Eye Health Talk at the London Clinic

✅ Medically reviewed by Dr Sharon Heng

We are pleased to invite you to an exclusive Eye Health Talk at The London Clinic

Date: 15 July 2025 Time: 1830 to 2030 (Registration starts at 1815) Venue: The London Clinic Eye Centre 119 Harley Street W1G 6AU Cost: £30 per person (all proceeds will be going to the Lord Mayor’s Ladies Float 2025) Payment: Women in the Livery 20-90-74 Acct:63273229 (please note payment ref eyehealth) Please rsvp with Mei Sim Lai, OBE DL Email: meisimlai@yahoo.co.uk Mobile 07903 153 793

1815: Registration

1830: Welcome

1840 -1900: Ms Sharon Heng , Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon Retina , Cataracts, the Ageing Eye- why eye checks are important

1900-1920: Mr Miles Kiernan, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon Eyes, eyes, eyelids

1920-1950: Tour of the state of the art facilities at The London Clinic Eye Centre

1950-2030: Networking and Field your questions with our experts

Your Trusted Surgeon

Ms Sharon (Ling Zhi) Heng is a multi lingual consultant ophthalmic surgeon with her NHS practice at the world renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital. She is a specialist in medical retina diseases and is currently the Clinical Lead of the Medical Retina Digital Clinics at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Lead of the Northwest Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Program at Ealing Moorfields. Ms Heng has been practicing Ophthalmology in excess of 15 years.

Ms Heng graduated from the National University of Singapore and came to UK to pursue her PhD on preventative therapy in Age Related Macular Degeneration under the pupillage of Professor John Marshall (father of excimer laser in refractive surgery) and Professor Sobha Sivaprasad at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London. She underwent her clinical training at the Severn Deanery and Bristol Eye Hospital and returned to Moorfields as clinical fellow and then a consultant.

Ms Heng believes strongly in training the next generation of ophthalmologists and allied health professionals and is actively involved in developing teaching modules and programs for education within the NHS and beyond. She has travelled to China to de assist in developing education programs for the local doctors. She was also involved in the development of diabetic retinopathy screening program and laser teaching for Chinese ophthalmologists in China with Professor Peter Scanlon. Ms Heng is also supervisor to several masters students at the Institute of Ophthalmology , UCL.

Ms Heng is a co-editor on the Inspire Program (medical retina) by the Royal College of Ophthalmologist and sits an editorial board member of the Eye Journal.

Ms Heng is also active in research and is chief investigator for several clinical trials looking at inequality within the medical retina digital clinics and treatment burden and efficacy across different types of Wet AMD antivegf treatment to patients and their carers

She has published in excess of 50 international presentations across the world.

Ms Heng currently sits as a steering group committee member for pharmaceutical companies advising on treatment biomarkers and was involved in the publication of the Handbook for 'Biomarkers in Diabetic Macular Oedema' with Abbvie Ltd for healthcare professionals.

Ms Heng actively participates in community service and has contributed as chair the National University of Singapore Alumni from 2017 to 2023, building bridge between Singaporeans and alumnus and the British fraternity.

Ms Heng speaks English, Mandarin and understands Cantonese and Hokkien.