Pacesetters and Pioneers: The Ophthalmologist Power List 2025

Boris Malyugin

Professor of Ophthalmology, Joan & Jerome Snyder Endowed Chair in Cornea Diseases, The Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles

Damien Gatinel

Head of Refractive and Anterior Segment Surgery Department, Rothschild Foundation, Paris, France, Abulcasis International University of Health Sciences, Rabat, Morocco

David F. Chang

Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco; Private practice, Los Altos, California

Eric D. Donnenfeld

Affiliation Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, NYU, New York, USA

Gerd U. Auffarth

Professor and Chairman of The Department of Ophthalmology, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg; Director of the IVCRC and The David J. Apple International Laboratory of Ocular Pathology at The University-Eye Clinic of Heidelberg, Germany

H. Burkhard Dick

Full Professor and Chairman, Director at Ruhr University Eye Hospital, Bochum, Germany

Jorge L. Alió

Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology, University Miguel Hernandez; Founder of Vissum Miranza Alicante, Spain

Kendall E. Donaldson

President, American European Congress of Ophthalmic Surgery (AECOS); Rodgers Clark Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology; Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology; Cornea/External Disease/Cataract/Refractive Surgery; Medical Director, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Plantation, Florida, USA

Nicole Fram

Managing Partner, Advanced Vision Care, Los Angeles, CA; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Soosan Jacob

Director and Chief of Dr. Agarwal's Refractive and Cornea Foundation; Senior Consultant, Cataract and Glaucoma Services, Dr. Agarwal's Group of Eye Hospitals, Chennai, India

Anthony Khawaja

Professor of Ophthalmology and Honorary Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL, London, UK

Gus Gazzard

Director of Surgery and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS; Professor of Ophthalmology at University College London, UK

Helen Danesh-Meyer

Sir William and Lady Stevenson Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Auckland, New Zealand

I. Paul Singh

Head of Glaucoma, The Eye Centers of Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Iqbal Ike K. Ahmed

John R. and Hazel M. Robertson Presidential Endowed Chair and Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Utah, Director, Alan S. Crandall Center for Glaucoma Innovation, John A. Moran Eye Center, Utah, USA; Director, Glaucoma & Advanced Anterior Segment Surgery (GAASS) Fellowship, University of Toronto, Canada; Visiting Professor, University of São Paolo, Brazil

Joel S. Schuman

Kenneth L. Roper Endowed Chair, Vice Chair for Research Innovation, Vickie and Jack Farber Vision Research Center, Co-Director (Glaucoma Service), Wills Eye Hospital; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Jonathan Crowston

Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Australia

Keith Barton

Professor of Ophthalmology, University College London; Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Glaucoma Service, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK

Keith Martin

Ringland Anderson Professor and Head of Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne; Managing Director, Centre for Eye Research Australia

Malik Y. Kahook

The Slater Family Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology; Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Ophthalmology; Chief, Glaucoma Service, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Allen C. Ho

Wills Eye Hospital Director of Retina Research and Co-Director of Retina Service; Professor of Ophthalmology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Neil Bressler

Editor-in-Chief, JAMA Ophthalmology; James P. Gills Professor of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

Christina Y. Weng

Professor and Alice R. McPherson Retina Research Foundation Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology; Fellowship Program Director, Vitreoretinal Diseases & Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

Carl Regillo

MD, Director, Retina Service, Wills Eye Hospital Professor of Ophthalmology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Eric H. Souied

Head of Creteil University Eye Department, University Paris Est Creteil, France

Harry W. Flynn Jr.

The J. Donald M. Gass Distinguished Chair in Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Florida, USA

Kyoko Ohno-Matsui

Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan

Lyndon da Cruz

Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and Head of Vitreoretinal Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital; Professor of Retinal Stem Cell and Transplantation Surgery, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology; Professor of Biomedical Engineering at King’s College, London, UK

Mariya Moosajee

Professor of Molecular Ophthalmology, Consultant Ophthalmologist and Head of Genetics at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

Philip J. Rosenfeld

Professor of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Florida, USA

Daniel Ting

Chief Digital and Data Officer, Singapore National Eye Center; Senior Consultant, Surgical Retina, Singapore National Eye Center

Farhad Hafezi

Chief Medical Officer, ELZA Institute, Dietikon, Zurich; Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Geneva; Adjunct Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, USC Roski Eye Institute; Visiting Professor, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China; Research Group Leader, Ocular Cell Biology Laboratory, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Research Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

John Marshall

Frost Professor of Ophthalmology and Director responsible for Enterprise and Innovation, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College, London, in association with Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK

Justis P. Ehlers

Vice Chair for Continuous Improvement, Cole Eye Institute; The Norman C. and Donna L. Harbert Endowed Chair for Ophthalmic Research; Director, The Tony and Leona Campane Center for Excellence in Image-Guided Surgery and Advanced Imaging Research, Cole Eye Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, USA

Michael F. Chiang

Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Pearse Keane

Consultant ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Professor of Medical Artificial Intelligence, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology; Director, INSIGHT Health Data Research Hub

Pooja M. Khamar

Consultant and Lead Trainer, Clinician and Translational Scientist, Cataract, Cornea, and Refractive Services, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, India

Ranya Habash

Voluntary Assistant Professor, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

Roger Zaldivar

CEO Instituto Zaldivar CEO & Co-Founder of REVAI, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sobha Sivaprasad

Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital and Professor of Retinal Clinical Research, UCL, London

Andrzej Grzybowski

Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Warmia and Mazury and Foundation for Ophthalmology Development, Poland

Arshad M. Khanani

Managing Partner, Director of Clinical Research, Director of Fellowship, Sierra Eye Associates, Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, USA

Dan Milea

Head, Neuro-Ophthalmology Department, Rothschild Foundation Hospital, Paris, France

Ian Flitcroft

Consultant Ophthalmologist and Adjunct Professor of Vision Science, Mater Misericordiae Hospital and Technological University Dublin, Ireland

Jakob Grauslund

Head of Department, Professor, Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark

James Bainbridge

Professor of Retinal Studies, UCL; Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK

Jost B. Jonas

Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany

Paul J. Foster

Professor of Glaucoma Studies, Research Theme Leader – Population and Data Sciences, University College London, Institute of Ophthalmology. Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital Glaucoma Service, London, UK

Renato Ambrósio Jr.

Professor of Ophthalmology at UNIRIO and UNIFESP; Physician CEO, BrAIN (Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Networking in Medicine) and AVA (Ambrósio Vision Academy); Director of Refractive Surgery at Instituto de Olhos Renato Ambrósio and Rio Vision Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rohit Shetty

Chairman, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, India

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