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
W. Daniel Stamer
PhD, FARVO
Physiology/Pharmacology
Duke University
Durham , North Carolina
Term: 2015 - 2020
Vice President
Jennifer J. Kang-Mieler
PhD, FARVO
Retina
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago , Illinois
Term: 2015 - 2020
President-elect
Stephen C. Pflugfelder
MD, FARVO
Cornea
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston , Texas
Term: 2017 - 2021
Vice President-elect
Melinda K. Duncan
PhD, FARVO
Lens
University of Delaware
Newark , Delaware
Term: 2016 - 2021
Vice President-elect
Irene Gottlob
MD, FARVO
Eye Movements/Strabismus/Amblyopia/Neuro Ophthalmology
University of Leicester
Leicester , England
Term: 2016 - 2021
Immediate Past President
Steven J. Fliesler
PhD, FARVO
Retinal Cell Biology
State University of New York-Buffalo/VA Medical Center
Buffalo , New York
Term: 2014 - 2019
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
T. Michael Redmond
PhD, FARVO
Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
National Eye Institute - National Institutes of Health
Bethesda , Maryland
Term: 2017 - 2022
Trustee
Maureen G. Maguire
PhD, FARVO
Clinical/Epidemiologic Research
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
Term: 2017 - 2022
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
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
Trustee
Maureen A. McCall
PhD, FARVO
Visual Neuroscience
University of Louisville
Louisville , Kentucky
Term: 2017 - 2022
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
Emily Patterson
PhD
Advanced Ocular Imaging Program (AOIP)
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee , Wisconsin
Term: 2017 - 2019