Don’t miss our editorial advisory board members at the Floretina/ICOOR meeting

Several EAB members are scientific committee members, course organisers or and faculty for this year’s congress. Image credit: ©fongleon356 – stock.adobe.com

The Eye Care Network is able to provide cutting-edge reporting in large part because of our editorial advisory board (EAB) members. These leaders in the eye care industry support Ophthalmology Times, Modern Retina and Ophthalmology Times Europe by contributing articles, participating in events and sharing their insights with our editorial teams. Here, we have chosen to spotlight some of the programming that our esteemed board members will present at this year’s Floretina meeting and International Congress on OCT Angiography, En Face OCT and Advances in OCT (ICOOR). Several EAB members are scientific committee members and course organisers, and even more are serving as faculty for this year’s congress.

Ophthalmology Times Editorial Advisory Board

David Chow, MD

University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

Dr Chow serves as co-chair of the Pathologic Myopia session on 6 December and is an organiser for the “Fix That Retina Battle” on 7 December.

See more from Dr Chow in the programme

Quan Dong Nguyen, MD

MSc, FARVO, FASRS

Byers Eye Institute

Stanford University School of Medicine

Palo Alto, CA

Along with serving as co-chair of several uveitis sessions, Dr Nguyen also chairs the Bruno Lumbroso Lecture committee. This year’s Bruno Lumbroso Lecture Award recipient is Amani Fawzi, MD, who will deliver the lecture on Saturday 7 December.

See more about Dr Nguyen’s contributions in the programme

Three members of the Ophthalmology Times EAB are also serving as faculty for the Floretina/ICOOR meeting: Tarek S. Hassan, MD, of Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan; Sharon Fekrat, MD, of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and Carl D. Regillo, MD, of the Wills Eye Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ophthalmology Times Europe Editorial Advisory Board

Tunde Peto, MD, PhD,

FRCOphth

Queen’s University Belfast,

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Throughout the meeting, Prof Peto will be presenting on diabetes and diabetic eye disease, artificial intelligence and imaging new techniques.

See her daily schedule in the programme.

Two members of the Ophthalmology Times Europe EAB are serving as faculty at this year’s congress: Albert Augustin, MD, of Klinikum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Alexandra Miere, MD, PhD, of Paris Est Créteil University, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Créteil, France.

Modern Retina Editorial Advisory Board

Anat Loewenstein, MD

Ophthalmology Division,

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Tel Aviv, Israel

Prof Loewenstein will co-chair a special session with Nicole Eter on imaging wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), presented under patronage of the European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA). She will also present on unmet needs in nAMD, participate in a number of roundtables and lead multiple symposia.

See more from Prof Loewenstein in the programme.

Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Cleveland Clinic,

Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University;

Vitreoretinal Surgeon, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

Prof Rachitskaya will be moderating a live surgery session from the auditorium on Saturday, 7 December. She will also address a number of hot topics in retina such as biomarkers in geographic atrophy, microperimetry, and impact of GLP-1 receptor agonists on chronic eye conditions including non-exudative AMD.

See her full schedule in the programme.

More members of the Modern Retina EAB will serve as faculty for the 2024 Floretina meeting: J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD, FACS, FASRS, who is the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Professor of Ophthalmology and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Centre at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Jean-François Korobelnik, MD, PhD, professor and chief of ophthalmology at Hôpital Pellegrin in Bordeaux, France; and Charles C. Wykoff, MD, PhD, of Retina Consultants of Texas, Houston Methodist Hospital and the Blanton Eye Institute in Houston, Texas.