Speaker Biography

Kyoko Ohno-Matsui is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Ophthalmology at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU). She is also the Chief of the Advanced Clinical Center for Myopia. She is a founding president of Japan Myopia Society and was the president of the 17th International Myopia Conference in 2019.

She graduated from Yokohama City University Medical School and received her PhD at TMDU.  She did postdoctoral fellowship at Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University. 

Her research focuses on myopia, especially pathologic myopia. She established an international photographic classification of myopic maculopathy. As a method to visualize the shape of the entire globe in high myopes, she established a new technique ‘3D MRI of the eye’ and proposed a novel classification of staphyloma.  She has authored or co-authored 380 manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals.  With Richard Spaide and Lawrence Yannuzzi, she has authored 2 textbooks on myopia. She also authored an atlas on pathologic myopia, effectively sharing her expertise with a wider audience. She has been awarded The J. Donald Gass Medal at the Macula Society in 2022 and The Jose Rizal Medal at Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology in 2023.