Mingguang HE (何明光)
Professor of
Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne/ Sun Yat-sen University
Brief Bio:
Prof. Mingguang
He is Professor of Ophthalmic Epidemiology in University of
Melbourne and Centre for Eye Research Australia, Professor of
Sun Yat-sen University, Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for
Prevention of Blindness (Australia). His research interest
includes clinical and epidemiological research, randomized
clinical trial, twin study, imaging technology and big data
research. He ran the first population-based glaucoma survey and
twin registry in China.
He has cultivated a team of 13 researchers, 4 research
scientists and 8 visiting students, dedicating to artificial
intelligence and big data research. He was the principal
investigator of the first real-world study on deploying
artificial intelligence to enable diabetic retinopathy screening
at endocrinology and primary care settings in the world. So far
he has more than 280 publications in peer-reviewed journals,
including JAMA (2015), JAMA (2017), The Lancet (2019), which
have attracted more than 10,600 citations with H-index 50.
He is the Founder and the first President of the Asia Pacific
Tele-Ophthalmology Society and the Founding Council Member of
the Asia Pacific Myopia Society. He has received several awards
including the Holmes Lecture Award from the Asia-Pacific Academy
of Ophthalmology (2015) and Richard Fan Distinguished
Lectureship granted by Singapore National Eye Centre (2018). |