Co-Chair
Dean Bok
2016 Helen Keller Laureate
Dolly Green Professor of Ophthalmology
Distinguished Research Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology Emeritus
Stein Eye Institute
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California
Los Angeles, California, USA
Co-Chair
Joe Hollyfield
Professor Emeritus
Cole Eye Institute
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Past President, International Society for Eye Research
Past President, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Joel S. Schuman
Kenneth L. Roper, M.D. Endowed Chair
Vice Chair for Research Innovation
Vickie and Jack Farber Vision Research Center
Co-Director, Glaucoma Service
Wills Eye Hospital
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Lois E. H. Smith
Professor of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School
Research Director for Ophthalmology
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
W. Daniel Stamer
Joseph A. C. Wadsworth Professor of Opthalmology
Vice Chair of Basic Research
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Bela Anand-Apte
Chair, Department of Ophthalmic Research
Cole Eye Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J. Bronwyn Bateman
President, Stein Eye Institute Alumni Association, Department of Ophthalmology
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, USA
Founding Director, Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute
Former Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado, USA
Past President, Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology
Past President, Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology
Honorary Consul Emerita, Nicaragua
Emily Chew
2014 Helen Keller Laureate
National Institutes of Health Distinguished Investigator
Director of Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications
National Eye Institute/National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Past President, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Terri L. Young
Chair, University of Wisconsin Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Peter A. Duehr Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor
of Medical Genetics
University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
President, The Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology
President Elect, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
