1. TFOS Ambassadors

Philippines

Ruben Lim Bon Siong

Prof. Ruben Lim Bon Siong is Professor of the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila; Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Chief of the Cornea and External Eye Disease Division  of the Philippine General Hospital. Philippines. He was the previous Head of the St. Luke’s Medical Center Eye Institute and the St. Luke’s Vision Laser Center.

He received his medical degree from the University of the Philippines Manila; completed a residency in ophthalmology and External Eye Disease fellowship at the Philippine General Hospital; and completed a clinical and research fellowship in Cornea and Refractive Surgery at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA.

Prof. Lim Bon Siong has a particular interest in cornea and corneal transplantation, external eye diseases and ocular infection, laser refractive surgery, dry eye and ocular surface disease, and anterior segment trauma and has published more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is Fellow and Past President of the Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology and the Philippine Cornea Society, Inc., and Secretary of the Philippine Board of Ophthalmology. He is currently Regional Secretary and Council Member of the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology and the Asia Cornea Society, Past President of the ASEAN Ophthalmology Society and member of the Asia Dry Eye Society. He is the author and senior editor of the External Disease and Cornea Handbook (first and second edition) and main editor of the Valenton’s External Eye Diseases of the Philippines. Prof. Lim Bon Siong is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, Outstanding Educator, Outstanding Leadership, Outstanding Researcher, and Distinguished Service Awards from the Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology, and the Distinguished Educator Award from the Philippine Cornea Society and the AOS Lecture Award from the ASEAN Ophthalmology Society.
 
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24 July

TFOS CALLS ON THE WORLD TO BLINK DURING DRY EYE AWARENESS MONTH!

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