Annual Meeting Program Committee
Annual Meeting Program Committee
Description
The Annual Meeting Program Committee (AMPC), under the direction of the Executive Vice President, is responsible for the content of the scientific portion of the ARVO Annual Meeting.
Composition
The members of each Scientific Section and Cross-sectional Group elect an AMPC member from the lists of current ARVO voting members (Regular, Sustaining, or Life members) each year. The Executive Vice President serves as the Committee Chair. Ordinarily, members of the AMPC serve staggered terms of three or four years, with the most senior member serving as the Section Chair.
Qualifications
In compliance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) guidelines, AMPC members may not be owners or employees of ACCME defined commercial interests.
Meetings
The AMPC conducts online abstract reviews between mid-December and mid-January each year and then meets at the end of January to plan the current year's Scientific Program. The AMPC also meets at the Annual Meeting to initiate plans for the subsequent year's program and conducts business via ARVOConnect and e-mail and if needed by conference call during the year.
Past members
Roster
Chair
Justine R. Smith, MBBS, PhD, FARVO
Section: Immunology and Microbiology
Flinders University
Adelaide , South Australia
Term: 05/11/2017 - 05/05/2022
AP Co-chair (Anatomy)
Xiaoying Zhu, OD, PhD, MD, MS
Section: Anatomy and Pathology/Oncology
State University of New York College of Optometry
New York , N.Y.
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
AP Co-chair (Pathology/Oncology)
Mohamed H. Abdel-Rahman, MD, Phd
Section: Anatomy and Pathology/Oncology
Ohio State University
Dublin , Ohio
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
AP Member (Anatomy)
Frances Rucker, PhD, MCOptom, FAAO
Section: Anatomy and Pathology
New England College of Optometry
Boston , Mass.
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/02/2022
AP Member (Anatomy)
Chea-su Kee, BSc, PhD
Section: Anatomy and Pathology
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
AP Member (Pathology)
Vivian Lee, MD
Section: Anatomy and Pathology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia , Penn.
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
AP Member (Pathology/Oncology)
Vikas Khetan, DO, DNB, FMRF
Section :Anatomy and Pathology
Sankara Nethralaya
Chennai , India
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
BI Chair
Elfride De Baere, MD, PhD
Section: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital
Ghent , Belgium
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
BI Member
Carlo Rivolta, PhD
Section: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Basel
Mittlere Strasse 91 , Switzerland
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
BI Member
Stephanie Hagstrom, PhD
Section: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Cleveland Clinic / Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland , Ohio
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
CL Co-chair
Nicole Ann Carnt, PhD, BOptom
Section: Clinical and Epidemiologic Research
School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW
Canterbury, NSW , Australia
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
CL Co-chair
Robert Finger, PhD
Section: Clinical and Epidemiologic Research
University of Bonn
Bonn , Germany
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
CL Member
Alison Abraham, PhD
Section: Clinical and Epidemiologic Research
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore , Md.
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
CL Member
Tiarnan Keenan, MD, PhD
Section: Clinical and Epidemiologic Research
National Eye Institute
Bethesda , Md.
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
CL Member
Van Lansingh, MD, PhD
Section: Clinical/Epidemiologic Research
HelpSeeMe
Weston , Fl.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
CL Member
Joshua Ehrlich, MD, MPH
Section: Clinical/Epidemiologic Research
Kellogg Eye Center at the University of Michigan School of Medicine
Ann Arbor , Mich.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
CO Co-chair (Basic Scientist)
Thomas A. Fuchsluger, MD, PhD, FEBO, MSc
Section: Cornea
Friedrich-Alexander-University
Erlangen , Germany
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
CO Co-chair (Clinical Scientist)
Anat Galor, MD
Section: Cornea
Bascom Palmer
Miami , Fla.
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
CO Co-chair (Clinical Scientist)
Takefumi Yamaguchi, MD
Section: Cornea
Tokyo Dental College
Chiba , Japan
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
CO Member (Basic Scientist)
Vivien Coulson-Thomas, MSc
Section: Cornea
University of Houston
Houston , Texas
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
CO Member (Basic Scientist)
Rajiv Mohan, MD, PhD, FARVO
Section: Cornea
University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia , MO
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
CO Member (Clinical Scientist)
Matilda Chan, MD, PhD
Section: Cornea
University of California - San Francisco
San Francisco , Calif.
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
CO Member (Basic Scientist)
Kyung-Chul Yoon, MD, PhD
Section: Cornea
Chonnam National University Hospital
Gwangju , Korea
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
CO Member (Clinician Scientist)
Pedram Hamrah, MD, FRCS, FARVO
Section: Cornea
Tufts University Medical Center
Boston , Mass.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
CO Member (Clinician Scientist)
Vishal Jhanji, MD, FRCS, FRCOphth
Section: Cornea
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh , Pa.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
EY Chair
Jingyun Wang, PhD
Section: Eye Movements/Strabismus/Amblyopia/Neuro-Ophthalmology
Salus University Pennsylvania
Elkins Park , Pa.
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
EY Member
Fatema Ghasia, MD
Section: Eye Movements/Strabismus/Amblyopia/Neuro-Ophthalmology
Washington University - Saint Louis
Chagrin Falls , Ohio
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
EY Member
Patrick Yu-Wai-Man, MD, PhD
Section: Eye Movements/Strabismus/Amblyopia/Neuro-Ophthalmology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge , England
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
GL Co-chair
Ross C. Ethier, PhD, FARVO
Section: Glaucoma
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta , Ga.
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
GL Co-chair
Hani Levkovitch-Verbin, MPA, MD
Section: Glaucoma
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Hashomer , Israel
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
GL Member
Abbot (Abe) Clark, PhD, FARVO
Section: Glaucoma
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Fort Worth , Texas
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
GL Member
Yvonne Ou, MD
Section: Glaucoma
University of California - San Francisco
San Francisco , CA
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
Brian Samuels, MD, PhD
Section: Glaucoma
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham , Al.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
Daniel Sun, PhD
Section: Glaucoma
Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
Boston , Mass.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
IM Chair
Daniel R. Saban, PhD
Section: Immunology and Microbiology
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham , N.C.
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
IM Member
Ashok Kumar, PhD
Section: Immunology & Microbiology
Wayne State University
Detroit , Mich.
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
IM Member (Clinician scientist)
Nida Sen, MD, MHSc
Section: Immunology/Microbiology
National Eye Institute / National Institutes of Health
Bethesda , Md.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
LE Chair
Vasanth Rao, PhD
Section: Lens
Duke University
Durham , N.C.
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
LE Member
Julie Lim, PhD
Section: Lens
University of Auckland
Auckland , New Zealand
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
LE Member
Juliet Moncaster, PhD
Section: Lens
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston , Mass.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
PH Chair
Brian C. Gilger, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVO, Dipl. ABT, FARVO
Section: Physiology and Pharmacology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh , N.C.
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
PH Member
Raghu Krishnamoorthy, PhD
Section: Physiology/Pharmacology
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Fort Worth , Tex.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
RE Co-chair (non-U.S.)
Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, MD, FARVO
Section: Retina
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna , Austria
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
RE Co-chair (non-U.S.)
Akitaka Tsujikawa, MD
Section: Retina
Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
Kyoto , Japan
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
RE Member (U.S.)
Glenn Yiu, MD, PhD
Section: Retina
UC Davis
Davis , Calif.
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
RE Member (U.S.)
Nadia Waheed, MD
Section: Retina
New England Eye Center
Boston , Mass.
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
RE Member (non-U.S.)
Stela Vujosevic, MD, PhD, FEBO
Section: Retina
University Hospital Maggiore della Carita
Novara , Italy
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
RE Member (U.S.)
Catherine Cukras, MD, PhD
Section: Retina
National Eye Institute / National Institutes of Health
Bethesda , Md.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
RE Member (non-U.S.)
Yuki Morizane, MD, PhD
Section: Retina
Okayama University Medical School
Okayama , Japan
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
RE Member (non-U.S.)
Lihteh Wu, MD
Section: Retina
Instituto De Cirugia
Miami , Fl.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
RC Co-chair
Neena B. Haider, PhD
Section: Retinal Cell Biology
Schepens Eye Research Institute/MEEI
Boston , Mass.
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
RC Co-chair
Brian D. Perkins, PhD
Section: Retinal Cell Biology
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland , Ohio
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
RC Member
Petr Baranov, MD, PhD
Section: Retinal Cell Biology
Schepens Eye Research Institute
Boston , Mass.
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
RC Member
Yan Chen, PhD
Section: Retinal Cell Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Galveston , Texas
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
Sabine Fuhrmann, PhD
Section: Retinal Cell Biology
Vanderbilt University
Brentwood , Tenn.
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
RC Member
Olaf Strauss, PhD, FARVO
Section: Retinal Cell Biology
Virchow-Klinikum
Berlin , Germany
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
VI Chair
Jennifer J. Hunter, PhD
Section: Visual Psychophysics and Physiological Optics
University of Rochester
Rochester , N.Y.
Term: 05/11/2017 - 05/06/2021
VI Member
Andrew Carkeet, MS, PhD
Section: Visual Psychophysics and Physiological Optics
School of Optometry, QUT
Kelvin Grove , Australia
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/07/2022
VI Member
Jos Rozema, PhD
Section: Visual Psychophysics and Physiological Optics
Antwerp University Hospital
Edegem , Belgium
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
VI Member
Fuensanta Vera-Diaz, OD, PhD, FAAO
Section: Visual Psychophysics/Physiological Optics
New England College of Optometry
Boston , Mass.
Term: 5/4/2020 - 4/27/2023
VN Chair
Erika D. Eggers, PhD
Section: Visual Neuroscience
University of Arizona
Tucson , Ariz.
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
VN Member
Steven DeVries, MD, PhD
Section: Visual Neuroscience
Northwestern University
Chicago , Ill.
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
VN Member
Tiffany Schmidt, PhD
Section: Visual Neuroscience
Northwestern University
Morton Grove , Ill.
Term: 5/4/2020 - 4/27/2023
GEN Chair
Susanne Roosing, PhD
Gross-sectional Group: Genetics
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen , Netherlands
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
GEN Member
Alice Davidson, PhD
Cross-sectional Group: Genetics
University College of London
London , England
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
GEN Member
Sudha Iyengar, PhD
Section: Genetics Cross-sectional Group
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland , Ohio
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
LV Chair
Walter Wittich, PhD, FAAO, CLVT
Cross-sectional Group: Low Vision
University of Montreal
Montreal , Canada
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
LV Member
Alexander Black, PhD
Cross-sectional Group: Low Vision
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane , Australia
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
LV Member
Ruth van Nispen, MA, MSc, PhD
Section: Low Vision Cross-sectional Group
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Amsterdam , Netherlands
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
MOI Co-chair
Kevin Chan, PhD
Cross-sectional Group: Multidisciplinary Ophthalmic Imaging
New York University
New York , N.Y.
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
MOI Co-chair
Richard Rosen, MD
Cross-sectional Group: Multidisciplinary Ophthalmic Imaging
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
New York , NY
Term: 05/03/2018 - 05/06/2021
MOI Member
Roxana Ursea, MD
Cross-sectional Group: Multidisciplinary Ophthalmic Imaging
Veteran Administration Healthcare Services
Tucson , Ariz.
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
MOI Member
Marinko Sarunic, PhD
Cross-sectional Group: Multidisciplinary Ophthalmic Imaging
Simon Fraser University
British Columbia , Canada
Term: 05/02/2019 - 05/05/2022
MOI Member
Carol Cheung
Section: Multidisciplinary Ophthalmic Imaging Cross-sectional Group
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
MOI Member
Yoshiaki Yasuno, PhD
Section: Multidisciplinary Ophthalmic Imaging Cross-sectional Group
University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba Ibaraki , Japan
Term: 05/04/2020 - 04/27/2023
Ex Officio
Stephen C. Pflugfelder, MD, FARVO
Section: Cornea
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston , Tex.
Term: 05/07/2020 - 05/06/2021
Ex Officio
Iris M. Rush, CAE
ARVO
Executive Director
Staff Committee Liaison
Lancy Cowan, JD, CAE
ARVO
Chief Meetings Officer