Recent Events

Thank you to the speakers and moderators who presented the standing-room only ECL Symposium on Biomarkers for Ocular Surface Disease, April 27, 2019, in Vancouver, BC.

Left to right:

1. Junmin Peng, PhD, professor in the departments of Structural Biology and Developmental Neurobiology and Director of the Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
2. Yi Wei, PhD, DVM, an associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis.
3. Pablo Argüeso, PhD, FARVO, Senior Scientist and Director of the Morphology core at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School.
4. Penny Asbell, MD, FACS, MBA, FARVO (co-moderator) is the Barrett G. Haik Endowed Chair, Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, Director, Hamilton Eye Institute, and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
5. Kazuo Tsubota, MD, PhD, FARVO, MBA (co-moderator) Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
6. Edoardo Villani, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Milan, Italy, and cornea consultant at San Giuseppe Hospital Eye Clinic.
7. Neeta Roy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, and Co-director of the Ocular Biomarker Research Laboratory in the Department of Ophthalmology/Hamilton Eye Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
8. Roger Beuerman, PhD, Senior Scientific Advisor for the Singapore Eye Research Institute, Professor of Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders and Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program at the Duke-NUS School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor at the Bioinformatics Institute in Singapore.
9. Elisabeth M. Messmer, MD, FEBO, a professor and clinician at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, specializing in medical and surgical cornea, ocular surface disease, and inflammatory diseases of the anterior segment of the eye.

ECLA symposium during ASCRS 2019, San Diego from left to right: Rajesh Rajpal MD,
Roberto Pineda MD (Richard L Lindstrom MD Lecturer), Deepinder Dhaliwal MD,
Michelle Rhee MD, Jessica Ciralsky MD, Christina Prescott MD PhD