Meet the 2023 Annual Meeting Program Committee candidates

All candidate bios and nomination statements are available on the official ballots

Anatomy and Pathology/Oncology (AP)

Safal

Safal Khanal
OD, PhD, FAAO

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Martina

Martina Herwig-Carl
MD, FEBO

University Eye Hospital Bonn

Maura

Maura Di Nicola
MD

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

Ludwig

Ludwig Ludwig
MD, PhD

University of Cologne

Biochemistry/Molecular Biology (BI)

Marlies

Marlies Gijs
PhD

University Maastricht

Clinical/Epidemiologic Research (CL)

Tasanee

Tasanee Brathwaite
BMBCh, MA, MPH, DM

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

Yih

Yih Chung Tham
PhD

National University of Singapore

Brian

Brian VanderBeek
MD, MPH, MSCE

Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania

Cornea (CO)

Alexander

Alexander Ljubimov
PhD, FARVO

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Natasha

Natasha Frank
MD

Harvard Medical School

Sangita

Sangita Patel
MD, PhD

University at Buffalo

Francisco

Francisco Figueiredo
MD, PhD

Royal Victoria Infirmary/Newcastle Uinversity

Jia

Jia Yin
MD, PhD, MPH

Harvard Medical School

Farideh

Farideh Doroodgar
MD, DBA

Tehran University of Medical Science

Eye Movements/Strabismus/Amblyopia/Neuro-ophthalmology (EY)

Yi

Yi Pang
OD, PhD

Illinois College of Optometry

Michael

Michael Gilhooley
MB, PhD, FRCOphth

University College London & Moorfields Eye Hospital

Zhanhan

Zhanhan Tu
MBChB, MM, PhD

University of Leicester

Arijit

Arijit Chakraborty
PhD

Midwestern University

Glaucoma (GL)

Meredith

Meredith Gregory-Ksander
PhD

Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School

Yang

Yang Hu
MD, PhD

Stanford University School of Medicine

Rafael

Rafael Grytz
PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Mengyu

Mengyu Wang
PhD

Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School

Immunology/Microbiology (IM)

Joveeta Joseph-Ruben
PhD

L.V.Prasad Eye Institute

Lens (LE)

Bianca

Bianca Maceo Heilman
PhD

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

Physiology/Pharmacology (PH)

Denise

Denise Inman
PhD

University of North Texas Health Sciences Center

Retina (RE)

Amitha

Amitha Domalpally
MD, PhD

Wisconsin Reading Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tiarnan

Tiarnan Keenan
BM BCh, MA, MSc, PhD, FRCOphth

National Eye Institute

Manju

Manju Subramanian
MD

Boston University School of Medicine

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Zuniga-Sanchez
PhD

Baylor College of Medicine

Shintaro

Shintaro Nakao
MD

Juntendo University

Vishali

Vishali Gupta
MD

PGIMER, Cahndigarh

Sundaram

Sundaram Natarajan
MD, DSc, FRCS

Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital

Retinal Cell Biology (RC)

Ann

Ann Morris
PhD

University of Kentucky

Andrea

Andrea Viczian
PhD

SUNY Upstate Medical University

Karl

Karl Wahlin
PhD

University of California, San Diego

Visual Psychophysics/Physiological Optics (VI)

William

William Tuten
OD, PhD

University of California, Berkeley

Julie

Julie Lovell
MS, PhD

The Academics Therapist

Visual Neuroscience (VN)

Xin

Xin Duan
PhD

University of California, San Francisco

Mirella

Mirella Barboni
PhD

Semmelweis University

Genetics Cross-Sectional Group (GEN)

Ayellet

Ayellet Segrè
PhD

PH section
Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School

Petra

Petra Lišková
MD, PhD

CO section
First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University

Kathryn

Kathryn Burdon
PhD

LE section
University of Tasmania

Low Vision Cross-Sectional Group (LV)

Yingzi

Yingzi Xiong
PhD

VI section
University of Minnesota

Multidisciplinary Ophthalmic Imaging Cross-Sectional Group (MOI)

Myeong

Myeong Jin Ju
PhD

CL section
University of British Columbia

Kostadinka

Kostadinka Bizheva
PhD

CO section
University of Waterloo