Dr Au Eong Kah Guan serves as Medical Director and Senior Consultant at the International Eye Cataract Retina Centre, practising at both Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre and Farrer Park Medical Centre. He holds the position of Adjunct Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, and serves as Visiting Senior Consultant at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. Dr Au Eong earned his medical degrees from the National University of Singapore and completed advanced fellowship training in vitreoretinal surgery at the University of Manchester and Johns Hopkins University, where he worked with world-renowned vitreoretinal surgeons. His clinical expertise spans retinal diseases, age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, and comprehensive ophthalmology. As a clinician-scientist, he actively promotes AMD awareness and played an instrumental role in establishing the "Smoking Causes Blindness" warning on cigarette packaging in Singapore.
Achivements:
Pioneered first macular translocation in Southeast Asia (2001) and assisted world's first sutureless 25-gauge vitrectomy (2000)
Published 221+ articles and 29+ books/chapters; led 8-country studies and earned 6th Yahya Cohen Lecturer (2001)
Started Singapore AMD Awareness Week (2005) and lobbied "Smoking Causes Blindness" cigarette warning; became 2nd Victor Yong Lecturer (2006)
Won Visionary Award (2005), research prizes (CIBA, Pfizer, Novartis), Service Champion/Excellent Service Awards, and organized National Congress of Optometry
Qualification:
MBBS(Singapore), MMed(Ophthalmology)(Singapore), FRCS(Edinburgh), FRCS(Glasgow), DRCOphth(London), MRCOphth(London), FAMS(Ophthalmology)(Singapore)





