Associate Professor Colin S. Tan

Department of Ophthalmology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

A/Prof Colin Tan is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University and the Duke-NUS Medical School. He is a Senior Consultant at the National Healthcare Group Eye Institute, Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Head of the Fundus Image Reading Center at the National Healthcare Group Eye Institute. He completed a Fellowship in Medical Retina and Retinal Imaging at the Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

A/Prof Tan has published numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and spoken at international conferences on the qualitative and quantitative features of tomography angiography (OCTA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) in both normal and diseased eyes. A/Prof Tan has received numerous research grants, including the National Medical Research Council Transition Award (TA) and was a co-Principal Investigator of the Large Collaborative Grant. In addition, he has received numerous academic and scientific awards such as the Clinician Investigator Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award, and American Society of Retinal Specialists Senior Honor Award. He has over 300 publications in international journals and is the author of several book chapters.

His clinical and research interests include vitreoretinal conditions such as polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy; myopic degeneration and its complications; and retinal imaging techniques, including optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography.