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Saw Seang Mei

Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Programme

Duke-NUS Medical School

Bio

Professor Saw Seang-Mei is the SERI Professor of Ophthalmology Research, Head of the Myopia Unit at Singapore Eye Research Institute, Professor of Epidemiology at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Deputy Co-Chair (Biomedical) of the NUS Institutional Review Board. She received her MBBS degree from the National University of Singapore and both her MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prof Saw is internationally recognized as one of the leading researchers in the myopia field made major observations and key discoveries in the field of the epidemiology of myopia, characterising the environmental, genetic and anatomical predictors of myopia in children and adults in Singapore and worldwide. She is the Principal Investigator of the Singapore Cohort study Of the Research factors for Myopia (SCORM), the STrabismus, Amblyopia and Refractive error study in Singapore preschool children (STARS) and Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) Myopia birth cohort. She has published more than 550 peer-reviewed international scientific manuscripts, and has published in several high impact journals include the Lancet and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Prof Saw is the PI and Co-I of grants totalling > $15 million from the A*Star, NMRC, EDB, and industry. Prof Saw has developed new gadgets including a fitness tracker for myopia prevention and treatments for myopia. Prof Saw has an H-Index of 111 (Google Scholar), with papers attracting more than 3,500 citations per year, each year over the past 5 years and a total of more than 43,000 citations. She mentors and supervises > 20 clinician scientists, post-doctoral research fellows, PhD and MPH students. Her main teaching area is in Epidemiology, Research Skills and Biostatistics.

Professor Saw is the Associate Editor, Translational Vision Science and Technology (TVST) and Editorial Board member of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (IOVS) and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology (APJO). Professor Saw was the past Chair of the 11th International Myopia Conference held from 16th to 18th August, 2006 in Singapore, and is past Chair (2010) of the Program Committee, Clinical/Epidemiologic section, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).

Education

Fellow Academy of Medicine of Singapore

Not Available, Singapore

Doctor of Philosophy

Johns Hopkins University, United States

Master of Public Health

Johns Hopkins University, United States

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

National University of Singapore, Singapore

NUS Appointment(s)

Professor

Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Currently Active

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