He graduated at the top of his class in the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (CUHK) program. He was awarded the Li Po Chun Charitable Trust Fund Overseas Postgraduate Scholarship where he continued later as an international surgical and translational research fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) (preceptor: Prof. Robert Goldberg) and LA Biomedical Institute (Preceptor: Prof. Terry Smith and Dr Raymond Douglas). His awards included the City Lion Club Gold Medal, Action for Vision Eye Foundation Young Researcher of the Year, Exemplary Eye Resident Award, Achievement Awards from the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology. He has published more than 30 SCI indexed peer-reviewed articles and 4 book chapters.