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DOCTORS’ PROFILES

Key opinion leaders speak about their life, their career and professional achievements.

Paolo Lanzetta

Paolo Lanzetta is professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Udine, Italy, and founder and scientific director of the European Institute of Ocular Microsurgery (IEMO), Udine, Italy.

Marco Zarbin

Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) and Chief of Ophthalmology at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. Professor of Ophthalmology and Neuroscience at NJMS.

Anat Loewenstein

Professor of Ophthalmology, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and Sidney Fox Chair of Ophthalmology at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at the Tel Aviv University, and the Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Tel Aviv Medical Center.

Ingrid Kreissig

Ingrid Kreissig is a world-renowned retina specialist, currently Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany, Adjunct Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the Weill Cornell Medical College of New York, USA, and Prof

Daniele Veritti

Daniele Veritti is currently a research associate at the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Udine, Italy. He received his medical degree from the University of Udine, where he also completed an ophthalmology residency.

Frank Holz

Professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Gemmy Cheung

Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore, and Head of the Medical Retina Department, Singapore National Eye Center. Gemmy Cheung heads the Retina Research Group at the Singapore Eye Research Institute.

Jean-François Korobelnik

Jean-François KOROBELNIK is Professor of Ophthalmology at the University Hospital, Bordeaux since 1999, head of the Ophthalmology Department since May 2013.

Jordi Monés

Jordi Monés is director of the Macula and Retina Institute, Barcelona; founder and director of the Barcelona Macula Foundation: Research for Vision; and coordinator of the Ophthalmology Department at the Teknon Medical Centre in Barcelona.

Lucia Lee Ferraro

Lucia Lee Ferraro is a macula specialist working in Barcelona at the Institut de la Mácula i de la Retina, at the Fundacio Sant Joan de Deu Martorell and, as a researcher, at the Barcelona Macula Foundation.

Mali Okada

Dr Mali Okada is a sub-specialty trained Medical Retina and Vitreoretinal specialist. She is a consultant at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and is a senior researcher with The University of Melbourne’s Centre for Eye Research Australia wh

Paulo Stanga

Paulo Stanga is a consultant ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and professor of ophthalmology and retinal regeneration at the University of Manchester.

Sanjay Sharma

Sanjay Sharma is a professor of ophthalmology and epidemiology at Queen’s University and holds Masters degrees in epidemiology and business administration.

Sebastian Wolf

Sebastian Wolf is professor of ophthalmology, director and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Sundaram Natarajan

Chairman and Managing Director of the Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital in Mumbai, visiting professor at Balaji Medical College and Saveetha Medical University Chennai, India, Marmoindes University, Argentina and ESASO University of Lugano, Switzerland.

Tunde Peto

Tunde Peto is Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at Queen’s University Belfast, Clinical Lead of the Northern Irish Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) Screening Programme and a Consultant Ophthalmologist in Medical Retina.

Valentina Sarao

Retinal specialist at the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Udine, Italy, and Healthcare Director the European Institute of Ocular Microsurgery (IEMO), Udine, Italy.

Varun Chaudhary

Dr. Chaudhary is Professor of Surgery and Chief of Ophthalmology at McMaster University. He is an Associate Member at McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering and McMaster Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact.