Dr Catherine ChowOculoplastic Surgeon
Consultant Ophthalmologist Oculoplastic Surgeon Kuala Lumpur

Judged on beauty.
Trained in anatomy.

Her field is the eyelids, tear ducts and orbit: a few square centimetres that decide both how you see and how you are seen.

Dr Catherine is completing further subspecialty training in South Korea and the United States. She begins consulting at Eagle Eye Centre Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, in early 2027. The Eyelid Edit is published in the meantime.
Dr Catherine Chow, consultant ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon
Dr Catherine Chow Founding Partner, Eagle Eye Centre Malaysia
FRCOphth (UK) CCST (Malaysia) Oculoplastic Fellowship · Leeds NSR 143681
The atlas

Point to where it is.

One plate of the eye region, drawn the way an anatomy atlas draws it, with the tears quietly doing their work. Each numbered place is a chapter of The Eyelid Edit, and the chapters sit just below.

A watercolour and ink anatomical plate of the left eye region seen from the front, showing the brow, upper and lower lids, the tear drainage at the inner corner, the lacrimal gland under the upper outer orbital rim, and the bony orbital rim.
The atlas, alive

Seven places, eight chapters.

Watch a tear form, cross the eye and drain to the nose. Point to a numbered place, or to a chapter below: each one lights its spot on the plate.

Chapter VIII, Before you decide, is the compass at the lower left: not a place, but the questions to ask first.

Chapter II

Lumps, lashes and lid margin

For when there is a bump, a sore lid edge or lashes growing wrong

22 articles

Chapter VIII

Before you decide

For when you are choosing a surgeon or planning surgery

21 articles

Plate I Left eye, front view. The tear's route, slowly: lacrimal gland, eye surface, the two puncta, the canaliculi, the sac and the nasolacrimal duct to the nose.
From her research and writing

Thyroid eye disease is mistaken for tiredness for years.

It pushes the eyes forward and pulls the lids up, and the eyes are often the first part of the body to say the thyroid has gone wrong. Caught in the active phase, there is a great deal that can be done.

  • Lid retractionWhite showing above the iris, the opposite of a droop
  • Two phasesActive inflammation, then quiet. Treatment follows the phase
  • Normal bloodsAround one in ten have normal thyroid levels when the eyes change
The honest part

"No cream on earth can lift a stretched muscle."

Heavy lids are often ptosis, not tiredness. Read why

Her philosophy

Warm in the consultation room. Exacting in the operating theatre.

Personalised plans, not menus, because no two pairs of eyelids age the same way. Every plan answers to visual function and aesthetic harmony at once, and an eyelid that looks pretty but cannot blink properly protects nothing.

Softness in manner, none in standards.
Consultation

Bring the midnight questions.

Researching quietly is smart. When you're ready to ask out loud, Dr Catherine Chow will consult at Eagle Eye Centre Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, from early 2027.