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
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Speakers
Mark R. Barakat, MD
Director of Retinal Research Institute
Retinal Consultants of Arizona
Clinical Assistant Prof of Ophthalmology
University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ
Robert Bhisitkul, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
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
The 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
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
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
Diana V. Do, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Byers Eye Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA
Justis P. Ehlers, MD
The Norman C. and Donna L. Harbert Endowed Chair of Ophthalmic Research
Director, The Tony and Leona Campane Center for Excellence in Image-Guided Surgery and Advanced Imaging Research
Cole Eye Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
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
K. Bailey Freund, MD
Senior Partner, Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York
Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY
Martin Friedlander, MD, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Molecular Medicine, the Scripps Research Institute
Chief, Retina Services, Division of Ophthalmology, Scripps Clinic
President, The Lowy Medical Research Institute
La Jolla, CA
James G. Fujimoto, PhD
Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Robyn Guymer, MBBS, PhD, FRANZCO
Professor of Ophthalmology
Centre for Eye Research Australia
University of Melbourne
East Melbourne, Australia
Gregory S. Hageman, PhD
John A Moran Presidential Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Executive Director, Sharon Eccles Steele Center for Translational Medicine
John A Moran Eye, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Jeffrey S. Heier, MD
Director, Vitreo-Retinal Service
Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston
Boston, MA
Allen C. Ho, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Wills Eye Institute
Thomas Jefferson University
Plymouth Meeting, PA
Nancy M. Holekamp, MD
Director, Retinal Services
Pepose Vision Institute
Saint Louis, MO
Professor Frank G. Holz, FEBO, FARVO
Chairman, Dept. of Ophthalmology
University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany
Carel B. Hoyng, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Radboud University Center
Nijmegen, Netherlands
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
Amir H. Kashani, MD, PhD
Boone Pickens Professor of Ophthalmology
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
The John Hopkins Hospital
Wilmer Eye Institute
Baltimore, MD
Pearse A. Keane, MD, MSc, FRCOphth, MRCSI
Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Professor of Artificial Medical Intelligence, University College London
UK Research & Innovation, Future Leaders Fellow
London, UK
Arshad M. Khanani, MD, MA
Director of Clinical Research, Sierra Eye Associates
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Reno, NV
Professor Jean-Francois Korobelnik
Head of Ophthalmology, Hospital Pellegrin
Bordeaux University
Bordeaux, France
Baruch D. Kuppermann, MD, PhD
Steinert Endowed Professor
Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Director, Gavin Herbert Eye Institute
University of California, Irvine
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
Robert Z. & Nancy J. Greene Chair in Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Aaron Y. Lee, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
C. Dan and Irene Hunter Endowed Professorship
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Tong Li, MD, PhD
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
Anat Loewenstein, MD
Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology
Tel Aviv Medical Center
Tel Aviv, Israel
Ivan Lylyk, MD
ENERI
Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Daniel F. Martin, MD
Barbara and A. Malachi Mixon III Institute Chair in Ophthalmology
Chairman, Cole Eye Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Andrew Moshfeghi, MD, MBA
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Darius M. Moshfeghi, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Chief, Retina Division
Byers Eye Institute
Stanford University of School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
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
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
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
Mengxi Shen, MD
Research Fellow
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Miami, FL
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 Singh, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Lerner College of Medicine
Cole Eye Institute
Cleveland, OH
R. Theodore Smith, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY
Richard F. Spaide, MD
Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York
Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
NYU School of Medicine
New York, NY
Jayanth Sridhar, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Sunil K. Srivastava, MD
Cole Eye Institute
Cleveland, OH
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
Jennifer K. Sun, MD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Xiaodong Sun, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Shanghai 1st People's Hospital of SJTU
Shanghai, China
Ramin Tadayoni, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Head of Department, Université de Paris
Lariboisière & Saint Louis Hospitals
Paris, France
Omer Trivizki, MD, MBA
Research Associate
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Nadia K. Waheed, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Tufts Medical School
Tufts New England Eye Center
Boston, MA
Ruikang (Ricky) Wang, PhD
Professor, Bioengineering & Ophthalmology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Charles C. Wykoff, MD, PhD
Retina Consultants of Texas
Retina Consultants of America
Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, TX
Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University School of Medicine
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital
New York, NY
Steven Yeh, MD
Stanley Truhlsen Jr. Endowed Chair and Director
Emory University
Emory Eye Center
Atlanta, GA
Seung-Young Yu, MD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Kyung Hee University
Seoul, South Korea
Moderators
Zelia M. Correa, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL
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
Jorge A. Fortun, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Medical Director, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at Palm Beach Gardens
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Raquel Goldhardt, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Clinical 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
Stephen G. Schwartz, MD
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Medical Director, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at Naples
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Naples, FL
William E. Smiddy, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
M. Brenn Green Chair in Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, 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
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami Miller 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