Emily Chew
American ophthalmologist
Emily Ying Chew is an American ophthalmologist and an expert on the human retina with a strong clinical and research interest in diabetic eye disease and age-related eye diseases. She currently works for the National Eye Institute (NEI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, where she serves as deputy director of the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications (DECA) and the Institute's deputy clinical director. She designs and implements Phase 1, 2 and 3 clinical trials at the NIH Clinical Center. Chew is board certified in ophthalmology.
Education
Chew obtained her M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1977 and completed her ophthalmology residency there. She began her career as an ophthalmologist while studying under Brenda Gallie, M.D., a retinoblastoma expert at the University of Toronto.
Career
Chew completed her medical retina fellowships at the Wilmer Eye Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. In 1983, she became board certified in ophthalmology.
From 1983 to 1986, Chew was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Toronto. In 1987, she joined the Clinical Trials Branch of the NIH's National Eye Institute.
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