Prof Donald Tan Tiang Hwee

Biography

Donald Tan is the Arthur Lim Professor in Ophthalmology and Senior Advisor of the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), SingHealth, Professor of Ophthalmology at the National University of Singapore, Chair of the Eye Academic Clinical Program at the Duke-NUS GMS, and Medical Director of the Singapore Eye Bank. Involved primarily in clinical and translational research in cornea, refractive surgery and myopia, he has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles (h index = 42), contributed 18 book chapters and holds 13 patents in stem cell culture, myopia prevention, refractive corneal implants and surgical devices for endothelial keratoplasty, and has also trained 28 corneal fellows from 14 countries. He is the recipient of over 20 awards, which include the APAO 2001 De Ocampo Award, the AAO 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award, the ISRS/AAO 2009 Casebeer Award, the Saudi Ophthalmological Society 2010 Gold Medal, the Australia and New Zealand Corneal Society 2011 Doug Coster Award, the Canadian Society of Ophthalmology 2011 W. Bruce Jackson Award, the EuCornea 2012 Medal, the Portland, Oregon Arthur Devers 2012 Lecture, the 2013 Albrecht von Graefe Innovator’s Lecture, and the 2013 Intraocular Implant & Refractive Society of India Gold Medal. . Professor Tan established the Asia Cornea Society in 2007 and the Association of Eye Banks of Asia in 2009, and is currently President of both societies. In 2012 he assumed the Presidency of the US based Cornea Society, its first International President.

Research Interest

Corneal Transplantation Research: anterior lamellar keratoplasty, endothelial keratoplasty, femtosecond laser-assisted keratoplasty, DSAEK and DMEK surgical devices for donor delivery, epidemiological studies, comparative graft survival studies Keratoprosthesis Research: OOKP trials, synthetic OOKP research Tissue engineering: ocular surface epithelia and endothelial cell culture/transplantation Refractive Surgery Research: LASIK, AcuFocus trials, ReLEx trials Infectious Keratitis Research: Asian disease outbreaks, multicentre clinical trials Pterygium Research: surgical trials, EBM studies, epidemiology, etiological studies Myopia Research: epidemiology and environmental risk factors, pharmacological clinical trials on myopia control therapies