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                                          Speaker Biographies

                          Michael T. Andreoli, MD
                          Michael T. Andreoli, M.D. is in practice at the Wheaton Eye Clinic. He
                          specializes in diseases of the retina and vitreous, as well as benign tumors and
                          malignant cancers of the posterior segment. He provides medical, laser, and
                          surgical management for a wide array of conditions, including macular
                          degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, epiretinal membranes, macular holes,
                          retinal detachments, and uveal melanoma.

Dr. Andreoli graduated magna cum laude from both Boston University and Boston University School of
Medicine, where he was nominated to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. During medical school, he
received the Dean Eleanor Tyler Memorial Award as the top student in the accelerated medical program
and the Edith G. Chess Scholarship for the outstanding student in ophthalmology. He then completed
his ophthalmology residency, serving as Chief Resident, and his vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at the
Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, University of Illinois at Chicago. He subsequently pursued advanced
fellowship training in ocular oncology.

Dr. Andreoli has authored 10 book chapters and over 70 scientific papers and national meeting
presentations. He has contributed to leading textbooks in the field including Ryan’s Retina and The
Retina Atlas.

                         Pooja Bhat, MD
                         Dr. Bhat is Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Co-director of the Uveitis
                         Service at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, University of Illinois at Chicago. She
                         is also the Director of Medical Student Education and the Associate Residency
                         Program Director. Her primary focus is on the diagnosis and management of
                         infectious and non-infectious uveitis as well as other ocular inflammatory
                         conditions. Dr. Bhat has conducted research on various systemic
                         immunosuppressive agents for ocular inflammation and on herpetic diseases of
the eye especially herpetic scleritis. Her current research interests include topical carbonic anhydrase
inhibitors for treatment of inflammatory macular edema and use of higher doses of biologics including
biosimilars for the treatment of recalcitrant ocular inflammatory diseases. Dr. Bhat was a Research
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Fellow under Dr. C. Stephen Foster at the Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institution and an
Ophthalmic Pathology Fellow under Dr. Frederick A. Jakobiec at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
in Boston. She completed a clinical fellowship in Ocular Immunology and Uveitis under Dr. Debra A.
Goldstein at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Bhat joined the faculty in Aug of
2014.

                        R.V. Paul Chan, MD, MSc, MBA, FACS
                       R.V. Paul Chan, MD is The John H. Panton, MD Professor of Ophthalmology
                       Head of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. He is also
                       Director of the Pediatric Retina and ROP Service and Co-Director, Vitreoretinal
                       Fellowship at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, University of Illinois at Chicago.
                       His clinical practice focuses on vitreoretinal surgery, with an expertise in
                       pediatric retinal disease. Dr. Chan received his BA from the University of
                       Pennsylvania and MD from the Temple University School of Medicine. After
completing Ophthalmology residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College,
he went on to a Fellowship in Vitreoretinal Surgery at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at
Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chan spent nine years on faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College before
moving to UIC in 2015.

Dr. Chan is committed to global ophthalmology initiatives with a focus on both surgical training and
education for the diagnosis and management of adult and pediatric retinal disease. He works with a
multi-disciplinary group of investigators with expertise in neonatology, ophthalmology, biomedical
informatics, international health, and medical education. Together, they have established clinical,
teaching, and research collaborations in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Dr. Chan is an assistant editor
for the journal, Retina, and remains active in a number of major ophthalmic societies as a member of
the American Eye Study Club, the American Ophthalmological Society, the Retina Society, the Macula
Society, the Association of Pediatric Retina Surgeons, and the American Society of Retina Specialists. Dr.
Chan serves on the Global ONE Advisory Board and the Ethics Committee for the American Academy of
Ophthalmology (AAO). He is also on the Executive Committee for the Pan-American Association of
Ophthalmology. Dr. Chan has won numerous awards including a Heed Ophthalmic Foundation
Fellowship, the Ronald G. Michels Foundation Fellowship, the Paul Kayser International Fellowship, the
Excellence in Ophthalmology Vision Award (XOVA), the American Society of Retina Specialists Senior
Honor Award, the Achievement Award and two Secretariat Awards by the AAO.

                        Felix Y. Chau, MD
                        Dr. Felix Chau currently serves as an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at
                        the University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary (UIC-IEEI) Retina
                        Service. He graduated from Duke University with a bachelor of science in
                        biomedical engineering in 1996, and he originally started his career as an
                        engineer at Motorola designing circuits, optimizing manufacturing processes and
                        writing software for cellular and satellite phones from 1996 to 2000. Seeking to
                        be more involved in caring for people, he changed fields and graduated from
                        medical school at the University Of Iowa Carver College Of Medicine in 2004. He
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completed his ophthalmology residency at the Duke University Eye Center in 2008 and his retina
fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary in 2010. Dr. Chau has
collaborated on multiple projects at the UIC – IEEI including imaging studies of an animal model of
retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), analyzing SDOCT macular changes in sickle retinopathy patients,
providing vitreoretinal care for Boston Keratoprosthesis patients, and participating in various studies in
diabetic retinopathy, age related macular degeneration, and other diseases. He is also involved in the
care of pediatric retina patients with conditions including ROP, Stickler’s syndrome, and retinoblastoma.

                        Amani Fawzi, MD, FARVO
                        Dr. Fawzi is a vitreoretinal surgeon and clinician-scientist. She is the Cyrus Tang
                        and Lee Jampol Professor of Ophthalmology in the Feinberg School of Medicine.
                        She divides her time between her clinical/surgical practice and her NIH-Funded
                        research at Northwestern University.

                          At Northwestern University, Dr. Fawzi runs an active NIH-funded translational
                         research laboratory. Her lab studies animal models of ischemic retinopathies
and her clinical research focuses on novel functional retinal imaging approaches including OCT
angiography, visible-light OCT and hyperspectral imaging. Recognized for her imaging research, Dr. Fawzi
serves on the Editorial Boards of Scientific Reports (Nature), Retina Journal and Investigative
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, as well as serving on several NIH study sections. She has
authored/coauthored over 160 peer-reviewed articles, has delivered several named Lectureships and
has been elected as a member of the Retina and Macula Societies. She has received the Honor Award of
the American Society of Retina Specialists and the Achievement Award of the American Academy of
Ophthalmology.

                         Manjot Gill, MD
                           Manjot K. Gill is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Northwestern
                           University Feinberg School of Medicine and Director of the Vitreoretinal
                           Fellowships program in the Department of Ophthalmology. She earned her
                           medical degree and completed her ophthalmology residency at the University
                           of Alberta in Canada. She subsequently went on to complete a fellowship in
                           medical diseases of the retina and vitreous at Northwestern University
                           followed by a fellowship in surgical diseases of the retina and vitreous at the
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School. She specializes in the medical and surgical
management of vitreoretinal disorders. She has an interest in age-related macular degeneration and
diabetic retinopathy and is involved in several national clinical trials in these areas. She has been the
author of dozens of peer-reviewed publications and her research has been presented at national
meetings. She is actively involved in undergraduate medical teaching as well as postgraduate medical
education of residents and fellows in the Department of Ophthalmology and has been recognized by the
Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators. She has served on the University Faculty Senate and is
currently a member of the Medical Faculty Council. She is an active member of the American Academy
of Ophthalmology, American Society of Retinal Specialists, Retina and Macula Societies.
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Joelle Hallak, MS, PhD
                           Dr. Hallak is Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Co-Executive Director of
                           the Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmology (Ai-O) Center, and Director of the
                           Ophthalmic Data Science (ODS) Laboratory.

                             Dr. Hallak is an epidemiologist with expertise in the development of
                             predictive and explanatory statistical modeling techniques for personalized
                             medicine applications in ophthalmology. Her research interest is the
identification of risk factors and imaging biomarkers in learning algorithms, for ophthalmic disease
progression, to measure interpretable associations for clinical translations.

                         Quan V. (Donny) Hoang MD, PhD
                         Dr. Hoang is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Duke-NUS (National
                         University of Singapore) and a Senior Consultant in Surgical Retina at the
                         Singapore National Eye Centre where he established a High Myopia Clinic. In
                         addition, Dr. Hoang runs a lab in Ocular Imaging at the Singapore Eye Research
                         Institute. He also holds an adjunct appointment at Columbia University.

                         Dr. Hoang spent a total of 17 years in Chicago, beginning with his
undergraduate studies at Northwestern University, where he received a triple major with honors in
Chemistry, Biology and Integrated Science He then received his joint Medical Degree (MD) and PhD in
Neuroscience and Biophysics from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he was awarded the 2006
Top Thesis Award in the Life Sciences. He undertook Ophthalmology training at the Illinois Eye and Ear
Infirmary in Chicago under Drs. William Mieler and Dmitri Azar where he won the Top Research Awards
in 2009 and 2010.

Dr Hoang subsequently completed a 2-year vitreo-retinal fellowship at the Columbia University Medical
Centre and the Vitreous, Retina, Macula Consultants of New York (VRMNY) in 2012. Working under the
supervision of world-renowned specialists Profs. Stanley Chang, Lawrence Yannuzzi, Richard Spaide and
Bailey Freund, he was trained in vitreo-retinal surgery and medical retina. He stayed on at Columbia as
faculty member for 5 years before immigrating to Singapore in order to join his Singaporean wife who is
an Economics professor.

                         Robert Hyde MD, PhD
                         Robert A. Hyde, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the
                         Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a
                         vitreoretinal surgeon and clinician-scientist with a focus on inherited retinal
                         diseases.

                         Dr. Hyde received his BS from Yale University, graduating with honors with
                         majors in History and Physics. Following graduation, he worked as research
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assistant in the clinical genetics laboratory of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, where
he developed an interest in the genetic basis of heritable disease. He matriculated to the Medical
Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where he
earned both his MD and PhD degrees. His graduate work focused on the electrophysiological basis of
short-term memory, for which he was awarded the Doctoral Excellence Award in Neurosciences.
Following an internship in medicine at Summa Akron City Hospital, he completed his ophthalmology
residency at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary at UIC. He then completed a fellowship in vitreoretinal
surgery at the Kellogg Eye Center at the University of Michigan before returning to UIC to join the faculty
in 2020.

Dr. Hyde’s clinical interests include the diagnosis and management of patients with inherited retinal
diseases and vitreoretinal disorders. He has an active interest in preclinical studies and current clinical
trials, including gene therapy, for inherited retinal diseases. His research focuses on the development of
novel markers of visual function in patients with inherited retinal diseases and he maintains many active
collaborations within the research community.

                        Lee M. Jampol, MD, FARVO
                        Dr. Jampol is the Louis Feinberg Professor of Ophthalmology at Northwestern
                        University and Adjunct Professor at the Medical University of Vienna. His career
                        has focused on clinical trials, inflammatory diseases (white spots) of the retina,
                        cystoid macular edema, pharmacology of the retina and central serous
                        chorioretinopathy. He also works with diabetic retinopathy and age related
                        macular degeneration. Since 1985, when he became a member of the Data
                        Monitoring Committee of the Macular Photocoagulation Study, he has been
extensively involved in data monitoring and planning of clinical trials. He has been on the data
monitoring committees of the MPS, SST, SCORE and the DRCR, as well as corporate studies, and has
served on the external advisory committees of the Latino Eye Study and the Beaver Dam Study.
Administratively, he has been President of the American Ophthalmological Society, Trustee and Vice
President of ARVO, President of the Macula Society, and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology
at Northwestern University from 1983-2010. Presently, Dr. Jampol is the Chair of the Diabetic
Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR.net), a multicenter U-10 from the NIH supporting research
on diabetic retinopathy.

                         Yannek Leiderman, MD, PhD
                         Dr. Leiderman Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the
                         Vitreoretinal Microsurgery Laboratory. He joined the Illinois Eye and Ear
                         Infirmary in 2010 as an attending physician in the Retina Service. His practice
                         focuses on complex retinal detachment, proliferative vitreoretinopathy,
                         diabetic eye disease, macular surgery (including macular hole and macular
                         pucker), eye trauma, retinal vascular disorders, macular degeneration and
                         other medical and surgical disorders of the vitreous, retina and macula. Dr.
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Leiderman also conducts research on the mechanisms of proliferative vitreoretinopathy and diabetic
eye disease.

                        Jennifer I. Lim, MD, FARVO
                        Dr. Jennifer I. Lim holds the Marion H. Schenk Esq., Chair in Ophthalmology for
                        Research in the Aging Eye as a Professor of Ophthalmology, Vice Chair for
                        Diversity and Inclusion, and Director of the Retina Service at University of Illinois
                        at Chicago. Her areas of expertise include surgical and medical retinal diseases.
                        She received her MD with Distinction from Northwestern University (Six-Years
                        Honors Program in Medical Education), where she was elected into AOA and
                        received both the Dean’s AOA Student Research Award and the Julius Conn
Memorial Award. She completed her ophthalmology training at University of Illinois at Chicago,
receiving the Resident Research Award and the American College of Surgeons Resident Competition
Chicago Chapter Keeshin Prize. She completed medical and surgical retina fellowships at the Wilmer Eye
Institute of Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was a Heed Fellow and a Heed Knapp Fellow Awardee.
After completing her training, she joined the faculty of Emory University as an Assistant Professor of
Ophthalmology. She was recruited to Doheny Eye Institute of University of Southern California as an
Associate Professor with tenure and then promoted to Professor of Ophthalmology. In 2007, she was
recruited to University of Illinois at Chicago as the Director of the Retina Service.

Her research interests include clinical trials, translational research and retinal vascular disease. She has
been principal investigator in over 60 clinical trials, serves on several Data and Monitoring Committees,
Executive Committees of The Retina Society and Women in Retina (WinR). She previously served on the
Boards of The Macula Society and the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS). She collaborates
with basic scientists on angiogenesis and imaging research. She has received funding from the National
Eye Institute, Macula Society Research Fund, American Cancer Society and numerous industry grants.
She currently is a PI for an R01 grant on "Differential artery-vein analysis in OCT angiography for
objective classification of diabetic retinopathy".

Her current leadership positions include Deputy Associate Editor for JAMA Ophthalmology, Deputy
Editor-in-Chief of EyeWiki, Treasurer of The Retina Society, Investigative Ophthalmology and
VisualScience (IOVS) Editorial Board member, Vice-President of the Chicago Ophthalmology Society
(COS), University of Illinois at Chicago Faculty Senator and Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
(AOA)Councilor for University of Illinois School of Medicine Chapter. She serves as an Associate
Examiner of the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO). She is a past-President of both Women in
Ophthalmology(WIO) and Chinese American Ophthalmology Society (CAOS) and past Chair of WinR. She
has been the AAO Retina Subspecialty Day Director and on the Retina Subspecialty Day Planning
Committee, Retina Subcommittee Chair of the AAO Annual Meeting Planning Committee, Chair of the
Research and Education Committee and Chair of the Nominating Committee of Macula Society, 2016
AAO CouncilSubspecialty Representative to the Nominating Committee, former CME Editor for JAMA
Ophthalmology and past Retina Society Councilor of the AAO.

She has received the Paul Henkind Award (2021), WIO Scientific Contribution Award (2020), AAO
LifeAchievement Honor Award (2018), AAO Secretariat Award (2011), ASRS Senior Honor Award,
Suzanne-Veronneau Troutman Award, ARVO Gold Fellow Award (2019), ARVO Silver Fellow Award
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(2014),Chinese American Ophthalmology Service awards, University of Southern California (USC)
teaching awards (1998 - 2007), UIC Departmental Faculty of the Year Award (2018) and Mother McAuley
Liberal Arts High School Hall of Honor (2019). She was the inaugural University of Illinois at Chicago
Distinguished Sweeney Lecturer and was named to Chicago Super Docs, Best Doctors in America, Top
Doctors and ASRS Retina Hall of Fame (charter inductee). She has authored or co-authored over 300
articles, 30 book chapters and edited several books including Age-Related Macular Degeneration, which
is currently in the Third Edition.

                        J. Jason McAnany PhD
                          Dr. McAnany is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the
                          Clinical Psychophysics and Electrophysiology Laboratory at the University of
                          Illinois College of Medicine. Dr. McAnany joined the Department of
                          Ophthalmology in September 2011 as a member of the research faculty. He is
                          the principal investigator of a National Eye Institute (NEI) research grant,
                          “Mechanisms of Early Functional Loss in Diabetic Eye Disease,” which aims to
                          study early neural dysfunction of the retina in patients who have diabetes. He
also has a multi-PI award from the NEI “Mechanisms of Vision Loss in X-Linked Juvenile Retinoschisis” to
study retinal structure and function in patients who have XLRS, an inherited vitreoretinal degenerative
disease. His research is focused on defining the relationship between visual dysfunction and underlying
disease processes using noninvasive test procedures including psychophysical, electrophysiological, and
pupillometric measures, with the goal of developing novel approaches for diagnosing and monitoring
the progression of visual dysfunction.

                       William F. Mieler, MD, FARVO
                       William F Mieler, MD is the Cless Family Professor of Ophthalmology, and Vice-
                       Chairman for Faculty Affairs, in the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual
                       Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He also serves as the
                       Director of Vitreoretinal Fellowship Training, and Director of Ocular Oncology.
                       Dr. Mieler received the UIC 2016 College of Medicine Faculty of the Year Award.
                       His specialty areas include diseases and surgery of the retina and vitreous, along
                       with ocular oncology.

Dr. Mieler received his MD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Medical School (1979). After
completion of an Internship at Mercy Hospital Medical Center in San Diego, CA (1980), he completed a
three-year ophthalmology residency at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL
(1980-83) and then a one-year vitreoretinal fellowship at the Eye Institute, Medical College of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (1983-84). He then returned to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute where he
served as Chief Resident and Clinical Instructor (1984-85). Dr. Mieler then completed a second
fellowship in Ocular Oncology, at Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
(1985). In 1985, he joined the full-time faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he became
Professor of Ophthalmology (1992) and was awarded the Jack A. and Elaine D. Klieger Chair in
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Ophthalmology (1998). Dr. Mieler then joined the faculty at the Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston,
TX, as Professor of Ophthalmology (1999-2004). He then accepted the position of Professor and
Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, at the University of Chicago (2004-08), prior to his current
position at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2008-present).

Dr. Mieler has authored or co-authored 385 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 100 book chapters, and 10
textbooks (4 as Section Editor, and 6 as Editor), including most recently Retinal Pharmacotherapeutics
(2016), The Retina Atlas, 2nd edition (2017), and Macular Surgery (2020). He has also presented 29
named lectures. He is/has been the Principle Investigator or co-Investigator of more than 70 Scientific
Grants and Collaborative Studies. He has served the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO) as a Board
Director (1998-2005), Chairman of the Board (2005), as Associate Executive Director (2006), and as
Emeritus Director (2006-present). He also served on several committees with the American Board of
Medical Specialties (ABMS). Dr. Mieler is also the past President of the Macula Society (2003-04), and he
received the Gass Medal (2013). He has served on the Executive Committee of the Retina Society. In
2011, he was named recipient of the Founders Award by the ASRS. He is a past member of the Pan-
American Board of Directors (2001-08), and he has chaired the PAAO Foundation Grants Committee
(2006-11). Dr. Mieler has served on the ARVO Board of Trustees (2010-16), representing the Retina
section, and was President of ARVO (2014-15). He received the Distinguished Service Award from ARVO
(2016). He has served on the Editorial Board of Archives of Ophthalmology, RETINA, Current Eye
Research, the American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, and currently serves on the Editorial
Board of The Asia Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology. He also serves as a scientific reviewer for more than
50 additional scientific journals.

From the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), he has received the Honor Award (1992), the
Lifelong Education for the Ophthalmologist Award (2000), the Senior Honor Award (2001), and the Life
Achievement Honor Award (2011). He also has served as a member of the AAO Council (2001-08), the
EyeNet Editorial Advisory Board (2003-07), and the Chair of the Schepens Award (2007-10). He also has
served the AAO as a Media Spokesman, as a member and chair of the CME Advisory Task Force, as a
member of the Audit and Finance Committees, and as Associate Secretary for the AAO Subspecialty Day
programs (2011-15). Most recently, he was elected to serve on the AAO Board of Trustees (2017-20),
and served as a member of the Executive Committee. In the American Ophthalmological Society (AOS),
he was elected to serve as a member of the Council (2018-23).

                        Lawrence Ulanski, II, MD
                       Lawrence Ulanski is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology at the Illinois
                       Eye and Ear Infirmary. He also is Chief of Ophthalmology at the Captain James
                       Lovell Federal Health Care Facility. Dr. Ulanski has completed a fellowship in
                       ocular oncology at the Princess Margaret Oncology Hospital in Toronto, Canada.
                       He also completed a fellowship in uveitis at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary. His
                       clinical interests include AMD, uveitis, ocular oncology and intraocular tumors.
                       His research interest has focused on macular degeneration and diabetic
retinopathy. He has served as a Principal Investigator in the AREDS2 Trial, The ForeSee Home Device
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Extention Trial, and the Rheophoresis for Dry Macular Degeneration Trial. He has also been a Principal
Investigator for the Ozurdex for BRVO and DME studies.

                         Nadia Waheed, MD, MPH
                         Dr Waheed is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Tufts University
                         School of Medicine in Boston, Director of the Retina Research Fellowship at the
                         New England Eye Center and the Director of the Boston Image Reading Center.
                         Dr. Waheed received her medical degree summa cum laude from the Aga Khan
                         University Medical School in 1998 and received a Master in Public Health
                         degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. She completed a
                         residency in Ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Infirmary/Harvard Medical School Program in Ophthalmology, followed by a Fellowship in Retina from
the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, which she completed in 2006. She then joined the Cleveland Clinic Cole
Eye Institute, where she was on faculty from 2006-2008. In 2008, she left for a sabbatical in
International Ophthalmology, during which time she helped establish the Ophthalmic Genetics and
Imaging Research Center at the Shifa International University. On her return to the US in 2012, she
joined the Tufts Medical Center in Boston where her research has focused on imaging of the eye and the
development and use of ophthalmic imaging devices to better elucidate changes in the eye in health and
disease.

Dr. Waheed’s research interests include ocular imaging, including optical coherence tomography
angiography, diabetic eye disease and age related macular degeneration, as well as clinical trial design
and analysis. Her work at the reading center includes developing and validating functional and imaging
endpoints for clinical trials. She heads the retinal research fellowship at the Tufts New England Eye
Center. She has published extensively with over 100 peer-reviewed publications, over 40 chapters, and
is the co-editor of two books in retinal imaging and OCT. She also served on the editorial board of
several journals, including Retina and IOVS. Dr. Waheed is a world leader in the field of advanced retinal
imaging and has delivered over 100 invited lectures at various meetings worldwide including several
endowed and keynote lectures. She has also served as an AMPC reviewer for the American Academy of
Ophthalmology.
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Inaugural guest of Honor
Morton F. Goldberg, MD, FARVO, FACS, FAOS, FRACO
(Hon.), MD (Hon., University of Coimbra)
Joseph E. Green Professor of Ophthalmology, The Wilmer Eye Institute,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director Emeritus, Wilmer
Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Former Professor and Head, Department of Ophthalmology, University of
Illinois at Chicago (1970-1989)

Morton F. Goldberg, MD, is the Joseph E. Green Professor of Ophthalmology and Director Emeritus at the
Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. From 1989 to 2003, he served as the
Director and William Holland Wilmer Professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute. Prior to that, he
was Professor and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at University of Illinois at Chicago (1970-1989).
Dr. Goldberg received his AB (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) from Harvard College and MD (Alpha
Omega Alpha, cum laude) from Harvard Medical School. After interning at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in
Boston, he completed an ophthalmic residency and was chief resident at the Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore.
He also served as chief resident at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. He completed a medical genetics fellowship
with Professor Victor McKusick at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Goldberg’s areas of expertise include macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, sickle cell retinopathy
and other vascular retinopathies, laser therapy, ocular trauma, and genetic ocular diseases. He has authored
over 590 scientific publications. In 2009, he published his tenth book, T he Retina in Systemic Disease: A
Color Manual of Ophthalmoscopy.
He has served as President of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, the Macula Society, the Association for
Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) and the Association of University Professors in Ophthalmology.
Dr. Goldberg is the Co-Founder, Vice President, and trustee of the RYR-1 Foundation and Co-Chairman of
RYR-1 Research Committee.
In 1999, Ophthalmology Times selected Dr. Goldberg as one of the “ten greatest living ophthalmologists.”
He has received the inaugural Ida Mann Medal; the Weisenfeld Prize; Inaugural ARVO Silver Fellow Award
and ARVO Gold Fellow Award; Inaugural Arnall Patz Medal; Isaac Michaelson Prize of the Israel Academy
of Sciences; David Paton Medal; Fight for Sight/Mildred Weisenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award; AOS
Howe Medal; Henkind Award (Macula Society); Gertrude Pyron Award (ASRS); Inaugural Dr. Venkataswamy
Endowment Oration Award; Foundation Fighting Blindness Inaugural Builders of Sight Clinical Research
Award, and numerous other awards. He received the Honoris Causa degree from the University of Coimbra,
Portugal. He has given the AAO Jackson Memorial Lecture, Jose Cunha-Vaz Lecture, Alex Krill Lecture, UIC’s
Kronfeld lecture, and almost 50 other named lectures.
He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists, a member of the National
Academy of Medicine (Institute of Medicine), of the National Academy of Sciences, an emeritus member of
the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis and the former Editor-in-Chief of Archives of
Ophthalmology (now JAMA Ophthalmology). Endowed professorships in his name have been
established at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine.
Gerhard Cless Endowed Lecture
“2021: Reflections on more than 15 years of
Anti-VEGF Therapy”
Presented by

Paul Sternberg Jr., MD, FARVO
G.W. Hale Professor and Chairman, Vanderbilt Eye Institute
Chief Medical Officer, Vanderbilt Medical Group
Chief Patient Experience and Service Officer
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Vanderbilt School of Medicine

Dr. Sternberg is the G. W. Hale Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair of the Vanderbilt Eye Institute in
Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude, and from University of
Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine with honors. After internship at the University of Chicago Hospitals
and Clinics, he completed his residency in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins
Hospital and his fellowship in vitreoretinal diseases and surgery at Duke University Eye Center. He was
Chief Resident at Wilmer and then joined the faculty at Emory University in Atlanta, where he was Chief
of the Retina Division and the Thomas M. Aaberg Professor. After 18 years, he was recruited to Vanderbilt
in 2003. In 2009, he was named Vanderbilt’s Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer.
In 2014, he was also named Chief Patient Experience Officer.

He is a renowned retinal specialist, who maintains an active academic and research program, studying
the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration. He has authored more than 300 scientific articles
and 30 book chapters, and has received research funding from the NIH, numerous foundations, and
industry. Dr. Sternberg is the recipient of many awards including the Macula Society Gass Medal, Arnall
Patz Medal, Paul Henkind Award, the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s (AAO) EnergEYES Award,
Lew Wasserman Award of Merit from Research to Prevent Blindness, AAO Lifetime Achievement Award,
L. E. Brown Humanitarian Award, Sommer Prize from the EyeCare Foundation and Heed Ophthalmic
Foundation Award. He has been named one of the Best Doctors in America every year since 1994 and
one of America’s Top Doctors since 2003.

Dr. Sternberg has a long history of leadership in ophthalmology, highlighted by serving as President of
the American Academy of Ophthalmology, President of the Macula Society, President of the Association
of University Professors of Ophthalmology, and is the current Chair of the Board of Governors for the
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Foundation.

Dr. Sternberg is married to Gloria Sternberg, and they have two sons, Matthew and Zachary. Dr. Sternberg
is the past Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art
in Nashville and serves on the Board of Trustees for Leadership Nashville.
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