In Search of Excellence: From a Small Clinical Unit to an Internationally Recognized Center for Orbital Diseases Research and Surgery at the Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, China.

ABSTRACT "Where there is a will, there is a way." It is never easy to make progress and development but with full dedication and firm commitment, many aspirations can still be realized. We would like to share with the readers the story of how we develop our division of orbital diseases and surgery from scratch to strengths over a period of 2 decades at the Department of Ophthalmology of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China.