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Dr Jacob Chin is a Consultant with the National Healthcare Group Eye Institute (NHGEI) @ Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

Dr Chin completed his undergraduate medical training at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2010. He obtained his Masters of Medicine in Ophthalmology in 2016, and successfully completed his Ophthalmology specialist training in 2018. He has completed his first Clinical Fellowship in Medical and Surgial Retina in NHGEI, Department of Ophthalmology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital (Singapore) in 2020. In 2023, he undertook a second 6 month vitreoretinal fellowship at Yokohama City University with Professor Kazuaki Kadonosono to advance his expertise in complex vitreoretinal surgery. He is a current Fellow of the Academy of Medicine (Singapore), and a Fellow of the The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (London).

Dr Chin is active in clinical research, having presented in many conferences both locally and internationally as an invited speaker, and has published internationally. He was awarded First Prize for oral paper presentation (Junior Category), at the National Ophthalmology Residents Research Day (Singapore) in 2015.

Dr Chin is active in undergraduate medical education and has been appointed as Clinial Senior Lecturer with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and Adjunct Lecturer with Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University since 2016, and received a Medical Teaching Recognition award from Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in 2017.

Dr Chin’s areas of surgical sub-specialty interest includes complex cataract, retinal detachment, macula pathology including complications of high myopia, diabetic retinal disease and ocular trauma, and also the areas of Medical Retina and General ophthalmology.

2024/06/06
2024/04/23
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