Bio
Associate Professor Shamira Perera qualified from University of London, with a BSc(Hons) First Class and MBBS(Hons), obtained in 1994 and 1997 respectively. He relocated to Singapore from England in 2008 after completing two fellowships.
Associate Professor Perera is a Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist in the Glaucoma Department at Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) with an interest in novel surgeries and imaging. He has commercialized two devices for cataract surgery licensed to companies in India and Germany. Supported by competitive research grants totalling over S$1.5M as PI, his core work has yielded nine patents. Associate Professor Perera has been an invited lecturer for over 100 conferences, written five book chapters and 138 peer reviewed publications. His most recent role as the Deputy Director of the Medical Technology office for SingHealth seeks to promote this promising area to other specialties, now disbursing $6M of catalyst grant funding.
In 2015, whilst holding the position of Co-head, Bioengineering and Devices at Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), he formed part of a group that won a national engineering award - the IES- Prestigious Engineering award, and the AHIP-GEM Award, an award for innovation, in 2017. He was conferred the AAO and APAO achievement awards in 2015 and 2016 respectively in recognition of his research and clinical work. One of his passions is teaching. He has co-authored a Golden Apple award winning, free app module in conjunction with Touch Surgery (www.touchsurgery.com) to teach and test cataract surgery,garnering over 750,000 downloads. He was also awarded the Outstanding Faculty award in 2018 and Outstanding teacher/mentor award in 2010. In 2019 he received the “Gamechanger” award from SingHealth and was recognized by AECOM (ASEAN Economic Community Ophthalmology Meeting) with the Distinguished Service Award in 2018.
Education
Fellow, Royal Coll of Ophthalmologists
Royal College of Ophthalmologists, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Med, Bachelor of Surg with Hons
University of London, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Science with Hons
University of London, United Kingdom