Julia YY CHAN

Biography

Dr Julia Chan is a specialist in ophthalmology, the Fellow of The College of Ophthalmologists of Hong Kong (FCOphthHK), the Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in the specialty of Ophthalmology (FHKAM(Ophthalmology)) and the Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MRCS(Ed)) with subspecialty interest in corneal and external eye diseases.

She has been awarded the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. She received her ophthalmology training in the Hong Kong Eye Hospital from 2016 and had been a Clinical Tutor (Honorary) and Clinical Assistant Professor (Honorary) of Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (DOVS, CUHK). She is the fellow of the CUHK-HKEH-PWH Ophthalmology Subspecialty Fellowship Programme on Corneal and External Eye Diseases. She has been awarded the Postgraduate Diploma (PDip)  in Epidemiology and Biostatistics in CUHK and was accepted by the School of Public Health, Harvard University to read the Master of Public Health(MPH).

Whilst serving the Hospital Authority, Dr Chan has been working closely with colleagues in the Hong Kong Eye Hospital and DOVS on the diagnosis and treatment of corneal and external eye diseases including corneal transplantation, conjunctival melanoma, ocular Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) diseases and amniotic membrane transplantation. Her publications in international peer-reviewed journals include JAMA Ophthalmology and Hong Kong Medical Journal. She has been the invited speakers in international conferences including the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Congress, Congress of Asian Society of Transplantation(CAST) and Asia Pacific Ocular Imaging Society (APOIS) Congress.

Dr Chan has special interest in aviation medicine and has been awarded the Australian Certificate of Civil Aviation Medicine (ACCAM) by Monash University. She has been elected as the Designated Aviation Medical Examiner (DAME) of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) of Australia since 2019 and Designated Aviation Ophthalmologist (DAO) since 2023.

Research Areas

1. Conjunctival Melanoma
2. Ocular Herpes Simplex Virus Disease
3. Corneal Transplantation and Keratoprosthesis