About Dr Tan
Dr Jerry TanMBBS (S'pore), FRCS (Edin), FRCOphth (UK), FAMS
Consultant Eye Surgeon
Dr Tan graduated as a doctor from the National University of Singapore in 1981. After 2½ years of military service, he started his ophthalmic training in Singapore under a Singapore government scholarship.
Dr Tan completed the final year of his ophthalmic residency at Moorfields' Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom in 1986 and obtained his FRCS in the same year. He returned to Singapore in 1987 and was promoted to Senior Registrar.
In 1990, he was sent to USA on another Singapore government scholarship for a one-year fellowship in Cornea and External Eye Disease. He studied under Professor Richard Abbott at the California Pacific Medical Center, Pacific Presbyterian Hospital. Professor Abbott now holds the chair in Refractive Surgery at University of California, San Francisco.
Dr Tan has been Cataract - Corneal Transplant - LASIK. His refractive surgery experience is:
- Radial Keratotomy since 1988
- Photorefractive keratectomy since 1990
- Wedge resection since 1990
- Standard LASIK since May 1996
- Topographic LASIK since 1997
- Wavefront Guided LASIK since Dec 2001
- LASEK since 2002
- Crystalens Accommodative IOL since 2002
- Aspheric / Q-adjusted LASIK since 2003
- Intralase LASIK since 2004
- PerfectShape™ LASIK since 2005
- ICL (Implantable Collamer® Lens) since 2006
- Photorefractive keratectomy with Crosslinking (C3R) since 2008
He was on the editorial board of the journal "Operative Techniques in Cataract & Refractive Surgery - W.B. Saunders Company". He also contributed chapters to international ophthalmic textbooks on LASIK surgery. He is now a consultant for Alcon USA and Schwind Eye-Tech-Solutions.
Meetings Attended and Presentations Given
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He only has eyes for his patients 9 April 2008 | The Straits Times - Mind Your Body |