Dr. Stan Isaacs | Camden Medical

SPECIALTY

Optometry

Clinical interest(s)

Paediatric optometry

SPOKEN LANGUAGE(s)

English

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Experience

Dr Stan Isaacs graduated with a Bachelor of Optometry Degree with Honours from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia in 1975, and was awarded the Martin Wells Prize for Diseases of the Eye in the same year. In 1976, he was awarded a Master of Optometry Degree. During the course, he received the Hydron Prize for Advanced Contact Lens Theory and Practice. He was a clinical supervisor at the contact lens clinic in the School of Optometry at UNSW during his master’s programme.

He transitioned to private practice in 1977, specialising in paediatric optometry and contact lenses. He was responsible for forming the Singapore Optometric Association in 1980 and was its pro-term President. In 1990, he was elected as President of The Singapore Contact Lens Society, a position he still holds to date. He has presented numerous research papers at international and local ophthalmology and optometry conferences. Dr Isaacs sat on the Standards Committee (Singapore) to draft out the Singapore standards for contact lenses. In 1996, he started working closely with Mr John Mountford, the founder of the BE Orthokeratology lens system, on orthokeratology (Ortho-K). He was the first practitioner of Ortho-K in Singapore and was responsible for arranging, promoting and training other contact lens practitioners in Ortho-K. He arranged numerous Ortho-K courses in Singapore and Malaysia and was instrumental in setting up the Society of Orthokeratology (Singapore), where he has been President since its inception. He obtained his PhD in 2004 for his work on “The cornea under Orthokeratology”. He is also the Clinical Director of I & Vision Pte Ltd, which predominantly conducts research for international contact lens and pharmaceutical companies to determine how their products perform on Asian (Chinese descent) eyes.