Michael Y. Wong, a former West Windsor resident who received Princeton HealthCare System’s Distinguished Physician Humanitarian award two years ago, received a New Jersey Inventor’s Hall of Fame Innovators Award on October 24. An ophthalmologist, he is a member of Princeton Eye Group, a founding member of the National Glaucoma Project, and an original member of EyeCare America.##M:[more]##
Not only has he provided free eye care for seniors and the indigent in this country, he organized and financed an eye camp in Oshakanti, Namibia, a war-torn area with no ophthalmologists.
He also performed numerous eye surgeries in Juliaca, a Peruvian mountain village in the Andes.
According to Wong, he was nominated by Sam Goldfarb, a board member of the University Medical Center at Princeton for the “Wong Way,” an internationally recognized micro technique for cataract surgery.
“The self-sealing wounds has lifted the bar for cataract surgery by reducing the rate of infections and eliminated the need for sutures,” he says.
“There are 3 million cataract surgeries performed in the country every year and it has benefited many people.”
Wong, a graduate of an accelerated program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, received his medical training at Albany Medical College, and did his residency at Wills Eye Hospital.
One of the first doctors in New Jersey to perform radial keratotomy 24 years ago, he is now one of the first in New Jersey to use implants in the eyes to reduce dependence on eyeglasses and bifocals and problems with astigmatism.
His parents, Kit and Jeannette Wong, are longtime West Windsor residents.
