Xiulan Zhang
China
Prof. Xiulan Zhang, MD, PhD, glaucoma specialist, is currently at Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, China. She was among the Top 50 Experts in Worldwide Glaucoma Expertscape 2019-2024 and She was listed as the Top 100 most influential people in ophthalmology Power List in 2023 and 2014. She is the Fellow of the Academy of Asia-Pacific Professor of Ophthalmology (AAPPO). She is the board member of the Asia-Pacific Glaucoma Society (APGS), the Asia-Pacific Ocular Imaging Society (APOIS) and International AI in Ophthalmology Society (IAIOph). She serves as the Convener of the Glaucoma Scientific Program of Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO 2024 , 2019 and2018). She was awarded the Distinguished Service Award of APAO in 2021, the Achievement Award of APAO in 2017 and the Prestigious Achievement Award of Ophthalmic Image Analysis in 2019. <br>Prof. Zhang has published 182 SCI articles, with H-index of 44 (Google Scholar). Fourteen high impact articles (IF>10) including Ophthalmology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, NPJ Digital Medicine and Medical Image Analysis. She oversees an extraordinarily productive glaucoma clinical research team that has impacted diagnostics, and our management of myopia and glaucoma surgery. She organized and oversees an international team of glaucoma experts to develop a novel classification system of visual field defects in highly myopic eyes (Ophthalmology 2022 Jul), and bult up a high myopia normative database of pRNFL to detect myopic glaucoma (Ophthalmology 2023 Jul). She created iGlaucoma, an integrated intelligent glaucoma screening platform based on AI and multimodal imaging (NPJ Digital Medicine 2020, Ophthalmology 2022 Jan, Ophthalmology 2022 Feb, Ophthalmology 2022 Aug and Journal of Clinical Investigation 2022 Jun). Prof Zhang also founded a massive annotated public database “iChallenge” (https://ichallenges.grand-challenge.org/). The database covers major blinding diseases including glaucoma, AMD, PM, and DR (Medical Image Analysis 2020 Jan, 2020 Dec, 2021 Apr and 2023 Sept). <br>Prof. Zhang has published four self-authored books by People’s Medical Publishing House which have been spread worldwide with 36,000 copies, Illustrated Surgical Techniques and Pearls of MIGS (2022); Illustrated anterior segment examinations and diagnosis of glaucoma (2020);Illustrated surgical techniques and pearls of glaucoma (2016); Illustrated clinical diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma (2014) and the Chinese translation of 10 books of the WGA Consensus Series. She has given invited lectures for 698 times domestic and overseas. <br>Prof. Zhang has excellent leadership and founded the first clinical research center for Ophthalmology in China that meets international standard. With her guidance, more than 182 clinical trials have been registered and started in ZOC, whose clinical research center now ranking the first-class in China.