Ava Eye Clinic is helmed by Dr Audrey Looi who has garnered over 20 years of high volume clinical experience in managing general as well as subspecialised eye conditions. Her special areas of interest are in Cataract Surgery and Oculoplastic Surgery where she has performed over 7000 cataract surgeries and over 4000 oculoplastic procedures including eyelid, lacrimal, socket, and orbital surgeries. She has a keen interest in aesthetic eyelid surgery and also offers aesthetic and filler injections for facial rejuvenation.
Doctor's profile:
Dr Audrey Looi completed her Ophthalmology training at the Singapore National Eye Centre in 2000. She began her sub-specialty training in Oculoplastic Surgery at the eye centre from 2001 to 2002. Following this, Dr Looi was awarded Health Manpower Development Programme Scholarship to train further at the University of British Columbia where she completed her fellowships in Oculoplastic, Orbital and Ocular Pathology under the tutelage of Professor Peter Dolman, Professor Jack Rootman and Professor Valerie White respectively, returning to Singapore in 2004 with a Best Fellow research prize. She was appointed Head of the Oculoplastic Service at the Singapore National Eye Centre in 2007 and served in the position till 2016. Dr Looi also served as Clinical Director of the General Eye Clinic at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) from 2012 to 2019. She was also a Visiting Consultant at the Kandang Kerbau Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Changi General Hospital and the National Neuroscience Institute. Dr Looi was appointed Singhealth-Duke Adjunct Associate Professor for her academic and teaching achievements during her service at SNEC.
Dr Looi has published widely in oculoplastic journals and is a reviewer for Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology journals. She serves the Royal College of Ophthalmology (Edinburgh) as an examiner and also participates in Ophthalmology MMed and Exit examinations conducted at the National University of Singapore. Dr Looi was elected Treasurer of the Asia-Pacific Society of Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgeons from 2006 to 2010 and Vice-President of the society from 2012-2014. She served as Editor of the society’s newsletter, iPlastic from 2013 to 2018 and was recently elected First Vice-President of the society in December 2018. She is the current Vice-President of the Singapore Society of Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. Dr Looi is a founding Board Director of iC2 PrepHouse, a charity set up in Singapore in 2011 to provide programmes that enable greater independence of children with low vision as well as their continued education in mainstream schools.
Qualifications: MBBS (Singapore), MMed (Ophthalmology), FRCSEd Ophthalmology (Edinburgh, UK), FAMS Ophthalmology
Ava Eye Clinic offers the following services:
(I) General Ophthalmology Services
Cataract surgery
Dry eye solutions
Diabetic eye disease monitoring and treatment
General eye screening
Glaucoma monitoring and treatment
Meibomian gland disease control
Myopia control
Pterygium surgery
(II) Oculoplastic Services:
Aesthetic eyelid surgery, filler injection for facial rejuvenation
Adult ptosis surgery
Congenital ptosis surgery
Entropion surgery
Ectropion surgery
Epiblepharon surgery
Tearing solutions
Thyroid eye disease management
Orbital disease management
Socket/ prosthetic eye interventions
Surgery for facial nerve palsy
