Prof Dr Mohammad Javed Ali

Mohammad Javed Ali is an internationally recognized Clinician-Scientist, Medical Historian, and the former Editor-in-Chief of the journal ‘Seminars in Ophthalmology’. He was instrumental in the development of the science of Dacryology globally and heads the Govindram Seksaria Institute of Dacryology at the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute in India. Javed is also the Distinguished Alumni Chair of Ophthalmology and Director, Clinician-Scientist Development Program at the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute. He is part of the prestigious Global Minds Initiative of Germany and holds seven International Professorships, including the Hong-Leong Professor at NUHS, Singapore, and DAAD Professor of Ophthalmology and Anatomy at the Friedrich-Alexander University, Nuremberg, Germany. He is also a visiting professor at the Wojskowy Instytut Medyczny in Warsaw, Poland; the Krasnov Research Institute in Moscow; and Fatima University Medical Center in the Philippines. Javed is among the recipients of the prestigious Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Prize and the Senior Alexander Von Humboldt Award by the AvH Foundation, Germany. He is also the recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (Vigyan Yuva Ratna) and is the JC Bose National Fellow, the highest multi-disciplinary scientific award conferred by the Government of India. He described three new diseases of the lacrimal system along with their classifications and clinicopathologic profiles. He was honored twice by the AAO-ASOPRS ‘Merrill Reeh’ Award for his work on lacrimal pathophysiology in 2015 and 2026, a rare distinction. He is on the editorial board of 19 mainstream journals, associate editor for the journals ‘Survey of Ophthalmology’, ‘The Ocular Surface’, ‘European Journal of Ophthalmology’, ‘Graefes Archives of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology’, and ‘Ophthalmic Research’, and has to his credit 844 publications, including 7 books, at the time of this writing, and has delivered 416 conference lectures, including 27 keynote addresses. He holds memberships in 28 societies and has conducted 26 instruction courses and 34 live surgical workshops, and has been honored with 49 national and international awards, including the 2020 American Academy – ASOPRS ‘Lester T Jones’ award for outstanding scientific contributions to the science of Ophthalmic Plastics Surgery and the Bin Shakar Prize for Research. He has been consistently ranked as Stanford’s top 2% scientists every year since its inception. He has also been honored with honorary life membership of national societies from Poland, Israel, and the Philippines for his contributions to science.