Dr Chee Soon Phaik

Dr Chee Soon Phaik is an ophthalmologist at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore.

Her clinical interests are in general eyecare, cataract and uveitis.

She is currently a senior consultant of the cataract and comprehensive ophthalmology service and ocular inflammation and immunology service at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), where she served as the immediate past head of both the advanced cataract service and the ocular inflammation and immunology service.

Dr Chee graduated from the National University of Singapore and was admitted as a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow and Edinburgh and the College of Ophthalmologists, UK. She subsequently completed her fellowship in uveitis and oculoplastics, lacrimal and orbital surgery at Moorfield's Eye Hospital, London.

She is a professor of clinical education in ophthalmology at Duke-NUS Medical School. She has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers and many book chapters both in complex cataract and uveitis.

Dr Chee serves as a member of several editorial boards including Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Ocular Inflammation and Immunology and Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection. She was the editor for the book ‘Emerging Infectious Uveitis’ and the guest editor for the supplementary journal to Ocular Inflammation and Immunology that collated the epidemiology of uveitis in Asia-Pacific.

Her research interests in cataracts include the management of complicated cataracts such as the posterior polar cataract, subluxated cataracts, advanced cataracts, premium intraocular lens implants and femtosecond laser assisted cataract surgery. She is also known for inventing a number of surgical instruments for the management of complex cataract surgeries.

In the field of uveitis, she was the president of the Asia-Pacific Intraocular Inflammation Study Group, and a member of the International Uveitis Study Group and an International Council member of the International Ocular Inflammation Society. She has published extensively on cytomegalovirus infection of the anterior segment in the immunocompetent, ocular tuberculosis, dengue maculopathy and Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease.

Dr Chee is a recipient of the Singapore Health Quality Service Award.