Tien Y Wong, MD, PhD, is a practicing retinal specialist with a research portfolio focused on major retinal diseases, ocular imaging, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technology. He serves as Chair Professor and the Founding Head of Tsinghua Medicine at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Professor Wong also serves as an advisor to the Singapore National Eye Center.
Professor Wong is an academic leader, innovator and physician-scientist who completed medical school at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and obtained his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. Over the past two decades, Professor Wong has served in multiple leadership positions in Singapore, Australia and now China. His previous positions included Arthur Lim Professor and Medical Director of the Singapore National Eye Center, one of the largest eye-care hospital globally. Professor Wong has served as Deputy Group CEO (Research and Education), SingHealth, Vice-Dean of Duke-NUS Medical School, and Chair of Departments of Ophthalmology at NUS and the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Professor Wong has published more than 1,500 peer-reviewed papers (>200,000 citations, h-index 214), has given more than 500 invited named, plenary and symposium lectures, and received over US$100 million in grant funding. He has been recognized with multiple international awards, including the Arnall Patz Medal (Macula Society), the Jose Rizal Medal (Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology) and the Friedenwald Award (ARVO). Professor Wong has received the Singapore President’s Science and Technology Award, and is an elected international member of the US National Academy of Medicine and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.