Adjunct Assoc Prof 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. She is currently Deputy Head of the Paediatric and Adult Strabismus Service at the Singapore National Eye Center and Clinical Head of the Eye Clinic at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Besides being actively involved in clinical care, Adj Assoc Prof Audrey Chia’s research interests include strabismus, amblyopia, retinopathy of prematurity, medical and non-medical control of myopia. She is a Senior Clinical Investigator and co-heads the Myopia research unit at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI). Adj Assoc Prof Audrey Chia also helps provide service at 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. Adj Assoc Prof Chia is the Program Director of the Singhealth Ophthalmology Residency Program, and enjoys her role in the training and education of young ophthalmology residents in Singapore.

Myopia, strabismus, retinopathy of prematurity, amblyopia and visual electrophysiology