COMMITTEES

Below are the current committees with members listed.

Advocacy and Outreach Committee

Members:
Scott Olitsky, MD, MBA (Chair)
Jan-Tjeerd H.N. de Faber, MD
Rosario Gomez-de-Liano, MD, Ph.D
Frank J. Martin, MD
Karen McMain
Luis H. Ospina, MD
Seyhan B. Ozkan, MD
Branislav Stankovic, MD, Ph.D
Heimo Steffen, MD, Ph.D
Visvaraja Subrayan, MD, FRCS, FRCOphth
Kanxing Zhao, MD

Childhood Blindness and visual impairment Committee

Members:
Galton Carvalho Vasconcelos, MD (Chair)
Moustafa S. Abdelhafez, MD, FRCS
Huban Atilla, MD
Joanne Bolinao, MD
Sandeep Buttan
Mary Louise Z. Collins, MD
Shaun Huai Dai, FRANZCO
Oseluese Dawodu, MD
Amila de Alwis, MD, FRCS
James E. Elder, FRANZO, MBBS
Feti Karfiati
Nikolaos Kozeis, MD, Ph.D 
Eedy Mezer, MD
Rita S. Sitorus, MD, Ph.D
Hiroko Takasaki, CO, Ph.D
Wei Zhang, MD

Communications Committee

Members:
Moustafa Salah, MD (Chair)
Miho Sato, MD (past Chair)
Satenic Agagulyan, MD
Eedy Mezer, MD

ethics Committee

Members:
James E. Elder, FRANZO, MBBS (Chair)
Huban Atilla, MD
Noriyuku F. Azuma, MD, Ph.D
Christie L. Morse, MD

International pediatric eyecare training Committee

Members:
Stephen Christiansen, MD (Chair)
Cindy Pritchard, MD (Vice Chair)
Jan deFaber, MD, Ex-Officio
Jamal Bleik, MD
Anthony Chitnell, MD
Nicola Freeman, MD
Jorie Jackson, MD
Vijay Lakshmi, MD
Rowena MacNamara, MD
Karen McMain, MD
Christina Paschke, MD
Jan Roelof Polling, MD
Dupe Popoola, MD
Jane Tapley, MD

Research Committee

Members:
Jason Yam, MD (Chair)
Eedy Mezer, MD (past Chair)
Tamara Wygnanski Jaffe, MD (IPOSC President)
Maria Alarcon, MD
Galton Carvalho Vasconcelos, MD
Alina V. Dumitrescu, MD
Racano Elisabetta, MD
Dora Fernandez-Agrafojo, Ph.D
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

Training and education Committee

Members:
Jason Yam, FRCS, MBBS, MPH (Chair)
Sonal R. Farzavandi, FRCS (Ex-Officio)
Moustafa S. Abdelhafez, MD, FRCS
Gillian G.W. Adams, MD
Sati Gagikovna Agagulyan, MD
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
Marilyn T. Miller, MD
Andrea Molinari, MD
Justin Mora, FRANZCO
Anthony D.N. Murray, FRCS
Daniel E. Neely, MD
Luminita Teodorescu, MD, Ph.D
Chong-Bin Tsai, MD

vision screening Committee

Members:
Mae Millicent Winfrey Peterseim, MD (Chair)
Ebtisam K. Al Alawi, MD
Marita C. Andersson Gronlund, MD
Chikako Arai, CO
Huban Atilla, MD
Sandeep Buttan
Feti Karfiati Memed
Francisco B. Reich-D'Almeida, MD, Ph.D
Rita S. Sitorus, MD, Ph.D
Lotte Welinder, MD, Ph.D
Kanxing Zhao, MD

Online media secretariat

Members:
Tamara Wygnanski-Jaffe, MD
President

Scott Larson, MD
Secretary / Treasurer

Eedy Mezer, MD
Digital Media Editor

Satenik Agagulyan, MD
Marketing and Sponsorship Advertising

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