Chi-Chao Chan: passion is very important for the success
Chi-Chao Chan: passion is very important for the success
来源期刊： 眼科学报 |
2016年9月 第31卷 第3期： |
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doi: 10.3978/j.issn.1000-4432.2016.08.05
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2016-06-28
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2016-07-05
Introduction
Chi-Chao Chan (Figure 1), M.D., an American board
certified ophthalmologist, is a Scientist Emerita of the
National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institutes of
Health (NIH), USA. She studied at Zhongshan Medical
College (now Sun Yat-sen University Medical School)
in China [1961–1967], went to USA in 1968. In USA,
Dr. Chan received both bachelor (BA, 1972) and medical
doctorate (MD, 1975) degrees from Johns Hopkins
University, completed ophthalmology residency at Stanford
University Medical Center in 1979, and two post-doctorial
fellowships at the Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins
(ophthalmic pathology, 1979–1982) and at the NEI, NIH
(clinical immunology, 1982–1986), respectively. She
got tenured and became the Chief of Immunopathology
Section in the Laboratory of Immunology and the Chief
of Histopathology Core at NEI/NIH; became a world
expert in ophthalmic pathology and ocular immunology.
Dr. Chan has published 648 articles in peer-reviewed
journals, 55 book chapters, and two books. She also serves
as an editorial board member for 20 medical journals. Her
work has uncovered many aspects of uveitis (molecular
and immunopathology), primary intraocular lymphoma
(diagnosis) and age-related macular degeneration (molecular
pathology and mouse model). Dr. Chan has received many
honors and awards, including the American Academy of
Ophthalmology’s Senior Achievement Award, ARVO Gold
Fellow, the NIH Director Award, NEI Director Award, and
the Outstanding Achievement Award in Ophthalmology
and Vision Research for Oversea Chinese from the
Chinese Ophthalmological Society. She has delivered many
prestigious lectures, including the Eugene Chan and the
Winifred Mao Memorial Lectures—the name lectures in
honor of her parents; the first David BenEzra Memorial
Lecture in Prague; the first Streilein Foundation for
Ocular Immunology Visiting Professor in Bascom Palmer
Eye Institute; and the King Khaled Memorial Lecture in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Chan retired in June 2015; the
NEI hosted a Festschrift in honor of her accomplishment
and long productive service to the Institute.
Figure 1 Dr. Chi-Chao Chan.
Dr. Chan is a Special Visiting Scientist and the honorary
Director of Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center Research
Institute, Sun Yat-sen University in China, and a member of
the Sun Yat-sen University Advisory Board. She also serves
on the Trustee Board of Lingnan Foundation, an American
philanthropy, seeks to contribute to the advancement of
higher education in South China and thereby promote
understanding between Chinese and Americans.
Interview
During Zhongshan Medical Retina and Epidemiology
Symposium in June 18, 2016, I was honored to meet
Prof. Chan for a brief interview to share her impressive
training in USA and suggestion for the young generation in
ophthalmology.
Dr. Chan just retired from NEI and the NEI hosted a
Festschrift in honor of you accomplishment to the institute.
She studied at Zhongshan Medical College (now Sun Yatsen
University Medical School). Later she studied and
worked in multiple prestigious institutions, such as NEI,
John Hopkins University and Stanford University etc. She
claimed the studies and training was wonderful and has deeply influenced her.
Her father was the founder of the journal Eye Science and
he wrote in the inaugural issue “The journal plays important
roles of a bridge of communication and collaboration between
China and other countries over the world”. Dr. Chan said there
were few English journals in ophthalmology at that time.
Now there are many journals but to manage a good journal,
she believes that the leadership of editorial broad members
and dynamic strategies to attract paper with high quality
and famous experts to contribute is very important.
For more details about this interview, please refer to the
following video (Figure 2).
At last, when talking about expectation and suggestion
for our young generation in ophthalmology, she said
“I believe the passion is very important. If you have the
passion, whatever you would like to do, you could do it. If
you love something, you would work hard and spend your
every eff ort and time to try, then you would success.”
Figure 2 Chi-Chao Chan: passion is very important for the success (1).
Available online: http://www.asvide.com/articles/1153
1、Seliman H. Chi-Chao Chan: passion is very important for the success. Asvide 2016;3:379. Available online: http://www.asvide.com/articles/1153
