgery trials, and epidemiological studies on myopia and clinical trials on various approaches to retarding myopia progression. To date, he has published 226 peer-reviewed articles, and contributed 18 book chapters, and has also trained 22 corneal fellows from 13 countries.
Professor Tan was awarded the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology De Ocampo Award in 2001, a 2006 AAO Distinguished Achievement Award, and a Singapore National Public Health Award for first identifying and stemming the 2006 global outbreak of contact lens solution-related Fusarium keratitis. In 2009, he was awarded the 2009 Casebeer Award by the International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS) and the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), for his contributions to research in the field of refractive surgery.
He is currently Vice-President/President Elect of The Cornea Society, and the founding President of the Asia Cornea Society (ACS) and the Association of Eye Banks of Asia (AEBA).
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Tien-Yin Wong, MBBS, M.Med(Ophthl), FRCSEd,
FRANZCO, MPH, PhD
Singapore National Eye Centre
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Department of Ophthalmology
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Centre for Eye Research Australia &
Department of Ophthalmology
The University of Melbourne
Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital Australia
Tien-Yin Wong is currently Professor and Director of the Singapore Eye Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Singapore National Eye Centre and National University Health System. He is concurrently Professor of Ophthalmology at the Centre for Eye Research Australia, the University of Melbourne.
Professor Wong is a retinal specialist and leads a research program on the epidemiology, impact and treatment of retinal diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, and retinal vein occlusion. A particular focus of his work is on early retinal vascular changes and the use of novel retinal imaging techniques to predict cardiovascular disease. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers, including papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, and the Journal of the American Medical Association and has written 3 books that are widely used in ophthalmology.
For his research, Professor Wong has been recognized nationally and internationally with awards not only in ophthalmology, but also in the fields of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. He was the recipient of the Alcon Research Institute Award, the Novartis Prize in Diabetes (Global Young Investigator) award, the Australian Commonwealth Health Minister’s Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research and the Sandra Doherty Award from the American Heart Association. Prof. Wong is the Executive Editor of the American Journal of Ophthalmology, and on Editorial Board of three other journals, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Ophthalmic Epidemiology and Diabetes Care. He currently supervises 30 research staff and has previously trained 10 postdoctoral research fellows and PhD students. He is currently supervising 4 PhD students and 4 postdoctoral fellows.