Wang, Jie Jin
Professor
Opthalmology
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
Singapore
Biography
Jie Jin has conducted epidemiological research in visual impairment and the two common causes of visual impairment in older people: age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and age-related cataract. She has been a key investigator of the Blue Mountains Eye Study, a population-based cohort study over 15 years. She expanded many projects using this cohort in collaboration with international researchers in a number of consortia. She led a clinic-based cohort study of 2000 cataract surgical patients to clarify a long-term debate over the possible adverse effect of cataract surgery on AMD risk. Using different cohort samples Jie Jin and her team documented the associations of visual impairment with poor survival, and correction of visual impairment with better survival, among older people. She is leading projects to investigate joint contribution of modifiable factors and genetic susceptibility to the risks of AMD and cataract.
Research Interest
Contribution of modifiable factors and genetic susceptibility to the risks of AMD and cataract.
Publications
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Wang JJ, Klein R, Smith W, Klein B.E.K, Tomany S, Mitchell P. Cataract surgery and the 5-year incidence of age-related macular degeneration: Pooled findings from the Beaver Dam and Blue Mountains Eye Studies. Ophthalmology 110:1960-1967, 2003
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Wang JJ, Mitchell P, Simpson J, Cumming RG, Smith W. Visual impairment, age-related cataract and mortality. Archives of Ophthalmology 119:1186-1190, 2001
