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Scientific Advisory Board
Robert Ritch, MD
Dr. Robert Ritch holds the Shelley and Steven Einhorn Distinguished Chair and is Surgeon Director Emeritus and Chief of Glaucoma Services at the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York City. He has devoted his career to broadening our understanding of the underlying etiologies and mechanisms of glaucoma and innovation in its medical, laser, and surgical ...
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Louis Pasquale, MD, FARVO
Louis R. Pasquale, MD is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is Site Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Mt. Sinai Hospital and Vice Chair of Translational Ophthalmology Research for the Mount Sinai Healthcare System. Dr. Pasquale is a member of the PLOS One, Journal of Glaucoma, Ophthalmology Glaucoma, Asia-Pacific Journal of ...
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Michael Anderson, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Carver College of Medicine, Iowa Glaucoma Center, Institute for Vision Research ...
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Tin Aung, MMed, FRCS, FRCOphth, FAMS, PhD
Chief Executive Officer/Medical Director, Singapore National Eye Centre; Chair, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program, Duke-NUS Medical School; Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Ophthalmology and Associate Dean, Duke-NUS Medical School; Group Director, Research (Scientific), SingHealth; Chairman of Board, Singapore Eye Research Institute; Senior Consultant, Glaucoma Department, Singapore National Eye Centre. Having obtained his MBBS from the ...
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Audrey Bernstein, PhD
Professor, Center for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, SUNY Upstate Medical University ...
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Terete Borrás, PhD
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Gene Therapy Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine ...
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Abbot Clark, PhD
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Executive Director and FARVOProfessor, North Texas Eye Research Institute, Executive Director and Regents Professor, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center ...
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Miguel Coca-Prados, PhD
Professor Emeritus of and Professor of (Adjunct) of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine ...
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Jonathan G. Crowston, BSc, MBBS, PhD, FRCOphth, FRANZCO
Professor of Ophthalmology, Centre for Vision Research, Duke-NUS, Singapore Eye Research Institute ...
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John Danias, MD, PhD
Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, State University of New York - Downstate ...
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C. Gustavo De Moraes, MD, PhD, MPH
Dr. C. Gustavo De Moraes is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Medical Director of Clinical Trials of the Department of Ophthalmology at Columbia University Medical Center / New York Presbyterian Hospital. He sees patients with or at risk of developing glaucoma. His primary research interests are in novel techniques for glaucoma diagnosis, detection of progression, and treatment modalities. Based ...
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Adriana Di Polo, PhD
Dr. Di Polo is Full Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Ophthalmology at the University of Montreal and currently holds a Canada Research Chair in glaucoma and age-related neurodegeneration. She completed her Bachelor of Science in biology from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela) and her Doctorate in physiology from the University of California (Los Angeles, USA). Dr. ...
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John H. Fingert MD, PhD, FARVO
Hadley-Carver Chair in Glaucoma, Professor and Director of the Glaucoma Service, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences ...
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Jeffrey L. Goldberg, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University ...
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Neeru Gupta, MD, PhD, MBA, FRCSC, DABO
Professor and Dorothy Pitts Chair, Chief of Glaucoma, University of Toronto, Departments of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto, Director, Roy Foss and Family Glaucoma Laboratory, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Founding Director, Glaucoma Unit and Clinical Research Program, ...
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Alon Harris, MS, PhD, FARVO
Professor Alon Harris is an internationally recognized expert and leader in the field of ocular blood flow and glaucoma. Dr. Harris’ academic specialties include novel approaches to glaucoma risk management, developing monitoring techniques for ocular hemodynamics and metabolism, mathematical modeling and artificial intelligence analysis of clinical and physiological biomarkers, investigating glaucoma theraputics, generic medications, and population-based studies. Professor Harris has ...
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Michael Hauser, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Ophthalmology, Duke University Medical Center, Senior Scientist, Singapore Eye Research Institute ...
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Thomas V. Johnson III, MD, PhD
Dr. Johnson is a glaucoma specialist and a neuroscientist at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. In addition to caring for patients with glaucoma, he leads a clinical research program that is investigating the use of remote eye pressuring monitoring to better understand intraocular pressure fluctuations in patients with glaucoma. In addition, he runs a translational research laboratory aimed and ...
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Paul L. Kaufman, MD
Dr. Kaufman is the Ernst H. Bárány Professor of Ocular Pharmacology and Chair-Emeritus of the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in Madison, Wisconsin. He is a physician-scientist, specializing in glaucoma and studying the mechanisms of aqueous humor formation and drainage, the regulation of intraocular pressure, and the age-related ...
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Uday B. Kompella, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver ...
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Richard K. Lee, MD, PhD
Walter G. Ross Distinguished Chair in Ophthalmic Research, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Cell Biology, and Neuroscience Graduate Program, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine ...
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Jeffrey M. Liebmann, MD
Dr. Jeffrey M. Liebmann graduated from Boston University School of Medicine, completed his ophthalmology residency at the State University of New York/Downstate Medical Center, and his glaucoma fellowship at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Liebmann serves as Shirlee and Bernard Brown Professor, Vice-Chair, and Director of the Glaucoma Division of the Department Ophthalmology at Columbia University Medical ...
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Yutao Liu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Cellular Biology & Anatomy, Graduate Studies, Augusta University ...
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Felipe A. Medeiros, MD, PhD
Felipe A. Medeiros, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice-Chair of Translational Research at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Dr. Medeiros graduated from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he also completed a PhD. Before moving to Duke University, he was Professor of Ophthalmology and the Ben and Wanda Hildyard Chair at University of California San Diego. Dr. Medeiros’ ...
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Colm O’Brien, FRCS, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital ...
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Dieter Reinhardt, PhD
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Cell-Matrix Biology, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University ...
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Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt, PhD
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Erlangen - Nurnberg ...
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Joel S. Schuman, MD, FACS
Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology, NYU Langone Health, NYU School of Medicine, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering ...
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Baldo Scassellati Sforzolini, MD, PhD, MBA
Baldo Scassellati Sforzolini is currently the Global Head of R&D at Galderma. Before that, he joined Allergan as Senior Vice President of Global Clinical Development in 2015 and was Senior Vice President of Drug Development Operations and Global Evidence and Value Development. Prior to Allergan he was Head of Global Development at Bausch + Lomb and Vice President Ophthalmology Development ...
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Naj Sharif, BSc (Jnt Hons), PhD, DSc, FARVO, FBPhS
Najam (Naj) Sharif, PhD, DSc (Southampton University, UK) has >34-years’ pharmaceutical drug discovery research/development experience covering neuroscience and ophthalmology. His 22-year tenure at Alcon-Novartis resulted in his contributions to the discovery, characterization, development and US FDA approvals of Patanol®/Pataday®/Pazeo® and Emadine® to treat allergic conjunctivitis, and Travatan® and Simbrinza® for the treatment of ocular hypertension / Glaucoma. Currently, he is ...
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W. Daniel Stamer, PhD
W. Daniel Stamer, Ph.D. currently serves as the Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. Professor Stamer was educated at the University of Arizona, earning his bachelors of science in Molecular and Cellular Biology in 1990 and doctorate in Pharmacology and Toxicology in 1996. He completed two research fellowships: the first with Dr. ...
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Ernst Tamm, MD, FARVO
Professor and Chairman, Institute of Human Anatomy & Embryology, University of Regensburg ...
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Gülgün Tezel, MD
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology Sciences, Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University Medical Center ...
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Janey L. Wiggs, MD, PhD, FARVO
Janey L. Wiggs, M.D., Ph.D. is a physician scientist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School. She is currently the Paul Austin Chandler Professor of Ophthalmology and is the Vice Chair for Clinical Research in Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. She also directs the CLIA-certified genetic testing laboratory at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and ...
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Barbara Wirostko, MD, FARVO
Barbara Wirostko is a board-certified practicing glaucoma specialist holding a Clinical Adjunct Professor position at the University of Utah, in Ophthalmology at Moran Eye Center and in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Wirostko, a serial entrepreneur and strategic executive on ophthalmic drug development, is currently the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Qlaris Bio, a VC backed Biotech startup ...
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Ting Xie, PhD
Investigator and Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The Stowers Institute for Medical Research, University of Kansas Medical Center ...
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Donald J. Zack, MD, PhD
Donald J. Zack, M.D., Ph.D., is the Guerrieri Professor of Genetic Engineering and Molecular Ophthalmology and co-director of the Center for Stem Cells and Ocular Regenerative Medicine (STORM) at the Wilmer Eye Institute. He is also a professor in the departments of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Neuroscience, and the Institute of Genetic Medicine. His lab studies the control of gene ...
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