Organizing Committee
Biography
Cathleen McCabe, MD is one of the foremost eye surgeons practicing today and is a vital asset to The Eye Associates' team, seeing patients in Sarasota, Bradenton and Ellenton, Florida. After Dr. McCabe received her medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin, she went on to her residency training at the prestigious Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami’s School of Medicine. Dr. McCabe specializes in bladeless laser cataract surgery, clear lens replacement, LASIK and anterior segment diseases. Cathleen McCabe has received many prestigious and esteemed awards for her work in Ophthalmology, including being named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for Ophthalmology and to the Premier Surgeon 250 List of the leading innovators in premium IOL cataract surgery, and was selected as a LaserVision Top 100 Surgeon for her vast experience and excellent outcomes in LASIK and refractive surgery. Dr. McCabe’s other achievements and awards include being named an Outstanding Female Leader in Ophthalmology by Millenial EYE magazine, the recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Achievement Award, and she was one of only four surgeons invited to perform LIVE cataract surgery at Texas Eye and Surgery Center in Hurst, Texas, which was telecast in real time to 1000 MDs attending the Alcon event from all over the world. Dr. McCabe’s ongoing commitment to continuing her education earned her the Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA), presented by the American Medical Association, and she has also been honored with the Lifelong Education for the Ophthalmologist (LEO) Continuing Education Recognition Award by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. McCabe was granted membership into the American College of Eye Surgeons (ACES) because of her commitment to excellence in eye surgery. She has also successfully fulfilled the requirements for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) to be recertified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology. Cathleen McCabe is a Board member of the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society, the Vice Chairman and a member of the Practicing Ophthalmologists Curriculum Panel (POCP)- Cataract and Anterior Segment Panel and a Board Member of the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society. Dr. McCabe also serves on the Editorial Board for Ophthalmic ASC, EyeNet, and Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today publications. Additionally she continues to share her expertise by publishing articles and book chapters, lecturing at ophthalmological and optometric seminars all over the country, and participating in residency training programs.
Research Interest
Cataract, Refractive, and Advanced Lens Technology
Biography
Nikolakopoulos Athanasios Born and resident of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is Graduated from the Aristotelio University (Greece)–Medical Department. He did his postgraduate studies (fellowship) at the Hospital of Addenbrook Cambridge England on the retina diseases with Mr J.D.Scott, on glaucoma with Mr J.D.Cairns and on inflammations with Mr P.Watson. Attended Moorefield Eye Hospital on Lasers in Ophthalmology and on the retina surgery of Giant tears. Attended the Rotterdam Clinic Center with Rellyo Zivojnoviz, as a representative of the Cambridge Hospital. He is also senior registrar at Adenbrooks Hospital, organized and directed the Retina department of St.Dimitrios Hospital of Thessaloniki and he became Director of Retina clinic of St.Dimitrios Hospital. Nikolakopoulos Athanasios was the former president of the Greek Ophthalmological Federation and The Greek Vitreoretinal Society.
Research Interest
Glaucoma and vitreoretinal surgery
Biography
Felipe Soria studied Medicine in the Adventist University in Argentina and did his specialty in Ophthalmology in the Vision Institute of Montemorelos University in Mexico. He made the subspecialties of Cornea, Refractive and Cataract surgery in Vissum Corporation with Dr. Jorge Alio for a period of two years.
He has written more than 30 scientific articles and book chapters, being Editor of the book Femtosecond Laser Assisted Keratoplasty.
He has participated with 40 communications in different international congress across the world.
He owns the patent: Use of Mesothelial cells in Tissue Bioengineering and Artificial Tissues.
Interview for EyeWorld TV: http://ewreplay.org/node/555?v=3784727216001
Research Interest
Cornea, Refractive and Cataract surgery
Biography
Cristian Falcon is the Director of Optima Laser Clinic, Valencia, Spain and member of reputed ophthalmology societies. He is an Ophthalmology surgeon specialist in Refractive surgery: LASIK, SBK, Intraocular lenses and phacoemulsificaion. He is having an extensive experience in LASIK, SBK and LASIK(SBK) for Presbyopia & performed 12,000 procedure over this years of practice. He has published his research papers in various reputed journals and he is been invited in many scientific conferences around the world as a speaker.
Research Interest
LASIK, SBK and LASIK(SBK) for Presbyopia
Biography
Jacob Lorenzo-Morales completed his PhD in the University of La Laguna in 2001 and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Edinburgh until December 2011 when he was granted a Ramón y Cajal Tenure Track Fellowship by the Spanish Government. His work has been focused in Free-Living Amoebae infections mainly Acanthamoeba keratitis. He has published more than 60 papers in reputed journals in the parasitology and tropical medicine fields. He has been the Scientific Secretary in the last two editions of the International free-living amoebae meetings (FLAM 2009 and 2011), invited speaker at the symposium of free-living amoebae of the International Congress of Parasitology 2014. In November 2013 he was awarded the Individual Award for Young Canary Islands Citizens by the Canary Islands Government in recognition to his research career.
Research Interest
Contact lens, Ocular diseases
Biography
Baswati Prasanth, Specialist Ophthalmology has 10 years of vast experiences from various hospitals in India and other countries, completed her MS Ophthalmology from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune and Fellowship in Glaucoma and Anterior segment from Dr Shroffs Eye Hospital, New Delhi. She is the winner of A D Patwardhan Gold medal from university of Pune. She is the Director of Ophthalmology, Ahalia hospital, Abudhabi. She has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals and has been part of several clinical trials.
Research Interest
Phacoemulsification, small incision cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery
Biography
Vinod Gauba currently working as a Consultant Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic Surgeon Moorefield’s Eye Hospital, Dubai, UAE. He has been the Head of Ophthalmic, Oculoplastic and Laser service. Previously he worked alongside with Professor L Cassidy (lacrimal/endoscopic surgery), Mr. P Moriarty (orbital/ oculofacial), Ms. Kate Coleman (Cosmetic oculofacial surgery), Professor Michael O’Keeffe (Refractive surgery) and many more. Having worked in most prestigious institutes and hospitals around the world as Specialist Registrar in St. James’ University Hospital, Leeds, York District General Hospital, Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton, St. James’ Laser Vision Clinic, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Victoria Hospital, Blackpool(BVH), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, USA, Torbay Hospital, Torquay With extensive experience in Oculo-Facial Plastic, Orbital , Lacrimal and Refractive Surgery, CORNEA /REFRACTIVE , anterior segment, Medical Retina, Paediatric / Surgical Retina /Neuro and Glaucoma. He completed his education from Oxford and University of Leeds and post graduate University of Warwick and Associate Professorship from Illinois College of Optometry. He has many awards since his childhood and throughout his education until 2014 he won the most prestigious award as Mahatma Gandhi Gold Medal by Government of India, House of Lords, London. He has several publications related to experience in the most prestigious journals.
Research Interest
Cataract, ICL and Lasik-Laser
Biography
Miguel Rechichi has completed his training in ophthalmology at 28 and his PhD at 32 from Magna Graecia University and Diploma of Specialist Superior in Ophthalmology from University of Lugano (Switzerland). He’s actually a researcher for Magna Graecia University and Director of corneal and refractive Surgery service of S.Lucia Eye Clinic, Cosenza, Italy. He was a pioneer of crosslinking clinical application and actually is involved in developing new accelerated cxl protocols for which he’s invited as opinion leader to several meetings. He has published several papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed Journals.
Research Interest
Optical Coherence Tomography, Cornea
Biography
George Beiko is a medical graduate of Oxford University and completed his ophthalmology specialty training at Queens University in Canada. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at McMaster University and a Lecturer at the University of Toronto. Dr. Beiko has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and also authored twelve book chapters. He has given over 500 scientific presentations at meetings throughout the world. He has been awarded 3 best papers of session at the ASCRS annual meeting, one best poster award at AAO, one Best Paper of Session (Cataract) at APAO-AAO Joint Meeting and the Best Original Paper in Cataract Surgery at AAO in 2010. He is on the review panel or editorial board of 25 ophthalmology journals. His honours include being elected to membership in the International Intraocular Implant Club, being named one of the “Premier Surgeons†of North America and being made an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, by Her Majesty The Queen of England. He has been honoured on 3 occasions with the Gold Medal by the Indian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, a Senior Achievement award by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, an Achievement Award by the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, the Presidential Award of the International Society of Refractive Surgery and the Boberg-Ans Award of the Danish Ophthalmological Society.
Research Interest
Cataract
Biography
Supriyo Chatterjee is an educator and a practitioner in Optometry since 1990. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Human Physiology from Calcutta University and thereafter completed his 4 year PG Diplomas in Optometry and Contact Lens Practice from Indian Optical Institute& Refraction Hospital (Estd.1932), the pioneer Institute of Optometry in India, Calcutta. He went to USA for advanced studies and clinical internship in California under Optometric Extension Program Foundation and State University of New York – College of Optometry, in the areas of Binocular Vision, Pediatric Optometry and Behavioral Optometry. He was an Associate of College of Optometrists in Vision Development of USA and Clinical Associate of Optometric Extension Program Foundation, California. He has presented many papers in home on Behavioral Optometry, Sports Vision, Myopia, Near point Vision Stress, Non Strabismic Binocular Dysfunction and Vision Therapy. He was awarded Bausch & Lomb Certificate of Excellence in Contact Lens Practice as well as Silklens India Award for Outstanding Contribution to Optometry Education in Eastern India. He also represented India, particularly his Alma Mater in 4th World Council of Optometry Educators’ Meet in Atlanta, Georgia in 2002, as the Director of Academic Affairs of the AII India Institute of Optometrical Sciences (AIIOS). He was selected by ORBIS International, Ethiopia to serve as an Assistant Professor of Optometry, Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Ethiopia in 2008. His areas of interest are: General & Pediatric Optometry, Infant Vision Development, Non-Strabismic Binocular Dysfunctions, Myopia, Computer Vision Syndrome, Sports Vision, Ocular Pathology & Therapeutics, Vision Therapy and Neuro-Optometry.
Research Interest
General & Pediatric Optometry, Infant Vision Development, Non-Strabismic Binocular Dysfunctions, Myopia
Biography
Chris (tiane) Lange-Küttner obtained her Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin, and worked thereafter as a post-doc in Cognitive Science at the Free University of Berlin. Since 1994, she holds an academic faculty position in the UK, initially at the University of Aberdeen, and up to now at the London Metropolitan University. From 2009-2011 she was Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Konstanz, Germany. She is also affiliated faculty at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Research Interest
Perspective Mapping, Psychology