Wong Tien Yin MBBS, MMEd(Ophth), MPH, PhD, FRCSE, FRANZCO, FAMS

Professor Wong Tien Yin completed medical school at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a President’s scholar, residency training in ophthalmology at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), and retinal fellowships at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA and University of Sydney, Australia. He has a MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. In his role as Vice Dean, Office of Clinical Sciences, Duke-NUS Medical School, he coordinates clinical and translational research strategy and execution across the SingHealth-Duke-NUS Academic Medicine Centre. As Head of the Academic Medicine Research Institute, he facilitates and plans the development and support of clinician scientists and clinician-investigator across the campus.

Prof Wong is concurrently the Medical Director of SNEC, one of the largest tertiary eye hospitals in Asia, with a faculty of more than 70 ophthalmologists. The Centre manages more than 300,000 outpatient visits and some 27,000 major surgeries annually. SNEC’s research division, the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), is one of the world’s leading eye research institutes. Prof Wong was previously SERI’s Executive Director (2009-13) and is now the Chairman of its Board. Prior to his current appointments, Prof Wong was Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, NUS and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, the University of Melbourne, Australia.