Prof. Wang Yan achieved M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Tianjin Medical University and had fellowships in the Department of Ophthalmology at Otago University, New Zealand. She further studied at the Royal Ear & Eye Hospital, Melbourne University, Australia, and at Theo Seiler, Institute für Refraktive and Ophthalmo-Chirurgie (IROC), Zürich, Switzerland, awarded by the China Scholarship Council Youth Scholarship.  She is the first surgon to have advanced femtosecond laser small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) surgery in China. at a leading position over China and also gains a high reputation in the refractive surgery field. She has operated on more than 80,000 refractive surgeries and more than 20,000 SMILE procedures. As the head trainer of the national training center, over 600 surgeons from China and other Asian countries have been trained. She has presented more than 300 lectures at national and international conferences, such as ASCRS, ESCRS, WOC, etc. She is the director of the Chinese Society of Refractive Surgery (CSRS) and a member of the International Society of Refraction Surgery (ISRS).