Anat Loewenstein, MD, President of the Israeli ophthalmological society, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Sidney Fox Chair of Ophthalmology at Tel Aviv University, Chairman of Ophthalmology at Sourasky Medical Center. Is a leader of innovative technologies, such as, detection of macular degeneration, home OCT, etc. Published over 450 peer-reviewed articles. Serves as Chief Editor of the Journal Case Reports in Ophthalmology and an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Ophthalmology and of Ophthalmologica.

Dr. Lasave completed two vitreoretinal fellowship training programs, first at the Arevalo-Coutinho Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology in Caracas, Venezuela, and then at the Hospital Universitario del Valle (HUV) in Cali, Colombia. He then pursued a fellowship in Uveitis at the Massachusetts Eye Resear and Surgery Institution (MERSI) in Waltham, MA. Dr. Lasave is currently principal investigator (PI) of the Pan-American Collaborative Retina Study Group (PACORES). Dr Lasave is currently part of the board of the Sociedad Argentina de Retina y Vitreo (SARyV). His special interest include vitreoretinal surgery and uveitis. 

Medical Degree awarded by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile ,

Post graduate studies in the Faculty of Engineering at the same University.

Ophthalmology Residence program at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago.

Vitreoretinal fellowship program at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London – UK

More than 20 years’ experience in pediatric and adult vitreo-retinal surgery

Former chief of the Chilean Ocular Trauma Center and National Pediatric Vitreo-Retinal and ROP center in Santiago, Chile

Author of several papers in the field of ROP and numerous presentations on pediatric retina around the world. Served as Assoc. Professor at the Roberto del Rio, Children´s Hospital, Universidad de Chile, School of Medicine and is the Director of the Vitreoretinal program at the KYDOFT Foundation

Member of the Club Jules Gonin, the European Retina Society, The Pan-American Ophthalmic Society, the Association of Pediatric Retinal Specialists, and the Chilean Ophthalmic Society

Professor and Chairman Oftalmos Instituto Oftalmológico. Universidad de Buenos Aires- UBA

Buenos Aires Argentina

Presidente Sociedad Panamericana de Retina y Vítreo – SPRV

Ex Presidente Sociedad Argentina de Oftalmología – SAO

Miembro del Comité Ejecutivo de la Sociedad Argentina de Retina y Vítreo – SARYV

Currently works at the Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Audina does research in retina specifically pediatric retina. She is a Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and has been at BPEI for since 2000.

CEO INIO en Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Oftalmología — Oftalmologa, Especialista en Retina Médica

Professor Afiliado Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Chief of Ophthalmology and Clinical Professor

University of Hawai’i  John A Burns School of Medicine

Founding Partner and Senior Consultant

Retina Consultants of Hawai’i

Medical Director

ISABELLE AUDO, M.D., PH.D., is a clinician scientist, professor in ophthalmology, working both at the Quinze-Vingts Hospital and as a group leader in the Department of Genetics at the Vision Institute (Institut de la Vision) in Paris, France. Her areas of expertise are medical retina, inherited retinal disease both for clinical and molecular diagnosis, and visual function explorations with clinical electrophysiology and imaging techniques. Pr. Audo went to medical school at Paris XI University where she received her M.S. degree in Immunology. She completed a residency program in Lille (North of France) from 1994 to 1997, where she became particularly interested in surgical and medical retina, especially in retinal dystrophies and clinical visual electrophysiology. Following her residency, she earned a Master degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France with Pr. Sahel, and then in 1998, earned her M.D. Pr. Audo completed a research fellowship from 1999 to 2003 at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Madison, Wisconsin, with Pr. Albert, and earned her Ph.D. From 2003 to 2005, she completed a medical retina fellowship under with Prof. Bird and Holder at the Moorfields Eye, Hospital in London. She went back to Paris, France in 2005 where she completed another Master degree in genetics. As a clinician and a scientist, Pr. Audo has developed a comprehensive expertise on inherited retinal diseases from the clinical diagnosis, patients’ care to translational and more basic research aiming at a better understanding of the pathogenic mechanisms underlying these disorders. Pr. Audo’s research on inherited retinal diseases has been published in more than a hundred scientific papers. She is also the coordinator of several laboratory and clinical research projects. She is the president of the Francophone genetic ophthalmic society and became in September 2021 the coordinator of the National reference center for Rare disease of Quinze-Vingts hospital and became the deputy director of the Institut de la Vision.

J. Fernando Arevalo, a holder of MD,and PhDdegrees, completed his medical andophthalmology training in Caracas, Venezuela(his native country), before traveling to Bogota,Colombia for a two-year Retina and Vitreous fellowship. After this intensive training, hetraveled to the USA for a 2-year Retina and Vitreous/Uveitis and Intraocular Inflammationfellowship atUCSD. The following year, Dr. Arevalo went to PhiladelphiaforanOcularOncology fellowship at Wills Eye Hospital. Dr. ArevalowasinvitedbyJohns HopkinsUniversityin Baltimore to work as a Professor of Ophthalmology and the Chief of the RetinaDivision of the King Khaled Eye Hospital (KKESH) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for afour-yeartenure,followed by an appointment at the Wilmer Eye Instituteas the Edmund F. and VirginiaB. Ball Professor of Ophthalmologyin the Retina Division,and an appointment as chief ofophthalmology at JohnsHopkins Bayview Medical Center in 2015.As a clinical scientist, Dr.Arevalo has more than 900 scientific publications,16books, and more than1300 invited lecturepresentations that have led to international recognition and awards.Dr. Arevalo is a formerPresident of the Pan-American Retina and Vitreous Society (2006-2008),immediate Past-President(2017-2019) of the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology, and currentChairmanof the Pan-American Ophthalmological Foundation (2021-24)

Retina Fellow Universidad de Chile, Retina Fellow Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Ex-President Panamerican Retina and Vitreous Society, Ex-President Peruvian Society of Ophthalmology, President XXXIII Panamerican Congress of Ophthalmology 2017, Professor Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Professor Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal; Member of the Jules Gonin Club, Member of the American Society of Retina Specialists; over 30 papers and 10 book chapter published

Dr. Garcia-Aguirre graduated with high honors in 2002 from the Tecnológico de Monterrey School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Mexico. Afterwards, he spent a year doing a research undergrad at the Association for the Prevention of Blindness in Mexico (Asociación para Evitar la Ceguera en México), where he would also earn his degree in Ophthalmology and Retina fellowship. After concluding his fellowship, he was appointed attending physician at the retina department in the same hospital, where he has been doing clinical, surgical, academic and research work up until this day. He is Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City. He is author or coauthor of more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 30 book chapters, and editor of 4 books, and served as president of the Mexican Retina Association in 2020.

Dr. Jose Pulido, born in Cuba, was inspired to go into ophthalmology in medical school as he watched his father struggle with progressive vision loss. He has published close to 350 peer-reviewed ophthalmic papers, numerous books, book chapters, editorials and more than 100 abstracts. Sought after for visiting professorships and named lectures throughout the world, he holds more than a dozen patents, and has won many awards and high honors in the field of ophthalmology throughout his career.

Dr. Pulido’s research has focused on vitreoretinal infectious and inflammatory diseases, retinal degeneration, stem cells, genetics, checkpoint inhibitors, and immunotherapies.

Since being named Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology and Molecular Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in 2019, he has been on sabbatical at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.

Dr. Pulido also holds visiting staff privileges at University College of London, Institute of Ophthalmology. He earned both his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Sciences at the University of Chicago. Dr. Pulido completed his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine, was named chief resident while serving his residency at University of Illinois at Chicago and completed dual fellowships in ocular oncology at Wills Eye and vitreoretinal diseases at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Iowa and went onto complete his Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The Donoso Endowed Chair, which Dr. Pulido now holds, is named for Larry A. Donoso, MD, PhD, JD, MBA who directed Retina Research at Wills Eye for more than a decade.

Kazuaki KadonosonoM.D. graduated from Yokohama City University School ofMedicine, Japan. He completed his residency in Ophthalmology at the Yokohama CityUniversity Hospital. And then served on the faculty as the director of retina departmentat Yokohama City University,School of Medicine. His research interests include thedevelopment and evaluation of new surgical techniques in vitreoretinal and macularsurgery. He has participated in numerous studies of novel treatments in the retinaldiseases. He has been on the Boardof Japanese Ophthalmological Society (JOS), theExecutive director of Japanese Retina and Vitreous Society (JRVS) and belongs toAmerican Society of Retina Specialist (ASRS), American Academy of Ophthalmology(AAO), Macula Society. Currently and International member of Club Jules Gonin.Heserves as Professor and Chair of Department of Ophthalmology and Micro-technology,Yokohama City University

Kourous A. Rezaei, M.D., is an internationally recognized expert in the treatment of medical and surgical vitreoretinal diseases. He is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of vitreoretinal fellowship at Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Rezaei is a senior partner at the Illinois Retina Associates in Chicago. He is the founder of ChannelR (www.channelr.net) and course director of RETINAWS and Formula Retina. Dr. Rezaei is a distinguished inductee of the Retina Hall of Fame and is listed in the Illinois Top Doctors. He is on the Board of Retina World Congress, serving as President Elect and is on the organizing committee of the Florence Retina Congress (FLORetina), one of the largest retina meetings in the world. He has served as editorial board member for Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (IOVS), Retina Times (ASRS), Retina Today (BMC), and Eyetube. 

Luis J. Haddock is a Palm Beach Gardens, Florida based male Ophthalmologist with 14 years of experience in Ophthalmology. He completed his graduation from University Of Puerto Rico School Of Medicine in 2008. He is also affiliated with hospitals like . He accepts the Medicare-approved amount. Patients will not be billed for any more than the Medicare deductible and coinsurance. Active license number of Luis J. Haddock is ME120731 for Ophthalmology in Florida.
Luis J. Haddock is medically trained to diagnose, monitor and medically or surgically treat all ocular and visual disorders. This includes problems affecting the eye and its component structures, the eyelids, the orbit and the visual pathways. In so doing, patients can be prescribed vision services, including glasses and contact lenses.

Marcelo Zas MD PhD (1965) Buenos Aires, Argentina specialized in Diseases
and Surgery of the Vitreous Humor and Retina.

– Associated Professor of Ophthalmology (UBA).

– Chief of the Retina Section of the Ophthalmology Division, Hospital de
Clínicas “José de San Martín”.

Institutional level:

• Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Argentine Society
• of Ophthalmology (SAO, 2021-2022),
• President of the Ethics and Research Committee of the Argentine
• Society of Ophthalmology.
• Director of the Magazine Archivos Argentinos de Oftalmología (SAO).

Internationally:

• Editorial Committee of the Journal of VitreoRetinal Disease
• (American Society of Retinal Specialist).
• European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA); International
• Member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO);
• Colombian Society of Ophthalmology (SOCOFTAL).
• Brazilian Retina and Vitreous Society (BRAVS).
• Pan-American Collaborative Group for the Study of the Retina
• (PACORES).

Publications and Awards:

• Co-author of 27 chapters of undergraduate and graduate
  textbooks.
• 17 Scientific Awards in National and International Congresses for
  his research works and surgical videos.
• Achieved 12 indexed articles published in PubMed.

Mariano Irós, MD

Córdoba, Argentina.

Director of Instituto de Microcirugía Ocular Córdoba (IMOC)

Head of Vitreoretinal Unit and Fellowship Director at IMOC.

President of the Argentine Society of Retina and Vitreous (SARYV).

Former Board Member of European Vitreo-Retinal Society (EVRS).

Chief of Department of Ophthalmology.

Hospital Universitario Austral.

Ophthalmology Director, Retina Specialist at Organizacion Medica de Investigacion Argentina

SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, is the Director of Artificial Intelligence & Imaging Research at the Doheny Eye Institute, and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) Geffen School of Medicine. He is the immediate past President of the Doheny Eye Institute. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University, where he also completed ophthalmology residency and neuro-ophthalmology and medical retina fellowships (Wilmer Eye Institute).

Dr. Sadda’s major research interests include retinal image analysis, advanced retinal imaging technologies, and clinical trial endpoint design. He has more than 650 peer-reviewed publications and 20 book chapters, and has given over 450 presentations worldwide. Dr. Sadda is Editor-in-Chief of the upcoming 7^th Edition of Ryan’s Retina. He also serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Graefe’s and is an editorial board member of Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers & Imaging, Retina, Ophthalmology Retina, Ophthalmology Science and Ophthalmology. Among Dr. Sadda’s awards and honors are a Research to Prevent Blindness Physician-Scientist Award, a Senior Honor Award from the American Society of Retina Specialists, an Achievement Award and a Secretariat Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, John H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Award, the Macula Society Young Investigator Award, American Society of Retina Specialists Young Investigator Award, Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Achievement Award, The Macula Society Paul Henkind Lecture and Award, and the Euretina Lecture. He is also a Gold Fellow and Trustee (Retina) for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. He has been named to the Best Doctors of America list for several consecutive years.

Dr. Victor Gonzalez graduated with a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Completed his residency at Doheny Eye Institute at Los Angeles County Hospital in Los Angeles, California, and completed a rigorous vitreoretinal fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Gonzalez has been in practice since 1995, founded Gulf Coast Eye Institute in 2007, which serves the Rio Grande Valley region, here in Texas. Dr. Gonzalez specializes in opthalmologic diseases of the eye and specializes in the surgery of the vitreous body of the retina. This subspecialty is sometimes known as vitreoretinal medicine and includes the diagnosis and treatment of macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.

Dr. Gonzalez is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and is an active researcher in blindness prevention.

El Dr. Virgilio Morales Cantón es especialista en Oftalmología egresado de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México