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Rachel Chong Shujuan (Rachel Zhong Shujuan)

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

rachel_s_chong@duke-nus.edu.sg

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Dr Chong was awarded the National Science Scholarship by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore in 2001 to pursue higher education from an undergraduate level up to a PhD. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Physiological Sciences from the University of Oxford in 2004 and received her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) with Merit from the Royal Free and University College Medical School, London in 2007. She received multiple awards for academic excellence including the Arthritis Research Campaign Prize in Rheumatology, the Heller Bursary for Arts & Humanities in Medicine, Certificate of Merit for Psychiatry, Neurology & Ophthalmology, and was ranked 6th out of 353 participants nationally in the UK at the Duke Elder Prize Exam in Ophthalmology in 2006. Dr Chong was conferred a PhD in Clinical Neurosciences from the University of Cambridge in 2015 for her research on experimental glaucoma under Professor Keith Martin, and has been invited to deliver several international keynote lectures, in addition to presenting her work in top tier peer-reviewed ophthalmology journals and meetings including the World Health Organization – International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness Myopia Summit in 2024. She completed her specialist training in ophthalmology at the Singapore National Eye Centre, serving as Chief Resident from 2010 to 2011 and was awarded specialist accreditation by the Singapore Medical Council in 2018. Dr Chong presently serves on the editorial boards of Current Eye Research and Frontiers in Ophthalmology.

In clinical practice, Dr Chong's believes that patients should be treated in a holistic manner and have the opportunity to understand their own conditions well in order to participate in their care. She views a sound doctor-patient relationship as having equal importance as providing access to the highest quality healthcare.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Master of Medicine (Ophthalmology)

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Member, Royal Coll of Surgeons

Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

University College London, University of London, United Kingdom

Bachelor of Arts with Hons

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

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Bio

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Master of Medicine (Ophthalmology)

Member, Royal Coll of Surgeons

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

Bachelor of Arts with Hons

Academic Contribution(s)

Asia-Pacific Association of Ophthalmologists Leadership Development Programme Award

Singhealth Quality Service Award (Gold)

Singhealth Quality Service Award (Silver)

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Travel Grant

Exxon-Mobil Clinical Research Fellowship

Zeiss Rising Star in Ophthalmology Award

Richard Fan Gold Medal in Ophthalmology

Global Young Scientists Summit, Singapore Representative

Allergan International Glaucoma Panel Mentoring Programme, Singapore Representative (2015 – 2017)

Professional Appointment(s)

Senior Consultant, Cataract & Comprehensive Ophthalmology Department

Senior Consultant, Glaucoma Department

Membership

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Member

Glaucoma and Myopia Taskforce Member

Prevention of Blindness Standing Committee Member

Secretary

Chair

Research Interests

Teaching

Publications

Association of Antihypertensive Medication with Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer and Ganglion Cell-Inner Plexiform Layer Thickness.

Associations of optic nerve head morphology and peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer thickness with myopic severity and treatment in children.

High Myopia Normative Database of Peripapillary Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness to Detect Myopic Glaucoma in a Chinese Population.

Mendelian Randomization Implicates Bidirectional Association between Myopia and Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma or Intraocular Pressure.

Comparing IOP-Induced Scleral Deformations in the Myopic and Myopic Glaucoma Spectrums.

Pathologic myopia in highly myopic patients with high axial anisomyopia.

Visual field defects and myopic macular degeneration in Singapore adults with high myopia.

Angle closure extent, anterior segment dimensions and intraocular pressure.

Evaluation of Generative Adversarial Networks for High-Resolution Synthetic Image Generation of Circumpapillary Optical Coherence Tomography Images for Glaucoma.

Posterior scleral birefringence measured by triple-input polarization-sensitive imaging as a biomarker of myopia progression.

Inhibition of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein 1 Prevents Conjunctival Fibrosis in an Experimental Model of Glaucoma Filtration Surgery.

Anatomical compensation of retinal nerve fiber layer improves the detection of glaucoma between ethnicities.

Factors affecting the diagnostic performance of circumpapillary retinal nerve fibre layer measurement in glaucoma.

Key strategies to reduce the global burden of myopia: consensus from the international myopia summit.

Tear cytokine profile in medicated glaucoma patients: effect of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 on early posttrabeculectomy outcome.

Loss of Caveolin-1 Impairs Light Flicker-Induced Neurovascular Coupling at the Optic Nerve Head.

Vascular Health and Glaucoma’

Experimental models of glaucoma filtration surgery.

Flourishing index measures among ophthalmologists in the Asia-Pacific region.

Glial cell interactions and glaucoma.

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