Professor Calvin CP PANG
In thankfulness we enter into celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Joint Shantou International Eye Center (JSIEC) of Shantou University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. We are grateful to all who have supported us over the years. We treasure our work to educate students and train professional staff in ophthalmic services. We appreciate our tasks to serve patients. With determination, we look into the future to enhance our clinical service, research, training, education and community services.
JSIEC was established in 2002 on a RMB 70-million donation from the Li Ka Shing Foundation and collaboration between the Shantou University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. As a specialist eye hospital, the JSIEC integrates medical service, research, education and blindness prevention. We are a non-profit tertiary eye hospital under the health department of Guangdong province and the fifth affiliated hospital of Shantou university medical college.
The JSIEC is devoted not only to providing the best patient care, but also to training and cultivating a new generation of outstanding eye doctors, and to promoting the cause of corneal donations in China.
Since its inauguration in 2002, the JSIEC, at its present premises with a floor area of about 10,000 square meters, has developed into a major eye center in southern China, providing ophthalmic service to over 20 million people in Shantou and the surrounding regions.
With the current workload of about 250,000 outpatients and 20,000 surgeries a year and still rising, plus active research works and community services, we are expecting a new hospital complex in near future.
The JSIEC has completed construction on its new East Coast Division complex in Jul 2024. This project is a key construction project under Shantou′s Three-Year Action Plan for High-Quality Healthcare Development (2024-2026). Spanning a total floor area of 57,000 square metres and with more than 200 eye doctors, this modern two-tower complex will serve up to 1 million outpatients annually.
In addition to the ophthalmic patient services, the complex will house an Advanced Ophthalmic Research Centre. This will provide state-of-the-art facilities for JSIEC research staff and international collaborators to advance ophthalmology through clinical services, teaching, and scientific research. The new East Coast Division hospital complex further demonstrates the JSIEC′s commitment to the advancement of ophthalmology and visual sciences in southern China.
On 24th June 2017, JSIEC celebrated her 15th anniversary with publicity events and a scientific symposium. Prof Calvin CP PANG, Director of JSIEC, Prof ZHANG Mingzhi, Vice-Director (Executive) of JSIEC, Prof Clement CY THAM, our Chairman, Prof CHEN Mohuai, Party Secretary of Shantou University Medical College, and Dr Frieda MK LAW, Consultant of Li Ka Shing Foundation, officiated the anniversary events.
All speakers expressed appreciation of the accomplishments of JSIEC in clinical work, research, training, education, and community services over the last 15 years, and gratefulness to all staff for their dedication and persistence in good work. Prof Pang gave directives for high quality work in years to come, with anticipation of the new hospital complex. Visiting Prof Paul N BAIRD from The University of Melbourne delivered a keynote lecture on ″Gene Mapping of Eye Diseases: Concepts & Technologies″, highlighting recent progress in ophthalmic genetic research for future innovations in vision science. Guests, professors and students from both JSIEC, our department and other research institutions also shared their expertise in ophthalmology through the scientific symposium.
