Prof. TO Chi-ho
Visiting Chair Professor of Experimental Optometry, School of Optometry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Scientific Director, Centre for Eye and Vision Research Limited; Founder and Director, Vision Science and Technology Company Limited
Prof. To Chi-ho’s remarkable achievements in innovative vision science research and myopia control are internationally recognised. He led a research team to invent a novel method to control the progression of myopia (short-sightedness) known as Defocus Incorporated Soft Contact Lens (DISC lens). Clinical trial has shown that DISC lens effectively slows down myopia progression by about 60% in Hong Kong school children aged 8 to 13. DISC lens won the Gold Medal with Jury’s Commendation as well as the Grand Prize of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in the 39th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in 2011. Prof. To and his team later developed the Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments Spectacle Lenses (DIMS lens), the eyeglasses version of DISC lens. DIMS lens snatched the Grand Prize and Gold Medal with Jury’s Commendation at the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in 2018, as well as 2020 SILMO d’Or Award (Vision) at the 2020 SILMO Optical Fair in France. The project known as Novel High Efficacy Nano Multi-ring Defocus Incorporated Spectacle Lens for Myopia Control co-developed by Prof. To also won the Prize of the State of Geneva and a Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva in 2023.
Dr HO Kam-chun
Lecturer, Discipline of Optometry and Vision Science, School of Health Science, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra
Dr Ho Kam-chun is a Lecturer at the University of Canberra, an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and a Fellow of America Academy of Optometry. After the completion of his PhD in UNSW, he has been focusing his research on evidence-based healthcare delivery; health economics; patient-centred outcomes; and public health, vision, and ageing. As a leader in many research projects, Dr Ho shows sophisticated skills in managing and directing study designs, including observational studies, randomised clinical trials, data linkage analysis and systematic literature reviews. Being an early-career researcher, he has published 21 peer-reviewed papers in the subjects of epidemiology, evidence-based healthcare delivery, and quality of clinical practice guidelines on highly ranked international journals, such as Ophthalmology, and Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle. Dr Ho is also dedicated to contributing to the research community and his peer review for Translation Vision Science & Technology (TVST) in 2021 earned the recognition of an “Exceptionally Good Review”, an honour only given to the top few reviews found to be most insightful, authoritative and helpful.
