President
Baruch D. Kuppermann, MD, PhD
Roger F. Steinert Endowed Professor
Chair
Department of Ophthalmology
Director
Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute
Irvine, California, USA

President-Elect
Lihteh Wu, MDPhD
Consulting Surgeon
Asociados de Macula Vitreo y Retina de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica

Immediate Past-President
Kourous A. Rezaei, MD
Associate Professor
Rush University Medical Center
Director of Vitreoretinal Fellowship
Illinois Retina Associates
Senior Partner
Illinois Retina Associates
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Treasurer
Andre V. Gomes, MD, PhD
Chief of the Retina Department
OSC Institute
Director of the Retina Fellowship Program
ISA Institute
University of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Executive Vice-President
(Executive Director)
Debbie Espe, MPA
Retina World Congress
San Diego, California, USA

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Emeritus
Tarek S. Hassan, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Oakland University
William Beaumont
School of Medicine
Partner and Director
Vitreoretinal Fellowship Training
Associated Retinal Consultants, P.C.
Royal Oak, Michigan, USA

Emeritus
Rishi P. Singh, MD
President
Cleveland Clinic Martin North and South Hospitals
Stuart, Florida
Center for Ophthalmic Bioinformatics
Cole Eye Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Professor of Ophthalmology
Lerner College of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio, USA

RWC E-Live Program Chair
Jorge C. P. Rocha, MD, PhD
Director and President
iRetina Eye Institute
Salvador, Bahia
Board Member
Brazilian Retina and Vitreous Society
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Bahia, Brazil

J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD
Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor & Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Retina Division, Wilmer Eye Institute
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Judy E. Kim, MD, FARVO, FASRS
Jean and Tom Walter Distinguished Chair in Ophthalmology
Professor, Vitreoretinal Diseases and Surgery
Vice-chair, Education
Medical Director, Clinical Research
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, USA

Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, FASRS
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute
Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Nassim Abreu, MD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Retina department
Dr. Elias Santana Hospital
Medical Director
Centro de Oftalmologia y Glaucoma
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Arturo Alezzandrini, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology and Chairman of Oftalmos Institute
University of Buenos Aires
President Pan-American Retina and Vitreous Society
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Maria Berrocal, MD
Berrocal and Associates
University of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

David R. Chow, MD, FRCSC
St. Michael’s Hospital
University of Toronto
Toronto Retina Institute
Toronto, Ontario

Ehab N. El Rayes, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Institute of Ophthalmology
Chairman
Department of Ophthalmology
Retina Eye Center
Cairo, Egypt

Marta S. Figueroa, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology
University of Alcala de Henares
Medical Director
Vissum Madrid
Director of Medical Department
Ramon y Cajal Hospital
Madrid, Spain

Anat Loewenstein, MD, MHA
Professor and Director, Division of Ophthalmology
Tel Aviv Medical Center
VP Ambulatory Services
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel

Virgilio Morales-Canton, MD
Asociacion Para Evitar La Ceguera En Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico

Sundaram Natarajan, MD
Chairman and Managing Director
Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital
Managing Trustee
Aditya Jyot FOUNDATION for Twinkling Little Eyes
President Elect & Chairman
International Relations
All India Ophthalmological Society
Professor of Ophthalmology
Maharashtra University of Health Sciences
National Board of Examination
Secretary General
Global Eye Genetics Consortium
Mumbai, India

Barbara Parolini, MD
Director of Vitreo-Retinal Service,
Istituto Clinico S.Anna di Brescia
Department of Ophthalmology Goiania,
Eyecare Clinic
Brescia, Italy

Stanislao Rizzo, MD
Associate Professor and Chairman
Ophthalmology
Department of Surgical and Translational Medicine
University of Florence
Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi
Florence, Italy

Taiji Sakamoto, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair
Kagoshima University
Kagoshima, Japan

Ashish Sharma, MS
Consultant Retina and Head Research,
Lotus Eye Hospital and Institute, Coimbatore, TN, India

Ramin Tadayoni, MD, PhD
(Deceased)
Université de Paris in France
Head of Department Lariboisière, Saint Louis and Adolphe de Rothschild
France