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 speaks English, Mandarin and understands Cantonese and Hokkien.