The Carolyn F. Jones Professorship of Ophthalmology
The Professorship was established in 1996 by the bequest of Carolyn F. Jones (1903–1993). The chair is awarded to an outstanding faculty member in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Scheie Eye Institute.
Mrs. Jones was a generous supporter of hospitals, universities, and many other charities from her home in southern California, where she moved following her marriage to the lawyer Berkeley F. Jones (1903–1957) in 1950. They met during her 10-year career as Office Manager at the Stang Medical Clinic in New York City.
Mrs. Jones, who had grown up in Rosewell, NM, and graduated from business college in St. Louis, MO, enjoyed traveling the world, and graciously remembered her family’s Penn connections in her will. In addition to endowing this chair, she also created a Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania Law School honoring her brother, James L. Johnson (1906–1989), a graduate of the Class of 1933.
Current Chairholder
Dr. Gui-shuang Ying, MD, PhD
Dr. Gui-shuang Ying is the Carolyn F. Jones Professor of Ophthalmology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Director of the Center for Preventive Ophthalmology and Biostatistics in the Department of Ophthalmology and Associate Scholar in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics.
Dr. Ying has been the Principal Investigator or Data Coordinating Center Principal Investigator for several NIH-funded large-scale multi-center national and international clinical trials and epidemiological studies for eye diseases. As the the Biostatistics Module Director of the Vision Core Grant funded by the National Eye Institute of NIH, Dr. Ying leads a team of MS biostatisticians providing biostatistical services to investigators across Penn and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on many collaborative projects.
Dr. Ying’s research focuses on the design, conduct, and statistical analysis of clinical trials and epidemiological studies for eye diseases, developing prediction models for eye diseases and statistical analysis for correlated eye data. Dr. Ying led the statistical analysis for several successfully completed clinical trials that led to primary result publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, and Lancet as well as many secondary analysis papers published in top ophthalmology journals. Dr. Ying is currently leading the Data Coordinating Center for two multi-center clinical trials. He has published numerous papers on the development and validation of risk prediction models for eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy of prematurity. Dr. Ying leads a series of tutorial papers for promoting the statistical analysis of correlated eye data. He has authored or co-authored 390 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Ying is Associate Editor for Translational Vision Science & Technology, and for Ophthalmic Epidemiology, as well as a panel member for the American Academy of Ophthalmology Preferred Practice Pattern® Retina/Vitreous Committee. Dr. Ying is a fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. He has received many awards, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Achievement Award, Outstanding Achievement Award from OCAVER (the Overseas Chinese Association for Vision and Eye Research) and the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Pathology Award.
Dr. Ying received an MD in preventive medicine and an MPH in toxicology, both from Zhejiang University in China. In the United States, he received an MS in biostatistics from the University from Michigan in 2000, and a PhD in biostatistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. He was appointed as Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology in 2004, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013, and became full professor in 2020.
Previous Chairholders
- Maureen G. Maguire, PhD