2025
Jacque Duncan, MD, FARVO, is chair and distinguished professor at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of California. She has expertise in the diagnosis and management of patients with retinal degenerations including age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, cone-rod dystrophy and Stargardt disease. She also has a strong interest in developing imaging and monitoring technologies to better evaluate the progress of disease and the efficacy of emerging therapies. Duncan serves as chair of the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) Scientific Advisory Board and co-chairs the FFB Clinical Consortium Executive Committee. She worked with FFB Leadership to launch the Consortium, which has over 48 clinical centers and more than 160 investigators with expertise in the care and study of patients with inherited retinal degenerations. Duncan, along with vision scientists Austin Roorda, PhD, FARVO and Joe Carroll, PhD, FARVO, is using adaptive optics to study vision cells in patients with genetic changes that cause them to lose their vision.
2024
David A. Atchison, PhD, DSc, Queensland University of Technology
2023
Lisa Ostrin, OD, PhD, FARVO, University of Houston College of Optometry, Houston, Texas
2022
Joanne Wood, PhD, Centre for Vision and Eye Research, School of Optometry and Vision Science, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
2021
Caroline C.W. Klaver, MD, PhD, FARVO, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands
2020
Eli Peli, OD, MsC, FARVO, Harvard Medical School, MA
2019
Cynthia Owsley, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
2018
Edith E. Holloway, PhD, Centre for Eye Research Australia, Melbourne, Australia
2017
Gary S. Rubin, PhD, FARVO, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK
2016
Denis Pelli, PhD, New York University, New York, NY
2015
Pawan Sinha, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA
2014
David Rein, PhD, NORC, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013
Gregg Vanderheiden, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
2012
Brian Wandell, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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