ISSN: 2155-9570
Soon-Phaik Chee
Head and Senior Consultant,Cataract Department,Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
Prof Chee graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1984 and received her FRCS(G), FRCS(Ed), FRCOphth and MMed(S’pore) in 1990. She was one of the pioneer ophthalmologists of the Singapore National Eye Centre which she joined in February 1991. She did her fellowship training in the both Oculoplastics and Uveitis in 1993 at the Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.Prof Chee’s uveitis research interests are mainly in Vogt-Koyanagi Harada Disease, Cytomegalovirus infection in the immunocompetent, dengue maculopathy and endogenous endophthalmitis; and have made significant contributions to the ophthalmic literature. She became a member of the International Uveitis Study Group in 2002 and continues to play an active role organizing symposia in international meetings.She is a member of both the Clinical Consensus Group for Standardisation of Uveitis Nomenclature, and International Sarcoidosis Workshop. Prof Chee was instrumental in the formation of the Asia Pacific Intraocular Study Group in June 2006 of which she is the Secretary General.
Vogt-Koyanagi Harada Disease, Cytomegalovirus infection in the immunocompetent, dengue maculopathy and endogenous endophthalmitis