Prof Audrey Chia
Co-Head, Myopia Research Group
medical
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Singapore
Biography
Dr Audrey Chia graduated from the University of Sydney (1992), and did her ophthalmology training at the Sydney Eye Hospital (1996-1999). She returned to Singapore in 2000 and worked as an Ophthalmology Registrar at the Singapore National Eye Center (2000-1) before doing a Paediatric Ophthalmology fellowship at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London (mid 2001-2). She later spent 3 months as an Observor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia before returning to Singapore. She has been based at the Singapore National Eye Center ever since. Besides being actively involved in clinical care, Dr Chia’s research interests include strabismus, amblyopia, retinopathy of prematurity, medical and non-medical control of myopia. Dr Chia also helps manage the SNEC-SERI Visual ElectroDiagnostic Laboratory, and is a member of the International Society of Electrophysiology Vision (ISCEV). Her interests here include functional changes in myopia and amblyopia, retinal dystrophy and drug-related toxicities.
Research Interest
Myopia, strabismus, retinopathy of prematurity, amblyopia and visual electrophysiology
