Prof. Mingguang He is the Chair Professor of Experimental Ophthalmology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. He undertook his medical training in China, receiving his MBBS degree from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, before going on to obtain a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, a MD degree in Ophthalmology from Sun Yat-sen University, and a PhD in Ophthalmology at UCL Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Before joining PolyU, Prof. He was the former Associate Director and Professor of Ophthalmology in the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center (ZOC), Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Prof. He was a NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Ophthalmic Epidemiology in The University of Melbourne and Centre for Eye Research Australia, as well as Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness (Australia). Prof. He founded and served as the first president of the Asia Pacific Tele-Ophthalmology Society and is a founding council member of the Asia Pacific Myopia Society and Deputy Secretary-General for the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology. Prof. He is currently the deputy Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
