Dr KEE Chea-su Assoc. Head(SO), ADoRCSV & Associate Professor

Location HJ535
Phone +852 2766 7941
mail c.kee@polyu.edu.hk

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Biography Dr Kee is an Associate Professor teaching Optometry subjects related to clinical and ophthalmic dispensing at the School of Optometry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his Bachelor degree in Optometry from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He later obtained his Masters and PhD degrees from the City College of New York and University of Houston, respectively. Before returning to Hong Kong, Dr Kee was an Assistant Professor in Physiological Optics at the New England College of Optometry in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.




Education and Academic Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy, University of Houston
Master of Arts (Biology/Neuroscience), City University of New York
Bachelor of Science in Optometry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University




Professional Qualifications Fellow of Association of British Dispensing Opticians




Research Interests
Myopia
Astigmatism
Emmetropization
Nature and nurture of normal and abnormal refractive development
Mechanisms underlying refractive development using animal models
Development and application of novel biomedical devices to guide eye growth
Ophthalmic optics dispensing and management of patients with refractive errors



Research Output

Selected Publications
Chu CHG, Kee CS. Effects of Optically Imposed Astigmatism on Early Eye Growth in Chicks. Hejtmancik JF, ed. PLoS ONE. 2015;10(2):e0117729.
Xi LY, Yip SP, Shan SW, Summers-Rada J, Kee CS, Region-specific differential corneal and scleral mRNA expressions of MMP2, TIMP2, and TGFB2 in highly myopic-astigmatic chicks. Sci Rep. 2017; 7: 11423.
Kang BS, Wang LK, Zheng YP, Guggenheim JA, Stell WK & Kee CS. High myopia induced by form deprivation is associated with altered corneal biomechanical properties in chicks. PLOS ONE 2018, 13, e0207189.
Troilo D, Smith ELIII, Nickla DL, Ashby R, Tkatchenko AV, Ostrin LA, Gawne TJ, Pardue MT, Summers JA; Kee CS; Schroedl F, Wahl S, Jones L IMI - Report on Experimental Models of Emmetropization and Myopia.Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2019; 60(3): M31-M88.