- TFOS global ambassadors and international chapter affiliate
People’s Republic of China (TFOS China)
Wei Li
Wei Li, MD, is a Vice Co-Chair of TFOS China.
Dr. Li is a Professor and Director of the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, and a Deputy Dean of the Xiamen University School of Medicine, Xiamen, China. He is also Honorary Professor in School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. He is a cornea and ocular surface disease specialist in the Xiamen Eye Center and Xiang’an Hospital of Xiamen University. Dr. Li is a board member of Basic Research Development Committee of Chinese Ophthalmology Society, a board member of Asia Dry Eye Society, a member of Chinese Dry Eye Society, Asia Cornea Society and Chinese Cornea Society, and a member of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He is a communication editor for the Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology, and an editor for Experimental Eye Research and PLos ONE. Dr. Li’s research focuses on corneal stem cells, corneal tissue engineering and ocular surface diseases, and he has published more than 100 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.