Professional Activities:

Awards, Honors, Special Recognition

2014-present:	Visiting Professorship, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
2012	Inaugural Choctaw Nation Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, China.
2011	Loris and David Rich Endowed Lectureship in Visual Sciences, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
2011	American Diabetes Association Magazine, Forefront, featured Investigator.
2010-2012	Visiting Professor, School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou Medical College, China.
2009-2012	Task Group Member, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Initiative for Macular Research.
2008-2012	Visiting Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, China.
2007	Award for Outstanding Contribution to Vision Research (unsolicited), Hope for Vision of Washington D.C.
2006	Young Investigator Travel Award, the XII International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration, 2006.
1998	NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence, National Institutes of Health.
1996-1998:	Visiting Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, National Institute ofDiabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Professional Activity
Professional Memberships

2006-Present	American Diabetes Association.
2001–Present	Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
2001-present	American Association for the Advancement of Science.
2010–2012	International Society for Eye Research.
2004-2006	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Service to Scientific Community

2009-2011	Member, Imaging, Stem Cell, and Cell Biology Task Groups, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Initiative for Macular Research (on atrophic age-related macular degeneration).
2007-present	Moderatorof Regular Sessions, and Organizer and Co-Organizer and Moderator of Special Interest Groups: Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
2004-present	Cre-drive mouse line distributor to vision research community.
2004-2007	Cre/lox plasmids distributor for NIH/NIDDK.

Editorial Board

2011-present	World Journal of Ophthalmology
2012-present	Data Sets in Medicine (Ophthalmology)

Manuscript Review

2014-present	Endocrine
2013-present	American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
2011-present	Journal of Inflammation Research
2011-present	Journal Neuroinflammation
2010-present	Experimental Eye Research
2011-present	Experimental Diabetes Research
2010-present	Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
2010-present	Journal of Ophthalmology
2010-present	Journal of Visualized Experiments
2010-present	Laboratory Investigation (Nature Group)
2010-present	Letters in Drug Design & Discovery
2010-present	Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
2010-present	Molecular Vision
2010-present	Ophthalmic Research
2010-present	PLoS One
2009-present	Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
2008-present	Diabetes
2008-present	Vision Research

Teaching Activities

2007-2013	Lecturing Molecular Genetics (Cell 6331, graduate class)at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Responsibilities also include teaching materials, handouts, and grading. Contact hour: 2 hrs. Enrollment: 10.
2003-present	Lecturing Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Vision (Cell 6321)at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Responsibilities also include teaching materials, and handouts.Contact hour: 2 hrs. Enrollment: 6-10.
2001-present	Lecturing Cellular and Molecular Developmental Biology (Cell 6063) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Responsibilities also include teaching materials, handouts, exams, and grading. Contact hour: 4 hrs. Enrollment: 6-10.
2005-2009	Lecturing Continuing Medical Education in the Department of Medicine (5D30, 6D30, 7D30, 8D30) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Responsibilities also include teaching materials and handouts. Contact hour: 1 hrs. Enrollment: ~10.
2004	Lecturing Vision journal club (BMSB 522) at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Responsibilities also include teaching materials and handouts.  Contact hour: 2 hrs. Enrollment: 15.
1992-1994	Teaching a laboratory session for second year microbiology class (MICR 2100.03A, winter term) at Dalhousie University. Contact hour: 36 hrs. Enrollment: ~40.
1990-1992	Tutoring for first year biology class (Bio 1000) at Dalhousie University Contact hour: 24 hrs. Enrollment: ~30.
1989-1992	Teaching a laboratory session for first year biology class (Bio 1000, both terms) at Dalhousie University Contact hour: 72 hrs. Enrollment: ~30.
1986-1988	Course Director and Lecturer, Enzyme and Protein Biochemistry, a biochemistry class as continuing educations for employees in Dong-Feng Biochemical Reagent Factory, an affiliation of Shanghai Institute of biochemistry, ChineseAcademy of Sciences. Responsibilities also include teaching materials, handouts, exams, and grading. Contact hour: 36 hrs. Enrollment: ~20.