Dr. Ying is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Associate Scholar in Biostatistics, and Director of the Biostatistical Consulting Service in the Center for Preventive Ophthalmology and Biostatistics. Dr. Ying received his MD from P.R. China and Ph.D. in Biostatistics from University of Pennsylvania in 2004. Dr. Ying is the Principal Investigator or the Director of the Data Coordinating Center for several NIH-funded studies on retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), age-related macular degeneration, and the co-investigator or senior biostatistician for several NIH-funded multi-center clinical trials or observational studies. Dr. Ying collaborates with investigators for the study design, data management, statistical analysis, data interpretation and manuscript writing for the multi-center clinical studies. Dr. Ying has extensive experience in proving biostatistical consulting service to the biomedical investigators, mostly in vision and ophthalmology community. Dr. Ying’s statistical methodologic research interest is the development of risk prediction models for eye diseases and statistical analysis for correlated data. Dr. Ying has authored and co-authored 230+ papers in peer-reviewer journals.

Terms of Appointment: Sep 2018 – Aug 2020