2022

Anne Xuan-Lan

Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen
MD, CM Candidate

Clinical/Epidemiologic Research
McGill University, Canada
"Outside of research and clinic, I enjoy coaching flag football, competing in national ultimate frisbee tournaments and playing hockey with friends."

Burak

Burak Mergen
MD, FEBO

Cornea
University of Health Sciences, Basaksehir Cam and Sakura City Hospital, Turkey
"I can guess the local wine varietals by tasting."

Cris Martin

Cris Martin Jacoba
MD

Retina
Beetham Eye Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Department of Ophthalmology, US
"I love standup and improv comedy. I want to do training and participate in a show one day!"

Claudia

Claudia Thieme
MD, FEBO

Glaucoma
University Hospital Bielefeld, Germany
"My true passions are travelling and discovering new cultures and languages."

Eman

Eman Alzghoul
PhD Candidate

Visual Psychophysics/Physiological Optics
University of New South Wales, Australia
"I can spend half of my life exploring historical places, and the other half living by the ocean!"

Ester

Ester Reina-Torres
PhD

Glaucoma
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
"When I was a child, I wanted to be an archaeologist and an astronaut later on, it looks like I always wanted to discover things."

Itika

Itika Garg
MD

Retina
Harvard Retinal Imaging Lab, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, US
"Meditation is my daily morning practice. I undertook two 10-days long Vipassana silent meditation retreats, which have been the best and most important life-changing experience to date."

Janelle

Janelle Tong
BSci, BOptom

Glaucoma
University of New South Wales, Australia
"Despite being very uncoordinated and injury-prone, I’ve surprisingly never broken any bones!"

Khaled

Khaled Elmasry
MD, MSc, PhD

Retina
Eye Research Center, OUWB School of Medicine, Oakland University, US
"On top of being a Postdoctoral fellow, I hold a teaching position in Human Anatomy and Embryology at the Mansoura Medical School in Egypt."

Maria

Maria Gelmi
MD

Pathology/Oncology
Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
"I love musical theatre and if I could travel in time, I would go back to 2015 and watch “Hamilton” with the original cast on Broadway."

Maria Vittoria

Maria Vittoria Cicinelli
MD

Retina
San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy
"Travel planning is one of my favorite hobbies."

Paul

Paul McCann
MBChB, MRes, PhD

Clinical/Epidemiologic Research
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, US
"In my spare time, I enjoy cycling and hiking in the Colorado outdoors."

Tsai-Chu

Tsai-Chu Yeh
MD, MTM

Retina
Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
"I was found to have active perfect pitch when I was 5 years old, and am able to name any musical note played."

Xiao

Xiao Lin
MBBS, MS

Cornea
University of Houston, College of Optometry, US
"I burst into laughter by a joke that is not funny at all."

Yanhui

Yanhui Ma
PhD

Glaucoma
The Ohio State University, US
"I did my academic training across 4 countries including China, Germany, United Kingdom, and United States."