Professor Sir Peng Tee Khaw

Consultant telephone:

020 7566 2989

Area(s) of specialism / subspecialism:

Children's eye conditions, glaucoma, glaucoma in children and complicated glaucoma requiring advanced surgery

Year of first medical qualification:

1980

Location of initial medical training:

Southampton University Medical School

Further key experience:

Fellow in paediatric glaucoma 1989-1994, concurrent with PhD in ocular wound healing and advanced therapies to prevent scarring

Largest tertiary referral experience for surgery in complex young adult and paediatric glaucoma in the UK

Developed several new treatments and surgical techniques from discoveries in the laboratory used around the world, including the Moorfields Safer Surgery System for glaucoma

Director, National Institute of Health Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

Supervised over 35 PhD and MD theses

Raised over £100 million for research and buildings including funding for the world’s largest Children’s Eye Hospital and translational research clinical centre

Date joined Moorfields:

1987

Membership of professional /national/regional bodies:

DSc Honorary Doctor of Science (Anglia Ruskin University)

FCOptom Fellow of the College of Optometrists (Honorary)

FARVO Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

FRCPath Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (Elected)

FMedSci Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (Elected)

FRSB Fellow of the Society of Biology (Elected)

FRCP Fellow Royal College Physicians London (Elected)

FRCSEng Fellow Royal College Surgeons England

FRCOphth Fellow Royal College Ophthalmologists

FRCSGlasg Fellow Royal College Surgeons and Physicians (Glasgow)

DO Diploma Ophthalmology (Royal College of Surgeons England)

MRCP Member Royal College Physicians (UK)

Awarded Senior Investigator (one of 200 in the UK) status by the National Institute for Health Research (2008, re-awarded in 2013)

Department of Health Platinum Clinical Excellence Award (one of 200 in the UK)

Current NHS/university posts, whether full/part time, and starting year:

Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Moorfields Eye Hospital since 1993.

Professor of Glaucoma and Ocular healing, University College London, since 1997

Director, National Institute for Health Biomedical Research Centre since 2007

Director of Research and Development since 2008

Programme Director "Eyes and Vision Theme" UCL Partners since 2009

Other professional achievements:

2014

Honorary Doctor of Science, Anglia Ruskin University
Gold Award, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Health Science Innovator

2013

Health Services Journal Top 50 Innovators List
Elected to Academia Ophthalmological Internationalis
Awarded a Knighthood by HM the Queen in her Birthday Honours June 2013
President, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

2012

Featured in Britain’s Top Children’s Doctors and Britain's Top Doctors, The Times

2011

Arthur Lim Gold Medal Lecture, Singapore National Eye Centre
The Four Liveries’ Medal & Lecture. City of London

2010

European Association for Vision and Eye Research Ophthalmic Research Award and Lecture, Greece
Featured in Britain’s Adult Top Doctors, The Sunday Times

2009

Inaugural Optometric Glaucoma Society Research Excellence Award & Lecture, USA
Pfizer Visiting Professorship and Lectures, New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, USA

2008

Featured in Britain’s Top Doctors, Tatler magazine
Made “Ambassador” for contributions to eye research and fundraising, Fight for Sight Charity
Gold Medal for Career Achievements, 25th Anniversary, King Khaled Eye Hospital and Saudi Arabian Ophthalmological Society, Saudi Arabia
2nd Swan Professorship and Lecturer, University of Oregon, USA

2007

Keynote Lecturer, “Healing after Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery”, European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons
Best-in-Show award for“Advances in Trabeculectomy - Moorfields Safer Surgery System”, American Academy of Ophthalmology, New Orleans
A*STAR Professorship, Asia-ARVO, Singapore

2006

Featured in Top Surgeons in London, London Evening Standard
12th Lang Lecture and Medal lecture, awarded every three years, The Royal Society of Medicine, UK

2005

19th International Lecturer, Ciba Vision, Japan 2nd Ostbaum Honor Lecture, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, San Francisco USA
First Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) /Pfizer Translational research award. (First major ARVO award to a UK ophthalmologist since 1960 award to Sir Stewart Duke Elder). “Presented for excellence in translational research, defined as the application of fundamental scientific discoveries and novel technologies to the development and testing of solutions leading to the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of eye disease.”
Richardson Cross Memorial Lecture, Southern Ophthalmological Society, UK
Jubilee Medal, Swedish Ophthalmological Society of Medicine, Sweden
American Academy Ophthalmology Achievement Award, USA
Goodwin Brenin Lecture and Visiting Professorship, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Alcon Research & Development Award for Scientific Excellence

2004

Featured in Britain’s Top Doctors, The Sunday Times
Winner Simfonec UK business challenge Icite company business plan to develop our MMP inhibitor patent
Janice Krushner Memorial Lecture Main, International Glaucoma Association, UK
23rd Dame Ida Mann Lecture, Oxford University, UK

2003

12th Sir Stewart Duke Elder Lecture, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, UK

2001

11th George Giles Memorial Lecture, College of Optometrists, UK

2000

First Hong Leong Professorship and Lecture, National University of Singapore
International Glaucoma Review Award for “best research paper in glaucoma worldwide”
Barbers Lecture, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow

1999

Iris Fund Prize Lecture, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, UK
Hunterian Professorship, Royal College of Surgeons, UK

1998

Alcon Lecture Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists

1995

Rogers Prize University of London
Prize awarded every two years for best research dissertation on "Advance in surgery"

1993

Royal College of Ophthalmologists/ Iris Fund Prize, awarded once every three years "to an individual under 40 years of age in the UK for outstanding ability in ophthalmic research"