Van Charles Lansingh
{{Short description|Mexican ophthalmologist and public health expert}}
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Van Charles Lansingh is a Mexican ophthalmologist, clinician-scientist and author, specialising in public health. He is currently a faculty at Mexican Institute of Ophthalmology (IMO), Querétaro, Mexico where he serves as Director, International Affairs. He is also a voluntary assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami,{{Cite web |date=27 January 2023 |title=Dr. Rohit Varma Shares Eye-Disease Research at the 2nd Mexico-United States Symposium on Vision Health |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dr-rohit-varma-shares-eye-201800850.html |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=Yahoo Finance |language=en-US}} and serves as the chief medical officer at HelpMeSee, a global non-profit training organization.{{Cite web |date=9 January 2023 |title=HelpMeSee: Transforming Lives Through Training |url=https://theophthalmologist.com/subspecialties/helpmesee-transforming-lives-through-training |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=The Ophthalmologist |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Epidemiology and Population Health Sciences Division|url=https://publichealth.med.miami.edu/divisions/epidemiology-and-population-health-sciences/faculty/voluntary-faculty/index.html |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=publichealth.med.miami.edu |language=en}}
Early life and education
Lansingh completed his residency in ophthalmology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico in Mexico City, in 1987. Following this, he obtained his PhD from University of Melbourne in Australia. His thesis was on primary health care approach to trachoma control in Aboriginal communities in Central Australia.{{Cite thesis |last=Lansingh |first=Van Charles |date=2005 |title=Primary health care approach to trachoma control in Aboriginal communities in Central Australia |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Melbourne |hdl=11343/39007 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/11343/39007}}
Career
He was appointed at the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness as the regional coordinator in Latin America.{{Cite web |title=VISION 2020 and Me: Van Lansingh |url=https://www.iapb.org/blog/vision-2020-and-me-van-lansingh/ |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness |language=en-GB}} He was appointed as chief medical officer at HelpMeSee, a global training organisation that aims to reduce the burden of cataract related blindness through training ophthalmologists using simulation-based technologies.{{Cite web |date=22 November 2022 |title=Value of simulation-based training for cataract surgery highlighted in new articles in Indian Journal of Ophthalmology |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/value-simulation-based-training-cataract-125100561.html |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=Yahoo Finance |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Our Medical Officers {{!}} HelpMeSee |url=https://helpmesee.org/medical-officers/ |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=helpmesee.org}} He served as a reviewer to the World report on vision, published by the World Health Organisation.https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/documents/publications/world-vision-report-accessible.pdf Lansingh has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications in medical journals{{Cite web |title=Lansingh VC - Search Results - PubMed |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Lansingh+VC&sort=date |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=PubMed |language=en}} and his papers have received over 75000 citations.{{Cite web |title=Van C. Lansingh |url=https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=oXZ_5JQAAAAJ&hl=es |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=scholar.google.es}}
Lansingh regularly features in the top 2% of the most-cited researchers globally across all specialities (published annually by Elsevier).{{Cite journal |last1=Baas |first1=Jeroen |last2=Boyack |first2=Kevin |last3=Ioannidis |first3=John P. A. |date=19 October 2021 |title=August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" |url=https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3 |language=en |volume=3 |journal=Elsevier Data Repository |publisher=Elsevier BV |doi=10.17632/btchxktzyw.3}}
Awards and honors
- International Blindness Prevention awarded by the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 2016.{{Cite web |title=2016 International Blindness Prevention Awardee: Van Charles Lansingh, MD - American Academy of Ophthalmology |url=https://www.aao.org/about/awards/blindness-prevention/van-c-lansingh |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=www.aao.org}}
- Vision Excellence Award by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.{{Cite web |title=Vision Excellence Awards: Van Lansingh |url=https://www.iapb.org/connect/members/vision-excellence-awards/vision-excellence-awards-van-lansingh/ |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness |language=en-GB}}
- Benjamin F. Boyd Humanitarian Award by the Pan-American Congress of Ophthalmology in 2017.{{Cite web |title=Dr Van Lansingh to receive the 2017 Benjamin F. Boyd Humanitarian Award |url=https://www.iapb.org/news/dr-van-lansingh-to-receive-the-2017-benjamin-f-boyd-humanitarian-award/ |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness |language=en-GB}}
- Kupfer Award by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in 2019.{{Cite web |title=The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology- ARVO Awards Recipients: Chronological |url=https://www.arvo.org/awards-grants-and-fellowships/arvo-achievement-awards/arvo-awards-recipients-chronological/ |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=www.arvo.org}}
- Induction into Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, a university-centered international organisation with only 100 active chairs. The requirements for membership include active engagement in ophthalmology for at least 15 years and over 100 scientific papers published.{{Cite web |title=A-O-INT.org - Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis {{!}} AOI |url=https://www.a-o-int.org/ |access-date=2 June 2023 |language=en-US}}
Selected Books/Chapters
- Eyes: For Teachers and Health Workers{{Cite book |last1=Lansingh |first1=Van Charles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pe8TPQAACAAJ |title=Eyes: For Teachers and Health Workers |last2=Buzolic |first2=James Gerard |date=2000 |publisher=Christian Blind Mission International - Australia |isbn=978-0-908545-08-7 |language=en}}
- Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS){{Cite book |last1=Arshinoff |first1=Steve A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3A9vEAAAQBAJ |title=Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS): Global History and Methodology |last2=Claoue |first2=Charles |last3=Johansson |first3=Bjorn |last4=Perez-Silguero |first4=David |last5=Qi |first5=Susan Ruyu |last6=Chen |first6=Mike Yuan |last7=Hebert |first7=Melanie |date=19 November 2022 |publisher=Academic Press |isbn=978-0-323-95310-8 |language=en}}
- Innovative Approaches in the Delivery of Primary and Secondary Eye Care{{Cite book |last1=Khanna |first1=Rohit C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8l-DwAAQBAJ |title=Innovative Approaches in the Delivery of Primary and Secondary Eye Care |last2=Rao |first2=Gullapalli N. |last3=Marmamula |first3=Srinivas |date=12 December 2018 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-98014-0 |language=en}}
- International Encyclopedia of Public Health{{Cite book |last=Cockerham |first=William C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAnpCgAAQBAJ |title=International Encyclopedia of Public Health |date=6 October 2016 |publisher=Academic Press |isbn=978-0-12-803708-9 |language=en}}
- Primary Health Care Approach to Trachoma Control in Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia{{Cite book |last=Lansingh |first=Van Charles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3m-lNAAACAAJ |title=Primary Health Care Approach to Trachoma Control in Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia |date=2005 |publisher=University of Melbourne, Centre for Eye Research Australia |language=en}}
- Eye Care Competency Framework by World Health Organisation{{Cite book |last=Organization |first=World Health |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5e1vEAAAQBAJ |title=Eye care competency framework |date=12 May 2022 |publisher=World Health Organization |isbn=978-92-4-004841-6 |language=en}}
- Maxcy-Rosenau - Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine: Sixteenth Edition{{Cite book |last1=Boulton |first1=Matthew L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f38wEAAAQBAJ |title=Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine: Sixteenth Edition |last2=Wallace |first2=Robert H. |date=5 June 2021 |publisher=McGraw Hill Professional |isbn=978-1-259-64452-8 |language=en}}
References
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Category:Mexican ophthalmologists
Category:Mexican epidemiologists
Category:Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences