Ms Wai Siene Ng

Siene is a consultant Ophthalmic surgeon for the tertiary referral hospital, University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. She specialises in glaucoma with expertise in cataracts plus minimally invasive glaucoma device implantation (MIGS) (including OMNI, i-Stents and Preserflo microshunts) trabeculectomy, glaucoma drainage devices (PAUL,and Baerveldt tubes) and revision glaucoma surgery.

She completed her medical training at Aberdeen University where she published several papers on angle closure glaucoma and was awarded the Royal Society of Medicine Essay prize and the SOC Pfizer travel grant. She secured the highly competitive post of Welsh Clinical Academic Trainee to complete her specialist training in Ophthalmology and was awarded The Royal College of Ophthalmologist Bayer Educational Grant to attain a PhD in Stem Cell Mediated Retinal Repair at Cardiff University.

At the prestigious Moorfields Eye Hospital she completed her 18 months fellowship in surgical glaucoma where she trained in managing complex glaucoma and implanting novel surgical devices. Currently she is an honorary senior lecturer at Cardiff University and her research interests include glaucoma surgical adjunct therapies such as anti VEGF wound modulation, angle closure glaucoma and neuroprotection.

Special Interests include:
• Cataract Surgery
• Cataract with minimally invasive glaucoma surgery(MIGS)
• Glaucoma management(medical, surgical and laser)
• Complex glaucoma management (surgical Glaucoma Drainage Device insertions and surgical repairs)
• Selective laser trabeculoplasty Glaucoma drainage tubes
• Trabeculectomy