Zhao Chen

Deputy Director of the Department of Ophthalmology, and Director of the Pediatric Strabismus and Amblyopia Specialty Department. Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Changjiang Scholar Dr., Leading Talent of the Ministry of Science and Technology (Young and Middle-aged), Expert of the National Ten Thousand Talents Program, recipient of the first batch of "Excellent Young Scientists Fund" projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the first batch of "Young Thousand Talents Program" projects of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Deputy Head of the Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology Group of the Chinese Ophthalmological Society, Head of the Shanghai Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus and Amblyopia Specialty Group, and Academic Leader of Shanghai. Has conducted long-term systematic clinical and basic ophthalmological work at prestigious universities such as Stanford University in the United States. Clinical specialties include strabismus and amblyopia, pediatric ophthalmology, hereditary eye diseases, and the diagnosis and treatment of common eye diseases. Especially skilled in minimally invasive, precise, and long-term treatment of various common strabismus; complex surgeries for various difficult and secondary strabismus diseases; treatment and refractive fitting for amblyopia; and clinical and genetic diagnosis and consultation for various complex hereditary fundus diseases. Published 65 SCI papers, with representative works appearing in important journals such as PNAS (3 papers), Circulation, and JCI. Received the First Prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award, the Shanghai Science and Technology Youth Outstanding Contribution Award, and the First Prize of the 2019 Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award.