Jennifer Loh, MD is a board-certified ophthalmologist practising in Miami, Florida with a focus on cataract-refractive surgery and dry eye disease. She is founder and medical director of her practice, Loh Ophthalmology Associates, which she started in 2016. Dr Loh also spends her time as a clinical and surgical attending for the Larkin Hospital Ophthalmology Residency program. She is a graduate of Indiana University School of Medicine, where she completed both medical school and ophthalmology residency. On a personal note, Dr Loh enjoys skiing and travelling the world with her husband and son.

Francesco Bandello is Professor and Chairman at the Department of Ophthalmology University Vita-Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. He is Past President Academic Dean of “Corso di Laurea Specialistica/Magistrale in Medicina e Chirurgia” at the same University.  Professor Bandello is President of the Association of Italian University Professors of Ophthalmology (CONPROSO), President of ESASO Foundation (European School for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology), President of Academia Ophthalmologica Europea, Vice President of EuroLam and Past  President of EURETINA.  

Prof. Bandello is Editor-in Chief of the European Journal of Ophthalmology, Active Member of The  American Ophthalmological Society (AOS), Board Member of the Commission of prevention of blindness  and low vision (Italian Ministry of Health), Executive Board Member of SISO (Società Italiana Scienze  Oftalmologiche), Member of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis and Member of the “Academia  Nazionale di Medicina”.  

Prof. Bandello is former Member of the Board of Directors of Club Jules Gonin and former Executive  Committee Member of the Macula Society.  

Prof. Bandello is co-author of 14 books and he served as a peer reviewer for grant applications for the NEI. He has authored or co-authored 1.087 Pub-Med articles and he served as trained Principal Investigator in several clinical trials performed following ICH/GCP and mainly concerning retinal diseases. 

David F Chang, MD is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of California, San Francisco where he is now a clinical professor Dr Chang is clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco and in private practice in Los Altos, CA. He previously chaired the ASCRS Cataract Clinical Committee and served on the ASCRS executive committee from 2009-2023. Dr Chang was the ASCRS president from 2012-2013, EyeWorld Chief Medical Editor from 2011-2015, and ASCRS Foundation chair from 2015-2023. With a strong interest in global cataract blindness, he received the 2019 AAO Humanitarian Service Award and the 2020 Aravind Venkataswamy Award. Dr Chang is co-founder and the advisory board chair of EyeSustain, a global consortium of eye societies advancing sustainability in ophthalmology. He is a past chair of the AAO Cataract Preferred Practice Pattern Panel and the AAO Annual Meeting Program Committee.

Dr Chang has been honored by the following international societies: AAO (Kelman Lecture), ASCRS (Binkhorst Medal), ESCRS (Ridley Medal), APACRS (Lim Medal), United Kingdom and Ireland Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (Rayner Medal), Canadian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (Award of Excellence/Stein Lecture), All India Ophthalmology Society (President’s Lecture), Italian Ophthalmological Society (Strampelli Medal), International Intraocular Implant Club (IIIC Medal), AECOS (Visionary Award), DOC-German Ophthalmic Surgeons (DOC Innovator Lecture), International Society of Refractive Surgery (Presidential Award), RANZCO (Gregg Medal), APAO (Jose Rizal International Medal),  MEACO (El-Maghraby International Award), and the ICO (T. Krwawicz Gold Medal).

Dr Marjan Farid is Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Director of Cornea, Refractive & Cataract Surgery at the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California-Irvine.  She graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA with a degree in Biology and earned her medical degree at UC San Diego.  Her clinical practice is divided between patient care, teaching and research.  Her research interests focus on corneal surgery, specifically the use of the femtosecond laser for corneal transplantation.  She is also the founder of the Severe Ocular Surface Disease Center at UCI and is a centre of excellence as part of the Holland Foundation for Sight Restoration.  She performs Limbal Stem Cell transplants as well as artificial corneal transplantation for the treatment of patients with severe ocular surface disease.  She currently serves as the Chair of the Cornea Clinical Committee of ASCRS. Her work is published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.  She has authored multiple textbook chapters and travels extensively to present her work at national and international meetings.