Peng Tee Khaw


Sir Peng Tee Khaw is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, specialising in adult and paediatric glaucoma.

Career

Khaw studied medicine at Southampton University Medical School and qualified in 1980. He subsequently joined Moorfields in 1987 and specialised in adult and paediatric glaucoma, simultaneously preparing for his PhD in "ocular wound healing and advanced therapies to prevent scarring". He has perhaps the greatest experience in his field in the United Kingdom and he has developed techniques for glaucoma surgery that are now in worldwide use.
Khaw is Director of the National Institute of Health's Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields, and University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology. He has raised more than £120 million for research and buildings including funding for the world’s largest Children's Eye Hospital and translational research clinical centre.

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