Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Disease Programme

Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Disease Programme A world-leading research program focusing specifically on the epidemiology and impact of eye diseases Aims:

1.

Overview:

The Ocular Epidemiology Research Group, led by Professor Tien Yin Wong and Associate Professor Ching-Yu Cheng, conducts and coordinates epidemiological and population-based projects under the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases (SEED) programme. Our strategic vision is to provide novel knowledge in the population eye health to enable dissecting, detecting and preventing the most important eye diseases in both our children and ageing populations in Singapore and Asia, and also to promote and improve global eye health. To document the prevalence, incidence, risk factors and public health significance of blindingใ€€eye diseases in Singapore and Asia through the conduct of large scale epidemiological studies
2. To foster international collaborations with other public health and ophthalmic institutes in Asia and worldwide
3. To provide research expertise, training and consultation to other researchers and ophthalmic institutions in Singapore and Asia

SEED Population Cohorts:

The SEED programme includes more than 25,000 adult and children participants from 8 large population-based studies, with a focus on studying major eye diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, refractive errors and cataract.

Finally gathered again after 3 years๐Ÿฅฐ
11/01/2023

Finally gathered again after 3 years๐Ÿฅฐ

https://www.giving.sg/snec-health-research-endowment-fund/d_epic_runners_1700km_run_challengeWe are fundraising, click o...
30/09/2021

https://www.giving.sg/snec-health-research-endowment-fund/d_epic_runners_1700km_run_challenge

We are fundraising, click on the link to find out more! Looking forward to your kind support๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ’ช

Eye Run Champion D'Epic Runners: The Eye Run/Cycle 2021 is the first virtual fundraiser by SNEC and SERI to raise funds for VisionSave. Led by Prof Cheng Ching-Yu, D'Epic Runners from SERI's Data Science Unit (Marco Yu, Chee Miao Li, Mihir Deshmukh, Crystal Chong, Li Hengtong, He Feng) and Ocular Ep...

One of the serious consequences of diabetes is the loss of sight due to diabetic retinopathy (DR). Our team from SERI an...
24/05/2021

One of the serious consequences of diabetes is the loss of sight due to diabetic retinopathy (DR). Our team from SERI and SNEC recently published a paper that estimates the prevalence of DR around the world up to the year 2045. The information will be helpful for health authorities when it comes to allocating resources for DR screening, treatment and public healthcare.

https://www.aaojournal.org/article/S0161-6420(21)00321-3/fulltext

Well done team, congrats!๐Ÿ’ช

Amongst individuals with diabetes mellitus, the global prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) is 22.27%, 6.17% for vision-threatening DR and 4.07% for clinically significant macular edema. The DR population will rise to 160.50 million by 2045.

Podcast!๐ŸŽง๐Ÿ”Š๐ŸŽคHow can AI technology alleviate burden on eye care systems?In Health Suites, Claressa Monteiro speaks to Dr Y...
08/03/2021

Podcast!๐ŸŽง๐Ÿ”Š๐ŸŽค

How can AI technology alleviate burden on eye care systems?

In Health Suites, Claressa Monteiro speaks to Dr Yih Chung Tham, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, to find out how the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) and Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) explored the use of deep learning systems to alleviate the burden on eye care systems - and why it is important that AI is introduced into the medical work.

MONEY FM 89.3 - Find more upcoming guests on our website.

Congratulations to A/Prof Charumathi for obtaining the SingHealth Publish! Award 2020!!๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜Š
23/12/2020

Congratulations to A/Prof Charumathi for obtaining the SingHealth Publish! Award 2020!!๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜Š

๐‹๐ž๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐Dr Sahil Thakur, one of our doctors in the SEED team, got to know that there is a...
01/04/2020

๐‹๐ž๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐

Dr Sahil Thakur, one of our doctors in the SEED team, got to know that there is a severe shortage of PPE/N95 in India and decided to run an online fundraiser together with a friend, Dr Rohan Bir Singh Dhaliwal.

They ๐ฅ๐จ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ/๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ซ ๐ง๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค
that could provide the much needed equipment quickly to the COVID-19 screening center at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) in India and ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐ ~๐’๐†๐ƒ ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ’ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ.

Updates on the campaign are available in the fundraiser links below. *๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘”๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘’.*

1. https://www.ketto.org/fundraiser/ppen95s-for-covid-19-in-gmch-chandigarh-176527?payment=form (Indian Donors)

2. https://www.gofundme.com/f/ppen95s-for-covid19-in-gmch-chandigarh (Rest of the World)

Link to the news:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/gmch-alumni-from-boston-singapore-raise-funds-send-ppe-kits/story-KgUrBTPSfHhlGxg58ys46I.html

๐–๐ž ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฎ๐ ๐ƒ๐ซ ๐’๐š๐ก๐ข๐ฅ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐‚๐Ž๐•๐ˆ๐ƒ-๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ’ช!!

Dr Rohan Bir Singh Dhaliwal and Dr Sahil Thakur sprang into action after reading a facebook post expressing concern over lack of PPE kits and masks

06/03/2020

๐–๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ, ๐‡๐ž๐ง๐ซ๐ข๐ค ๐‡๐ž๐ž ๐’๐ž๐ฎ๐ง๐  ๐˜๐š๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐€๐‘๐•๐Ž ๐†๐ž๐ซ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ ๐™๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ ๐Œ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ!๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰

The annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is one of the leading educational and networking events for clinicians as well as researchers, and thus provides a great opportunity for early career investigators to present their projects to an influential audience.To support young researchers in the field of ophthalmic imaging, Heidelberg Engineering initiated the Gerhard Zinser Memorial Travel Grant in memory of the companyโ€™s late co-founder, Dr. Gerhard Zinser. The award supports researchers under the age of 40 whose research is related to imaging techniques.

๐“๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐›๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ: ๐ƒ๐ž๐ž๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ง๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ญ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ก๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข-๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ง๐ข๐œ ๐€๐ฌ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.

To support young ophthalmologists attending the 35th APAO Congress, for the first time in history, the Asia-Pacific Acad...
21/02/2020

To support young ophthalmologists attending the 35th APAO Congress, for the first time in history, the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology is awarding the APAO Young Ophthalmologist Travel Grant to up to 5 residents in training or fellows in the Asia-Pacific region.

๐‡๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ƒ๐ซ ๐…๐š๐ง๐  ๐—๐ข๐š๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐›๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฐ ๐˜๐Ž ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐๐ž๐ž๐ฌ!! ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰

Title of Abstract: "Six-year Incidence and Risk Factors of Pterygium in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Population: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study"

More articles by our team!1) 'Do we have enough ophthalmologists to manage vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy? A gl...
17/02/2020

More articles by our team!

1) 'Do we have enough ophthalmologists to manage vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy? A global perspective'

2) 'Singapore Chinese Eye Study: key findings from
baseline examination and the rationale, methodology
of the 6-year follow-up series'

3) 'Normative patterns and factors associated with
presbyopia progression in a multiethnic Asian
population: the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye
Diseases Study'

PDFs: http://bit.ly/2OHACPI

Links:
1) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41433-020-0776-5
2) https://bjo.bmj.com/content/early/2019/08/09/bjophthalmol-2019-314760
3) https://bjo.bmj.com/content/early/2020/02/12/bjophthalmol-2019-315629

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