Dr Chan graduated from the medical school of the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1985. After completing his residency training in ophthalmology, he was appointed to the academic staff of the Department of Ophthalmology at NUS and to the clinical staff of the Singapore National Eye Centre. In 1994, he was awarded the China Medical Board Fellowship by NUS to undertake an overseas fellowship programme. Dr Chan completed a clinical and research fellowship in Cornea / External Eye Disease and Refractive Surgery at the renowned Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA.
Dr Chan holds numerous appointments and memberships in many international and local professional organizations. These appointments include:
1. Key member of the Infectious Disease Task Force, American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (ASCRS)
2. International Council member, International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS)
3. Country representative for Singapore, International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS)
4. International member, American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)
5. International member, American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (ASCRS)
6. Honorary member, Hungarian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (SHIOL)
7. Member, Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Group, College of Ophthalmologists, Academy of Medicine, Singapore
8. Member, Singapore Society of Ophthalmology (SSO)
His clinical interests are in the areas of refractive surgery including LASIK, ocular infectious diseases, anti-infective therapy and antibiotic prophylaxis. Dr Chan has lectured extensively and taught in numerous instruction courses at major scientific meetings in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the United States and Latin America. As a result of his outstanding work on the molecular diagnosis of microbes implicated in severe ocular infections, Dr Chan was awarded the first prize in the poster competition of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) Annual Congress twice in consecutive years, first in Munich, Germany in 2003 and then in Paris, France in 2004.