Education

1978-1983   Wenzhou Medical College   BD

1983-1998   Wenzhou Medical College   MD  

 

Academic Experience

1986 - 1989	Teacher, Department of Ophthalmology, Wenzhou Medical College
1989 - 1993	Deputy Director, Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical College
1993 - 2002	Vice President, Wenzhou Medical College
1998	Director, Eye Hospital Affiliated with Wenzhou Medical College
2002 - 2015	President, Wenzhou Medical University
2015 - 2020	Dean, School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University
2018 - Present	General President, Wenzhou Medical University Eye Hospital Group
2021-Present	Director, Research Cluster for Ocular Diseases and Visual Function Rehabilitation, Oujiang Laboratory

 

Overview of Academic Research

Professor Qu Jia is a pioneering founder of higher education in ophthalmic optometry in China. He integrated ophthalmology with optometry to establish the nation's first Ophthalmic Optometry program at Wenzhou Medical College in 1988, followed by founding China's first specialized eye hospital in 1998. He has led more than twenty universities across the country in establishing related higher education programs. He pioneered the "Chinese Wenzhou Model" of ophthalmic optometry education, which has received high international recognition and acclaim. His main research focuses include:

1.  Ophthalmic Optometry Medicine and Optometry; basic and clinical research on the prevention and control of myopia.

2.  Functional eye diseases research, and ophthalmic instrument development.

 

Major Honor and Awards

2018	Awarded the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Science and Technology (Medicine and Pharmacy Award) .
2018	Received the Tan Jiazhen Clinical Medicine Award .
2020	Selected as a member of the first cohort of the National Health Science Popularization Expert Database .
2022	Honored with the title of "National Top Ten Outstanding Contribution Hospital Management Expert" .
2024	Awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Myopia Conference.

 

Representative Research Achievements

1.Photoinduced synthesis of 2-substituted benzimidazoles as effective ophthalmology drugs mediated by new heterojunction Fe3O4/ZnO

2. Inhibition of the rapamycin-insensitive mTORC1 /4E-BP1 axis attenuates TGF-β1-induced fibrotic response in human Tenon's fibroblasts

3. Degradation of Photopic and Mesopic Contrast Sensitivity Function in High Myopes With Partial Posterior Vitreous Detachment

4. The influence of eyelid pressure and eye contour factors on rigid corneal contact lens fitting

5. Reduced contrast sensitivity function is correlated with changes to cone photoreceptors in simple high myopia

6. Protocol for detecting rare and common genetic associations in whole-exome sequencing studies using MAGICpipeline