About IPOSC
Mission
To work together to preserve and restore eye health and enhance visual function in children, and ocular alignment and binocularity in children and adults throughout the world.
Goals
The goals of IPOSC are:
- Promote programs and research to reduce childhood blindness, treat vision impairment in children, and improve ocular alignment in children and adults
- Encourage the development of institutions and trained practitioners to achieve the mission
- Assist educational efforts to fulfill the mission through improved education of practitioners and the public
- Provide effective communications between national and supra-national societies to achieve the mission
- Facilitate collaboration with international foundations and non-governmental organizations to promote and enhance eye care
Our Board
Rosario Gomez-de-Liaño, MD
President
Madrid, Spain
Seyhan B. Ozkan, MD
Vice President
Aydin, Türkiye
Scott Larson, MD
Secretary / Treasurer
Iowa City, USA
Tamara Wygnanski-Jaffe, MD
Past President
Tel Aviv, Israel
Sonal R. Farzavandi, FRCS
Administrative Officer
Singapore, Singapore
Advocacy & Outreach
Jan Tjeerd de Faber, MD
CHAIR
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Faruk H. Orge, MD
VICE CHAIR
Cleveland, OH, USA
Tamara Wygnanski-Jaffe, MD
PAST PRESIDENT
Tel Aviv, Israel
David D. Goodwin
KTEF
Vestal, NY, USA
Erick Bothun, MD
Rochester, MN, USA
Peter Montana
Doral, FL, USA
Karen McMain
Halifax, Canada
Seyhan B. Ozkan, MD
Aydin, Turkiye
Ed Wilson, MD
Charleston, SC, USA
Igor Aznauryan, MD
Moscow, Russia
Clare E. Gilbert, MD, FRCOphth
London, UK
James Elder, MD
Melbourne, Australia
Hala El Hilali, MD
Cairo, Egypt
Frank J. Martin, MD
Sydney, Australia
Daniel E. Neely, MD
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Kanxing Zhao, MD
Tianjin, China
Luis H. Ospina, MD
Montreal, Canada
Visvaraja Subrayan, MD, FRCS, FRCOphth
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Alistair R Fielder, FRCOphth
London, UK
Mohamad S. Jaafar, MD
Washington, DC, USA
Andrea D. Molinari, MD
Quito, Ecuador
Derek Sprunger, MD
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Jamal H. Bleik, MD
Beirut, Lebanon
Victoria Balasanyan, MD
Moscow, Russia
Branislav Stankovich, MD, PhD
Belgrade, Serbia
Committees
SIBA Committee
Sarah Rodriguez, MD (Co-Chair)
Grace Prakalapakorn, MD (Co-Chair)
Faruk H. Örge, MD
Aeesha Malik, MD
Sherwin J. Isenberg, MD
Myopia Committee
Jason Yam, MD, Chair
Tamara Wygnanski-Jaffe, MD
Eedy Mezer, MD
Jan Roelof Polling
Virtual Reality Committee
Faruk H. Orge, MD (Chair)
International Pediatric Eyecare Training Committee
Stephen Christiansen, MD (Chair)
Cindy Pritchard, MD (Vice Chair)
Jan Tjeerd deFaber, MD (Ex-Officio)
Jan Roelof Polling (IOA President)
Jamal Bleik, MD
Anthony Chitnell, MD
Nicola Freeman, MD
Kyle Arnoldi
Jori Jackson
Jorie Jackson
Vijay Lakshmi, MD
Rowena MacNamara
Karen McMain
Christina Paschke
Dupe Popoola, MD
Jane Tapley
Research Committee
Jason Yam, MD (Chair)
Eedy Mezer, MD (Past Chair)
Tamara Wygnanski Jaffe, MD
Galton Carvalho Vasconcelos, MD
Alina V. Dumitrescu, MD
Fiona Rowe
Sibel Oto, MD
Wei Zhang, MD
Racano Elisabetta, MD
Almutez M. Gharaibeh, MD
Saurabh Jain, FRCOphth, FHEA
Christine Law, MD
Kaushik Murali, MD
David Newsham, Ph.D, MSc, DBO, SFHEA
Rohit Saxena, MD, Ph.D
Kazi Shabbir Anwar
Hatice Tuba Atalay, MD, FEBO
Chen Zhao, MD, Ph.D
Ethics Committee
James E. Elder, Franzo, MBBS (Chair)
Huban Atilla, MD
Noriyuku F. Azuma, MD, Ph.D
Christie L. Morse, MD
Online Media Secretariat
Satenik Agagulian, MD, Ph.D – Digital media editor
Scott Larson, MD
Tamara Wygnanski-Jaffe, MD
Eedy Mezer, MD
Faruk H. Orge, MD
Training & Education Committee
Eedy Mezer, MD (Chair)
Seyhan B. Özkan, MD (Past Chair)
Jason Yam, FRCS, MBBS, MPH (Ex-Officio)
Sonal R. Farzavandi, FRCS (Ex-Officio)
Giovanni Batista Marcon, MD
Moustafa S. Abdelhafez, MD, FRCS
Gillian G.W. Adams, MD
Satenik Agagulian, MD, Ph.D
Jamal H. Bleik, MD, FRCS
Oseluese Dawodu, MD
Susan H. Day, MD
Anna Dickmann, MD
Ahmed Mohamed Fahmi, MD
Susana Gamio, MD
Guita Ghiasi, MD
Mauro Goldchmit, MD
Cheryl McCarus, CO, COMT, OSA
Karen McMain
Andrea Molinari, MD
Justin Mora, FRANZCO
Anthony D.N. Murray, FRCS
Daniel E. Neely, MD
Luminita Teodorescu, MD, Ph.D
Chong-Bin Tsai, MD
Silvia Moguel, MD
Subash Dadeya, MD
Dominique Thouvenin, MD
Communications Committee
Moustafa Salah, MD (Chair)
Miho Sato, MD (Past Chair)
Sati Agagulyan, MD
Eedy Mezer, MD
Victoria Balasanyan, MD
Vision Screening Committee
Bob Arnold, MD (Co-Chair)
Sean Donahue (Co-Chair)
Mae Millicent Winfrey Peterseim, MD (Past Chair)
Ebtisam K. Al Alawi, MD
Marita C. Andersson Gronlund, MD
Chikako Arai, CO
Huban Atilla, MD
Sandeep Buttan, MD
Feti Karfiati Memed, MD
Francisco B. Reich-D’Almeida, MD, Ph.D
Rita S. Sitorus, MD, Ph.D
Lotte Welinder, MD, Ph.D
Kanxing Zhao, MD
Megan Collins, MD
Silvia Moguel, MD
Childhood Blindness and Visual Impairment Committee
Wei Zhang, MD (Chair)
Galton Carvalho Vasconcelos, MD (Past Chair)
Moustafa S. Abdelhafez, MD, FRCS
Huban Atilla, MD
Joanne Bolinao, MD
Sandeep Buttan, MD
Mary Louise Z. Collins, MD
Shaun Huai Dai, FRANZCO
Oseluese Dawodu, MD
Amila de Alwis, MD, FRCS
James E. Elder, FRANZO, MBBS
Feti Karfiati, MD
Nikolaos Kozeis, MD, Ph.D
Eedy Mezer, MD
Rita S. Sitorus, MD, Ph.D
Hiroko Takasaki, CO, Ph.D
Daniela Cioplean
Silvia Moguel, MD