Peng khaw biography sample
Peng khaw biography sample
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Peng Tee Khaw
Chinese-Malaysian British consultant ophthalmic surgeon
Sir Peng Tee Khaw is a Chinese-MalaysianBritish consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, specialising in adult and paediatric glaucoma.[1]
Career
Khaw was born on 8 October 1957 in Singapore.
His father, Tan Sri Khaw Kai Boh, was a cabinet member of Tunku Abdul Rahman. His family moved back to Malaysia soon after, and he studied at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur before leaving for the UK.[2]
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 (1989-1994), 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.[1]