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A/Prof Saw Seang Mei 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. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Vice-Dean (Research-Preclinical), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Her main teaching areas are Epidemiology and Public Health. Her primary research interests are related to the epidemiology, genetics and gene-environment interactions for myopia and other eye diseases. She has published more than 190 peer-reviewed international journals, including the Lancet and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and 2 book chapters. Seang-Mei is the Principal Investigator of the Singapore Cohort study Of the Research factors for Myopia (SCORM), and the STrabismus, Amblyopia and Refractive error study in Singapore preschool children (STARS).

Seang Mei is an Editorial Board member of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Ophthalmic and Physiologic Optics, and the Annals Academy of Medicine (Singapore). She is the recipient of the Jeans Coombs Award Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1998), the Geshin Mohn ARVO Travel Grant (2002), the Edward Clarence Dyason Universitis 21 Award (2005), the Garland W. Clay Award (2006), the Great Women of our Times Awards, Science and Technology Category, Singapore (2006), the American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award (2009) and the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Faculty Research Excellence Award (2009). Seang Mei was the past Chair of the 11th International Myopia Conference held from 16th to 18th August, 2006 in Singapore, and is currently a Program Committee member of the Clinical/Epidemiologic section, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).

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