Prof Saw Seang Mei is medically trained, she obtained her MBBS from the National University of Singapore, and subsequently earned her PhD in Epidemiology from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prof Saw Seang Mei is currently a Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. She has held several administrative positions in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, as Vice Dean (Research) and Assistant Dean (Graduate Studies). Prof Saw’s research interests are the epidemiology and genetics of myopia and other eye diseases. She has published more than 360 peer-reviewed manuscripts in international journals, including the Lancet and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She is a co-leader of the CREAM myopia genetics consortium and was the PI of the SCORM myopia cohort, STARS and several other large epidemiologic studies. Prof Saw is the recipient of several awards including the Eye Institute-Pfizer Research Prizes for Outstanding Original Paper (2007), Faculty Research Excellence Award, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (2009), the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Achievement Award (2009), the Silver Fellow Award, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), the Chew Sek Jin Memorial Lecture Award, International Myopia Conference (2013), World’s Top 100 Influential people in Ophthalmology by the Ophthalmologists (2014), the OPO Bernard Gilmartin Award (2014), the Gold Fellow Award, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) (2015) and the NUHS-Mochtar Riady Pinnacle Awards 2015 – Excellence Award.

Cohorts and Clinical trials, Epidemiology and gene-environment interaction for eye and other chronic diseases.