Jodhbir MEHTA, MD
Singapore

Prof Jodhbir Mehta is Executive Director of the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), Distinguished Professor, Corneal & External Eye Disease and Refractive Department at Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC).

He has won 74 prestigious awards nationally and internationally for his clinical and research work, including AAO Senior Achievement Award 2017, Coster Lecture from the Australian Corneal Society 2018, Charles Tillett Lecture (Fuchs Society, USA) 2020, Casebeer Award (ISRS, AAO) 2020, APAO Senior Achievement Award 2023, ACE Award APACRS 2023. He has been recognised as one of the most influential people in the world of ophthalmology both by featuring in the Ophthalmologist’s Power List, Asia-Pacific Power List and also the top 2% of scientist in Ophthalmology by Elsevier. Clinically, He is widely regarded internationally as one of the top surgeons for corneal diseases and refractive surgery. On expertscape.com he ranks no 1 in the world for expertise in Cornea and no 2 for Refractive Surgery for the last 4 years.  

His research work has generated 18 patents, 5 of which have been commercialised and licensed to companies. He has published >520 peer-reviewed publications and 24 book chapters, with a H-index 71. He has published in NEJM, Lancet, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Review Disease Primers, as well as high impact eye journals e.g. PRER, Ophthalmology etc. He has been invited to speak at >300 international conferences and given 25 named/keynote lectures. He serves on the editorial board of several journals. His work has been sited >19,250 times.

He is committed to clinical teaching, both in the form of lectures and courses. He has given over 156 courses at various national and international meetings e.g AAO, ESCRS, APAO, APACRS, ARVO. He has trained 28 international fellows and 8 PhD students, 5 Masters students.

Prof Mehta is an active member of APAO and other Asia-Pacific professional societies. He currently is the Vice-President of International Relations of the The Corneal Society (US).