DR LEONARD ANG (Medical Director)

Dr Leonard Ang is the Medical Director and Senior Consultant at The Eye & Cornea Transplant Centre and the Premium Lasik Surgery Clinic. He specialises in cornea & ocular surface disease treatment, corneal & stem cell transplantation, cataract surgery and refractive surgery (LASIK, Epi-LASIK, Implantable Contact Lens).

Dr Ang was an Associate Professor at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) and the Department of Ophthalmology at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), and was the Principal Investigator and Group Leader of the ocular surface stem cell and tissue engineering programmes at SNEC and the Singapore Eye Research Institute. He is currently a Visiting Consultant to SNEC.

He obtained his Ophthalmology specialist degrees from Singapore, Edinburgh and London. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCS), the Royal College of Ophthalmologists of London (FRCOpth) and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (FAMS). He is one of only a few doctors in Singapore to be conferred the Doctorate of Medicine degree.

He completed advanced training in cornea and refractive surgery and trained with some of the top cornea and refractive surgeons and stem cell experts at prestigious eye centres around the world, including the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in USA, the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in Japan, the Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in USA & SNEC.

Dr Ang's achievements include pioneering new methods for cornea and stem cell transplantation, cornea and ocular surface stem cell expansion and bioengineering of eye tissues for ocular surface transplantation and reconstruction. His group pioneered the use of serum-free derived bioengineered conjunctival tissues for treating eye diseases.

He is one of the few surgeons in South East Asia specially trained in Boston keratoprosthesis (artificial cornea) surgery for complex eye disease. He also pioneered bioengineered oral (mouth) stem cell transplantation for severe cornea disease in Singapore.

Dr Ang is the only medical doctor to have been awarded Singapore's highest honour in Science and Technology, the prestigious Singapore National Academy of Science Young Scientist Award in 2005, and has also won 26 international and local scientific awards for his outstanding work in Ophthalmology. He has extensive experience in the fields of cornea and ocular surface disease treatment, as well as cornea and stem cell transplantation. He has written more than 90 articles in international journals and scientific publications, 7 book chapters on cornea and refractive surgery and has given more than 130 conference presentations.