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Dr. Chan is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Toronto, Director of Ophthalmology Fellowships, and the President of the Canadian Cornea Society - responsible for curating the annual meeting’s cornea & refractive sessions the last 5 years.
She has trained over 40 fellows as part of the Cornea fellowship program in Toronto and is the Medical Director of the Eye Bank of Canada, Ontario Division. Dr. Chan has published more than 170 peer-reviewed papers, received the AAO Senior
In 2023, Dr. Chan was included in The Ophthalmologist Power List, recognizing the top 100 most influential global figures in ophthalmology.
Aleksandra V. Rachitskaya, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University’s Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and a member of the vitreoretinal faculty at Cleveland Clinic’s Cole Eye Institute. She serves as the Cole Eye Institute Vice Chair of Safety Quality and Patient Experience. She specializes in the diagnosis and management of medical and surgical retinal diseases. Prior to her appointment at the Cleveland Clinic in 2014, Dr. Rachitskaya served as the Chief Resident and Director of Ocular Trauma at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida.
An active researcher, Dr. Rachitskaya is involved in numerous clinical trials, including studies on diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, and gene therapy for IRDs. Dr. Rachitskaya regularly publishes on her research with over 120 publications to date. She also has given numerous national and international presentations on her work. She is an active member of American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the American Society of Retina Specialists, the Retina Society, the Vit-Buckle Society, and the Macula Society. She is a recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award, the American Society of Retina Specialists Presidential Award, and the Retina Hall of Fame Young Superstar Award. She is the past President of the Ohio Ophthalmological Society and the President of the Vit-Buckle Society.
Dr. Santosh G Honaver is an acclaimed Ophthalmologist with a wealth of experience of more than 35 years.
He is currently the Honorary General Secretary of the All India Ophthalmological Society; Director of Medical Services (Centre for Sight Group); Director, Department of Ocular Oncology and Oculoplasty at Centre for Sight, Hyderabad; and Director, National Retinoblastoma Foundation. He was the Editor of the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology and Indian Journal of Ophthalmology - Case Reports, the official journals of the All India Ophthalmological Society from 2017 to 2023. Dr. Santosh G Honavar has contributed significantly to over 150 peer-reviewed journals and has authored numerous book chapters.
A former head of the Department of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery and Ocular Oncology and associate director at L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, he is known for his research on retinoblastoma. He is counted among the top 2% of world researchers and tops the list of researchers in Ophthalmology in India.
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 2009. Dr Honavar is the only Indian Ophthalmologist to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London, UK.
He is a prominent member of the All India Ophthalmological Society, Oculoplastics Association of India, Asia Pacific Society of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgeon, Asia Pacific Society of Ophthalmic Oncology and Pathology, and International Society of Ocular Oncology.
Associate Professor Niederer is a clinician-scientist whose research focuses on inflammatory eye disease, herpes zoster ophthalmicus, and the epidemiology of vision loss. She has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications and is the author of Uveitis Management: a clinical handbook. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the Howsam Medial for Excellence in Ophthalmology, the Sir William McKenzie Prize in Ophthalmology, and the Distinguished Clinical Tutor Award.
She currently practices as a uveitis and medical retina specialist at Auckland District Health Board and Auckland Eye, and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Auckland.
Professor Ashish Agar is a glaucoma consultant at the Prince of Wales & Sydney Eye Hospitals, and a partner at Marsden Eye Specialists in western Sydney. After completing his registrar training at Prince of Wales he obtained his Glaucoma Fellowship from Oxford and spent time at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He is a Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales, engaged in clinical studies as well as laboratory research into glaucoma pathogenesis, being awarded a PhD in this field. Ashish is also an Honorary Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, with research collaborations with the Discipline of Orthoptics.
Professor Agar co-ordinates glaucoma services in far western NSW with the Outback Eye Service, based at Prince of Wales Hospital, and is also the Director of the Broken Hill Hospital ophthalmology service. He is Chair of RANZCO’s Australian Ophthalmology Workforce Services Committee and Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group and immediate past Chair of the NSW State Branch. Ashish is an AMA NSW Board member and past President of the Australian Society of Ophthalmologists. Ashish also has an interest in registrar training and overseas development ophthalmology in India and as a Sight for All Visionary in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Mongolia.
Professor Agar has been a leader in evaluating next generation glaucoma surgery, including MIGS. Experienced with most of the available technologies, he serves on several Advisory Boards and works with government for equitable access to MIGS devices in the Australian health system. Managing glaucoma in remote and Indigenous communities has been a driver of this interest, and he performed the first use of MIGS in such isolated settings in Australia in the outback mining city of Broken Hill.
Dr Benson Chen is an academic clinician with expertise in neurology and neuro-ophthalmology. After completing neurology training at Auckland City Hospital, he undertook a research and clinical fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Emory Eye Center in Atlanta, GA, USA in 2019. Benson returned from the United Kingdom in 2024, after completing his doctoral studies and a clinical research fellowship in mitochondrial disease in the mitoCAMB research group at the University of Cambridge.
Benson's unique training in neurology and neuro-ophthalmology gives him insight into how neurological diseases can affect vision and vision-related quality of life. His research, based in the Neurogenetics Research Clinic and the Greenlane Eye Clinic, aims to develop a deeper understanding of different neurological diseases using the structure and function of the eye as a window to the brain.
Benson is particularly interested in studying the optic nerve and the effect that different neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) can have on the structure and function of the optic nerve. He also has a keen interest in quality of life research, specifically the development, validation, and application of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs).
Awards:
2011 - W E Henley Prize in Clinical Medicine, University of Auckland
2018 - V J Chapman Research Fellowship, Neurological Foundation
2019 - Cambridge-Rutherford Memorial PhD Scholarship, Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi and Cambridge Trust
2021 - Aotearoa New Zealand Fellows Research Entry Scholarship, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
2021 - Jim McLeod Advanced Trainee Award, Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists
2022 - Bushell Travelling Fellowship in Medicine or the Allied Sciences, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
2024 - Thomas and Susan Carlow Young Investigator Award, North American Neuro Ophthalmology Society
2024 - Senior Clinical Research Fellowship, Neurological Foundation
Dr Cam Loveridge-Easther is a Paediatric and General ophthalmologist trained here in Sydney and abroad. He came to Sydney to spend time in the bigger hospitals and has found likeminded and inspiring clinicians generous enough to ask him to stay a little longer. He covers general paediatrics with an oculoplastic interest, retinopathy of prematurity and general adult work. He loves sharing good ideas and holds leadership positions that ensure these good ideas manifest.
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Dr Richard Symes is a consultant ophthalmologist at Sydney Eye Hospital and Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sydney. He is a director at Gordon Eye Surgery. At Sydney Eye Hospital he subspecialises in uveitis, medical retina and glaucoma and he is followship trained in these three subspecialties. He has a particular interest in the surgical management of uveitis including cataract and glaucoma in patients with uveitis.
Richard has a strong interest in registrar teaching, both in the clinic and in the wetlab. He is a regular trainer on the microsurgical skills course. He has served as a sub-investigator for 15 clinical trials in over the last 10 years. He has a passion for aid work and has participated in outreach programs to Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.
Dr Clare Fraser specialises in neuro-ophthalmology, strabismus and visual electrodiagnostics. She is a consultant Visiting Medical Officer at both Sydney Eye Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital, and is also in private practice in Sydney. At the University of Sydney, she holds the title of Associate Professor of Neuro-ophthalmology.
She completed ophthalmic training at Sydney Eye Hospital in 2006-2009 and went on to further Neuro-ophthalmic training at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology, London, England with Dr Gordon Plant for 18 months. In 2011 she completed a research fellowship at Emory Eye Centre, Atlanta, USA, with Drs Nancy Newman and Valerie Biousse.
Dr Fraser is a committee member for the The Neuro-Ophthalmology Society of Australia. She is also on the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society International Committee and the committee for the Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library.
Chameen Samarawickrama is a clinical academic with public posts at both Westmead Hospital and Liverpool Hospital. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales.
He completed two corneal fellowships in cornea and external eye diseases, first at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, before moving to Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He continued on at Moorfields as a consultant prior to returning back to Sydney.
Chameen has over 50 publications in the international literature and been awarded over $350,000 in grant funding. His current research interests are in microbial keratitis, and the development of a novel collagen based corneal glue for the treatment of acute corneal perforations.
Dr. Trinh is a RANZCO qualified ophthalmologist in cornea, cataract and refractive surgery. She completed her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Queensland where she was awarded a scholarship in Medical Leadership and the Australian Medical Association of Queensland Harold Plant Prize for Best All Rounded Graduate.
Dr Trinh completed her ophthalmology specialist training under the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists in Queensland. She then embarked upon an advanced two-year fellowship in Cornea, External Diseases and Refractive Surgery at the University of Toronto, Canada where she developed extensive expertise in corneal transplantation, pterygium surgery, ocular surface regeneration, complex anterior segment surgery and refractive surgery including LASIK, PRK and corneal collagen crosslinking for the treatment of keratoconus.
Dr Trinh was awarded the position of Chief Fellow of the University of Toronto and subsequently received the prestigious Lim Memorial Prize for the subspecialty surgeon exemplifying best surgical and teaching skills.
Dr Trinh then undertook a research fellowship in laser cataract surgery, corneal transplantation, dry eye treatments and ocular surface disease.
Dr Trinh has now been invited to join the team at Sydney Eye Hospital, Australia as a Staff Specialist and is excited to be back home in Australia.
She has published over 40 scientific journal articles in national and international journals, written book chapters on advanced corneal transplantation techniques and ocular surface disease and is a regular presenter on the national and international conference circuits.
She teaches medical students, residents, registrars and fellows, is involved in the development of anterior segment curriculum teaching at the University of Toronto and contributes regularly to community optometry education. She is also a clinical associate lecturer for the University of QLD.
She currently sits on the RANZCO Executive Committee for Women in Ophthalmology and is the Secretary for the Global Research and Education Society of Ophthalmology (GERSO).
She is also the Head of the Refractive Surgery Terminology Committee for the Refractive Surgical Alliance.
In 2022 she became the first Australian graduate of the Physician CEO Program at Northwestern University School of Business, Chicago and in 2023 she was awarded as an inaugural fellow of the World College of Refractive Surgery and Vision Sciences.
Krishna Tumuluri is an Oculoplastic surgeon working at Westmead adult and Children’s hospitals and also works at Liverpool Hospital, Sydney. He completed his Ophthalmology training at Sydney Eye Hospital and did three years of fellowship training at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London and Manchester Royal Eye Hospital UK. He was an examiner and subject leader in anatomy for RANZCO and regularly teaches registrars in the field of Oculoplastic surgery. He is a clinical senior lecturer at University of Sydney and Macquarie University.
Dr Gaurav Bhardwaj is an adult and paediatric vitreoretinal surgeon and medical retina specialist. He is a consultant at Westmead Hospital, Liverpool Hospital and the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney Faculty of Health and Save Sight Institute. He has completed a PhD in the topic of retinal haemorrhages in children. His areas of expertise include all areas of vitreoretinal surgery and he was involved in the first case of ocular gene therapy performed in Australia. He is also a principal and associate investigator in several clinical trials.
Dr Emily Gregory-Roberts graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney with honours and completed a Masters degree in the discipline of Clinical Ophthalmology at the University of Sydney. Following this, she trained in Ophthalmology at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne. She then completed a clinical glaucoma fellowship at the Oxford Eye Hospital in Oxford, United Kingdom. She also worked as a research fellow in the ophthalmology department at Columbia University in New York and her research has been published in multiple scientific journals. She is affiliated with the University of Sydney as a Clinical Lecturer in the Sydney Medical School, and she sits on the Therapeutics committee of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO).
Professor Adrian Fung is Head of the Westmead Hospital Vitreoretinal Unit and a specialist in vitreoretinal surgery, medical retina diseases and posterior segment tumours of the eye. He is a Clinical Professor at Macquarie University Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. He has Masters degrees in Ophthalmic Science and Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Sydney and completed four clinical and research fellowships in the United States and Canada.
Professor Fung has published over 125 international peer-reviewed journal articles and 7 book or book chapters, including “Westmead Eye Manual” (www.westmeadeye.com) and “Vitreoretinal Surgery Online” (www.vrsurgeryonline.com). He is a Principal Investigator of the Bionic Eye Project, Golden Geographic Atrophy and Velodrome Port Delivery System trials. He was the first surgeon in the world outside of the USA to implant the Port Delivery System and perform a refill-exchange injection. He is Editor for Retinal Cases and Brief Reports and Medical Retina Section Editor for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. He has been invited to speak and teach at over 100 national and international meetings in Australasia, North America and Europe. He was awarded the RANZCO Teacher of Excellence Award in 2019. He is amongst the first retinal surgeons in Australia to be admitted to the Macula and Retina Societies in the USA and received the Macula Society Travel Grant Award in 2020.
Professor Fung is an APVRS Councillor and immediate past-Chair of the RANZCO Clinical Standards Committee. He sits on the RANZCO Scientific Congress, RANZCO NSW Branch ASM, Sydney Eye Hospital Alumni, ORIA, RANZCO Clinical Standards, ANZSRS Surgical Registry, Fight Tumour Blindness and APVRS Young Ophthalmologists committees. He is a member of RANZCO, ASO, ANZSRS, AAO, ASRS, ARVO, Euretina, Macula Society, Retina Society, APOIS, Vit-Buckle Society, Lifeline Express International Academy, ISOO, IRGIII, IntRIS, APAO and APVRS. He is an APVRS Leadership Development Program Mentor and a RANZCO RACE Examiner.
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