Scientific Advisory Board

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 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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Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Carver College of Medicine, Iowa Glaucoma Center, Institute for Vision Research ...
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Executive Director, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Deputy Medical Director (Research) & Senior Consultant, Glaucoma Dept, Singapore National Eye Centre, Professor, Dept of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Sing ...
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Associate Professor, Center for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, SUNY Upstate Medical University ...
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Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Gene Therapy Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine ...
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Senior Scientist and Research Director, Optic Nerve Head Research Laboratory, Devers Eye Institute & Research Laboratories ...
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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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Professor Emeritus of and Professor of (Adjunct) of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine ...
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Professor of Ophthalmology, Centre for Vision Research, Duke-NUS, Singapore Eye Research Institute ...
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Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, State University of New York - Downstate ...
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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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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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Hadley-Carver Chair in Glaucoma, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Director Glaucoma Research Center, Institute for Vision Research ...
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Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University ...
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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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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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Professor of Medicine and Ophthalmology, Duke University Medical Center, Senior Scientist, Singapore Eye Research Institute ...
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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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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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Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver ...
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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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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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Associate Professor, Cellular Biology & Anatomy, Graduate Studies, Augusta University ...
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Felipe A. Medeiros, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice-Chair for Technology at the Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University. He is also Director of the Clinical Research Unit, where he leads clinical research efforts in the Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Medeiros graduated from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he also completed a PhD. Before moving to Duke ...
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Professor of Ophthalmology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital ...
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Cell-Matrix Biology, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University ...
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Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Erlangen - Nurnberg ...
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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 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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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, 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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Professor and Chairman, Institute of Human Anatomy & Embryology, University of Regensburg ...
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Professor, Department of Ophthalmology Sciences, Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University Medical Center ...
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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 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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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, 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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