Michael Mimouni, MD , Rambam health care campus and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology , Israel
Dr. Mimouni serves as the president of the Israeli Cornea Society and the director of the cornea unit at the department of ophthalmology Rambam health care campus. Dr. Mimouni serves as an assistant professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Mimouni completed his medical studies at the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University in 2014 and completed his ophthalmology residency at the Rambam Health Care Campus. He was awarded the National Outstanding Resident of the Year Award for his achievements. During his residency, he underwent further training at outstanding medical centers in Europe And Asia and won awards and scholarships from the European Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS) and from the International Society for Refractive Surgery (ISRS).
He thereafter completed a two year surgical fellowship at the University of Toronto in the field of corneal transplants, cataract surgery, dry eye and laser refractive surgery. At the end of the fellowship, Dr. Mimouni was selected as the oustanding fellow of the department. Dr. Mimouni has published over 200 original studies in the professional literature and serves as an editor and reviewer for dozens of journals. Dr. Mimouni regularly participates in teaching of students and residents in ophthalmology and contributes to shaping the future generation.
Anna Maria Roszkowska, PhD, MD, FEBO, University of Messina, Italy & Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University, Poland
Prof. Roszkowska is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Messina, Italy. She is also chair of the Cornea and Laser Refractive Surgery Unit at the University Hospital of Messina, Italy. Additionally, Prof. Roszkowska is an Associate Professor and teaching coordinator of Ophthalmology at Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University, Poland. She also serves as a member of the ESASO Faculty.
Prof. Roszkowska received her degree in Medicine from the Medical Academy of Krakow, Poland (Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian, University of Krakow). She also received a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Messina, Italy where she specialized in Ophthalmology. She went on to receive her doctorate in Ophthalmology and Surgical Correction of the Refractive Errors at the University of Padua, Italy followed later by a Post-Doctoral Academic Degree in Medical Sciences-Ophthalmology at Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
Prof. Roszkowska is an expert referee for the research projects of the Polish National Research Center in Krakow, Poland, Hungarian Scientific Research Fund for Hungarian National Research Development and Innovative Office and the Qatar Research and Development and Innovation Council. In addition, she also is a reviewer for the major ophthalmology journals.
Her areas of interest are: Corneal and ocular surface physiopathology and diagnosis, treatment of corneal and ocular surface diseases, keratoconus, anterior segment surgery and refractive surgery.
Tae Keun Yoo, MD, MS, B&VIIT Eye Center, South Korea
Tae Keun Yoo is an ophthalmologist and Medical Director at the B&VIIT Eye Center, Seoul, South Korea.
His current research interests are refractive surgery, ocular imaging, epidemiology, and big-data analysis for safe and accurate vision correction surgeries. He continues to research the fields of SMILE (refractive lenticule extraction) surgery and phakic IOL implantation (ICL).
He earned an MD degree from Yonsei University and became a certified ophthalmologist. Presently, he has published over 30 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals. In addition, he serves as an editorial board member for the BMC medical informatics and decision making journal, and recently served as a reviewer for the journal Nature Medicine.
