José-Alain Sahel, MD, FARVO, is the Endowed Distinguished Professor, Chairman of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh/UPMC. He founded the Vision Institute, Paris, and the UPMC Vision Institute. His team’s work on photoreceptor degeneration in retinal degeneration contributed to the development of gene-independent strategies and several first-in-human trials on artificial retina, gene therapy, neuroprotection, and optogenetics. He received the Wolf Prize in Medicine, with Botond Roska, and was elected to the Académie des Sciences-Institut de France, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Academia Europaea, AAP and the National Academy of Inventors.

Val C. Sheffield received his MD, PhD, with honors from the University of Chicago. He completed a pediatric residency and medical genetics fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. He joined the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in 1990 and is honored to have spent his entire career there. He is known for the development of methods and improved approaches to facilitate human genetic disease gene identification, which has led to a better understanding of hereditary blindness.

Edwin M. Stone, MD, PhD, FARVO, is a professor of ophthalmology and the director of the University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research. He received his MD and PhD with honors from the Baylor College of Medicine and his training in ophthalmology and vitreoretinal surgery at the University of Iowa where he joined the faculty in 1990. He holds the Seamans-Hauser Chair of Molecular Ophthalmology in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

Nisha Acharya, MD, MS, is the Elizabeth C. Proctor Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco, and director of the Uveitis and Ocular Inflammatory Disease Service at the F.I. Proctor Foundation. She is the associate director of the Proctor Foundation and vice chair for Faculty Development and Mentorship in the Department of Ophthalmology. Acharya is a clinician-scientist who is an international leader in ocular inflammatory diseases. For 20 years she has led an NIH-funded research program conducting global clinical trials and outcomes research.

Aaron Y. Lee, MD, MSCI, is a professor and vitreoretinal surgeon at University of Washington, Department of Ophthalmology, and recipient of the C. Dan and Irene Hunter Endowed Professorship. He chairs the American Academy of Ophthalmology Information Technology Steering Committee and serves as Associate Editor at Translational Vision Science and Technology and Ophthalmology Science His research is focused on the translation of novel computation techniques in machine learning to medical imaging, and he has published over 250 peer-reviewed publications.

Cecilia S. Lee, MD, MS, is Professor and the Klorfine Family Endowed Chair of Ophthalmology at the University of Washington. Her research combines artificial intelligence, Big Data, and clinical epidemiology to advance retinal imaging as a non-invasive biomarker for systemic and neurodegenerative diseases. She serves as Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded Eye ACT Study and co-leads the AI-READI project under the NIH Bridge2AI program with Aaron Lee, MD, MSCI. She leads efforts to integrate retinal imaging into multiple longitudinal population cohorts to enable large-scale, data-driven discovery.

Jost B. Jonas, MD, is a comprehensive ophthalmologist and clinical scientist. His research interests include the morphology of the optic nerve head; intravitreal application of medication and cell-based methods as treatment of intraocular edematous, proliferative and neovascular diseases; ophthalmodynamometry; aspects of ocular surgery; cerebrospinal fluid pressure in the pathogenesis of glaucomatous optic neuropathy, diabetic retinopathy and retinal vein occlusions; retinal microglial cell system; aqueous outflow system; ocular biomechanics; age-related macular degeneration morphology: epidemiology in ophthalmology and general medicine; and the process of emmetropization and myopization.