A SPECIALIST IN THE MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL RETINA DISEASES
DR GOH’S SPECIALISATION
Dr Goh is a Melbourne based comprehensive specialist ophthalmologist (FRANZCO) with subspecialty training in medical retina diseases.
He performs a wide range of treatments including cataract and pterygium surgery, eye injections, and laser treatments (retinal, capsulotomies, trabeculoplasty).
Dr Goh conducts surgeries at various hospitals, including The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Austin Hospital, North Park Hospital, Sunshine Private Hospital, and Footscray Day Surgery.
MENTORING
Dr Goh has a passion for teaching and is actively involved in teaching junior medical staff (medical students, hospital medical officers, and ophthalmology trainees). He is currently the Medical Retina term supervisor for trainee registrars at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and is an Honorary Clinical Tutor (Ophthalmology) at the University of Melbourne.
He has previously held the Registrar of the Court (2020) position for organising the final ophthalmology examinations that trainees undertake before they are granted their ophthalmology fellowship and recognised as medical specialists.
CAREER AND EXPERIENCE
Qualifications
Publications
Public Hospital Appointments
Qualifications
- Medical Retina Fellowship – Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
- Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (FRANZCO)
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, and Bachelor of Medical Science (MBBS, BMedSci) – University of Melbourne
- Postgraduate Diploma of Surgical Anatomy (PGDipSurgAnat) – University of Melbourne
- Masters of Surgery (MS) by research – University of Melbourne
Publications
2023:
- El-Masri S, Wilson M, Goh JK, Sanfilippo P, Fok A, Hardy T, Chakrabarti R, Van Der Walt A. A 20-year multicentre retrospective review of optic nerve sheath fenestration outcomes. Ther Adv Neurol Disord. 2023 Sep 13;16:17562864231197994. doi: 10.1177/17562864231197994. PMID: 37719666; PMCID: PMC10501074.
2022:
- Chiu ZK, Goh JK, Ling C, Lin ML, Hall AJ. Ibrutinib-related uveitis: A case series. Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep. 2022 Jan 22;25:101300. doi: 10.1016/j.ajoc.2022.101300. PMID: 35146190; PMCID: PMC8802007.
- Tran T, Okada M, Goh JK, Gin T, Harper CA. Choroidal effusion as a manifestation of central serous chorioretinopathy: A case report. Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep. 2022;25:101311. Published 2022 Jan 22. doi:10.1016/j.ajoc.2022.101311
2020:
- Goh JK, Lim LL. Dealing with co-existent cataract and diabetic macular oedema: An increasingly common conundrum now solved? Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2020;48:424-426.
2019:
- Ooi KG, Rao A, Goh JK, Gracie G, Cherepanoff S, Madigan M, Watson SL. HMG-CoA reductase expression in human eyelid tissue in a human meibomian gland epithelial cell line. Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 2019 Jan 21. doi: 10.1007/s00417-019-04247-9.
2017:
- Masters thesis: Goh JK. Second Eye At Risk: predicting the development of advanced age-related macular degeneration. Awarded December 2017.
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2015:
- Wu Z, Guymer RH, Jung CJ, Goh JK, Ayton LN, Luu CD, Lawson DJ, Turpin A, and McKendrick AM. Measurement of Retinal Sensitivity on Tablet Devices in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Translational Vision Science and Technology. 2015, Jun;13:1-8.
- Wu Z, Luu CD, Ayton LN, Goh JK, Lucci LM, Hubbard WC, Hageman JL, Hageman GS, and Guymer RH. Fundus autofluorescence characteristics of nascent geographic atrophy in age-related macular degeneration. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 2015, Feb;56:1546-52.
2014:
- Wu Z, Luu CD, Ayton LN, Goh JK, Lucci LM, Hubbard WC, Hageman JL, Hageman GS, Guymer RH. Optical Coherence Tomography Defined Changes Preceding the Development of Drusen Associated Atrophy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Ophthalmology 2014, Dec;121:2415-22.
- Goh JK, Kaufamn DV. Historical Review: Claude Monet’s Cataracts. RANZCO Museum 2014, Nov. Available from:
2013:
- Goh JK, Kaufman DV. Historical Review: John Bruce Hamilton. RANZCO Museum 2013 2013, Nov. Available from
Read the publication - Goh JK, Coster DJ. Historical Review: History of Australian Corneal Transplantation. RANZCO Museum 2013, Nov.
- Goh JK, Mackay S. Letter re: “Risk of bleeding associated with use of systemic thromboembolic prophylaxis during laparoscopic cholecystectomy” (Br J Surg 2012: 99: 979-986). The British journal of surgery 2013, Mar;100:575.
2012:
- Goh JK, Hardy T. Abstract: Review of optic nerve sheath fenestrations: indications and outcomes. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2012, Nov;40:17.
- Goh JK, Kaufman DV. Historical review: Castroviejo’s Double Bladed Knife. RANZCO Museum 2012, Oct. Available from:
Read the publication - Goh JK, Kaufman DV. Historical review: Ophthalmic Instrument Sterilisation in the early 1900’s. RANZCO Museum 2012, Oct. Available from:
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2011:
- Guymer RH, Tao LW, Goh JK, et al. Identification of urinary biomarkers for age-related macular degeneration. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 2011, Jun;52:4639-44.
2009:
- Guymer RH, Ischenko O, Goh JK, Langham R. Abstract: Urine proteomics and age-related macular degeneration. Nephrol 2009, Sept;14:pA50.
2008:
- Goh JK, Guymer RH, Robman LD, Langham R. Abstract: Biomarkers of age-related macular degeneration, a pilot study. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2008, Nov;36:A697.
Public Hospital Appointments
- Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital – Medical Retina
- Austin Health – Medical Retina
- Western Health – General Ophthalmology