On the afternoon of February 23, the 16th "Great Wall Friendship Award" award ceremony and symposium was held in Beijing Shougang ParkProfessor Huang Tianyin, Vice Provost and Director of the School of Medicine of Tsinghua University, and a well-known expert in ophthalmology at Beijing Tsinghua Chang Gung Hospital affiliated to Tsinghua University, won the award.
Award ceremony (Huang Tianyin is in the back row, second from right).
Since its establishment in 1999, a total of 221 foreigners from 32 countries have won the award. In the 16th "Great Wall Friendship Award", a total of 15 foreigners who have made outstanding contributions to the development of Beijing were honored, and 5 of them were from the medical and pharmaceutical fields.
At the symposium, the winners spoke highly of Beijing's achievements in economic and social development in recent years, and said that they would continue to make greater contributions to promoting Beijing's high-quality development and promoting Sino-foreign exchanges and cooperation. promote international cooperation in basic research to jointly address major global challenges; He made speeches on the three themes of promoting people-to-people exchanges and mutual learning and common prosperity of the world's civilizations, and put forward opinions and suggestions.
Huang Tianyin,He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a scholarship in Medicine and obtained a Master's and PhD in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Previously held key leadership positions in universities and research institutes in Singapore and Australia; He was elected as a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Medicine, a Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Singapore. In 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022, he was named to Clarivate's global Highly Cited Researchers list, with an H-Index of 214. In 2023, Wong was ranked third in Asia in the Asia-Pacific Eye 100 - Most Influential Ophthalmologists 2022 by the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology (APJO). Won the "Top 100 Most Influential Ophthalmologists in the World" in 2022 and 2023 published by The Ophthalmologist, a world-renowned ophthalmology journal in the United Kingdom; Received the Friedenwald Award from the World Association for the Study of Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Achievement Award (FARVO).
Huang Tianyin carried out the "Clinical Early Contact" course
In 2021, Huang Tianyin joined Tsinghua University full-time. In 2022, after unremitting efforts, he led the upgrade of the eight-year medical laboratory class to the "Outstanding Physician-Scientist" program, that is, "Top Physician-Scientist with a High Degree of Humanistic Feelings", so that students can not only have basic skills such as clinical consultation as physicians, but also be able to carry out cutting-edge research, innovative medical solutions and technologies, and continuously expand the breadth and depth of the medical field.
Huang Tianyin hopes that the teachers and students of Tsinghua Medical College can serve China's medical and health undertakings and fully participate in the health of all mankind. Under this vision, he put forward the "4i" talent training concept: innovation, initiation, internationalization, and inter-discipline, that is, innovation, leadership, internationalization, and integration. Relying on the advantages of traditional science and engineering at Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University integrates different disciplines and technologies, develops multidisciplinary medical engineering and medical science intersections, and transforms them into the ultimate goal of disease response, so that more students can have access to the world's top medical resources, continuously improve the international influence of Tsinghua's medical education and medical system, and let more and more students emerge on the international medical stage.
In clinical and scientific research, Huang Tianyin is mainly engaged in clinical work related to macular degeneration and retinal diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, retinal vascular diseases and myopic macular degeneration, and is committed to the research and innovation of retinal diseases and ocular imaging (including artificial intelligence), and has carried out a series of pioneering work in the interdisciplinary research fields of epidemiology, translational and clinical research in retinal diseases and ocular imaging. In 2010, Huang Tianyin's team launched the National Telemedicine Screening Program for Diabetic Retinopathy, and the software developed by the team has been widely certified and applied to more than 30 international clinical, scientific research and industry cooperation institutions. Based on his in-depth and continuous pioneering research in the field of diabetic retinopathy, he was interviewed by the internationally renowned journal The Lancet.
Huang Tianyin visits the Department of Ophthalmology of Tsinghua Chang Gung Hospital affiliated to Tsinghua University every month to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese medical care through contact with patients. He has been deeply involved in the construction of China's medical and health undertakings with practical actions, taking China's major demand for medical services as an important basis and direct guidance for the formulation of Tsinghua Medical School's curriculum and medical student training program, and leading the brand-new Tsinghua Medical School to move towards high-quality development step by step.