- TFOS global ambassadors and international chapter affiliate
People’s Republic of China (TFOS China)
Yang Liu
Yang Liu, MD, is the Secretary of TFOS China.
Dr. Liu is an Associate Professor and a Vice Chief physician in the Department of Ophthalmology in the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University. She was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. David A. Sullivan at the Schepens Eye Research Institute (SERI) of Massachusetts Eye and Ear and the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS; Boston, MA, USA), and was promoted to the faculty as an SERI instructor and HMS investigator. Dr. Liu has published over 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including co-authorships of Subcommittee reports from TFOS DEWS II and TFOS Lifestyle Workshop. She has won multiple awards from the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) and The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). She owns four international, and one Chinese, patent(s). Her major research interests focus on dry eye disease, meibomian gland dysfunction, and systemic disease-associated ocular surface disease.