Thursday, 3 January 2019
12pm to 2pm (12pm-Lunch, 1pm–Talk)
Farrer Park Medical Centre, 1 Farrer Park Station Road, Connexion #16-06, TK Low Academic Specialist Centre, Singapore 217562
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a potentially blinding eye disease that affects at least one out of three diabetics. The severity of DR is an important marker of the status of systemic microvasculature in diabetics.
DR is asymptomatic in the vast majority of patients and a prompt diagnosis is only possible with annual retinal evaluation. Although retinal photography is a useful screening tool for DR, it is not a substitute for a good comprehensive eye examination.
Systemic optimization of diabetes and other systemic risk factors is of paramount importance in reducing the risk of severe vision-threatening retinopathy. This CME Lunch Talk will feature how an improved understanding of the molecular pathophysiology and the advances in management of DR have significantly improved visual outcomes for this disease.
*This session is open to doctors and healthcare professionals only. Thank you.
Call us to register or email us at [email protected].
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Ophthalmologist
International Eye Cataract Retina Centre, Farrer Park Medical Centre
Dr Ajeet Madhav Wagle is Medical Director and Senior Consultant at International Eye Cataract Retina Centre at Farrer Park Medical Centre. He is also a Visiting Consultant at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Khoo Teck Phuat Hospital.
Dr Ajeet’s past major appointments include Consultant at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Alexandra Hospital and Jurong Medical Centre, Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine of the National University of Singapore and part-time lecturer at Optometry Centres of Singapore Polytechnic and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
Dr Ajeet is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK and Academy of Medicine, Singapore. After completing his Basic and Advanced Surgical Training in Ophthalmology, Dr Ajeet completed his Clinical Fellowship in Vitreoretinal Diseases at the renowned top eye institution in India - Sankara Nethralaya, Medical Research Foundation, Chennai. With a keen interest in research, Dr Ajeet has published papers in many peer-reviewed local and international journals and has a book and two book chapters to his credit. He has been conferred many awards, including Best Outgoing Student (Gold) by the Medical Research Foundation (India), and the Health Services Excellence (Silver) Award at Alexandra Hospital.
Dr Ajeet has been actively involved in raising awareness of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in Singapore and has led the nation-wide AMD Awareness Week campaign in Singapore from 2008-2011 as Chairman of the Organising Committee. He was successfully awarded the Public Health Education Grant from Ministry of Health for the AMD Awareness Week campaign for 6 years.
