Bennie JENG, MD
USA

Bennie H. Jeng is the Harold G. Scheie Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, and Director of the Scheie Eye Institute, of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.  He earned his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  He then completed his ophthalmology residency and chief residency at the Cole Eye Institute of the Cleveland Clinic, which was followed by a fellowship in cornea and external diseases at the Francis I. Proctor Foundation/University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in 2003. He then returned back to the Cole Eye Institute to serve on faculty, during which time he was the recipient of a K-grant from the NIH and also earned his Master degree in Clinical Investigation from Case Western Reserve University.  He subsequently returned to Proctor/UCSF as an Associate Professor and then Full Professor, where he served as co-director of the UCSF cornea service, Director of the Proctor/UCSF Cornea Fellowship program, and Chief of Ophthalmology at the San Francisco General Hospital, as well as being an R01-funded researcher in ocular surface diseases. In August, 2013, Dr. Jeng began his tenure as Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine where he served for nearly 9 years. He assumed his current position in July, 2022.

Dr. Jeng is actively involved in the leadership of many of our ophthalmologic societies, including as immediate past-President of the Cornea Society, Immediate Past-President of the Eye and Contact Lens Association (formerly CLAO), and on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Ophthalmology.  He also serves on several committees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, including on the Board of Trustees as the Secretary for the Annual Meeting. He is also on the Board of Directors for both the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology and the Heed Ophthalmologic Foundation. He has served in the past on the Board of Directors of the Eye Bank Association of America.

Dr. Jeng has published over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles and 30 book chapters, and he has delivered over 450 invited lectures nationally and internationally. He is a past member of the editorial board of JAMA Ophthalmology, Eye, and Journal of Academic Ophthalmology, and he recently completed his term as Editor-in-Chief of Eye and Contact Lens.  He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Ophthalmology, a Senior editor for Cornea, and as an editorial board member of several other journals including: Ophthalmology Science and Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology. He is also the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Cornea Open, which launched in 2022 and is the official open access journal of the Cornea Society. He is the recipient of resident teaching awards from the Cleveland Clinic and UCSF, and he has also received the Senior Achievement award and the Secretariat award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Jeng is also a Gold Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (FARVO).