Editors
- Series Editor
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- Sandeep Saxena
- Richard F. Spaide
- Eric H. Souied
- Timothy Y.Y. Lai
About the Editor
Professor Sandeep Saxena is professor and chief of retina service, department of ophthalmology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India. He completed his post-graduation in ophthalmology from King George’s Medical College, Lucknow University, Lucknow. He completed two vitreoretinal post-doctoral fellowships at Barnes Retina Institute and Anheuser Busch Eye Institute, St. Louis, USA and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA. He has been a DAAD Fellow, Bonn, Germany and a visiting fellow at Oxford University, UK and Harvard Medical School, USA. He has been a visiting professor to several institutions across the globe. He has received the highest awards of the state and All India Ophthalmological Society. Professor Saxena has been involved in translational research in Eales’ disease and diabetic retinopathy for over 20 years. His current area of research focuses on bioimaging and biomolecular biomarkers in retinal photoreceptor ellipsoid zone disruption in diabetic retinopathy. He devised an Eales’ disease classification system and three spectral domain optical coherence tomography based classification systems in diabetic retinopathy. He is on the editorial board of several journals and has 15 textbooks, 34 book chapters and over 125 publications to his credit. He also designed “Saxena Retinal Grid-428 and 520” (Ocular Instruments, USA) for measuring retinal lesions.Dr Spaide has published more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals, nearly 50 book chapters, and edited several books. His major research interests include macular diseases, retinal surgery, and ocular imaging. Past highlights in his published papers include indocyanine angiography, fundus autofluorescence, characterization of central serous chorioretinopathy, application of mechanical engineering principles to macular hole formation, development of concepts concerning oxidative damage and characterization of lipid peroxides in Bruch's membrane, combination therapy for age-related macular degeneration, and development of new methodologies to image the retina and choroid. His current research interests include multimodal imaging, optical coherence tomography angiography, and new computer-based rendering techniques to visualize retinal anatomy.
Dr Spaide has been cited in multiple Who's Who and Best Doctors lists and has received many awards including the Richard and Linda Rosenthal Foundation Award in the Visual Sciences, Prix Soubrane de la Recherche en Ophthalmologie, Award of Merit from the Retina Society, Henkind Award, Coscas Award, Nataraja Pillai Award from the Vitreoretinal Society of India, W. Richard Green MD Award, George Theodossiadis Award from the Greek Retinal Society, Founders Award from the American Society of Retinal Surgeons, Life Achievement Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Simon Gratz Award from Thomas Jefferson University, and the Roger Johnson Award in Macular Degeneration Research. He is on the editorial board of several journals, an associate editor of the journal Retina, and a former executive editor of the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
Professor Eric H Souied, MD, is head of department of ophthalmology at both HopitalIntercommunal de Creteil and Henri Mondor hospital, in France. He earned his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Paris Est (UPEC) where he also completed his ophthalmology residency. He also completed a medical fellowship at the Creteil University Eye Clinic and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA. His main topics are medical retina (age-related macular degeneration, inherited macular and retinal dystrophies) and ophthalmic surgery (retina and cataract).
Professor Souied has contributed to 300 peer-reviewed articles published in the areas of age-related macular degeneration, hereditary retinal diseases, ophthalmic genetics and gene therapy of retinal dystrophies. His main area of research is focusing on genetics, imaging and treatments of AMD. He has several awards, research grants, book chapters and books to his credit. He is on the editorial board of several journals.
He was the founder president of the French ‘Association DMLA’ and is the founder president of the French society ‘Federation France Macula’.
Dr Timothy Y Y Lai is currently an honorary clinical associate professor of the department of ophthalmology and visual sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and director of the 2010 Retina and Macula Centre, Hong Kong. His clinical and research interests lie in the medical and surgical management of retinal diseases, particularly polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, choroidal neovascularization, central serous chorioretinopathy, myopic maculopathy, diabetic retinopathy; visual electrophysiology; and genetics of retinal diseases and uveitis. As one of the leading expert in vitreoretinal diseases in the Asia-Pacific region, Dr. Lai has published more than 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has delivered over 180 invited lectures worldwide. He has received a number of international awards including the Nakajima Award of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, Senior Achievement Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Achievement Award of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Lai serves on the editorial boards of various international ophthalmic journals including Retina, Eye, Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, Ophthalmologica and Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology, and was former editor-in-chief of the Hong Kong Journal of Ophthalmology. His other leadership roles include council member of the Asia-Pacific Vitreo-Retina Society, and section chair of the International Ocular Inflammation Society.