
Suber S. Huang, MD, MBA, FASRS
Retina Center of Ohio
1611 S Green Road
Suite 230
Cleveland, OH 44121-4129
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Suber.Huang@gmail.com
(216) 382-3366 office
(216) 382-4959 fax
Professional Affiliations
Academic Appointments- Voluntary Professor, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Univ Miami
- Hong Leong Professor of Ophthalmology
- National University of Singapore
- Former Philip and Elizabeth Searle - Suber Huang MD Professor and Vice-Chair, Case Western Reserve University
Education and Training
- Retinal fellowship
- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
- Ophthalmology residency
- Wilmer Eye Institute/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Additional fellowship
- Executive MBA Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Internship
- Jacobi Hospital, BMHC, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
- Medical School
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
- Additional fellowship
- Harvard Medical School Cellular and Developmental Biology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
Suber S. Huang, MD, MBA, FASRS is CEO of the Retina Center of Ohio, Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, and Hong Leung Hong Leong Visiting Professor of Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore. He is the Founder/CEO/Executive Producer of the Future Vision Foundation, whose mission celebrates breakthrough vision research through powerful documentaries of discovery, impact, and hope. He created the first-in-kind Future Vision Forum to bring visionary leaders in basic, translational, and clinical research together to seek new directions that accelerate discovery and innovation in vision research. He is on the Board of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, Retina Global, Cleveland Sight Center, and founder of Cell Sight Therapeutics and SH Creative Arts, LLC.
He received his undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University, a medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, an ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute/Johns Hopkins University, and a fellowship in Vitreoretinal Diseases and Surgery from Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/University of Miami. He has graduate training at Harvard University, Wharton School of Business/University of Pennsylvania, and received his Executive MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management/CWRU.
Dr. Huang was formerly President of the American Society of Retina Specialists, Chair of the Foundation of the ASRS, AAO Associate Secretariat of Federal Affairs, and Chair of the Research, Regulatory, and External Scientific Affairs Committee. From 1993-2014, Dr. Huang’s leadership positions in the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences include: Philip and Elizabeth Searle – -Suber Huang MD Professor and Vice-Chair, Residency Program Director, and Director, Center for Retina and Macular Disease. He founded the Retina Diseases Image Analysis Reading Center and was Director of the Visual Sciences Research Center.
Dr. Huang has participated in numerous clinical trials as PI and as Director of the Retina Disease Image Analysis Reading Center at CWRU. He has published widely, given nearly 400 lectures, and has served as Program Chair for retina surgery for the APAO and AAO Retina sub-specialty day. He is/was DMC Chair for the Argus II retina and Orion cortical vision implant programs, ongoing gene therapy trials, stem cell transplant trials in atrophic AMD, and for the world’s largest trial of triple therapy for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. He has active research interests in surgical innovation, gene- and cell-based therapy, and the immunoregulatory properties of stem cells, and was Chair, of the National Eye Health Education Program, NEI/NIH.
Dr. Huang founded the ASRS Retina Image Bank, now the world’s largest and most comprehensive open-access multimedia database of “all things retina”. With over 40,000 images contributed, this site links expertise around the world. In 2023, the Image Bank exceeded three million cumulative page views and has been used in 194 countries representing 99.2% of the world’s population. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the online ASRS Retina Atlas which launched in 2021 and aspires to be the world’s most comprehensive, up-to-date, and continuously iteratively resource for retina knowledge. He is a founding officer of Retina Global an international organization focused on providing sustainable solutions to retinal disease management around the world. Dr. Huang is the AAO representative to the United States Pharmacopeia. He is a Director, Life Trustee, and bioscience advisor to the Anderson Scholars program at the University School.
Dr. Huang is an inductee to the Retina Hall of Fame, has received the “Top Doctors”, and “Best Doctors in America” awards each year since 2003, the AAO Secretariat (2), Senior Honor Awards, ASRS Presidential, Senior Achievement and Honor Awards. He received the APAO Jose Rizal International Medal, APVRS International Award, Chinese Vitreo-Retinal Society Senior Honor Award, Vitreo-Retinal Society of India President’s Award, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine/Wilmer Eye Institute Distinguished Alumnus Award, CWRU Department of Ophthalmology Attending of the Year and cherishes the CWRU Humanism in Medicine award given to the faculty member who most demonstrates compassion and professionalism in the care of patients and their families. Other awards include the Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital Pediatric Innovation, OPS J. Donald M. Gass MD award, International Congress of Ophthalmic Photographers, the National Diversity Council Leadership Excellence Award, and the Cleveland Sight Center Person of the Year. Dr. Huang has produced 12 documentary films including Seven Years of Darkness (best short documentary, National Short Film Festival) and Candle in the Distance (Rhett Buckler award, ASRS Film Fest). In 2023, received the Fight for Sight Vision Research Advocate Award and the ASRS Packo award, given for extraordinary service to the Society and the profession.