Nathan Congdon MD, MPH

Dr. Congdon is Ulverscroft Chair of Global Eye Health at Queen’s University Belfast, where he directs the Translational Research for Equitable Eyecare Centre. He has been a senior advisor and now director of research for ORBIS International since 2009, helping to design and evaluate ORBIS’s rural eye health projects in Asia and to shape the organization’s global strategic approach new challenges such as diabetic eye disease. Dr. Congdon also maintains a position as Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology at Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center (ZOC) in Guangzhou, and was based there and elsewhere in China for nearly ten years until 2015.

Dr. Congdon received an AB degree from Princeton University and an MPhil from Cambridge University in the UK, both in Oriental studies, and is fluent in written and spoken Chinese. His medical and public health education were received at Johns Hopkins University, where he pursued an ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute. He was on faculty at the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health until 2006, when he and his family relocated to China.