Tara Moore is Director of the Biomedical Research Institute and Group leader for Vision Science research in the School of Biomedical Science at Ulster University. Tara graduated from Queen’s University of Belfast in 1994 and in 1997 with a PhD in Immunology and Virology. Over the past 10 years she has built a team of researchers with the one common goal of improving both diagnostics and therapeutics for diseases of the eye which ultimately can result in blindness. Tara has a successful track record of obtaining grants to fund her research. She is associate editor and reviewer for a number of eye related journals and consistently publishes her research findings in peer-reviewed journals. Tara was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for developing an online PGDip/MSc Cataract Refractive Surgery course for Ophthalmologists and eye care specialists.

Immunology and Virology

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.

Glaucoma and vitreoretinal surgery

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona in 1987 and specialized in Ophthalmology (1992). In the Barraquer Ophthalmology Centre, performs clinical and surgical activities in the Department of Surgery of the Anterior Segment and Refractive Surgery. He is also head of the Department of Cornea Conservation in the Eye Bank for Treatment of Blindness. He has received several awards and distinctions at national and international level, among which the "Award for best presentation of the session at the American Society of Refractive Surgery and Cataract (ASCRS) in San Francisco (USA), in the year 2003.

Keratoplasty

Henry Klassen completed his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Pittsburgh and residency at Yale Eye Center and fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital/Institute of Ophthalmology in London. He is associate professor of ophthalmology and director of the Stem Cell & Retinal Regeneration Program at the University of California, Irvine. He is also founder of jCyte, a startup company formed to commercialize retinal progenitor cell-based technology for use in retinal conditions.

Retina And Stem cells

Professor Svetlana Anisimova, graduated from the Moscow Medico-Stomatological University in 1980. From 1980 till 1995 worked as ophthalmosurgeon in glaucoma and cataract departments in the Moscow Institute of Eye Microsurgery with professor Fyodorov, professor Kozlov. Her topic in the research work – “Non-Penetrating Deep Sclerectomy with collagen device”. In 1993, 1996 demonstrate Non-penetrating technique in the Glaucoma Institute in Paris. Since 1995 till our days - General Director of private Eye Center “Vostok-Prozrenie” in Moscow. In 2006 received Ph D degree - topic of the work “New approaches to surgical treatment of glaucoma and cataract in the outpatient clinic”. 2006-2014 worked as associated professor in Postgraduated Medical Institute in the ophthalmological department. Have 93 articles, Book, 5 patents.

Cataract, Glaucoma

PD Dr med is a glaucoma specialist who completed her specialization with Prof Josef Flammer, former head of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Basel. Dr Mozaffarieh currently teaches at the University of Basel and works clinically at the Augenglattzentrum in Zurich.

Galucoma

Dr. Al- Sayyed is the Head and Owner at AMC in Amman, Jordan. After completing her fellowship in Oculoplasty and Strabismus at the University of Toronto, in Canada, she became one of the first oculoplasty surgeons in her area where she came back to teach ophthalmology residents and to volunteer in humanitarian missions to treat victims of disasters and war. She is a member of several international societies and organizations: COS, AAO, MEACO, APAO, JOS, WIO, SOS, PCRF, and RCSN. She is interested in the new modalities of orbital reconstruction and tissue implantation. The lectures she gave about her techniques received the attention and the recognition of the audiences around the world.

Oculoplastic surgery,orbital reconstruction and tissue implantation.

Prof. Jing Hong is the associated director of Department of Ophthalmology, Peking University Third Hospital. She is currently a member of Asia Dry Eye Society and Chinese Ophthalmological Society, and a leading export on ocular suface and corneal endothelial diseases in China. She has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals.

Dry Eyes, Corneal Diseases

Dr. Pavel Rozsival is director of Ophthalmology Clinic in Hradec Kralove, Charles University, Prague. He was born in Cheb, Czech Republic, 27th September 1950.He have published 4l5 papers and presented over 750 lectures.He has published books like Modern Cataract Surgery in 1994, Trends of current ophthalmology IX in 2014 and more. He was awarded with Vanysek medal from Czech Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in 2010. Dr. Rozsival was the first in Czech Republic who implanted AlphaCor arteficial cornea. He was among those who introduced modern IOL implantation in Czech Republic. He has the membership with European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery,European Glaucoma Society,and American Academy of Ophthalmology. He was President of Czech Society of Ophthalmology during 1997 – 2005 and vice-president during 2006 – 2009.

Glaucoma, Cataract and refractive surgery, Vitreoretinal surgery, Corneal transplant, Retinal Detachment, Intraocular implantations

Janardan Kumar holds a Ph.D. degree in chemistry under kind supervision of Dr. C. M. Gupta, ex-director, CDRI, Lucknow, India. In the United States, first he received postdoctoral training on motor proteins in the laboratory of Michael P. Sheetz, a lasker award winner, at Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina. He published his work on kinectin, a myocilin like protein, in Science (1995), and an abnormality in myocilin has been predicted to be involved in the pathogenesis of glaucoma.Prior to coming to Becker College, while a research assistant professor at Tufts University, Kumar engineered a new real time perfusion system used for the discovery of drugs to treat glaucoma. Presently, Kumar is chair of the natural sciences department, and is actively engaged in the advancement of course curriculum in microbiology, chemistry, and developing the biotechnology/biology major at Becker College.

glaucoma, microbiology and chemistry

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.

Contact lens, Ocular diseases

Ingrid Kreissig is currently a Professor at Department of Ophthalmology Univ. Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. She is also serving as Adjunct Professor at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York. Her specialization includes, Posterior Segment of the Eye: St. Gall/Switzerland, Bonn/Germany, and New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center/USA. During 1979-2000, she has been the Chairman of Univ. Tuebingen/Germany. She has published more than 404 papers, those are been published in national and international journals of ophthalmology, basically on topics such as surgery of retinal detachment with long-term follow-up of anatomic and functional results, cryopexy histology, tumors, AMD, diabetic retinopathy, and intravitreal pharmacotherapy. She has also published many books.

AMD, diabetic retinopathy, and intravitreal pharmacotherapy.

Luiz Guilherme, is graduated in Medicine from the University of Grande Rio - RJ- Brazil, He did his Ophthalmology residency at the Hospital de Olhos Santa Luzia / Santa Luzia Foundation (Recife - PE - Brazil). He did his fellowship in Retina and Vitreous by Federal University of Goias, after graduating from the Federal University of Goias. He is a member of the Brazilian Council of Ophthalmology (CBO), Brazilian Society of Retina and Vitreous, International Member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Retina Specialists also he posses the membership of Scientific reviewer of the Brazilian Archives of Ophthalmology, the Expert Board and Scientific reviewer of the International Journal of Ophthalmology. He contributes as author of scientific publications and chapters books of ophthalmology, he is serving as a professor of the Ophthalmology Residency at the Hospital de Olhos Santa Luzia.

Retina

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.

Optical Coherence Tomography, Cornea

Sarah Zhang is currently a tenured Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Biochemistry, and Neuroscience at School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York. She is a faculty member at the SUNY Eye Institute and Graduate School at SUNY Buffalo. Sarah Zhang is a well-established clinician-scientist and vision researcher and has published over 75 peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews and book chapters. Her laboratory studies disease mechanisms and ER stress signaling in diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration and glaucomatous retinopathy. Dr. Zhang has served on Editorial boards for 7 professional journals and on NIH and international grant review panels.

Diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration and glaucomatous retinopathy

Yoko Miura has completed her M.D. in 1997 and Ph.D. in 2002 from Osaka City University in Japan. Clinical training was completed in eye clinic of Osaka City University Hospital and since 2002 a specialist of ophthalmology. In 2005 started research work in University of Kiel in Germany and in 2009 moved to Institute of Biomedical Optics, University of Luebeck. Today engages in the research and clinical works in Institute of Biomedical Optics and Department of Ophthalmology, University of Luebeck. Leading some research projects related to retinal cell biology. Since 2010 adjunct lecturer of Osaka City University.

Biomedical Optics