Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences



Chan Sook Yee Anita

Assistant Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Programme

Duke-NUS Medical School

Bio

Dr. Anita Chan Sook Yee is a dual-trained clinician-scientist in ophthalmology and pathology, with a long-standing commitment to advancing precision diagnostics and translational research in ocular disease. She graduated from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1998 and completed her ophthalmology residency at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC), earning fellowship accreditation from both the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSEd) and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (FAMS) in 2007. Dr Chan was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) by Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) for 2 years of Fellowship training in Ophthalmic Pathology and Uveitis in both Doheny Eye Institute, USA and Moorfields Eye Hospital, UK (2009-2011). Upon her return, she entered the Singapore General Hospital General Pathology Residency program in 2012 and completed her Anatomical Pathology residency in 2016 when she was conferred the Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath, UK).
Dr. Chan currently serves as Head and Senior Consultant of the Ocular Inflammation and Immunology Department at SNEC and Clinical Director of the Ophthalmic Pathology Service. She also leads the Uveitis Research Group at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) and established the Translational Ophthalmic Pathology Platform (TOPP), a research laboratory supported by competitive NMRC funding.
Her research career began in 2014 and bridges clinical care and molecular pathology, with a focus on neuroinflammation and ocular oncology. She has contributed to the understanding of microglial and macroglial activation in glaucoma, uveitis, and intraocular cancers such as vitreoretinal lymphoma and uveal melanoma. Dr. Chan has received multiple awards from the National Medical Research Council, including the Transition Award (2014) and Clinician Scientist Awards (2019, 2023). She is also a principal investigator on national research programs such as Symphony 1.0 and 2.0, collaborating across oncology and neuroscience domains to translate bench findings into clinical impact. Within a decade of establishing her research platform, Dr. Chan has established herself as an expert in advancing integrated, pathology-informed care in ophthalmology with publications in top10% journals in her field.

Education

Fellow Academy of Medicine of Singapore

Academy of Medicine, Singapore

Fellow, Royal Coll of Surgeons, Edinburgh

Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Member, Royal Coll of Surgeons

Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Master of Medicine

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

National University of Singapore, Singapore

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