Profile

Dr Elton Tay is a Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist who holds dual accreditation with the Singapore Specialist Accreditation Board in both Ophthalmology and Aviation Medicine. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2003 and obtained the post-graduate Diploma in Aviation Medicine from King’s College London in 2006, where he was awarded the Stewart Memorial Prize. Dr Tay obtained his fellowship in Ophthalmology with the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, and also completed an additional clinical fellowship training in Glaucoma at Lions Eye Institute in Australia. 

Dr Tay has expertise in managing a range of eye conditions including cataract, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, myopia, presbyopia and dry eyes. He has a special interest in Glaucoma, encompassing glaucoma screening, and the management of glaucoma with medication, lasers, minimally invasive glaucoma surgeries (MIGS), as well as other glaucoma surgeries such as trabeculectomy and tube surgeries. Dr Tay also manages Ophthalmology conditions in aviation related aircrew and ground crew.

Background

“Treat every patient as you would treat your family”

Dr Elton Tay served as the Chief of the Ophthalmology Department at Woodlands Health (NHG Health), and also previously worked in the Tan Tock Seng and Khoo Teck Puat Hospitals. Dr Tay was also Chair of the Implant Committee, as well as Clinical Director of the Sustainability Office at Woodlands Health. Dr Tay was also Adjunct Assistant Professor with the National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Dr Tay is an appointed medical assessor of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore’s Medical Board (CAMB) and conducts medical board reviews for commercial aircrew and civilian air traffic controllers, in addition to providing Ophthalmology specialist advice to the CAMB for complex cases.

Academic and Research Contributions

• Served in the following capacities:
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
  • Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

His research interest and publications include

• Tay ELT, Yong VKY, Lim BA, Sia S, Wong EPY, Yip LWL. Agreement of angle closure assessments between gonioscopy, anterior segment optical coherence tomography and spectral domain optical coherence tomography. International Journal of Ophthalmology. 2015;8(2):342-346.
• Tay ELT, Laude A. Giant Non-Pulsatile Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy. International Journal of Ophthalmology. 2016;9(12): 1849-51.
• Yip VCH, Wong HT, Yong VKY, Lim BA, Hee OK, Cheng J, Fu H, Lim C, Tay ELT, Loo-Valdez RG, Teo HY, Lim PH, Yip LWL. Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography of Optic Disc and Macula Vessel Density in Glaucoma and Healthy Eyes. Journal of Glaucoma. 2019 Jan;28(1):80-87.
• Lim CW, Cheng J, Tay ELT, Teo HY, Wong EPY, Yong VKY, Lim BA, Hee OK, Wong HT, Yip LWL. Optical Coherence Tomography angiography of the macula and optic nerve head:microvascular density and test-retest repeatability in normal subjects. BMC Ophthalmology 2018 Dec 10;18(1):315.
• EP Ong, J Cheng, Wong DWK, Jiang L, Tay ELT, Yip LWL. Glaucoma classification from retina optical coherence tomography angiogram. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2017 Jul;2017:596-9.
• EP Ong, J Cheng, Wong DWK, Tay ELT, Teo HY, Grace Loo R, Yip LWL. Automatic Glaucoma Detection from Stero Fundus Images. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Bio Soc. 2020 Jul;2020:1540-3.
• Kee AR, Yip VCH, Tay ELT, Lim CW, Cheng J, Teo HY, Chua CH, Yip LWL. Comparison of two different optical coherence tomography angiography devices in detecting healthy versus glaucomatous eyes - an observational cross-sectional study. BMC Ophthalmol. 2020 Nov 10;20(1):440.
• PK (Yu, Paula K.) ; Tay, E (Tay, Elton) ; An, D (An, Dong) ; Cringle, SJ (Cringle, Stephen J.) ; Morgan, WH (Morgan, William H.) ; Yu, DY (Yu, Dao-Yi). Topographic distribution and phenotypic heterogeneity of Schlemm's canal endothelium in human donor eyes. Experimental Eye Research, Jan 23.