Prof Mohammad Javed Ali
Prof. Dr. Dr. Mohammad Javed Ali, MD, PhD, FRCS.
Head, Govindram Seksaria Institute of Dacryology, LVPEI, India.
Director, Clinician-Scientist Development Program, LVPEI, India
Editor-in-Chief, Seminars in Ophthalmology
Distinguished Alumni Chair of Ophthalmology, LVPEI, India.
Hong-Leong Professor, University of Singapore, Singapore.
Former DAAD Professor, Friedrich Alexander University, Nuremberg, Germany
Professor honoris causa, Krasnov Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Visiting Professor, Wojskowy Instytut Medyczny, Warsaw, Poland.
Honorary Professor, Fatima University Medical Center, Manilla, Philippines
Former Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Rochester, New York
Senior Von Humboldt Scientist, FAU, Nurnberg, Germany
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Laureate
JC BOSE National Fellow, Govt. of India
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Laureate, AvH, Germany
Mohammad Javed Ali is an internationally recognized Clinician-Scientist, Medical Historian, and the former Editor-in-Chief of the journal ‘Seminars in Ophthalmology’. He was instrumental in the development of the science of Dacryology at a global level and heads the Govindram Seksaria Institute of Dacryology at the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, India. Javed is also the Distinguished Alumni Chair of Ophthalmology and Director, Clinician-Scientist Development Program at the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute.
He is part of the prestigious Global Minds Initiative of Germany and holds seven International Professorships and is currently the Hong-Leong Professor at NUHS, Singapore, and DAAD Professor of Ophthalmology and Anatomy at the Friedrich-Alexander University, Nuremberg, Germany. He is also the visiting professor at the Wojskowy Instytut Medyczny, Warsaw, Poland; Krasnov Research Institute, Moscow; Fatima University Medical Center, Philippines.
Javed is among the recipients of the prestigious Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Award and the Senior Alexander Von Humboldt Award by the AvH Foundation, Germany. He is also the recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, and is the JC Bose National Fellow, the highest multi-disciplinary scientific awards by the Government of India. He described three new diseases of the lacrimal system along with their classifications and clinicopathologic profiles. He was honored by the 2015 AAO-ASOPRS ‘Merill Reeh’ Award for his work on the understanding of etiopathogenesis of punctal stenosis.
He is on the editorial board of 19 mainstream journals, associate editor for the journals ‘Survey of Ophthalmology’, ‘The Ocular Surface’, ‘European Journal of Ophthalmology’, ‘Graefes Archives of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology’, and ‘Ophthalmic Research’, and has to his credit 815 publications at the time of this writing, and has delivered 409 conference lectures, including 26 keynote addresses. He holds memberships of 28 societies and has conducted 26 instruction courses and 34 live surgical workshops and has been honored by 47 national and international awards including the 2020 American Academy – ASOPRS ‘Lester T Jones’ award for outstanding scientific contributions to the science of Ophthalmic Plastics Surgery and the Bin Shakar Prize for Research. He is consistently ranked as Stanford’s top 2% scientists every year since inception. He has also been honored with honorary life membership of national societies from Poland, Israel, and Philippines for his contributions to science.
He has pursued his hobbies professionally and is a Pilot, a wine sommelier with a specialization in Champagne, and a Criminologist!
Research Stats: Publications – 815, h-index - 49, i-10 index – 328, Citations - 10545
