Dr Hoang, a faculty member of Hanoi Medical University Ophthalmology Department, is the first Vietnamese glaucoma fellow of Sydney Eye Hospital in 2021. He completed his residency in Vietnam and gained a Master of International Ophthalmology from The University of Sydney. In 2018, he was awarded a scholarship to complete the Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary. He is also a Clinical Senior Lecturer of Save Sight Institute to foster the collaboration between The University of Sydney and Hanoi Medical University. In 2025, he completed his PhD at Hanoi Medical University, assessing online circular contrast perimetry, a Melbourne-based ophthalmic tool, for glaucoma.

Professor Dr. Tengku Ain Kamalden is Professor and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, and vitreoretinal surgeon at Universiti Malaya and Universiti Malaya Medical Centre.

She holds a Masters degrees from Universiti Malaya and the National University of Singapore, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. She was named among 20 IAMP Young Physician Leaders in 2013 and later a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her honours include the Bayer Global Ophthalmology Award, the Alcon Research Institute Young Investigator Award, and the Fulbright Scholarship.

Her research focuses on ocular microRNA biomarkers, trauma, and retinal disorders. She contributes to the national postgraduate ophthalmology curriculum, serves as an examiner for the Malaysian Conjoint Board and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (UK), and is a life member of the Asia Pacific Ocular Trauma Society, Malaysian Society of Ophthalmology, and Council Member of the College of Ophthalmologists, Academy of Medicine Malaysia.