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BMJ Open Ophthalmology Editorial Board members have agreed and adhere to the BMJ Editor Roles and Responsibilities guidelines; including our Editor policy on competing interests.
Editor-in-Chief
Professor Stephen B. Kaye, FRCS, FRCOphth, MD
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK
orcid.org/0000-0003-0390-0592
Declaration of Interests, see here
Editorial office: info.bmjophth@bmj.com
Associate Editors
Dr Eleftherios Agorogiannis, MD, DPhil, FRCOphth, FEBO
Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
Manchester, UK
orcid.org/0000-0001-9353-9379
Area of expertise: Uveitis and medical retina
Dr Sajjad Ahmad PhD, FRCOphth
Moorfields Eye Hospital
London, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-8336-4314
Area of expertise: Cornea and ocular surface
Dr Ryo Asaoka, MD, PhD
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
orcid.org/0000-0001-7182-1912
Area of expertise: Glaucoma
Dr Carmen Baumann, MD, PhD, FEBO
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Munich, Germany
orcid.org/0000-0001-8662-0582
Area of expertise: Retina
Dr Sunee Chansangpetch
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
orcid.org/0000-0002-8996-2868
Area of expertise: Glaucoma
Professor Darlene A. Dartt, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
orcid.org/0000-0002-0576-6932
Area of expertise: Cornea and ocular surface (basic science)
Dr Noora Dbayat
Hillel Yaffe Medical Centre
Hadera, Israel
orcid.org/0009-0005-0629-1026
Area of expertise: Paediatric ophthalmology
Dr Gabriella De Salvo, MD, FRCOphth
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Southampton, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-1185-6942
Area of expertise: Medical retina
Professor Baljean Dhillon, FRCS, FRCPS, FRCOphth
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Area of expertise: Retina and neurology
Professor David A. Eichenbaum, MD
Retina Vitreous Associates of Florida
Tampa, FL, USA
orcid.org/0000-0003-0654-0668
Area of expertise: Retina
Dr Mariantonia Ferrara
University of Malaga
Malaga, Spain
Area of expertise: Retina
Professor Anat Galor, MD, MSPH, MD, MSPH
University of Miami
Miami, FL, USA
orcid.org/0000-0002-3026-6155
Area of expertise: Ocular surface
Dr Neema Ghorbani-Mojarrad, PhD BSc(Hons) MCOptom FBCLA FIACLE Prof. Cert. Glaucoma and Low Vision Dip. SV FHEA
University of Bradford
Bradford, UK
orcid.org/0000-0001-9171-3070
Area of expertise: Myopia, genetic prediction, refractive error, emmetropization
Dr Kevin Hamill, PhD
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-7852-1944
Area of expertise: Molecular ophthalmology
Dr Kazunori Hirasawa, MD
Kitasato University
Tokyo, Japan
orcid.org/0000-0001-5100-005X
Area of expertise: Glaucoma
Prof Jingjing Huang, MD, PhD
Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, China
orcid.org/0000-0002-3009-8681
Area of expertise: Glaucoma
Professor Lingyi Liang, MD, PhD
Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, China
orcid.org/0000-0003-2971-4827
Area of expertise: Cornea and ocular surface
Ms Savitha Madhusudhan, MBBS, DO, FRCOphth
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital
Liverpool, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-8203-0929
Area of expertise: Medical retina
Professor Conor Murphy, MBBChBAO, MMedSc, FRCSI, FRCOphth, PhD
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
orcid.org/0000-0003-2171-0418
Area of expertise: Uveitis and ocular inflammatory disease
Dr Shunsuke Nakakura, MD, PhD
Saneikai Tsukazaki Hospital
Himeji, Japan
orcid.org/0000-0002-1094-1862
Area of expertise: Glaucoma
Professor Bhupendra Patel, LRCP, MRCS, MBChB, DORCS, FRCS, FRCOphth
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
orcid.org/0000-0003-0483-4283
Area of expertise: Oculoplastics and orbit
Professor Rachel Pilling
University of Bradford
Bradford, UK
orcid.org/0000-0001-7191-8255
Dr Saaeha Rauz, PhD, FRCOphth
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
orcid.org/0000-0003-4627-3496
Area of expertise: Ocular surface and translational research
Professor Vito Romano, MD, FRCOphth, FWCRS
University of Brescia
Brescia, Italy
orcid.org/0000-0002-5148-7643
Area of expertise: Cataract and refractive surgery
Dr Virenda Sachdeva, MD
L V Prasad Eye Institute
Visakhapatnam, India
orcid.org/0000-0002-1927- 475 6643
Area of expertise: Neuro-Ophthalmology
Dr Sidney Schechet, MD
Elman Retina Group
Baltimore, MD, USA
orcid.org/0000-0001-8996-3855
Area of expertise: Retina
Dr Bernhard Steger, MD
Medical University Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria
orcid.org/0000-0002-5316-4661
Area of expertise: Cataract and refractive surgery
Professor James Wolffsohn, BSc, PgCertHE, MBA, PhD, PFHEA, FRSB, FCOptom, FAAO
Aston University
Birmingham, UK
orcid.org/0000-0003-4673-8927
Area of expertise: Visual science
Dr David Yorston, MBChB, FRCOphth, FRCOphth
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Glasgow, UK
orcid.org/0000-0001-7259-5320
Area of expertise: Global ophthalmology and retina
Associate Professor Jiong Zhang, PhD
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ningbo, China
orcid.org/0000-0002-1922-9118
Area of expertise: Ophthalmologic image analysis, medical image analysis, computer-aided diagnosis, and artificial intelligence
Dr Yalin Zheng, PhD
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-7873-0922
Area of expertise: Ocular imaging
Dr Chen Zhao, PhD
Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University
Shanghai, China
orcid.org/0000-0003-1373-7637
Area of expertise: Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
Associate Editors for Statistics
Dr Maha Abid Alsefri
University of Jeddah
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Area of expertise: Statistics
Dr Gabriela Czanner, PhD
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-1157-2093
Area of expertise: Biostatistics
Ms Wenyue Zhu, MSc
Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Limited
London, UK
orcid.org/0000-0002-5731-4364
Area of expertise: Statistics
Social Media Editors
Fadi Alfaqawi
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals NHS Trust Liverpool, UK
Eric Lai
Yale New Haven Medical Center
New Haven, CT, USA
X: @BMJ_Ophth
LinkedIn: Ophthalmology at BMJ
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