Professor Gemmy Cheung is currently the Arthur Lim Professor in Ophthalmology at Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore (NUS). She is the Head of the Medical Retina Department at the Singapore National Eye Center and Director of Translation Clinic Research at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI). Her research interests focus on Asian retinal diseases, specifically age-related macular degeneration (AMD), polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) and myopic macular degeneration.
Prof Cheung received her fellowship from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, UK (2006), and received fellowship training in medical retina at the Wolverhampton Eye Institute, and in uveitis from the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre. Professor Cheung has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, mostly on age-related macular degeneration and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy. She has contributed to major clinical trials in therapies for AMD and PCV. Prof Cheung serves on the editorial board of Retina, Eye, Asia Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology and PLoS One. She has also served as reviewer for several funding agencies, including the Medical Research Council, UK, the Wellcome Trust and the Macular Disease Foundation, Australia. She is steering committee member of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement and the Fight Retinal Blindness Program. She has served on the Macula Society Credentialing committee, the Singapore Health Promotion Board National Myopia Prevention Program committee, the Singapore College of Ophthalmology Subspecialty committees and the Singapore National Eye Center Research Committee. She serves on the executive committee of the Asia-Pacific Vitreo-retina Society (APVRS), the International Retinal Imaging Society (IntRIS) and the Macula Society.
Professor Cheung has received several prestigious awards, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology Secretariat award, the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement award, the Nakajima Award, the Macula Society Young Investigator Award and the Asia-pacific vitreoretinal society Constable lecture award and the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Outstanding Service in Prevention of Blindness Award.
