Van Charles Lansingh
Van Charles Lansingh | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Citizenship | Mexican |
| Education | MD, Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
| Occupation | Ophthalmologist |
| Medical career | |
| Research | Ophthalmology, Public Health |
Van Charles Lansingh is a Mexican ophthalmologist, clinician-scientist and author, specialising in public health. He is currently a faculty at Mexican Institute of Ophthalmology (IMO), Querétaro, Mexico where he serves as Director, International Affairs. He is also a voluntary assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami,[1] and serves as the chief medical officer at HelpMeSee, a global non-profit training organization.[2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Lansingh completed his residency in ophthalmology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico in Mexico City, in 1987. Following this, he obtained his PhD from University of Melbourne in Australia. His thesis was on primary health care approach to trachoma control in Aboriginal communities in Central Australia.[4]
Career
[edit]He was appointed at the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness as the regional coordinator in Latin America.[5] He was appointed as chief medical officer at HelpMeSee, a global training organisation that aims to reduce the burden of cataract related blindness through training ophthalmologists using simulation-based technologies.[6][7] He served as a reviewer to the World report on vision, published by the World Health Organisation.[8] Lansingh has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications in medical journals[9] and his papers have received over 75000 citations.[10]
Lansingh regularly features in the top 2% of the most-cited researchers globally across all specialities (published annually by Elsevier).[11]
Awards and honors
[edit]- International Blindness Prevention awarded by the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 2016.[12]
- Vision Excellence Award by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.[13]
- Benjamin F. Boyd Humanitarian Award by the Pan-American Congress of Ophthalmology in 2017.[14]
- Kupfer Award by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in 2019.[15]
- Induction into Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, a university-centered international organisation with only 100 active chairs. The requirements for membership include active engagement in ophthalmology for at least 15 years and over 100 scientific papers published.[16]
Selected Books/Chapters
[edit]- Eyes: For Teachers and Health Workers[17]
- Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS)[18]
- Innovative Approaches in the Delivery of Primary and Secondary Eye Care[19]
- International Encyclopedia of Public Health[20]
- Primary Health Care Approach to Trachoma Control in Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia[21]
- Eye Care Competency Framework by World Health Organisation[22]
- Maxcy-Rosenau - Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine: Sixteenth Edition[23]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dr. Rohit Varma Shares Eye-Disease Research at the 2nd Mexico-United States Symposium on Vision Health". Yahoo Finance. 27 January 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "HelpMeSee: Transforming Lives Through Training". The Ophthalmologist. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Epidemiology and Population Health Sciences Division". publichealth.med.miami.edu. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ Lansingh, Van Charles (2005). Primary health care approach to trachoma control in Aboriginal communities in Central Australia (PhD thesis). University of Melbourne. hdl:11343/39007.
- ^ "VISION 2020 and Me: Van Lansingh". The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Value of simulation-based training for cataract surgery highlighted in new articles in Indian Journal of Ophthalmology". Yahoo Finance. 22 November 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Our Medical Officers | HelpMeSee". helpmesee.org. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/documents/publications/world-vision-report-accessible.pdf
- ^ "Lansingh VC - Search Results - PubMed". PubMed. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Van C. Lansingh". scholar.google.es. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ Baas, Jeroen; Boyack, Kevin; Ioannidis, John P. A. (19 October 2021). "August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"". Elsevier Data Repository. 3. Elsevier BV. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.3.
- ^ "2016 International Blindness Prevention Awardee: Van Charles Lansingh, MD - American Academy of Ophthalmology". www.aao.org. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Vision Excellence Awards: Van Lansingh". The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Dr Van Lansingh to receive the 2017 Benjamin F. Boyd Humanitarian Award". The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology- ARVO Awards Recipients: Chronological". www.arvo.org. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "A-O-INT.org - Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis | AOI". Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ Lansingh, Van Charles; Buzolic, James Gerard (2000). Eyes: For Teachers and Health Workers. Christian Blind Mission International - Australia. ISBN 978-0-908545-08-7.
- ^ Arshinoff, Steve A.; Claoue, Charles; Johansson, Bjorn; Perez-Silguero, David; Qi, Susan Ruyu; Chen, Mike Yuan; Hebert, Melanie (19 November 2022). Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS): Global History and Methodology. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-323-95310-8.
- ^ Khanna, Rohit C.; Rao, Gullapalli N.; Marmamula, Srinivas (12 December 2018). Innovative Approaches in the Delivery of Primary and Secondary Eye Care. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-98014-0.
- ^ Cockerham, William C. (6 October 2016). International Encyclopedia of Public Health. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-803708-9.
- ^ Lansingh, Van Charles (2005). Primary Health Care Approach to Trachoma Control in Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia. University of Melbourne, Centre for Eye Research Australia.
- ^ Organization, World Health (12 May 2022). Eye care competency framework. World Health Organization. ISBN 978-92-4-004841-6.
- ^ Boulton, Matthew L.; Wallace, Robert H. (5 June 2021). Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine: Sixteenth Edition. McGraw Hill Professional. ISBN 978-1-259-64452-8.