Lisa Olmos de Koo
Chief Medical Advisor

Lisa Olmos de Koo

Lisa C. Olmos de Koo, MD, MBA is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, where she is Chief of the Retina Division.  Previously, she served as Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Doheny Eye Institute and at the Roski Eye Institute of the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, CA. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Harvard University. She then earned her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, along with an MBA from Rice University.  She completed her internship at Georgetown University, with rotations at the Walter Reed Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) as well as at the LV Prasad Eye Hospital in Hyderabad, India. Following the completion of her ophthalmology residency and vitreoretinal fellowship at the world-renowned Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami, in Miami, FL, she was selected to serve a one-year term as Chief Resident and Co-Director of Ocular Trauma at BPEI. She has a special interest in ophthalmic and surgical education, currently serving as the Vitreoretinal Fellowship Program Director at the UW, a position she previously held at USC. She sits on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS).

2023-02-06T16:44:23+01:00January 20th, 2022|Scientific and Medical Advisors|

Prof. E. J. Chichilnisky

Sanford University (USA)

E. J. Chichilnisky is Professor of Neurosurgery and Ophthalmology, in the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research is focused on how the retina processes visual information and transmits this information to the brain. A key area of interest is how the cellular circuitry of the retina performs the neural computations essential for vision.

2019-12-03T13:31:02+01:00September 9th, 2019|Scientific and Medical Advisors|

Prof. Jan van Meurs

Rotterdam Eye Hospital (Netherlands)

In the Rotterdam Eye Hospital Jan van Meurs is director of the residency program, recently scientific advisor of the research institute, and in 2005 was appointed professor in Ophthalmology, specifically vitreoretinal surgery, at the Erasmus University. His research and experience in Ophthalmology spans across Australia, Indonesia, Curaçao, and USA. He has been involved in a cataract charity program and more recently a vitreoretinal cooperation program in Indonesia. Jan helps organizing the annual meeting of the Dutch Ophthalmological Society and is board member of EURETINA, and he was elected President in 2016. He combines clinical work with research interests in retinal detachments, PVR, pharmacokinetics, RPE-transplantation and endophthalmitis

2019-09-09T14:50:23+02:00September 9th, 2019|Scientific and Medical Advisors|

Prof. Andrea Cusumano

University of Rome (Italy)

Prof. Andrea Cusumano is Research Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, APL Professor at the University of Bonn and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College of New York. As a vitreoretinal surgeon and expert in ultrastructural analysis, he is contributing to the implementation of innovative laser and surgical techniques as well as to the development of new therapies for the treatment of hereditary retinal diseases and AMD. He is also Founder and President of the Macula & Genoma Foundation Onlus.</p>

2019-09-09T14:49:18+02:00September 9th, 2019|Scientific and Medical Advisors, Uncategorized|

Dr. Mahi Muquit

Moorfields Eye Hospital (UK)

Dr Mahi Muqit PhD FRCOphth is a Consultant Vitreoretinal Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London. He has subspecialist expertise in complex cataract surgery, medical retina, and vitreoretinal surgery. He works with Helen Keller International (HKI) focused on training and setting up diabetic eye screening programmes in Bangladesh and Indonesia. The UK research team is recipients of Seeing Is Believing Innovation Awards for new international online training systems in diabetic retinopathy. He is amember of the Diabetic Retinopathy Working Group International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB); a member of the Diabetic Eye Care committee for the ICO;and,Specialist Adviser to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for the Interventional Procedures Programme in the UK.

2019-09-09T14:48:08+02:00September 9th, 2019|Scientific and Medical Advisors|

Prof. Borja Corcostegui

IMO, Institute of Ocular Microsurgery (Spain)

Co-founder and medical director of IMO (institute of Ocular Microsurgery), professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and director of the Scientific Board at the European School for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology (ESASO), Switzerland. Surgeon and ophthalmologist specialising in the retina: retinal detachment, diabetic retinopathy, AMD, intraocular tumours, uveitis, retinal vascular disease, diabetic macular pathology, floaters and flashes. He is involved in the development of instruments and techniques for vitreoretinal surgery and clinical and surgical research trials in breakthrough innovative projects of the future, such as the retina chip, research into retinitis pigmentosa and the development of new drugs for the treatment of eye diseases. He is a permanent member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia.

2019-09-09T14:47:02+02:00September 9th, 2019|Scientific and Medical Advisors|

Dr. Yannick Le Mer

Fondation Adolphe de Rothschild Hospital (France)

Yannick Le Mer is a renowned retina surgeon, Head of Vitreo-retinal Unit at Fondation Adolphe de Rothschild Hospital in Paris. Prior to that, he was Assistant Professor in Centre Hospitalier National d’Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts from 1989-1992 as well as Chief of Staff in the Ophthalmology Department in CHU de Montreuil. Dr Le Mer was an Ophthalmologist Consultant for the Dubai Hospital, UAE and Invited Professor in Ophthalmic Hospital Jules Gonin (Lausanne, Switzerland). He is a Member of the French Ophthalmology Society, Euretina, ASRS, Deutsche Retinologische Gesellschaft, past President of Club Jules Gonin, Co-Founder and past President of CFCR.

 

2019-12-03T13:32:07+01:00September 9th, 2019|Scientific and Medical Advisors|

Prof. Daniel Palanker

Stanford University (USA)

Prof. Palanker is heading the Department of Ophthalmology and Hansen Experimental Physics laboratory at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. He specializes on the mechanisms of interaction of electric field and light with biological cells and tissues as well as the applications of these interactions to medicine and biology. He has contributed to the industrialization of key technologies like the PASCAL laser, the PEAK PlasmaBlade and the OCT-guided Femtosecond Laser for cataract surgery.

2019-09-25T10:13:31+02:00September 9th, 2019|Scientific and Medical Advisors|

Prof. Frank G. Holz

University Hospital Bonn (Germany)

Chairman of the department of ophthalmology, his main research interests include the pathogenesis, biomarkers and new therapies for macular and retinal diseases including age-related macular degeneration. His major clinical interest is medical and surgical retina. A scholar of the German National Academic Foundation, he trained at the University of Heidelberg, and the University of Chicago/Pritzker School of Medicine, and passed a fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He co-founded the Priority Program AMD of the German Research Council (DFG) and founded the GRADE Reading Center Bonn to perform digital image analysis in multi-centre clinical natural history and interventional trials. He is a Board Member of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG), and EURETINA, Member of the Club Jules Gonin, the European Academy of Ophthalmology (EAO), the Macula Society, the Gass Club, Editor-in-Chief of Der Ophthalmologe, and serves a reviewer for many peer reviewed journals. He has received numerous awards and has published more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals and is editor of several books on retinal diseases.

2019-12-03T13:32:46+01:00September 9th, 2019|Scientific and Medical Advisors|

Prof. Jose Alain Sahel

Vision Institute (France) & UMPC Pittsburgh (USA)

Prof. Sahel is Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and Director of Institut de la Vision and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Quinze-Vingts National Eye Hospital (Paris) and at the Rothschild Ophthalmology Foundation. He is also Professor at the Institute of Ophthalmology at the University College in London. He has been conducting pioneering research into the understanding of the pathological mechanisms involved in retinal cell degeneration. Prof. Sahel recently received awards from the US Foundation Fighting Blindness and the French “Académie des Sciences”, for his work on retinitis pigmentosa.

 

2019-09-09T14:41:26+02:00September 9th, 2019|Scientific and Medical Advisors|
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