Leadership
Current Board of Directors
President
Esen Akpek
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
esakpek@jhmi.edu
Esen K. Akpek, Bendann Professor of Ophthalmology and Rheumatology, is a specialist in cornea and external diseases and uveitis. She practices at The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Executive Vice President
Quan Dong Nguyen
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
ndquan@stanford.edu
Born in Saigon, Vietnam, and immigrated with his parents and three brothers to the United States in 1980, Dr. Quan Dong Nguyen currently is a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine.
Secretary
Maite Sainz de la Maza
Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain
sainzdelamazamaite@gmail.com
Maite Sainz de la Maza, MD, PhD, Associate Professor at the Clinical Institute of Ophthalmology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain. Ocular Inflammation Clinical Unit and Research Coordinator.
Previous Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Fellowship with Dr C. Stephen Foster at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Secretary
Elisabetta Miserocchi
University Hospital San Raffaele Milan, Italy
Miserocchi.elisabetta@gmail.com
Professor Elisabetta Miserocchi is a Consultant Ophthalmologist of the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Service, based at University Hospital San Raffaele Milan, Italy in the department of Professor Francesco Bandello. Professor Miserocchi is a member of the International Uveitis Study Group and the American Uveitis Society.
Immediate Past President
David Chu
Metropolitan Eye Research and Surgery Institute of New York and New Jersey, USA
uveitisnj@gmail.com
David S. Chu, MD is Founder and Director of Metropolitan Eye Research and Surgery Institute of New York and New Jersey. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, New Jersey Medical School of Rutgers University, in Newark, New Jersey.
Past President
Neal Barney
McPherson Eye Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
npbarney@wisc.edu
