Who Are We?

Forty years ago in 1965, Professor Arthur Lim Siew Ming started a private practice named Eye Clinic Singapura at Liat Towers, Orchard Road, Singapore. What began as a fledgling eye care practice at Liat Towers grew quickly and Dr Khoo Chong Yew and Dr Ang Beng Chong joined the clinic. The clinic moved to its present location at Gleneagles Hospital in 1994.

Professor Arthur Lim, Dr Khoo Chong Yew and Dr Ang Beng Chong have to a large extent been responsible for the standard of eye care Singaporeans receive today. They are passionate about ophthalmic care, research and education available in Asia and have played key roles in the development of ophthalmology including the establishment of the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC); Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) and the Departments of Ophthalmology at the National University Hospital and National University of Singapore. In addition, Professor Lim and Dr Ang have helped set up 5 eye centres in China, of which the Tianjin Medical University Eye Centre won the 2002 top award by the central government of China as a model for scientific development and education.

Today, SNEC has become an outstanding centre of excellence serving Singaporeans, influencing service, education and international activities throughout Asia and beyond. Prof Lim also chaired SERI, the research arm of SNEC, established in 1977 and now an internationally recognised important ophthalmic research centre.

“ …The National Eye Centre started off on a drawing board in 1988/89. Again, it was typical of Arthur’s generosity of spirit to give so much more than what he was going to take out of the system. So the result is now, in 2004, he has, at the rate of being immodest, I think, a great eye centre in Singapore, one which allows us to go into the world and hold our heads high as professionals, because we have been well trained and well exposed….”

Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
Minister for Community Development, Youth & Sports
and Second Minister for Trade & Industry
(Former Director, SNEC) , 24th April 2004

Furthermore, in 1990, the largest medical congress was held in Singapore, led by doctors of Eye Clinic Singapura with Professor Lim as Congress President, Dr Khoo Chong Yew as Congress Secretary-General and Dr Ang Beng Chong as Chairman of the Scientific Committee. 6000 delegates from 100 countries attended the highly successful medical eye congress.

“….no doubt the energy, the enthusiasm and the imagination of one man lifted the conference from yet another tired world jamboree to a mission to spread the word of the application of modern technological ophthalmology to the underprivileged masses of the world….”

Rolf K Blach (UK)
Dean of the Institute of Ophthalmology, London

Over the past 4 decades, the Eye Clinic Singapura has expanded from 3 to 8 ophthalmologists and younger surgeons like Dr Ronald Yeoh, Dr Adrian Koh, Dr Choo Chai Teck, Dr Ong Sze Guan and Dr Steve Seah have now come onboard. As the clinic continues to expand and through conscientious investments in new technology, we are poised to become Eye Clinic Singapura International, humbly serving Singaporeans and foreigners and evolving into one of the largest private eye care group practices in Southeast Asia.