Awards 2011

2011

Research & Education Awards

Conference/ Award	Category	Recipient	Date of Award
Merlion France-Singapore Programme	PhD Project	Evelyn Png	20 December 2011
The ARVO Foundation for Eye Research (AFER) and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)	AFER/Vistakon Dry Eye Fellowship	Dr Andrea Petznick	5 December 2011
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research	National Prestigious Veni Grant	Dr Kamran Ikram	5 December 2011
SERI Annual Awards	Outstanding Young Researcher Award	Dr Shyam Sunder Chaurasia	1 December 2011
SERI Annual Awards	Most Valued Employee Award	Wendy Lee Chiew Ping	1 December 2011
SERI Annual Awards	Exemplary Mentor/ Role Model Award	Sister Peck Chye Fong	1 December 2011
SERI Annual Awards	Outstanding Graduate Student/ Fellow Award	Dr Zhu Hong Yuan	1 December 2011
Ophthalmology Research Day	Best Paper Presentation Award, 2nd Runner up	Monisha E. Nongpiur	29 October 2011
Ophthalmology Research Day	Best Paper Presentation Norvatis Travel Award 1st prize & Outstanding Charismatic Speaker Award & Best Slides Presentation Award	Tham Yih Chung	29 October 2011
Ophthalmology Research Day	Best Paper Presentation Norvatis Travel Award, 1st Runner up & Best Innovative Research Idea Award	Zheng Ce	29 October 2011
NUHS	Faculty Research Excellence Award	Prof Donald Tan	29 October 2011
American Academy of Ophthalmology	International Ophthalmologist Education Award	Prof Jod Mehta	1 October 2011
Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology - American Academy of Ophthalmology	Best Poster Award	Prof Jod Mehta, Prof Donald Tan, Federico Luengo	1 October 2011
NUS	Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship	Dr Mohammad Kamran Ikram	1 October 2011
SingHealth Synergy	SingHealth Outstanding Publication Award	Prof Wong Tien Yin	1 August 2011
Carl Zeiss International User Group Meeting	Best Paper	Prof Jod Mehta	27 July 2011
27th Malaysia-Singapore Joint Ophthalmic Congress	Second Prize Best Oral	Lan Wanwen	24 June 2011
Canadian Society of Ophthalmology	Bruce Jackson Award	Prof Donald Tan	1 June 2011
27th Malaysia-Singapore Joint Ophthalmic Congress	First prize in Oral / Free Papers Presentation	Evelyn Png	1 June 2011
27th Malaysia-Singapore Joint Ophthalmic Congress	Best Oral presentation	Lan Wanwen	1 June 2011
Singapore General Hospital 19th Annual Scientific Meeting – Frontiers of Medicine	Young Investigator Award (Clinical)	Lilian Foo	8 April 2011
1st Singapore Health & Biomedical Congress	Singapore Young Investigator Award 2010, Clinical Research	Dr Carol Cheung	1 April 2011
The Vision Research Community	Best Publications	Laude A, Cackett RD, Vithana EN, Yeo IY, Wong D, Koh AH, Wong TY, Aung T	1 April 2011
SingHealth Excellence Awards	Outstanding Administrative Staff Award	Sharmila Kannan	25 March 2011
SingHealth Excellence Awards	Outstanding Nurse Award	Sister Peck Chye Fong	25 March 2011
SingHealth Excellence Awards	Distinguished Leader Award Series (Visionary Leader)	Prof Donald Tan	25 March 2011
Association of Vision and Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO)	Travel Grant	Dr Gary Peh	1 February 2011
Association of Vision and Research in Ophthalmology (ARVO)	Travel Grant	Dr Romesh Angunawela	1 February 2011
Duke-NUS	Duke-NUS Khoo Clinical Scholar Programme	Dr Peggy Chiang	28 January 2011
Duke-NUS	Duke-NUS Khoo Clinical Scholar Programme	Dr Gemmy Cheung	28 January 2011
Duke-NUS	Duke-NUS Khoo Clinical Scholar Programme	Dr Carol Cheung	28 January 2011
Australia and New Zealand Corneal Society	Doug Coster Award	Prof Donald Tan	1 January 2011

Awards & Achievements