Ruben Lim Bon SIONG, MD
Philippines

Dr. Ruben Lim Bon Siong is an Associate Professor and One UP Professorial Chair holder of the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila; Chief of the Cornea and External Eye Disease Division  of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Philippine General Hospital, Manila and at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City, Philippines. He was a Former Chair and Professor of the Department of Ophthalmology, St Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial and Former Head of the St. Luke’s Medical Center Eye Institute.

He received his medical degree from the University of the Philippines Manila; completed a residency in ophthalmology and External Eye Disease fellowship at the Philippine General Hospital; and completed a clinical and research fellowship in Cornea and Refractive Surgery at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA. 

A/Prof. Lim Bon Siong has a particular interest in cornea and corneal transplantation, external eye diseases and ocular infection, laser refractive surgery, dry eye and ocular surface disease, and anterior segment trauma. He is Fellow and Past President of the Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology and the Philippine Cornea Society, Inc., and Secretary of the Philippine Board of Ophthalmology. He is currently Regional Secretary and Council Member of the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, Immediate Past President of the ASEAN Ophthalmology Society, and a member of the Asia Cornea Society and the Asia Dry Eye Society. He is the author and senior editor of the External Disease and Cornea Handbook and main editor of the Valenton’s External Eye Diseases of the Philippines. Prof. Lim Bon Siong is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, Outstanding Educator, Outstanding Leadership, and Distinguished Service Awards from the Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology.