Course Co-Directors
Philip J. Rosenfeld, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Harry W. Flynn, Jr., MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
The J. Donald M. Gass Distinguished Chair in Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Thomas A. Albini, MD
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Robert Z. & Nancy J. Greene Chair in Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Speakers
Hasenin Al-Khersan, MD
Retina Consultants of Texas
Houston, TX
Jayakrishna Ambati, MD
DuPont Guerry, III, Professor of Ophthalmology
Vice Chair for Research
Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Vision Science
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA
Mark R. Barakat, MD
Director of Clinical Research
Retina Macula Institute of Arizona
Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ
Andrew J. Barkmeier, MD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Caroline Baumal, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Tufts University School of Medicine
New England Eye Center
Boston, MA
Sara Beqiri, MD
Postdoctoral Associate, Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Alessandro Berni, MD
San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Department of Ophthalmology
Milan, Italy
Robert Bhisitkul, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Barbara A. Blodi, MD, MALD
Matthew D. Davis Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Retina Research Foundation Daniel M. Albert Chair
McPherson Eye Research Institute
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
David S. Boyer, MD
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Senior Partner, Retina-Vitreous Associates Medical Group
Los Angeles, CA
David M. Brown, MD, FACS
Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
Director of Clinical Research
Retina Consultants of Houston
Houston, TX
Peter A. Campochiaro, MD
George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Professor of Ophthalmology and
Neuroscience, Wilmer Eye Institute
Director, Retinal Cell and Molecular Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Usha Chakravarthy, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences
Queens University Belfast
Royal Victoria Hospital (The Belfast Trust)
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Varun Chaudhary, MD, FRCS(C)
Professor of Surgery, McMaster University
Academic Head of Ophthalmology, McMaster University
Chief of Ophthalmology, Hamilton Regional Eye Institute,
St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton & Hamilton Health Science
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada
Gemmy Cheung, MBBS, FRCOphth, FAMS, MCI
Head and Senior Consultant, Medical Retina Department
Singapore National Eye Center
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Singapore
Emily Y. Chew, MD
Senior Investigator
Director, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications
National Eye Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
W. Lloyd Clark, MD
Palmetto Retina Center, LLC
West Columbia, SC
Karl G. Csaky, MD, PhD
T. Boone Pickens Director
Clinical Center of Innovation for Macular Degeneration
Managing and Medical Director
Retina Foundation of the Southwest
Dallas, TX
Christine A. Curcio, PhD, FARVO
White-McKee Endowed Professor
Director, AMD Histopathology Lab
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Heersink School of Medicine
Birmingham, AL
Carl Danzig, MD
Director, Vitreo-Retinal Services
Rand Eye Institute
Deerfield Beach, FL
Dilsher S. Dhoot, MD
California Retina Consultants
Santa Barbara, CA
Diana V. Do, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Byers Eye Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA
Amitha Domalpally, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Research Director, Wisconsin Reading Center
Assistant Professor, A-EYE Research Unit Scientific Director
McPherson Eye Research Institute
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
David Eichenbaum, MD
Director of Research
Retina Vitreous Associates of Florida
Collaborative Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida
St. Petersburg, FL
Kenneth C. Fan, MD, MBA
Retina Consultants of Texas
Houston, TX
Monika Fleckenstein, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
John A. Moran Eye Center
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Martin Friedlander, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, the Scripps Research Institute
Chief, Retina Services, Division of Ophthalmology, Scripps Clinic
President, The Lowy Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, CA
Roger A. Goldberg, MD, MBA
Bay Area Retina Associates
Walnut Creek, CA
Robyn Guymer, MBBS, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology, Melbourne University
Deputy Director, Centre for Eye Research Australia
Senior Retina Specialist, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
Allen C. Ho, MD, FACS, FASRS
Director, Retina Research Wills Eye Hospital
Professor of Ophthalmology
Wills Eye Institute
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA
Nancy M. Holekamp, MD
Principal Global Medical Science Leader
Roche Pharmaceuticals
Basel, Switzerland
Frank G. Holz, MD, FEBO, FARVO
Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology
University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany
Yunchan Hwang, PhD
Graduate Research Assistant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Michael S. Ip, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Glenn J. Jaffe, MD
Robert Machemer Professor of Ophthalmology
Chief, Vitreoretinal Division
Director, Duke Reading Center
Duke Eye Center
Durham, NC
Peter K. Kaiser, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Chaney Family Endowed Chair of Ophthalmology Research
Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine
Cole Eye Institute
Cleveland, OH
Pearse Keane, MD
Professor of Artificial Medical Intelligence
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital
London, United Kingdom
Arshad M. Khanani, MD, MA, FASRS
Director of Clinical Research, Sierra Eye Associates
Clinical Professor
University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Reno, NV
Baruch D. Kuppermann, MD, PhD
Steinert Endowed Professor
Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Director, Gavin Herbert Eye Institute
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
Eleonora M. Lad, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Duke University Medical Center
Duke University
Durham, NC
David R. Lally, MD, FASRS
Director, Retina Research Institute
New England Retina Consultants
Springfield, MA
Byron L. Lam, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Dr. Mark J. Daily Chair in Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Viet-Hoan Le, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Aaron Y. Lee, MD, MSCI
Arthur W. Stickle Distinguished Professor and Chairman
John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Tong (Linda) Li, MD, PhD
National Clinical Research Center of Eye Disease
Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai General Hospital
Shanghai Eye Research Institute
School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
Jennifer I. Lim, MD
Marion H. Schenk Esq. Chair in Ophthalmology
UIC Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Illinois
Chicago, IL
Anat Loewenstein, MD
Professor and Head of Retina, Division of Ophthalmology
Tel Aviv Medical Center
VP Ambulatory Services
President, Euretina
Sydney Fox Chair of Ophthalmology
Tel Aviv University
President, Israeli Ophthalmological Society
Tel Aviv, Israel
Ivan Lylyk, MD
ENERI
Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Matthew MacCumber, MD, PhD, FASRS
Illinois Retina Associates
Chicago, IL
Toshinori Murata, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Shinshu University
Matsumoto, Japan
Quan Dong Nguyen, MD, MSc, FAAO, FASRS
Professor of Ophthalmology
Byers Eye Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Dante Pieramici, MD
California Retina Consultants
Santa Barbara, CA
Giuseppe Querques, MD, PhD
Head - Medical Retina & Imaging Unit
Department of Ophthalmology
University Vita Salute
Milan, Italy
Carl D. Regillo, MD, FACS, FASRS
Director, Retina Service
Wills Eye Hospital
Professor of Ophthalmology
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA
SriniVas R. Sadda, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Doheny Eye Institute, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Mario J. Saravia, MD, PhD
Chair, Buenos Aires Macula Clinical Research
Buenos Aires, Argentina
David Sarraf, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Professor Dr. Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth
Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Marc Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair
John A. Moran Eye Center
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Roy Schwartz, MD, PhD
Retina Specialist and Data Scientist
Moorfields Eye Hospital
London, England
Sumit Sharma, MD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Vice Chair Integrated Surgical Institute
Medical Director Information Technology - Ophthalmology
Vitreoretinal Surgery and Uveitis
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Linus (Liangbo) Shen, MD
Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellow
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Mengxi Shen, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Veeral Sheth, MD, MBA, FACS, FASRS
Director of Clinical Research, University Retina and Macula Associates
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago
Chicago, IL
Lawrence Singerman, MD
Voluntary Professor of Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH
Rishi P. Singh, MD
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Cleveland Clinic Martin Health North and South Hospitals
Professor of Ophthalmology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Stuart, FL
Giovanni Staurenghi, MD, FARVO, FEBO
Professor of Ophthalmology
Chairmen Eye Clinic
Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
Luigi Sacco Hospital
University of Milan
Milan, Italy
Nathan C. Steinle, MD
California Retina Consultants
Santa Barbara, CA
Jennifer K. Sun, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Omer Trivizki, MD, MBA
Research Associate
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Nadia K. Waheed, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Tufts Medical School
Tufts New England Eye Center
Boston, MA
Fenghua Wang, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Shanghai Jiaotong University
Shanghai, China
Ruikang (Ricky) Wang, PhD
Professor, Bioengineering & Ophthalmology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
John A. Wells, III, MD
Palmetto Retina Center
Columbia, SC
Charles C. Wykoff, MD, PhD
Retina Consultants of Texas
Retina Consultants of America
Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, TX
Seung-Young Yu, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Chair of Department
Kyung Hee University School of Medicine
Seoul, South Korea
David N. Zacks, MD, PhD
Edna H. Perkiss Research Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center
Ann Arbor, MI
Sandy Wenting Zhou, MBBS, MMed (Ophth), FAMS, FRCOphth
Vitreoretinal Specialist
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Singapore
Moderators
Janet L. Davis, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Leach Chair in Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Maura Di Nicola, MD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Sander R. Dubovy, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Victor T. Curtin Chair in Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Giovanni Gregori, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Ninel Z. Gregori, MD
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Luis J. Haddock, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Jaclyn L. Kovach, MD
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Naples, FL
Jesse Sengillo, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
William E. Smiddy, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
M. Brenn Green Chair in Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at Naples
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Naples, FL
Justin H. Townsend, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Basil Williams, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Nicolas A. Yannuzzi, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Zohar Yehoshua, MD, MHA
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL