Jia Yin

Dr. Yin is a full-time member of the Mass Eye and Ear Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service, and specializes in corneal and external diseases, cataract surgery, corneal transplantation, and refractive surgery.

Dr. Yin treats common and rare eye conditions including dry eye disease, corneal dystrophies, infection, immune disorders, keratoconus, and eye injury. Dr. Yin performs complex cataract surgery, corneal transplantation, refractive surgery, corneal crosslinking, pterygium surgery and ocular surface reconstruction.

Dr. Yin also conducts basic and clinical research in the areas of corneal angiogenesis, innervation, inflammation, wound healing, dry eye disease, ocular graft-versus-host disease, and corneal dystrophy. She is the principle investigator of several federally funded research projects to investigate treatment for chemical injury to the eye, limbal stem cell deficiency, and other ocular surface diseases.

Companies

• Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School (2019)
• Cornea Specialist and Vision Scientist Mass. Eye and Ear (2017)
• Instructor Harvard Medical School (2017 — 2018)
• Cornea Fellow, Clinical and Research Mass. Eye and Ear (2015 — 2017)
• Ophthalmology Resident Kresge Eye Institute (2012 — 2015)
• Intern Sinai-Grace Hospital (2011 — 2012)
• Research Scientist Wayne State University School of Medicine (2009 — 2011)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Wayne State University
• M.D. Capital University of Medical Sciences
• Master of Public Health - MPH Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health