Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is comprised of elected members from ARVO's 13 Scientific Sections along with elected and trustee-appointed officers. The president and vice president(s) are elected from within the Board each year. The executive vice president is elected by the general membership to a five-year term and is a voting member of the Board of Trustees. The ARVO executive director serves as an ex officio member of the Board. For more information on Board of Trustee duties, appointments and elections please refer to the bylaws.
Roster
President
Stephen C. Pflugfelder
MD, FARVO
Cornea
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston , Texas
Term: 2017 - 2021
Vice President
Melinda K. Duncan
PhD, FARVO
Lens
University of Delaware
Newark , Delaware
Term: 2016 - 2021
Vice President
Irene Gottlob
MD, FARVO
Eye Movements/Strabismus/Amblyopia/Neuro Ophthalmology
University of Leicester
Leicester , England
Term: 2016 - 2021
President-elect
Maureen G. Maguire
PhD, FARVO
Clinical/Epidemiologic Research
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
Term: 2017 - 2022
Vice President-elect
T. Michael Redmond
PhD, FARVO
Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
National Eye Institute - National Institutes of Health
Bethesda , Maryland
Term: 2017 - 2022
Vice President-elect
Maureen A. McCall
PhD, FARVO
Visual Neuroscience
University of Louisville
Louisville , Kentucky
Term: 2017 - 2022
Immediate Past President
W. Daniel Stamer
PhD, FARVO
Physiology/Pharmacology
Duke University
Durham , North Carolina
Term: 2015 - 2020
Executive Vice President
Justine R. Smith
FRANZCO, PhD, FARVO
Immunology/Microbiology
Flinders University
Adelaide , Australia
Term: 2017 - 2022
Trustee
Hans E. Grossniklaus
MD, MBA, FARVO
Anatomy & Pathology/Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine-Emory Eye Center
Atlanta , Georgia
Term: 2018 - 2023
Trustee
Andrew Taylor
PhD, FARVO
Immunology/Microbiology
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston , Massachusetts
Term: 2019 - 2024
Trustee
Louis R. Pasquale
MD, FARVO
Glaucoma
Harvard Medical School-Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
Boston , Mass
Term: 2018 - 2023
Trustee
Leopold Schmetterer
PhD, FARVO
Physiology/Pharmacology
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Singapore
Term: 2020 - 2025
Trustee
Srinivas Sadda
MD, FARVO
Retina
Doheny Eye Institute
Los Angeles , California
Term: 2020 - 2025
Trustee
Patricia D'Amore
MBA, PhD, FARVO
Retinal Cell Biology
Schepens Eye Research Institute - Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Boston , Massachusetts
Term: 2019 - 2024
Trustee
Stephen Burns
PhD, FARVO
Visual Psychophysics/Physiological Optics
Indiana University School of Optometry
Bloomington , Indiana
Term: 2019 - 2024
Ex Officio Members
ARVO Foundation Board of Governors Chair
Paul Sternberg, Jr.
MD, FARVO
Retina
Vanderbilt University Medical Center-Vanderbilt Eye Institute
Nashville , Tennessee
Term: 2018 - 2023
Executive Director
Iris M. Rush
CAE
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Rockville , Maryland
At-Large Members-in-Training Trustee
Tasneem Khatib
MA, BMBCh
Clinical Neuroscience
University of Cambridge
Cambridge , England
Term: 2019 - 2021