Ronni M Lieberman has received her Medical training at SUNY Downstate in New York, where she also completed her Ophthalmology Residency. She then went on to complete a 2 year Surgical Retina Fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. She is the Director of Medical Retina Services for the Queens Hospital Network, an HHC affiliate. She has published extensively, participated in clinical trials and is involved in the training of ophthalmology residents in the HHC and at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Retina

Dr. Yassir Abou-Rayyah is a specialist in Oculoplastics; management of eyelid, lacrimal and orbital disorders; ocular trauma; cosmetic eye surgery; and paediatric ophthalmology. He is internationally recognised in the field of Paediatric Oculoplastics and the treatment of congenital anomalies of the eye, ocular adnexa and microphthalmia. Dr. Abou-Rayyah graduated from Cairo University and was a British Chevening Award scholar. He completed his ophthalmology training at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and has worked as a Consultant Ophthalmologist for more than 20 years, performing more than 13,000 ophthalmic and oculoplastic operations. He joined the medical teams at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in 2005. Dr. Abou-Rayyah has extensive experience in medical research, supervising seven postgraduate medical research degree students and publishing more than 50 research papers in national and international medical journals. He has also been a guest speaker at many national and international medical.

specialist in Oculoplastics; management of eyelid, lacrimal and orbital disorders; ocular trauma; cosmetic eye surgery; and paediatric ophthalmology.

Prof. Camelia-Margareta Bogdanici graduated General Medicine in University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa” Iasi, Romania in 1985. She did her residency on Iasi, Romania between 1990 -1994, in the same Hospital in which she is working now. She was Assistant Professor at University of Medicine and Pharmacy “ Grigore T. Popa” , first at Histology Department, between 1987-1990, and then at Ophthalmology Department between 1991 and 1999, Lecturer between 1999-2007 and then Associate Professor, since now, in the same University and Hospital. Her lectures are for Romanian and English students in Ophthalmology. She graduated Medical Degree (PhD) in 1999. The title of my thesis was “Clinical research for presor equilibrium at normal, ocular hypertension and glaucoma”. Some fellowships: Köln, Germany (1994), Kfar-Saba, Israel (1997), Louisville, Kentucky (1997), Regensburg, Germany (2006). Between 2007 and 2012, she was Medical Director of Hospital “Sf. Spiridon” Iasi, Romania, and between 2012 - 2016 Deputy in Romanian Parliament, in Health and Family Commission. She is the member of Romanian Board Society, Romanian Society of Ophthalmopediatry and Strabismus, member of Romanian Society of Contact Lenses, member of European Academy of Orthokeratology. She contributes as author in many Romanian and International Congresses, and also of scientific publications and books of ophthalmology. Her preferred topics are Ophthalmopediatry, Amblyopia, Ortokeratology, Contact lenses and Low vision.

Ophthalmopediatry, Amblyopia, Ortokeratology, Contact lenses and Low vision

Boris Gramatikov obtained his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, and his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He has completed a number of postdoctoral studies in Germany, Italy and the United States. He joined the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University in 1996, and works in the Laboratory of Ophthalmic Instrumentation Development since 2000. He is an active member of the IEEE, having chaired the Baltimore Section in 2006, and being the Section’s Director for Continuing EE Education since then. Dr. Gramatikov’s areas of expertise are electronics, optoelectronics, computers, computer modeling, signal/image processing, data analysis, electronic instrumentation design, biophotonics, ophthalmic optics, and biomedical optics, all applied to the development of diagnostic methods and devices for ophthalmology and vision research. His team has developed a series of pediatric vision screeners. Along with Dr. Cynthia Toth from Duke University, Dr. Gramatikov is the co-PI on a project for combining optical coherence tomography with retinal birefringence scanning, to enable OCT imaging in toddlers and young children. He has over 120 publications, 37 of which in high-impact peer-reviewed journals. He serves as a reviewer and editorial board member with a number of technical and medical journals.

Dr. Gramatikov’s areas of expertise are electronics, optoelectronics, computers, computer modeling, signal/image processing, data analysis, electronic instrumentation design, biophotonics, ophthalmic optics, and biomedical optics, all applied to the development of diagnostic methods and devices for ophthalmology and vision research.

Alaa Radwan, Ophthalmology consultant in Uveitis and medical retina, Head of Egyptian Uveitis Society, Cairo, Egypt. He was graduated from Sohag School of Medicine, trained in Uveitis and inflammatory eye diseases at Massachusetts Eye Research and surgery Institution, Boston, USA. He had founded a tertiary uveitis service in Cortoba eye Center, Cairo Capital of Egypt and International Eye Clinic, Sohag, Upper Egypt. He is a visitor Uveitis and medical retina consultant in many hospitals at Gulf area; King Abdul-Aziz subspecialty hospital KSA and ALFarwanya Hospital, Kuwait. For the last 4 years he is educating young ophthalmologists in the field of Uveitis and Retina in Regular courses in Egyptian Medical Syndicate Teaching Center and Egyptian Ophthalmology Society yearly conference. He is interested now in the clinical and epidemiological studies of uveitis in Egypt. His researches were published in peer-reviewed journals and presented my work in regional and international symposia. Currently he is the Head and founder of Masr Uveitis and Retina Center, Cairo, Egypt. First established eye center in Uveitis and inflammatory eye diseases subspecialty in Egypt.

Uveitis and Medical Retina

Prof. C. Banu Cosar (1972), MD, has completed her education at Hacettepe University and Ankara Numune Research and Training Hospital in Turkey. She is a former Fellow of the Cornea Service, Wills Eye Hospital, USA. Currently, she is the Director of Acibadem University, Department of Ophthalmology in Istanbul, Turkey. She is specialized in corneal diseases, cataract and refractive surgery. Prof. Cosar has published more than 130 articles, abstracts, and reports in professional journals and has delivered more than 25 invited lectures. She is the author of 22 ophthalmology book chapters. She is also a reviewer for 5 ophthalmology journals. She is also the founder of Matrix, a contract research organization providing support to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.

Corneal diseases, Cataract and Refractive surgery

Fatima Iqbal has her expertise in cornea, low vision and pediatric care. ‘Aim high and achieve high’ is the vision statement she carries. She is working as full time faculty at School of Optometry, The University of Faisalabad and private practice at Abdullah Memorial Hospital. She is also Global Ambassador of Tfos (Tear film and ocular surface society) and member of American academy of Optometry. Her interest in cornea and tear film led her to conduct this study to evaluate pre and post cycloplegic effects on axial length and corneal curvatures. Her study also unveiled role of accommodation on described ocular structures. Her publications majorly light on the role of optometrist in early detection of serious systemic disorders and uncovering features of optical coherence tomography. Diversity in interest, best academic skills and competency in research awarded her with Gold Medal twice in optometry conferences.

Cornea, Low Vision and Pediatric Care

Dr. PAOLO BRUSINI was born in Italy. He is specialized in ophthalmology at the University of Messina. He was head of the Ophthalmic Unit at the Hospital of San Donà di Piave, Chief of the Department of Ophthalmology at Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital and Città di Udine” Health Center and founder and president of the Italian Society of Perimetry. He is a member of numerous international professional societies. He was a guest speaker at lectures and invited presentations in more than 200 national and international congresses and conferences in various fields of Ophthalmology and conducted more than 350 clinical courses.

Early diagnosis and surgical treatment of glaucoma, cataract phacoemulsification, and lamellar corneal surgery

Dr. Joseph HALLAK is an Optometrist. He was a Founder and Chairman of a continuing education study group and Director of the Contact Lens and Low Vision Clinics. Hallak is an adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, the State University of New York, College of Optometry and Adjunct Clinical supervisory faculty, the New England College of Optometry and Salus University. He is a contributing editor to Primary Care Optometry News. He is a member of certain Optometry societies.

Optometry

Lisa Brothers Arbisser teaches cataract and anterior segment surgery worldwide. Currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah Moran Eye Center after an NIH research fellowship in neurobiology and retina, Texas MD and residency at the University of Iowa, she specializes in refractive and complex adult and pediatric cataract surgery. Known for teaching complication avoidance and management, as a surgical coach, researcher and lecturer, she retired from patient care, after 30 years of high volume surgery in the practice she co-founded. Having performed live interactive satellite surgery at major national and international meetings, she regularly teaches vitrectomy for the anterior segment surgeon and skills transfer labs. She reviews, edits and authors textbook chapters, journal articles, the American Academy Online News and Education Network, Focal Points and writes two regular columns. She is former president of the American College of Eye Surgeons, serves on the Arunodaya CharitableTrust board, is secretary of Women in Ophthalmology and has been designated a Living Legend by the American Women’s Medical Association. She is honored with numerous awards and distinctions both educational and philanthropic. Designated in the top 50 ophthalmic opinion leaders by CRST.

Cataract and Anterior Segment Surgery

Clifford D Brown serves in the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System as Chief of the Eye Clinics. He was Senior Health Adviser and Senior Analyst/Operations Chief of National Biosurveillance Integration Center and the U. S. Army Deputy Chief of Eye Services and Behavioral Vision Chief for the Exceptional Family Member Department and served as a rehabilitative consultant for five school districts in USA.

Optometry

Shroug Aldaham has recently graduated from Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain with a PhD degree in Optics, Optometry and Vision. She has a BSc (Hons) in Optometry from King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and a Master of Science in Vision Science from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She has joined the Optometry department at KSU as a demonstrator (an academic position that prepares for professorship) before joining the Master program in Canada. After her masters she returned to Riyadh and later joined the PhD program at UCM. Both of her Masters and PhD studies were Saudi government-funded research grants. She has a research experience in pediatric vision screening and visual function testing in diabetics and has published in international optometric and vision research meetings. Her research interests are pediatric and diabetic visual function

Vision Screening Vision testing Optometry

Head of Radiology Science Dept. CAMS Low Vision Specialist, Elite Center Applied Medical Science College (CAMS), Assistant Professor. Low Vision Specialist. Optometry department. KSU 2000-2002 : Applied medical Science collage, Lecturers. Low Vision Specialist. Optometry department. KSU 1998-2000 : Ministry of Labor and Social Affair, Rehabilitation Specialist. 1997-1998 : Pennsylvania Collage of Optometry, Low Vision Specialist. 1989-1991 : Special Education Center, Rehabilitation Specialist.

Ophthalmology

Dr Gupta did his MS in 1984 and has ever since been working as faculty member at the Institute of Ophthalmology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh India. He was awarded the Prestigious Colonel Rangachari National Award in 1988 at Madras. He was awarded the University of Montreal fellowship Award in 2008 in Montreal, Canada. Dr Gupta has filed two patents for Intra Ocular Lens designs. He has presented papers in USA, Canada, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, etc and has been invited as Guest speakers to many prestigious Conferences. He has several publications of original articles in Journals like the Graefe's Archives for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology-(USA), Visual Impairment Research-(Germany) and Asian Journal of Ophthalmology. His research field is innovative ophthalmology Devices based on Optics and electronics. He has more than 85 International internet citations.

Ophthalmology

Dr. Anita Panda Is an Ophthalmologist at Rockland Hospital, New Delhi. She Is an Expert in Performing Corneal Surgery, Corneal Transplant, Keratoplasty and Anterior Segment Surgery. Dr. Anita Is a Member of All India Ophthalmological Society, Delhi Ophthalmological Society (DOS), and Delhi Medical Council. She Has Many Accolades to Her Credit Which Include P. Siva Reddy International Award, AIOS in 2002; Bharat Jyoti Award in 1999; and Bharat Gaurav Award in 2000. She Was the One Who Introduced PG Course at BPKIHS, Dharan, Nepal (GOI Aided Institute) in 1999. She Had Also Been Invited for PG Teaching at Different Medical Colleges at Home and Abroad.

She Is an Expert in Performing Corneal Surgery, Corneal Transplant, Keratoplasty and Anterior Segment Surgery.

Dr. Abhiyan Kumar Pattnaik is a board-certified Ophthalmologist, Member of the All India Ophthalmology Society, Delhi Ophthalmological Society, International Intraocular and Refractive Surgery and a trained LASIK & Refractive Surgeon specialized in Lasik laser Surgery in New Delhi, India. He graduated from MS Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka and went on to complete a Masters Degree in Ophthalmology at Aravind Eye Hospital & Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. Following his higher surgical training in Ophthalmology at Aravind Eye Hospital, he did his residency from Dr RP Centre For Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi and then completed a Clinical fellowship in Medical retina at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India.

Dr Abhiyan Kumar has his expertise in evaluation and passion in improving the health and wellbeing. And his new pathways helps improving healthcare. After completing education and Fellowship, Dr Kumar is the Director of an Eye Institue at Delhi where he is engaged in clinical evaluation,surgery, Laser , teaching and administration

Dr. Ayelet Priel is an ophthalmologist at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. She is a fellow in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California in San Diego, California. She hopes that the large volume of patients and well known specialists under whom she is working will afford her the experience in training for orbital surgery and other diseases of the eye. Dr. Priel is joined by her husband and their three children. She is the recipient of a joint American Physicians Fellowship/Israel Medical Association Fellowship grant.

Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Jianmin Ma is an ophthalmologist from the Eye Center of Beijing Tongren hospital and his specialty is ocular tumors and orbital diseases. And as we all know, the Eye Center of Beijing Tongren hospital is the most famous one in China which has a large amount of patients and strong scientific research strength.

He has accumulated abundant clinical experience and outstanding research abilities for his twenty-six years of medical practice, especially in the diagnosis and treatment of various difficult ocular tumors and orbital diseases. He has written and published more than 160 articles, and participated in writing more than thirty books in this field. These books include eight books that he is the chief editor（or the master translator）, eight books that he is the associate editor（or the deputy translator） and seven ophthalmology textbooks for medical college. In addition, he has received several awards, such as The Distinguished Service Award which is awarded by the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, etc.

Dr. Gedar is an Assistant Professor in Bahcesehir University Faculty of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology since 2014. She also have been giving clinical skills lectures to medical students in Bahcesehir University. Dr. Gedar is a currently a part-time consultant ophthalmic oculoplastic and orbital surgeon at the Dunya Goz Eye Hospital, one of the largest facilities of its kind in Istanbul. She is a specialist in all aspects of eyelid, lacrimal (tear drainage), eye socket and orbital disease. She has written a number of research papers relating in ophthalmology and has presented at both national and international meetings.

She is a specialist in all aspects of eyelid, lacrimal (tear drainage), eye socket and orbital disease. Gedar's medical expertise and interests include general eye health and illnesses as well as Retina surgery, Strabismus, Okulo Plastic surgery (Eye Esthetics).

Dr. Nisar Ahmed Khan, Assistant Professor/Consultant ophthalmologist,Indus Medical College &Hospital T M Khan Hyderabad Pakistan FCPS(ophth) Pakistan,ICOpht England.More than 18 yrs experience in Pakistan as well as Saudi arabia.Expert in anterior segment surgeries with good command over phaco surgery.Six published papers in different journals,poster publication at ARVO Singapore,conference paper presentation.

Expert in anterior segment surgeries with good command over phaco surgery.Six published papers in different journals,poster publication at ARVO Singapore,conference paper presentation.

Professor Bilalov is a head of Ophthalmology department in Tashkent Medical Academy, the biggest medical HEI in Uzbekistan. He has acquired PhD degree on the topic “Elaboration and pathogenetic explanation of new method of surgical treatment of pterygium” in 1998, in 2010 he has acquired DSc degree on the topic “Aspects of pterygium development and elaboration of its treatment algorithms”. He has more than 150 publications among which there are not only articles and abstracts, but also methodical guidelines and textbooks for students. For more than 14 years professor Bilalov has been director for master degree program in TMA. Professor Bilalov is an expert in glaucoma, cataract surgery as well as oculoplastic surgery, pterygium, AMD.

Glaucoma surgery, cataract, age-related macular degeneration, oculoplastic surgery.

Annavajjhala Venkatachalam is a Senior Consultant, Ophthalmic Surgeon and a Post-Graduate Teacher in Ophthalmology. He has completed his Master of Surgery in Ophthalmology from Gujarat University 30 years back and his fellowship in Cataract and Anterior Segment Surgeries from Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai. He is a Senior Cataract Surgeon in Hyderabad for the last 30 years having performed nearly 50,000 + cataract surgeries. At present, he is Consultant and Chief Technical Advisor Lions Club of Hyderabad, Sadhuram Eye Hospital and Director of Hyderabad Eye Hospital.

Senior Consultant, Ophthalmic Surgeon

Medical graduate of Odessa State Medical University, Ukraine Post graduate specialisation in ophthalmology with subspeciality in vitreo retinal surgery from Kyiv Medical Academy for post graduate education from Kiev, Ukraine.

Cataract surgery

Babak Eliassi-Rad completed his medical degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the ophthalmology residency at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, and glaucoma fellowship at Kresge Eye Institute in Detroitm, Michigan. He Currently is the director of glaucoma service at Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology. He has published 11 peer-reviewed papers in reputed journals and is on the editorial board of Eyewiki and a reviewer for Journal of Glaucoma.

Ophthalmology

Dr. Sanghamitra Burman is a Consultant Eye Surgeon in Bangalore, India. She is a Fellowship trained specialist in Cornea, Cataract, Implant and Laser Refractive Surgery. Her areas of special interest include laser vision correction, keratoconus treatment, refractive lens surgery, keratoplasty, limbal stem cell transplantation, ocular surface disorders and reconstruction. She has extensive work experience at some of the world’s best eye institutes including Moorfield’s Eye Hospital, London, AIIMS, New Delhi and Aravind Eye Hospital, Sankara Nethralaya and LV Prasad Eye Institute. Dr Burman has publications in reputed journals and presented at various national and international conferences.

cataract surgery

Professor Bilalov is a head of Ophthalmology department in Tashkent Medical Academy, the biggest medical HEI in Uzbekistan. He has acquired PhD degree on the topic “Elaboration and pathogenetic explanation of new method of surgical treatment of pterygium” in 1998, in 2010 he has acquired DSc degree on the topic “Aspects of pterygium development and elaboration of its treatment algorithms”. He has more than 150 publications among which there are not only articles and abstracts, but also methodical guidelines and textbooks for students. For more than 14 years professor Bilalov has been director for master degree program in TMA. Professor Bilalov is an expert in glaucoma, cataract surgery as well as oculoplastic surgery, pterygium, AMD

Glaucoma surgery, cataract, age-related macular degeneration, Ophthalmic Surgery

Dr Po-Kang Lin has completed his MD from National Yang Ming University, Taiwan, and phD from Ins. of Bioelectornics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taiwna. Currently, he is an associate professor of National Yang Ming University, and a clinical professor of National Defense Medical University, Taiwan. He also serves as an attending physician at the Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan and as the director of ophthalmological ward. He is also a researcher at Biomedical Electronic Translation Research Center of National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

Ophthalmology Surgery

• More than thousands of Vitreo-Retinal and Cataract surgeries of all complexities. • Hundreds of tube-shunt implantations for Glaucoma, Corneal transplantations and Refractive surgeries. Member of American Society of Retina Specialists ASRS Member of European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS)

surgical techniques in Vitreo-Retinal and Cataract surgery, such as Hammock technique, Biplanar closure of the leaking wounds in MIVS , Shoe- lace buckling for retinal detachment, Needle free techniques for sutured IOLs, etc. Some of them are under review for publication.

Born in 1950 in the region of Transylvania, Romania. He Graduated from the Hebrew University – Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel in 1974. In 1985 he finished his residency in Ophthalmology, and in 1990 a fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology at the University of Michigan in Ann-Arbor, MI, USA. For the last twenty-five years is the head of the Neuro-Ophthalmology service at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. In addition to his longstanding clinical work, he has collaborated internationally with several medical services in research studies, wrote few chapters in medical textbooks, co-authored almost forty articles published in the international medical literature, lectured in many Ophthalmological & Neuro-Ophthalmological conferences and organized tens of courses along the years in Neuro-Ophthalmology in various meetings.

Neuro-Ophthalmology

David W. Li received his Ph.D. degree in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Washington in Seattle, and completed his postdoctoral training in the Harkness Eye Institute of Columbia Medical Center in New York City. He is currently an elected One-Hundred Talent Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center in Sun Yat-sen University

Dr. Li made numerous important discoveries in both eye development and ocular diseases as well as cancer research fields, published over 100 articles

Dr Carl Sheridan is an internationally renowned cell biologist with research experience in ocular cell biology since 1991. His areas of focus have centered on ocular wound healing and cell transplantation research with published papers concerning the ocular surface, cornea, outflow pathway as well as retinal pathologies such as proliferative vitroretinopathy (PVR) and AMD. He has published and reviewed for almost all Ophthalmology scientific journals as well as chaired at international Ophthalmology conferences. He has a keen interest in both tissue engineering and regenerative medicine approaches to prevent and restore sight loss and is passionate that cross discipline research is key to achieving this goal.

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Enric Bach has expertise in visual function evaluation and performance enhancement. He has passion in applying new digital techniques for improving visual-cognitive abilities. Master in Optometry and Vision Therapy. Specialization in Geriatric and Pediatric Optometry from “Centro de Especialización Optométrica” C.E.O (Madrid, Spain). Bachelor in Optics and Optometry (Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Terrassa, Spain)). Speaker in National and International Congresses. Technical director of TOT VISIO (Integrative Vision Therapy Clinic)

Geriatric and Pediatric Optometry

Marta Motlló Caelles, Bachelor in Optics and Optometry ((Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Terrassa, Spain)). Technical Director of Òptica Les Garrigues (Integrative Vision Therapy Clinic). She is an expert in applying new digital techniques for improving visual-cognitive abilities.

Visual-cognitive abilities

Prof. Dr. Luis Emilio Abad has completed his Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Bircham International University, Spain and also did Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Bircham International University, Spain followed by Diploma in Ophthalmology (DO) from Dr. Nano Eye Clinics, Argentina and Doctor in Medicine (MD), Faculty of Medicine from National University of Córdoba, Argentina. He is Dean and Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology at Ballsbridge University, Dominica and President of International Research Group, Abad Eye Research, Dominica He is also the Honourable global member council of the Board of Quality Standards, UK. He is also awarded with many awards like Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), International Philosophical Institute, Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) in Medical Research, Maha Sastra University, Cambodia and many more awards. He is the authors of many books few are Practical Manual of Ophthalmology, Revinter, The Vitreous Behavior of stem cells in eyes with chorioretinal injuries and Retinal Vasculopathy, Glosa, Spain .

Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Ocular Research

He is a IACLE Member (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONTACT LENS EDUCATOR) and national and international lecturer and as well as an outstanding consultant Professional at XCEL CONTACS in USA. He is also the Co - author of specializing in contact lenses "Diagnosis and management of corneal ectasia with contact lenses" book. He had a 20 years experience in the field of contact lenses.

Irregular cornea and the treatment by contact lens

Sergio Ozan is serving as an Optician at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a Specialist in contact lenses, Specialist and Manufacturer of ocular prosthesis and Scientific Adviser for ocular prosthesis in APO (Asociación Profesional de Optómetras in Argentina). He is a Precursor and Creator of multiperforated orbital implant, JUMAT, Precursor and Creator of expander orbit asmotic hydrogel filling for microophthalmia, Director of CEPROC, Director of Ocular Prosthesis Division in Perfect Vision, Santiago, Chile, Developer of one-hour customized ocular prosthesis method, unique in Latinamerica and Precursor and Creator of the first prosthetic scleral lens.

Specialist in contact lenses, Specialist and Manufacturer of ocular prosthesis. Precursor and Creator of multiperforated orbital implant, JUMAT, Precursor and Creator of expander orbit asmotic hydrogel filling for microophthalmia

Dr. Saba Al Rashaed, an ophthalmologist who has experience in handling eye diagnosis, surgeries and recommendations to help patients perform proper care for their eyes; has excellent skills in performing surgeries and giving treatments; values time and work management; practices effective organizational skills strategies for better coordination with peers; has ability to diagnose and perform tests. Dr. Rashaed responsibilities are to performed surgeries on patients who had disorders with their eyesight and required to have surgeries in order to be cured. Constantly participated in the training of residents, as well as fellows. I enthusiastically prepared and delivered didactic lectures, which were always highly rated. I am a dedicated researcher, rigorous when it comes to designing the research projects, as well as in implementing them. Dr. Rashaed has Scientific Publication of 30 and Scientific Posts of 66. Conducted research once a rare disease is encountered and consulted with the experts

Vitreoretinal Diseases,Diabetic Retinopathy

Cosimo Mazzotta Graduated from School of Medicine of University of Siena, Italy, Medical Doctor in 1997. He had a Specialist Diploma in Ophthalmology in 2001 and received his PhD in Ocular Pathology in 2006. He introduced the Corneal Cross Linking in Italy in 2004 being awarded by the Italian Society of Ophthalmology. In 2009 Assistant Professor of Corneal Surgery at Optometry School of University of Siena, Italy. Currently he is Assistant Professor of Corneal Pathology and Surgery at Post-Graduate Ophthalmology School of Siena University and Director of the Siena International Crosslinking Center. His areas of interest include corneal cross-linking, keratoconus, corneal transplants, corneal dystrophies, cataract and refractive surgery, in vivo confocal microscopy.

corneal cross-linking, keratoconus, corneal transplants, corneal dystrophies, cataract and refractive surgery, in vivo confocal microscopy.

Ronni M Lieberman has received her Medical training at SUNY Downstate in New York, where she also completed her Ophthalmology Residency. She then went on to complete a 2 year Surgical Retina Fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. She is the Director of Medical Retina Services for the Queens Hospital Network, an HHC affiliate. She has published extensively, participated in clinical trials and is involved in the training of ophthalmology residents in the HHC and at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Retina

Irina Trifanenkova has completed his PhD at the age of 45 years from «MNTK «Eye Microsurgery» named after acad. S.N. Fedorov». She is the Deputy Director on scientific work in Kaluga branch of FGAU «MNTK «Eye Microsurgery» named after acad. S.N. Fedorov», a leading eye microsurgery clinic in Russia. She has published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

ROP

Anna Laura Giacomin has completed her Medical degree in 1986 at the Padua University. She has joined as the Ophthalmological Specialist at the Padua University in 1991. In 1996, she joined in the Ophthalmology Unit of the Camposampiero PD Civil Hospital, responsible for the Ophthalmoplastic Service. She has obtained Homeopathy clinic course and in 2011, Master 2° level in Ophthalmoplastic Surgery from Naples Federico II University. From 2005, she is a full Member of the European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

eyelid disorders

Samantha Harding was a Chemist, Polymer Scientist and Journalist before entering medicine. She was a Resident and Fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London where she developed her interest in pediatric ophthalmology. She was the first in the history of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus to win best of show twice as first author for posters in 2008 and 2011 and was the first to publish a series of pediatric deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty cases with Ken Nischal. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

Strabismus and Neurology

Pedro Mattar M.D. Consultant at the Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Division at King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia. Education: Paediatric Ophthalmology Fellow at University of Colorado, Denver, USA. Ophthalmology: A.V.A.O. Venezuela. Medicine: Universidad Central de Venezuela. Associations: American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Venezuelan Society Ophthalmology, Pan American Association of Ophthalmology, Latin-American Pediatric Ophthalmology Society and Pan American Society of Retinopathy of Prematurity.

Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

Daniel Valverde is currently working as a Faculty of Medical Sciences at University of Guayaquil. He is a Specialist in Retina Medicinal, Ocular Nutrition, Low Vision, Pediatric Vision, Public Health and Community Development Projects in Public Health.

Low Vision, Pediatric Vision and Retina

Dr. Amel Meddeb Ouertani is Professor of Ophthalmology, graduated from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. Her clinical interests include cornea and glaucoma. She served as head of the Ophthalmic Department at Charles Nicolle University Hospital. She established twinning programs with Pretoria, Alexandria and Nagasaki Universities and served as member of the Pan Arab Board of Specializations. She trained hundreds of Tunisian residents and African colleagues. She is former President of the Tunisian Ophthalmological Society, Founding President of the Tunisian Society of Aerospace Medicine and the African Society of Glaucoma. She served as member of the Advisory Board of ICO and the Global Outreach committee of the AAO. She also served as Tunisian national coordinator for prevention of blindness As general Secretary of “Nadi Al Bassar”, a leading NGO in the region, she has participated in many eye camps and developed a clear understanding of Eye health status in Africa. She is currently executive Vice-President of the Middle East African Council of Ophthalmology; Secretary General of the Middle East African Glaucoma Society and International Coordinator for Glaucoma at the WOC. Dr Ouertani received several national and regional awards.

Cornea and Glaucoma

Janardan Kumar, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology at Becker College in the United States, started his schooling at home under a tree in a small village named Rajapakar in the state of Bihar, India. His esteemed teachers, the late Sri Raghunath Prasad and Dr. Udai Narain, were real mentors who prepared him to become a confident go-getter in the fierce pursuit of his dreams. In the United States he received post-doctoral training in glaucoma at Duke University Eye Center, North Carolina, a nationally renowned eye research laboratory, under the supervision of Dr. David L. Epstein. Dr. Kumar’s approach to ex-vivo perfusion studies showed, for the first time in the history of glaucoma research, that thrombin may be involved in the pathophysiology of glaucoma; he presented those findings at ARVO in 1999. The study of glaucoma is the most humbling of disciplines – closely associated with both clinical failure and lack of understanding, yet due to Dr. Kumar’s exceptionally strong work ethic and innate scientific vision, Dr. Epstein always referred to him as a potential “superstar.” Dr. Kumar’s main objective in his involvement with the prestigious OMICS eye conferences is to bring eye clinicians and scientists together in order to further advance glaucoma research globally.

Glaucoma

Dr Sergey Cusato has the title of Master of Vision Sciences of La Salle University (2015) with clinical practice in the areas of Primary Care and Contact Lenses at the University Nova Southeastern University United States (September 2012). He has taken his Degree in Optometry from University of Contested Brazil (UNC) in 2008. He is a Director and Researcher Fellow of the Brazilian Institute for Training and Contact Lenses Research (FIBTPLC). He is also the Professor of Contact Lens at Master's (UPA) Universidad Autónoma del Paraguay. He is the member of societies and associations like British Contact Lens Association (BCLA), Contact Lens Society of America (CLSA), Orthokeratology Academy of America (AAOMC ) and Latin American Academy of Orthokeratology and Control of Myopia (ALOCM) and Fellow of the International Association of Contact Lenses Educators (FIACLE).

Primary Care and Contact Lenses

After undergraduate studies at Guys Hospital Medical School, Dr. Alan Bird completed junior posts in general Medicine, Surgery and Neurosurgery. After a residency in Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital he worked as Senior Registrar at The London Hospital and The Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square. This was followed by a Fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute with Dr. Lawton Smith and a brief period with Dr Hoyt in San Francisco. On returning to in 1969 London Alan Bird was appointed to the Institute of Ophthalmology as Lecturer, and subsequently Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor, and Consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He changed his main interests from neuro-ophthalmology to retina, and a specialised clinical service was established. This was aided by the conversion of clinical activity in Moorfields Eye Hospital to specialised Services, and the Medical Retinal Service now holds 34 clinics each week, and has 12 Consultants. Over the years a productive multidisciplinary research team developed for the investigation of monogenic retinal disorders and age-related macular disease. Investigative techniques included molecular genetics, electrophysiology, psychophysics, specialised imaging and morphology. Establishment of research programmes was aided by the successful development of the Institute of Ophthalmology, which became a School of University College, London. In order to contribute fully to research, he spent a sabbatical period with Dr Dean Bok at UCLA in 1985. On October 1st 2005 Dr Bird retired from full time clinical practice and was appointed Emeritus Professor at London University and Honorary Consultant, Moorfields Eye Hospital so that research and teaching can be continued. Alan C Bird has completed his junior posts in general Medicine, Surgery and Neurosurgery. After a residency in Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital he worked as Senior Registrar at The London Hospital and The Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square. This was followed by a Fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute with Dr. Lawton Smith and a brief period with Dr Hoyt in San Francisco.

Boris Malyugin Prof. Boris Malyugin is the Deputy Director General (R&D, Edu) of the S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Institution (Moscow, Russia). Dr. Malyugin is a world-renowned authority and expert in the field of modern ophthalmic surgery. He has established himself at the forefront of advanced cataract and anterior segment surgery by pioneering numerous techniques and technologies in the field of ophthalmology. He is well known for his educational activities all over the world. He is having multiple international awards and was invited to present lectures and live surgery sessions in numerous national and supranational meetings. Dr. Malyugin is a President of the Russian Ophthalmology Society (ROS), ESCRS Board member, as well as the member of International Intraocular Implant Club and Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, AAO, ASCRS. Dr. Malyugin has published in the literature extensively, co-edited several books in different fields of ophthalmology, and contributed to the printed and video atlases of ophthalmic surgery and video Journal of cataract and refractive surgery.

cataract and anterior segment surgery

Ildikó Süveges MD, PhD, DSc is professor emeritus of ophthalmology. She took her first degree from the Medical University of Debrecen, Hungary. In 1984 she was appointed as the head of the eye clinic of the Medical University of Szeged. From 1992 to 2004 she served as head of the 1st Ophthalmology Department of Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, where she is professor emeritus at present. Her scientific activity is concerned with corneal diseases, the subject of her academic (DSc) dissertation. The number of her publications is 252. Formerly she was the representative of Hungary in several international ophthalmological associations. She was the organising manager and president of the XIth SOE Congress in 1997. A founder member of EAO (Chair XVI) and elected member of AOI (Chair LVII). She is the author of the textbook ’Ophthalmology’ whose 4. edition appeared in 2015. She holds several international and Hungarian awards, including the „Cross of Honour” decoration of the Republic of Hungary given by the Head of State and the Semmelweis Prize given by the Hungarian Ministry of Welfare.

Corneal Diseases

Prof. MICHELE VETRUGNO got his degree during the 1986-87 Academic Year with full marks and honour, and a dissertation in Ophthalmology Clinics the title of which was “Visual evoked Potential and Oscillatory Potential in headache”. During his University years he won a scholarship from E.N.P.A.L.S. He got his diploma to practice the medical profession at the Università degli Studi in Bari in the April 1987 Session. He specialised in Ophthalmology in 1992 with full marks and honours and a dissertation entitled “Capsular cataract extraction with H.S.M. IOL implant in a hemo-dyalised patient”. On June 24, 1995 he got the the Diploma of the European Board of Ophthalmology in Milano. During the 1990-91 Academic years to now, he co-operated with his Teacher in lectures and practice with the students of the 5th course year, and with tutorial activity for dissertations for the Degree in Medicine and Surgery and for specialisation in Ophthalmology. Additionally he performs an integrating didactic activity in the “Eye Surgery Course”, with monthly attendance, since the 1994-95 Academic Year. From 2002 till today he is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of Glaucoma Research Centre of Eye Clinic – University of Bari, Italy. He is author or Co-author of 200 publications, both in Italian and International Journals (55 publications in PUBMED).

Eye Surgery

Francesco Bandello is Full Professor and Chairman at the Department of Ophthalmology at University Vita-Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. He is Academic Dean of “Corso di Laurea Specialistica/Magistrale in Medicina e Chirurgia” at the same University. Professor Bandello is Past President of EURETINA, President of Academia Ophthalmologica Europea and Vice-President of EuroLam. Prof. Bandello is Co-Editor of the European Journal of Ophthalmology and former board member of the Club Jules Gonin and Macula Society. He is member of Executive Board of ESASO Foundation (European School for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology), member of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis and the Accademia Nazionale di Medicina. Prof. Bandello is co-author of 10 books and he serves as a peer reviewer for grant applications for the NEI. He has authored or co-authored 339 articles and he served as trained Principal Investigator in several clinical trials performed following ICH/GCP and mainly concerning retinal diseases.

Retina Disease

Emanuel Rosen MD is Co-Editor, Journal of Cataract and refractive surgery, Past President ESCRS & IIIC, Authors of six textbooks of ophthalmology including fluorescence photography of the eye 1969 and intraocular lens implantation 1979. He has qualification from Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, FRC Ophth, (1993). He is section editor on lens in Duker textbook of ophthalmology and Co-editor lens section Albert & Jacobiek ‘Ophthalmology’, Chairman and founder of Euro Times. He is visiting professor of Ophthalmology at university of Manchester, Dept. of Vision Science. He is one of the leading and respected ophthalmologists from Europe.

Prof. Dr. Luis Emilio Abad has completed his Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Bircham International University, Spain and also did Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Bircham International University, Spain followed by Diploma in Ophthalmology (DO) from Dr. Nano Eye Clinics, Argentina and Doctor in Medicine (MD), Faculty of Medicine from National University of Córdoba, Argentina. He is Dean and Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology at Ballsbridge University, Dominica and President of International Research Group, Abad Eye Research, Dominica He is also the Honourable global member council of the Board of Quality Standards, UK. He is also awarded with many awards like Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), International Philosophical Institute, Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) in Medical Research, Maha Sastra University, Cambodia and many more awards. He is the authors of many books few are Practical Manual of Ophthalmology, Revinter, The Vitreous Behavior of stem cells in eyes with chorioretinal injuries and Retinal Vasculopathy, Glosa, Spain .

Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Ocular Research

Mahmoud Mohamed Ismail has completed his Ph.D. in Ophthalmology from University of Alicante, Spain during December 1996 and master degree in Ophthalmology and Ocular Surgery from University of AL-Azhar in 1989 followed by Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery from same university. He is the Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of Cornea & Refractive surgery unit at University of AL-Azhar, Egypt. Mahmoud Mohamed Ismail also awarded with many prizes during his academia. He has published many papers in reputed journals and also participated in various national and international conferences.

Optician, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Specialist in Contact Lenses. Specialist and manufacturer of ocular prosthesis. Scientific adviser for ocular prosthesis in APO (Asociación Profesional de Optómetras in Argentina). Precursor and creator of multiperforated orbital implant, JUMAT. Precursor and creator of expander orbit asmotic hydrogel filling for microophthalmia. Director of CEPROC. Director of Ocular Prosthesis Division in Perfect Vision, Santiago, Chile. Developer of one-hour customized ocular prosthesis method, unique in Latinamerica. Precursor and creator of the first prosthetic scleral lens.

prosthetic lens

He is the Ex-President of the Mexican Cornea Society (CMCCR), He is currently the member of Member of the Mexican Ophthalmology Society (SMO), Assoiciation of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO. He is a ophthalmologist at APEC Hospital

Cornea & Refractive Surgery

He is the Secretary Centro Mexicano de Cirujanos de Catarata at CMCC. He was also associated as an Associate Researcher at the Department of Biomedical Research at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. He was even the Director, Anterior Segment Surgery Service at Instituto Mexicano de Oftalmología I.A.P. He has completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Medical Research, 2011 - 2015 Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and Master of Science, Medical Sciences, Biomedicine, 2009 - 2011 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Anterior segment surgery Fellowship, Cataract phacoemulsification surgery, 2006 - 2007

cataract, cataract surgery

Dr. Ticho Uriel is the Emmeritus asc.proffesor of Ophthalmology. He is the Head of glaucoma service at Hadasssah for 30 years. He is also the Chairman of International Glaucoma Conferences in Jerusalem.

His research interests includes the use of anti-metabolites in glaucoma surgery, Glaucoma: laser applications in glaucoma anti- glaucoma drugs; glaucoma detection and prevention Automatic visual field studies to evaluate blue stimuli, threshold modulation and other parameters.

Master Luis Carlos Fliguer is perhaps one of the most prominent in the world eye care. His contributions to the Latin American contactology are invaluable. He has always been at the forefront of new technologies in materials and designs in parameters and their professional opinion always was reference in lot of research.

His research interest involves Dyslexia - phoria in vision- Syndrome computerized vision - Vision behavioral.

He is experienced eye-care business professional into Optical / Ophthalmology and Optometry industry channels in Latin America with twenty-six years of clinical, academic and business experience.

Contact lenses.

Dr. Hugo Quiroz-Mercado is a Former Director of Ophthalmology Service at Denver Health Medical Center. He was also Professor of ophthalmology at University of Colorado, School of Medicine ophthalmologist specializing in diabetic retinopathy and retinopathy prematurity as, and his current position is as Research Director at Asociación para Evitar la Ceguera en Mexico. Dr. Mercado completed his medical degree at Faculty of Medicine Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and completed his postgraduate residency at Luis Sanchez Hospital for the Prevention of Blindness in Mexico City. Dr. Mercado then furthered did a fellowships in Vitreo-Retinal Diseases at APEC in Mexico City and Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston. With over 25 years of practice experience, Dr. Mercado has held previous appointments as the Chief of Retina Service and Chief of the Experimental Surgery Laboratory at the Prevention of Blindness, Luis Sanchez Hospital, as well as a professor of Ophthalmology at the Faculty of Medicine Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. He specializes in treating patients with retina diseases.

His research interest include External radiotherapy and anti-angiogenic therapy for the treatment of AMD. Artificial Vision by Direct Optic Nerve Stimulation (AV-DONE) in blind patients with retinitis pigmentosa in collaboration with Osaka University and University of Colorado with surgeries being performed in Mexico City at the Hospital APEC. Vitreous Liquifaction and Vitreolysis from the Cal Tech and Vitreoretinal Technologies (VRT) from Irvine CA. With clinical studies underway in Mexico and other sites in the United States. DRCRNet. – Diabetic Retinopathy Collaborative Research network PACORES – Pan-American Collaborative Retina Research

He is the PROFESSOR at Universidad Nacional de Rosario (National University of Rosario), School of Medicine, Ophthalmology College and PROFESSOR at Universidad Abierta Interamericana, School of Medicine, Ophthalmology College. He has also been the EX-PRESIDENT of the Ophthalmology Society of Rosario. He is the Member of CONEAU: National Committee for the Evaluation of University Quality. Member of the Course Board in the XXIII PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY. PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE ARGENTINE COUNCIL OF OPHTALMOLOGY. He is also considered as CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST VITRORETINAL SURGERY SERVICES IN THE COUNTRY He has been awarded as "DISTINGUISHED PHYSICIAN FROM ROSARIO", awarded by the Honorable City Council of Rosario. Decree N° 25132 Rosario, February 17th 2005 and many more.

ocular stem cells

Dr. Paul Lee serves as F. Bruce Fralick Professor and Chair in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Michigan Medical School and Director of the W.K. Kellogg Eye Center.Dr. Lee has published over 250 papers on glaucoma and eye care delivery in general, particularly on understanding and improving eye and health care. He has been principal investigator on research projects to evaluate the appropriateness of cataract surgery, the quality of glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy care, utilization patterns of eye care, provider workforce analyses for ophthalmology and orthopedics, and analyses of failure patterns for the treatment of diabetes related eye disease and glaucoma. r. Lee has served in several leadership capacities, including as the chair of the ARVO Foundation, an at-large member of the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), chair of the American Glaucoma Society’s Quality of Care Subcommittee, and original co-chair of the AMA-AAO Consortium Task Force for Eye Care Quality Indicators (PQRI). He has received the Lew Wasserman Merit Award from Research to Prevent Blindness, the Alcon Institute Research Award, the Senior Achievement Award from the AAO, the Gold Fellow from ARVO, and has been inducted into Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis. He has also delivered the American Glaucoma Society Lecture, the Parker-Heath Lecture of the AMA section of ophthalmology, and the Shaffer Lecture at the American Academy of Ophthalmology, as well as numerous lectureships around the world.

Evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma; glaucoma surgery complications; complex glaucoma surgeries

Dr. Maitreyee Roy is a Senior Lecturer and a Deputy Director of Optics & Radiometry Laboratory at the School at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She was awarded her PhD in Physical Optics from School of Physics at the University of Sydney. She is an accomplished Optical Physicist with broad experience in government and academic institutions with strong R&D background from conception, design to implementation particularly in optical metrology, 3D optical imaging and nanoparticle metrology. One of her major contributions was to demonstrate the fundamental principle of geometric phase in optics and its achromatic nature, which has opened up new insights in to broadband interferometry with application ranging from biological systems, electronics to astronomy.

Ophthalmic Imaging Instruments

Bonnie Molloy has been studying postoperative visual loss (POVL) and conducting research in this field since 2005. She completed her doctoral dissertation in 2010 in the Development of The Molloy / Bridgeport Anesthesia Associates Observation Scale (MBOS). She presently is the Chief CRNA in the Bridgeport Anesthesia Associates practice at Bridgeport Hospital and as a Yale healthcare affiliate has conducted research at Yale New Haven and the Hospital of St. Raphael. She is the Research Director of the Anesthesia Department at Bridgeport Hospital as well as a clinical and didactic faculty member for the Fairfield University Doctor of Nursing Practice Program.

She was a surgical/anesthesia research team in discussing POVL, Robotics and Cosopt interventions in pursuit of normalizing rising IOP in the ST position.She conducted research in Development of The Molloy / Bridgeport Anesthesia Associates Observation Scale (MBOS) correlating rising intraocular pressure (IOP) to observations in eyelid and conjunctival edema during steep trendelenburg (ST) surgical procedures.

Manijeh Razeghi joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in Fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has authored or coauthored more than 1000 papers, more than 30 book chapters, and 16 books. She holds 55 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004 and many best paper awards. Dr. Razeghi is an elected Fellow of SWE (1995), SPIE (2000), IEC (2003), OSA (2004), APS (2004) IOP (2005), IEEE (2005) and MRS (2008), and IBM teacher of excellence 2013. She is editor, associate, and Board member of many journals, including Nano Science and Nano technology.

Nanoscale Optoelectronic Quantum Devices

Shroug Aldaham has recently graduated from Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain with a PhD degree in Optics, Optometry and Vision. She has a BSc (Hons) in Optometry from King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and a Master of Science in Vision Science from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She has joined the Optometry department at KSU as a demonstrator (an academic position that prepares for professorship) before joining the Master program in Canada. After her masters she returned to Riyadh and later joined the PhD program at UCM. Both of her Masters and PhD studies were Saudi government-funded research grants. She has a research experience in pediatric vision screening and visual function testing in diabetics and has published in international optometric and vision research meetings. Her research interests are pediatric and diabetic visual function

Vision Screening Vision testing Optometry

She holds a degree in Medicine from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of State University of Campinas - BR (1985), master's degree in Medicine by Faculty of Medical Sciences of the State University of Campinas -BR(1997) and PhD in Medicine from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the State University of Campinas –BR (2001). She is currently a State University of Campinas, a founding member and the Brazilian Cornea and Eye Bank. Medical assistant of the discipline of ophthalmology of the Clinical Hospital of the State University of Campinas (CH Unicamp) Chief sector of cornea and external diseases of the ophthalmology discipline of CH Unicamp Physician responsible for corneal transplant team of the CH Unicamp

Ophthalmology, cataract, cornea and external diseases, prevention of blindness.

Choun-Ki Joo MD, PhD is a Prof. of department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea. He completed research fellowship (1992~1994) of cornea and external disease for 2 years at Washington University in USA after finishing residency training (1988) in Korea. Prof Joo has a reputation for his basic and clinical knowledge in the field of cornea/external disease and refractive surgery. He is a frequent invited lecturer at international meetings, and over the past five years has directed one of the most prestigious training programs for specialists in refractive surgery. Prof Joo is the author of many articles in basic and clinical science. Prof Joo is the Director of Laboratory for Ophthalmology & Visual Science. Prof Joo has attracted much attention for his dedication to his patients and helping those in need.

Corneal transplantation, Refractive surgery and Cataract surgery

Chief of the refractive surgery department of ophthalmology clinic «Sokol». MD 1994 -2000 S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Ophthalmologist with more than 12 years of career experience and over 6 000 laser surgeries performed. Practice includes extensive experience in different kinds of laser vision correction including LASIK, Femto LASIK, PRK, PTK ,laser treatment of glaucoma, secondary cataract etc. The observership with Dr. Allan Slomovic and Dr. David Rootman specializing in Cornea in the Department of Ophthalmology at Toronto Western Hospital and Toronto laser center, Canada(February 2016,Canada). My interests lie in refractive surgery, keratoconus treatment and corneal transplantation.

refractive surgery, keratoconus treatment and corneal transplantation.

Sergio Ozan completed his studies from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an optician and contact lens specialist and having enriched experience in the manufacturing of ocular prosthesis. Dr. Sergio is also associated with scientific societies and currently he is a scientific advisor for ocular prosthesis in APO (Association Professional de Optometras in Argentina). He is the precursor and creator of multi-perforated orbital implants i.e. JUMAT, first prosthetic sclera lens and expander of orbit osmotic hydrogel filling for microphthalmia. He is the director of CEPROC along with Ocular Prosthesis Division in Perfect Vision, Santiago, Chile. Dr. Sergio Ozan also developed the one hour customized ocular prosthesis method which is unique in Latin America.

Contact Lenses, Ocular Prosthesis

Ioannis Pallikaris received his medical degree at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1972) and completed his residency and PhD thesis at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (1981). During these years, he also completed graduate studies at the University of Munich (Institute of Physiological Optic, 1978), at the University of Vienna (Ultrasound in Ophthalmology, 1979), and at the University of Zurich (Department of microvascular surgery, 1980). Subsequently, he received an honorary consultant position at the Hippocration Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece (1981-1986), and became Director of the Ophthalmology Clinic Hospital of Chania, Greece (1986-1988). He became an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the School of Medicine, University of Crete in 1988 and has been a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Crete since 1996. Over the course of the years at the University of Crete, he became the founder and director of the Vardinoyannion Eye Institute of Crete (VEIC, 1989) and Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO, 2005), chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Crete, and the director of the Eye Clinic of the University Hospital of Heraklion, Greece (1996-2004). Ioannis Pallikaris was the rector of the University of Crete from 2004 to 2011, while he is also a Board member of ESCRS from 2011.

refractive surgery, visual optics, medical lasers, biopolymers, retinal surgery and image analysis, and the design and development of microsurgical instrumentation.

Dr. Uyar graduated from Hacettepe University Medical School in 1987 and completed his specialization in Ophthalmology at Istanbul Educational and Research Hospital in 1991 and worked there until 2012. His practice and experience is especially in surgical retina, medical retina, ocular trauma, cataract refractive surgery, lasers and medicolegal ophthalmology. In addition to his associate professorship, he has FEBO and FICO titles. He has been working at his own office since 1996 and at the Ophthalmology Clinic of Maltepe University since 2013. Dr. Uyar is member of both some national and international ophthalmological associations and societies.

Surgical retina, medical retina, ocular trauma, cataract refractive surgery, lasers and medicolegal ophthalmology

Dr. Pavel Kuchynka is the Chairman of Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty of Charles University and of Institute for Postgradual Medical Education Prague from 1991 to ptresent. He completed his Ophthalmology Speciality Certification in 1982 from Medical School, Charles University. Now he is also the director of Medical Director of the International Eye Bank, Prague. Presently he is the president of Czech Society of Ophthalmology and Czech Society of Refractive and Cataract Surgery. He is also being the member of International societies and editorials boards like member of the International Committee of the "American Academy of Ophthalmology" - AAO, member of "European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons" – ESCRS, member of the „International Intra-Ocular Implant Club. He is awarded as honorary council member of European Society of Ophthalmology. He is in Editorial member of Ocular Surgery News and Ophthalmology times.

Ocular Surgery

Dr Sergey Cusato has the title of Master of Vision Sciences of La Salle University (2015) with clinical practice in the areas of Primary Care and Contact Lenses at the University Nova Southeastern University United States (September 2012). He has taken his Degree in Optometry from University of Contested Brazil (UNC) in 2008. He is a Director and Researcher Fellow of the Brazilian Institute for Training and Contact Lenses Research (FIBTPLC). He is also the Professor of Contact Lens at Master's (UPA) Universidad Autónoma del Paraguay. He is the member of societies and associations like British Contact Lens Association (BCLA), Contact Lens Society of America (CLSA), Orthokeratology Academy of America (AAOMC ) and Latin American Academy of Orthokeratology and Control of Myopia (ALOCM) and Fellow of the International Association of Contact Lenses Educators (FIACLE).

Primary Care and Contact Lenses

Dr. Fox was a Merit Scholar and an Honors graduate from Colgate University. He received his medical degree at Hahnemann Medical College where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He is the Chief of Refractive Surgery at the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Practice of New York as well as Clarity/TLC Refractive Services in West Orange New Jersey, Dr. Fox cares for patients throughout the metropolitan area for the full spectrum of refractive procedures as well as those seeking care for cornea and external disease issues. With over 20 years of experience in the field, he is widely regarded as a national leader in corneal and refractive surgery. He has performed over 30,000 laser vision correction procedures over the last 15 years.

Cornea and Refractive Surgery

Marc Bodman, MD is from Brooklyn, NY, USA, and grew up between Brooklyn, NY, Tel-Aviv, Israel, and Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Bodman attending college at the University of California, San Diego, CA and graduated with a BSc. with Honors in Biology. He attended medical school at Memorial University, in St. John's Canada, and completed a residency in Ophthalmology at the Louisiana State University, New Orleans. Dr. Bodman completed a research fellowship in Glaucoma under the late Dr. David Epstein, at Duke University, and a clinical fellowship at Yale University, and the Universite de Montreal. In the past Dr. Bodman has taught residents ophthalmic surgery as the Site Director of residency training in ophthalmology at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Fayetteville, NC with adjunct professorship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Currently Dr. Bodman works at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, where he helped open a new ophthalmology program and is a staff ophthalmologist.

Eye care, glaucoma, cataract and cataract surgery, and optic neuropathies.

Since 2009 he works as consultant at the Department of Ophthalmology of Catholic University (Roma – ITALY). He attended a lot of stages in Ophthalmological Department abroad (Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany …). He is author of a monograph entitled “Genetics of eye diseases”, I.N.C. Editor 2000 and of more than 80 papers on Italian and international peer-review journals.

Ophthalmology

Dr. Maitreyee Roy is a Senior Lecturer and a Deputy Director of Optics & Radiometry Laboratory at the School at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She was awarded her PhD in Physical Optics from School of Physics at the University of Sydney. She is an accomplished Optical Physicist with broad experience in government and academic institutions with strong R&D background from conception, design to implementation particularly in optical metrology, 3D optical imaging and nanoparticle metrology. One of her major contributions was to demonstrate the fundamental principle of geometric phase in optics and its achromatic nature, which has opened up new insights in to broadband interferometry with application ranging from biological systems, electronics to astronomy.

Ophthalmic Imaging Instruments

Professor Tyler is a visual neuroscientist specializing in visual and oculomotor function and disorders who joined City University London in 2013. He previously worked at several universities in the United States and has been a long-established researcher at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, where he established its Brain Imaging Center. Christopher Tyler received his training in Experimental Psychology at the Universities of Leicester, Aston and Keele before taking postdoctoral fellowships at Northeastern University, Boston, University of Bristol and Bell Laboratories. He then took up a position at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, where he retains an affiliation, and has taught courses at Northeastern, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley and the University of Paris along the way. He has had widespread collaborations across the globe and has given numerous keynote addresses to scientific meetings across many disciplines, from microscopy to Renaissance art.

Christopher Tyler's scientific interests are in the processes of visual perception and visual neuroscience. He has contributed to the study of the brain processing of many aspects of visual processing, including form, symmetry, flicker, motion, color, and particularly stereoscopic depth perception. He has developed effective psychophysical and electrophysiological tests for the diagnosis of retinal, optic nerve, visual cortical and oculomotor disorders. He has also studied photoreceptor dynamics, and neural processing in other species such as butterflies and fish. His current work is focused on the effects of traumatic brain damage on eye movements and their brainstem control mechanisms.

Dr Safiah Mulla is faculty staff in the Department of optometry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she has been Orthoptic from the University of Dalhousie and a BSc (1987) in Optometry from the king Saud University a member of the academic staff since 1997. She holds an MSc (2007) in Clinical Vision Science \. From 1990 to 1997, she was running an Optometry clinic at Security Forces Hospital, outpatient department, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2000; she has a scholarship to Canada to get her Master degree in clinical vision science. She is also a. Board Member for the Saudi Association of Optometry and Vision Science as well as a Member of the Canadian orthoptic society.

Her main research interest is the pediatric binocular vision abnormality and amblyopia.

Manijeh Razeghi joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in Fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has authored or coauthored more than 1000 papers, more than 30 book chapters, and 16 books. She holds 55 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004 and many best paper awards. Dr. Razeghi is an elected Fellow of SWE (1995), SPIE (2000), IEC (2003), OSA (2004), APS (2004) IOP (2005), IEEE (2005) and MRS (2008), and IBM teacher of excellence 2013. She is editor, associate, and Board member of many journals, including Nano Science and Nano technology.

Nanoscale Optoelectronic Quantum Devices

PRESIDENT of the National CONGRESS OF STUDENTS X Days Madridø' and IX National Congress for research for undergraduate students in Health Sciences.President of the Conference of Deans of Faculties of optics and optometry of Spain.Dean of the School of Optometry of the U.C.M.Professor of Optometry and contact of the Complutense University of Madrid

Specialty Binocular Vision

Bonnie Molloy has been studying postoperative visual loss (POVL) and conducting research in this field since 2005. She completed her doctoral dissertation in 2010 in the Development of The Molloy / Bridgeport Anesthesia Associates Observation Scale (MBOS). She presently is the Chief CRNA in the Bridgeport Anesthesia Associates practice at Bridgeport Hospital and as a Yale healthcare affiliate has conducted research at Yale New Haven and the Hospital of St. Raphael. She is the Research Director of the Anesthesia Department at Bridgeport Hospital as well as a clinical and didactic faculty member for the Fairfield University Doctor of Nursing Practice Program.

She was a surgical/anesthesia research team in discussing POVL, Robotics and Cosopt interventions in pursuit of normalizing rising IOP in the ST position.She conducted research in Development of The Molloy / Bridgeport Anesthesia Associates Observation Scale (MBOS) correlating rising intraocular pressure (IOP) to observations in eyelid and conjunctival edema during steep trendelenburg (ST) surgical procedures.

Prof.Antonio Carlos Centelhas is head of ophthalmology of CRMED Ministery of Health, Nise da Silveira Hospital , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ex- Professor of ABC University , SãoPaulo, Brasil and Gama Filho University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prof. Centelhas is international advisory board Of Delhi Journal of Ophthalmology,New Delhi, India. Panelist in many Congress and Universities ( EUA

Cataract surgery, Glaucoma, Corneal patology, Refractive surgery.

Dr. Navendu Goswami is a Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) in Department of Physics & Materials Science & Engineering. Dr. Goswami did his M.Sc. in 1999 followed by Ph.D. in Physics from School of Physical Sciences, JNU, New Delhi. Qualified UGC-CSIR JRF and NET for two times and was among the top 20% CSIR JRF awardees in Physics. During his Ph.D. and afterwards his research area is Nanoscience and Technology. He has supervised diverse Nanotechnology projects at M.Tech. and B.Tech. levels. He published 27 peer-reviewed research papers; 20 in international journals and 7 in conference proceedings. He attended/presented research papers in about 36 international/national conferences, attended 18 scientific workshops and delivered 4 invited talks in India and abroad. Dr. Navendu Goswami is member of Material Research Society (MRS) USA, MRS India, Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Indian Physics Association (IPA), Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT). He is Editorial board member and referee for several journals; Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Applied Physics A, International Nano Letters, Applied Surface Science and Materials Chemistry and Physics etc. He is recipient of various academic and teaching awards; to name a few, Chancellor’s Silver Medal and Vice-Chancellor’s Gold Medal for Topper in all M. Sc. level exams (1999-2000) and in M. Sc. Physics exam (1999-2000) of Bundelkhand University, Jhansi; District Winner (Ghaziabad, U.P.) of Broad Outlook-Learner Teacher (BOLT-2008) award (by Air-India & Dainik Jagran), award for highest marks in Physics at B.Sc. (1996), BBC Genius –1998 and U.P. Government’s ‘A’ category Scholarship etc.

Nanoscale Science & Technology, Materials Science

Janardan Kumar holds a Ph.D. degree in chemistry under kind supervision of Dr. C. M. Gupta, ex-director, CDRI, Lucknow, India. In the United States, first he received postdoctoral training on motor proteins in the laboratory of Michael P. Sheetz, a lasker award winner, at Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina. He published his work on kinectin, a myocilin like protein, in Science (1995), and an abnormality in myocilin has been predicted to be involved in the pathogenesis of glaucoma.Prior to coming to Becker College, while a research assistant professor at Tufts University, Kumar engineered a new real time perfusion system used for the discovery of drugs to treat glaucoma. Presently, Kumar is chair of the natural sciences department, and is actively engaged in the advancement of course curriculum in microbiology, chemistry, and developing the biotechnology/biology major at Becker College.

glaucoma, microbiology and chemistry

Chris (tiane) Lange-Küttner obtained her Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin, and worked thereafter as a post-doc in Cognitive Science at the Free University of Berlin. Since 1994, she holds an academic faculty position in the UK, initially at the University of Aberdeen, and up to now at the London Metropolitan University. From 2009-2011 she was Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Konstanz, Germany. She is also affiliated faculty at the University of Bremen, Germany. She was honor with 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century and she also served as the editorial board member of various reputed journal of psychology.

Perspective Mapping, Psychology

Hudson Nakamura is a Medical Specialist in Ophthalmology and specialized in Retina and Vitreous. He completed his study from School of Medicine at the Federal University of Goiás – UFG and Residency from the Base Hospital of the Federal District - Brasília - DF. Presently, member of American Academy of Ophthalmology, Brazilian Council of Ophthalmology, Canadian Society of Ophthalmology and also the member of most prestigious society ARVO - The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology United States. He working as a Professor in Department of Retina and Vitreous Course of Medical Residency in Ophthalmology at the Bank of Goias Eye Foundation. He also working as Specialist in vitreoretinal disease Fellowship - University of Toronto Canada, Specialist in Ophthalmology - University of Toronto Canada, Specialist in vitreoretinal disease Fellowship - Brazilian Center for Eye Surgery.

Medical Specialist in Ophthalmology and specialized in Retina and Vitreous

Cesar Gomezperalta is a Senior Consultant Eye Surgeon in the field of Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Surgery at Angeles Lomas Hospital in Mexico City. He specializes in Lamellar Corneal Transplant and ocular reconstruction. He is the Founder and Director of Vision-Percepcion heading the Keratoconus and Corneal Transplant Clinic. He is the Chairman of the World Wide Alumni of the Singapore National Eye Centre and was appointed Chairman for the 2013 world meeting of the World Association of Eye Hospitals. He received his Medical Degree from the Anahuac University School of Medicine, then trained in General Surgery & Laparoscopy at the American British Cowdray Hospital. He completed his Ophthalmology residency at the Lopez Mateos Regional Hospital and visited as a fellow the Wolfe Clinic in Iowa, USA. He then spent a few years specializing in Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Surgery at the Singapore National Eye Centre in Singapore, where he also gained experienced in Ocular Surface Reconstruction and Artificial Corneas.

Specializes in Lamellar Corneal Transplant and ocular reconstruction.

Daniel Valverde Solis, O.D. Optometrist Faculty of Medical Sciences University of Guayaquil, Fellow in ion Superior Publica Interamerican University of Puerto Rico , Continuing education in Optometry Clinic and Pediatric, The New England College of Optometry Boston, USA, Diploma in Higher Education, Higher Education Specialist, Master in Management in Higher Education Unit Graduate Research and Development University of Guayaquil, PHD Candidate in Atlantic International University Higher Education Honolulu - USA , CEO FALECO Latin American Faculty of Education for Eye Care, CEO Premium Team.

Specializes in optometry

Manuel B Datiles currently diagnoses eye patients as part of clinical trials and research studies at NIH, including an ongoing study of ocular graft-versus-host disease in recipient of adult stem cell transplants. His long-term research focuses on cataract development and clinical trials involving anti-cataract drugs. He also collaborates with NEI lens researchers to study the genetic causes of cataracts, and with Johns Hopkins University researchers to study the aggregation of lens proteins, which may lead to cataract development. He is the author of more than one hundred scientific manuscripts and textbook chapters. He has also served as an Editorial Board Member and Reviewer for major ophthalmology journals, including Archives of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology and Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.

Research focuses on cataract development and clinical trials involving anti-cataract drugs

Albert S Khouri, MD, is a Faculty, Program Director of the Ophthalmology Residency, and Associate Director of the Glaucoma Division at Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School in Newark, New Jersey. Besides maintaining a clinical practice, he has several research interests, mainly related to telemedicine in glaucoma. Being a part of the telemedicine research team examined the direct translation of such applications such as Non-mydriatic imaging combined with digital filters and tele-presence has brought revolution in the field of ophthalmology. He has received the American Glaucoma Society’s MAPS Award, which was instrumental in his telemedicine research.

Research interests mainly related to telemedicine in glaucoma

Tina Guanting Qiu is an accomplished ophthalmology physician, trained retinal surgeon, stem cell biologist, and ocular transplant specialist with over 20 years of international experience. She had led scientific research in drug discovery, drug delivery and cell/gene therapy, established and led scientific and medical advisory boards, and served as a strategic advisor to executives in large and small companies (Inotek, LambdaVision, Sucampo, Ocata, GLG). She was Chief Medical Officer at BetaStem Inc., Senior Director at Inotekand Program Leader at GlaxoSmithKline. She has a Medical Doctor degree (with honors) from Nanchang University, a PhD in Ophthalmology from National Sun Yat-sen University in collaboration with Sheie Eye Institute, UPenn followed by post-doctoral trainings at Boston University and Doheny Eye Institute, USC. She has developed, published and lectured across US, UK, Japan and China, and been featured at Scientific American and National Eye Research Center, UK.

Ocular transplant specialist

Manuel Jose Justiniano is the former President and Founder of the Bolivian Glaucoma Society, Bolvia. He has co-authored many articles in both peer reviewed and nonpeer reviewed journals. Has presented in many international conferences and is a member of many reputed associations.

Sandeep Jain is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Cornea Service, Director at Corneal Neurobiology Laboratory and Director at Dry Eye Service and also Editorial Board Member at Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Ocular Surface. His research focuses on the molecular and cellular aspects of corneal nerve regeneration, which may lead to new therapies for blinding corneal diseases. His research is funded by the National Eye Institute K08 and R01 awards. Currently, he is initiating clinical trials on treatment for dry eye. He has been named one of America’s Best Doctors since 2007 and has received the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Achievement Award. Sandeep Jain joined the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary in 2006. He is board certified in ophthalmology.

Sandeep Jain research focuses on the molecular and cellular aspects of corneal nerve regeneration, which may lead to new therapies for blinding corneal diseases. His research is funded by the National Eye Institute K08 and R01 awards. Currently, he is initiating clinical trials on treatment for dry eye.

Soledad Cortina is an attending physician in the Cornea Service and Director of the Comprehensive Ophthalmology Faculty Practice, the General Eye Clinic and the Keratoprosthesis Artificial Cornea Program within the Cornea Service. She conducts basic science investigations into the regeneration of corneal nerves following corneal and refractive surgery. She is fluent in Spanish, joined the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary in 2010 and is board certified in ophthalmology.

Soledad Cortina conducts basic science investigations into the regeneration of corneal nerves following corneal and refractive surgery.

Daniel Valverde prsently working as Faculty of Medical Sciences University of Guayaquil.Being Specialist in Retina Medicinal – OcularNutrition - Low Vision – Pediatric Vision - Public Health - Community Development Projects in Public Health.

Igor Nasonkin is a Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Charles & Louella Snyder Retinal Regeneration Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, and the Assistant Director, the Louis J. Fox Centre for Vision Restoration of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre and University of Pittsburgh. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Developmental Biology at Pitt. Igor Nasonkin educational background includes receiving a BSc degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (secondary major: molecular genetics) at St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia. He then attended the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, where he earned his MSc degree in Biochemistry (Mentor: Robert Molday, PhD). Following that, he obtained his PhD in Human Genetics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Mentor: Sally A. Camper, PhD).

Igor Nasonkinb current interest is to drive human ES cells further towards neural lineage, and into specialized neuronal type (retinal cells), with further transplantation into retina, and studying potential alleviation of blindness in several genetic models of retinopathy.

Dr. Racette is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute at Indiana University’s School of Medicine (Indianapolis, IN), and an adjunct professor at Indiana University’s School of Optometry (Bloomington, IN). After receiving her Ph.D. from Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), Dr. Racette joined the University of California at San Diego (San Diego, CA) where she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Hamilton Glaucoma Center.

Serena Wang joined the U.T. Southwestern faculty in November 2006, following a successful private practice in Dallas and Plano for the previous two years. Serena Wang has trained extensively at UT Southwestern, completing her ophthalmology internship and residency, as well as her pediatric ophthalmology and corneal and external disease fellowships, here. She also has a strong research background in pediatric ophthalmology, especially in the treatment of pediatric cataracts. She completed a research fellowship at the Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina in 1995. Passionate in her care of pediatric ophthalmic patients, Serena Wang is known for her caring approach. She specializes in the treatment of pediatric eye diseases with a special focus on pediatric cataracts and adult strabismus. She is currently seeing patients at Childrens Medical Center at Legacy, and Childrens Medical Center Dallas.

Serena Wang has a strong research background in pediatric ophthalmology, especially in the treatment of pediatric cataracts.

Doug McCarter, Vice-President and co-Founder, serves as technical integrator and customer liaison. He has worked in and with the petrochemical industry for over 30 years providing troubleshooting expertise on reciprocating equipment as well as supplying custom-machined parts. Since 1999, he has co-authored and authored seven technical papers concerning SCSi processing and its application. Recently, he was designated as a "Senior Member" in SPIE that honors those who have significantly contributed to the optics and photonics community.

Manijeh Razeghi joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has authored or coauthored more than 1000 papers, more than 30 book chapters, and 16 books. She holds 30 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004 and many best paper awards. Razeghi is an elected fellow of SWE (1995), SPIE (2000), IEC (2003), OSA (2004), APS (2004), IOP (2005), IEEE (2005) and MRS (2008).

Pioneer in the area of III-V compound semiconductors and optoelectronic devices from the deep ultraviolet to the far infrared spectral bands, including in particular InP and GaAs based semiconductors and devices, which were at the heart of the optical fiber telecommunication revolution of the late 20th Century and the rise of the information age

Paul Michael Petersen has more than 30 years of research experience in laser physics, nonlinear optics, and optical measuring techniques and he has headed several collaborative research projects within laser physics. Until 1989 he worked in the fields of optical chaos and nonlinear optics in semiconductors. In 1994 he joined the Optics and Fluid Department at Risø National Laboratory. From 2001 until 2007 he was head of Laser Systems and Optical Materials at Risø National Laboratory and in 2008 he became head of research at DTU Fotonik at the Technical University of Denmark. From 2002 to 2012 he was adjunct professor in Optics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University. In 2011 P.M.Petersen was appointed Full Professor in New Light Sources at DTU Fotonik at the Technical University of Denmark.

high power diode lasers based on nonlinear optics and Diode lasers used for lighting.

Sergey Mirov received Ph.D. in Physics in 1983, from the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1993, Mirov is a faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Currently, he is a university Professor of Physics at the UAB and director of the Center for Optical Sensors and Spectroscopies. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, and member of the American Physics Society, and SPIE. He has authored or co-authored over three hundred ninety scientific publications, has published 1 book, several book chapters, and holds twenty patents.

Laser physics-Novel lasers and applications

Vladimir Fal’ko is a condensed-matter theorists, who was responsible for advances in the theory of electronic and optical properties of graphene (including discovery of bilayer graphene, in 2006) and theory of localisation and quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. Educated at Moscow Physical Engineering Institute and the Institute for Solid State Physics RAS, he worked as a research fellow at Max-Planck-Institut in Stuttgart and Oxford University and, now, he holds the post of Distinguished Professor of Condensed Matter Theory at Lancaster University (UK). His current interest includes modelling heterostructures of graphene and other atomically thin two-dimensional crystals, as part of the Horizon2020 European Graphene Flagship Project.

Graphene and related two-dimensional atomic crystals: electronic transport and optical properties.Heterostructures of two-dimensional atomic materials (grapheen-hBN, etc).strongly correlated states of electrons in two-dimensional materials, quantum Hall effect.Fundamentals of nanoelectronics, spintronics, and nano-electro-mechanical systems. Quantum optics and optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots.

Mahi R Singh received Ph.D. (1976) degrees from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in condensed matter physics. After that he was awarded an Alenxander von Humbold Fellow in Stuttgart University, Germany from 1979 to 1981. Currently, he is Professor in this university. He was a visiting Professor at University of Houston, He also worked as a chief researcher at CRL HITACHI, Tokyo and he was a visiting Professor and Royal Society Professor at University of Oxford, UK. He was the Director of the Centre of Chemical Physics and theoretical physics program at Western. Singh has worked in many research are of science and technology including nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, semiconductors structures, high temperature superconductors, nanophotonics, plasmonics, polarotonics and nanoscience and technology.

Nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, semiconductor structures, high temperature superconductors, nanophotonics, plasmonics, polarotonics and nanoscience and technology

J.K. Heinrich Hoerber is a Professor of Nanobiophysics, School of Physics University of Bristol, UK. He is Editor of the Journal “Molecular recognition”, published by Wiley. He is an Honorary Professor of University College London (UCL) 2003 - 2008.

Current research interest: Interactions between light and nanostructures i) surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy on nanostructures ii) sensor development for biomedical applications iii) use of optical properties to produce large quantities of mono disperse nanostructures for industrial applications 2. Electron transport in non-conducting materials i) data storage ii) photo voltaic iii) chemical catalysis 3. Mechanical properties of proteins connecting structure and function

Devki N. Talwar, Indiana U of Pennsylvania (IUP), Chair of Department of Physics, conducts research on optical/electronic properties of defects and phonons in semiconductor materials used for various electronic and opto-electronic devices. He has been with Indiana U of Pennsylvania (IUP), Department of Physics, for almost 27 years and is the author of more than 120 refereed journal articles, 3 book chapters and review articles. His expertise in the sophisticated Green’s function technique is considered very useful for providing information on the electronic and vibrational properties of defects in semiconductors, quantum wells and superlattices.

Devki Talwar conducts research on defects in semiconductor materials used for various electronics and opto-electronics.

Fedor V Kusmart is Vice Head of Physics Department, Loughborough University, Uk. For ten years Kusmartsev has been leading and managing the large multi-stakeholder research consortium – the European Network-Programme “Arrays of Quantum Dots and Josephson Junctions”(AQDJJ). This very large consortium included 75 research teams with very different cross-disciplinary background, from Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics and Computing Departments of 75 EU universities distributed over 12 EU countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK) and have very different cultural, academic and industrial backgrounds. The European Science Foundation assessment reports unanimously stated that the strong success of the AQDJJ consortium work was “due to the leadership of the AQDJJ chairman, Prof Fedor v Kusmartsev”.He is a Member of International Editorial Advisory Boards: journal N1: Advances in Condensed Matter Physics (since 2007); journal N2: Econophysics, New Economy and Complexity (since 2010). N3: Scientific Reports (NATURE, since 2013); was a guest editor of several high profile journals: Journal of Physics A(2003), Superconducting Science and Technology(2009), J. of Modern Physics B(2008).

His current topics of research include: Many body and classical dynamics, motion, stability, Saturn Rings, Protoplanetary disks, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Quantum Computing, Cosmology, Dark Matter and Dark energy, Chaos and Nonlinear Physics, Magnetic materials, Graphene, Nanophysics, Metamaterials, Topological Insulators. Magnetic Nanoparticles and their application inNanomedicin, Internet and other Networks and other Complex Systems, Communications, Sociophysics and Econophysics.

Anwar serves as an Editor of IEEE Journal of Electron Devices and has served as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (2001 – 2010). He serves as the conference chair of the international conference on Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems: Advanced Applications in Industry and Defense of the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012). He has also chaired the 2006 and 2007 Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems Conference as part of SPIEs Optics East. Anwar is a SPIE fellow.

Localization of one-dimensional structures, transport in semiconductor devices, impurity diagnostics in quantum well structures, Sb-based type–II infrared detectors, noise in semiconductor devices, power performance of GaN-based HFETs and circuits.

Luís António Dias Carlos got his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Évora, Portugal, in 1995 working on photoluminescence of polymer electrolytes incorporating lanthanide salts. Currently, he is Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Physics Department. Since 2009 he has been the vice-director of the CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Portugal (with ca. 420 people, CICECO, http://www.ciceco.ua.pt/, is one of the largest European institute in the Materials and Nano fields). He is member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Physics section) since 2011 and was visiting professor of S. Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, S.P. Brazil (1999, 2012 and 2013), University of Montpellier 2, France (2008). Luís Carlos is co-author of 2 international patents, ca. 370 papers and book chapters with ca. 8900 citations (Hirsch’ index h of 49) and co-guest editor of special issues of the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology (2010) and of the Journal of Luminescence (2015). He received the Portuguese Science Foundation prize for Scientific Excellence (2004) and a CNPq Special Visiting Researcher Grant, Science Without Borders Program, Brazil (2013).

His current scientific interests include nanothermometry, light emission of functional organic–inorganic hybrids, silicates and nanocrystals, applications of hybrid materials in green photonics (solid-state lighting, luminescent solar concentrators and integrated optics), self-assembly and emergence of complexity in organic/inorganic hybrids, and luminescent/magnetic nanoparticles as new probes for multimodal imaging.

Debesh Choudhury earned his M.Sc.Tech. (optics & optoelectronics) degree in 1989 and Ph.D. (applied optics) degree in 1995 respectively from University of Calcutta and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He served as a scientist at Instruments R&D Establishment, Dehradun, India. He worked at the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan for postdoctoral research. Presently, he is a professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Neotia Institute of Technology, Management and Science, West Bengal, India. He experienced a variety of research areas in and around signal and image processing, pattern recognition, holography, laser instrumentation, microwave imaging, VLSI circuits and systems. He also handled projects in adaptive optics and imaging through turbulent media. He is an avid user and a promoter of GNU/Linux, free and open source software. He is a senior member of SPIE, member of IEEE, Optical Society of India, Optical Society of America, Indian Laser Association, Instrument Society of India, ACM, FOSET.

Image processing, digital holography, pattern recognition, microwave imaging, VLSI circuits and systems.