The ASRS is pleased to recognize members who are active contributors to the Journal of VitreoRetinal Diseases through the JVRD Distinguished Contributor Awards Program.
Participants accumulate points for their submissions and/or peer reviews toward recognition as Distinguished Contributors (5 points earned) or Master Contributors (15 points earned). The program is cumulative and new recipients are recognized annually at the ASRS Annual Meeting and on the ASRS and JVRD websites. Visit asrs.org/contributorawards for program information.
Below are the award winners for 2021:
Master Contributor
(15 or more points)
Audina M. Berrocal, MD, FASRS
Kevin J. Blinder, MD, FASRS
Geoffrey G. Emerson, MD, PhD, FASRS
Harry W. Flynn, Jr, MD, FASRS
Mrinali Gupta, MD, FASRS
Tarek S. Hassan, MD, FASRS
Timothy G. Murray, MD, MBA, FASRS
Anton Orlin, MD
Rubina Rahman, MBBS, FRCOpth, FRCS
Gaurav K. Shah, MD, FASRS
Bradley T. Smith, MD
Bozho Todorich, MD, PhD
Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD
Jeremy D. Wolfe, MD, MS, FASRS
Nicolas A. Yannuzzi, MD
Distinguished Contributor
(5-14 points)
Beatriz Abadia, MD, PhD
Ron A. Adelman, MD, MPH, MBA
Christopher M. Aderman, MD
Sean David Adrean, MD, FASRS
Thomas A. Albini, MD
David R. P. Almeida, MD, MBA, PhD, FASRS
Michael M. Altaweel, MD
Hossein Ameri, MD, PhD, FRCSI, MRCOphth
Waseem H. Ansari, MD
J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD, FACS, FASRS
Mary E. Aronow, MD
Yamini Attiku, MD
Carl C. Awh, MD, FASRS
Amy S. Babiuch, MD, FASRS
Touka Banaee, MD
James E. Bell, MD
Maria H. Berrocal, MD, FASRS
Jesse L. Berry, MD
Cagri G. Besirli, MD, PhD, FASRS
Neelakshi Bhagat, MD, MPH, FACS
Barton L. Blackorby, MD
Halward Blegen, DO
Alexander R. Bottini, MD
David S. Boyer, MD, FASRS
Peter Bracha, MD
David M. Brown, MD, FASRS
Karen R. Brown, MD
Andrew Browne, MD, PhD
Pilar Calvo, MD, PhD
J. Peter Campbell, MD, MPH, FASRS
Linda A. Cernichiaro-Espinosa, MD
Emmanuel Chang, MD, PhD, FACS, FASRS
Jonathan S. Chang, MD, FASRS
Jay Chhablani, MD
Eric K. Chin, MD
Netan Choudhry, MD, FRCS(C)
David R. Chow, MD, FRCS(C), FASRS
Nancy J. Christmas, MD
Thomas A. Ciulla, MD, MBA, FASRS
Daniel B. Connors, MD
Felipe Ferreira Conti, MD
Thais F. Conti, MD
Sabin Dang, MD
Jose Davila, MD
Lucian V. Del Priore, MD, PhD
Paul M. Drayna, MD
Kimberly A. Drenser, MD
Justis P. Ehlers, MD, FASRS
Dean Eliott, MD, FASRS
Anna L. Ells, MD, FRCS(C), FASRS
Lisa J. Faia, MD
Kenneth C. Fan, MD, MBA
Sharon Fekrat, MD, FACS, FASRS
Henry L. Feng, MD
Philip J. Ferrone, MD, FASRS
Michael P. Fielden, MD, FRCS(C)
Mitchell S. Fineman, MD
Christina J. Flaxel, MD
Francisco A. Folgar, MD
Adrian T. Fung, MBBS, MMed (Ophth Sci), MMed (Clin Epi), FRANZCO
Richard A. Garfinkel, MD, FASRS
Sunir J. Garg, MD, FASRS
Bruce R. Garretson, MD
Roger A. Goldberg, MD, MBA, FASRS
Debra A. Goldstein, MD
Luis A. Gonzalez, MD, MPH
Justin L. Gottlieb, MD, FASRS
Ninel Z. Gregori, MD, FASRS
Dilraj S. Grewal, MD, FASRS
R. Rishi Gupta, MD, FASRS
Luis J. Haddock, MD
Paul Hahn, MD, PhD, FASRS
Seenu M. Hariprasad, MD, FASRS
Vivienne S. Hau, MD, PhD, FASRS
Sara J. Haug, MD, PhD
Jeffrey S. Heier, MD, FASRS
I-Van Ho, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRANZCO
Samuel D. Hobbs, MD
Jason Hsu, MD
Deeba Husain, MD, FASRS
Abdallah M. Jeroudi, MD
Yi Jiang, MD
J. Michael Jumper, MD, FASRS
Grant A. Justin, MD
Peter K. Kaiser, MD, FASRS
Naresh B. Kannan, MS, FNB, MBA, FASRS
Leo A. Kim, MD, PhD, FASRS
Samuel C. Kim, MD
Stephen J. Kim, MD
Mark E. Kleinman, MD
Michael A. Klufas, MD
Gregg T. Kokame, MD, MMM
Laura Kopplin, MD
Kyle D. Kovacs, MD
Ajay E. Kuriyan, MD, MS, FASRS
Leanne T. Labriola, DO, MBA, FASRS
Michael M. Lai, MD, PhD, FASRS
Ines Lains, MD, MSc
Linda A. Lam, MD, MBA, FASRS
Marissa Larochelle, MD
Wayne I. Larrison, MD, MS
Jessica G. Lee, MD
Jennifer I. Lim, MD, FASRS
James Lin, MD
Phoebe Lin, MD, PhD
Xihui Lin, MD
Itamar Livnat, MD, PhD
Susan M. Malinowski, MD
Danny A. Mammo, MD
Dennis M. Marcus, MD, FASRS
John O. Mason, III, MD
Navneet Mehrotra, DNB
Pauline T. Merrill, MD, FASRS
William F. Mieler, MD, FACS, FARVO
Joan W. Miller, MD
John B. Miller, MD
Yasha S. Modi, MD, FASRS
Sandra R. Montezuma, MD, FASRS
Andrew A. Moshfeghi, MD, MBA, FASRS
Rajeev H. Muni, MD, MSC, FRCS(C), FASRS
Marion Munk, MD, PhD
Manish Nagpal, MD, FRCS (UK), FASRS
Jerzy Nawrocki, MD, PhD, FASRS
Carolyn K. Pan, MD
Athanasios Papakostas, MD
Nimesh A. Patel, MD
Shriji Patel, MD, FASRS
Joel Pearlman, MD, PhD, FASRS
John D. Pitcher, III, MD, FASRS
Andrew L. Plaster, MD
Philip J. Polkinghorne, MD
James Powers, DO
Jonathan L. Prenner, MD, FASRS
Aleksandra V. Rachitskaya, MD, FASRS
Kim Ramasamy, MBBS, DO, DNB
Sandeep Randhawa, MD
Prethy Rao, MD, MPH
Carl D. Regillo, MD, FASRS
Flavio A. Rezende, MD, PhD, FASRS
Ekta Rishi, MD, FRCS
Pukhraj P. Rishi, MD, DO, FRCS, FRCSEd, FASRS
Cason B. Robbins, MD
Richard B. Rosen, MD, DSc(Hon), FASRS
Uriel Rubin, MD
Edwin H. Ryan, Jr, MD
Andrew P. Schachat, MD
Sidney A. Schechet, MD
Eric W. Schneider, MD, FASRS
Adrienne W. Scott, MD, FASRS
Mark E. Seamone, MD, MSc
Michael Seider, MD
Sumit Sharma, MD, FASRS
Wen-Shi Shieh, MD
Fabiana Q. Silva, MD
Dimitra Skondra, MD, PhD, FASRS
William E. Smiddy, MD
Lucia Sobrin, MD, MPH
Rizwan Somani, MSc, MD, FRCSC, ABO
Jayanth Sridhar, MD, FASRS
Sunil Srivastava, MD
Homayoun Tabandeh, MD, FASRS
Peter H. Tang, MD, PhD
Matthew T. S. Tennant, MD, FRCS(C)
Aristomenis Thanos, MD
Akshay S. Thomas, MD, MS
Benjamin J. Thomas, MD
John T. Thompson, MD, FASRS
Brian C. Toy, MD
Michael T. Trese, MD
Michael S. Tsipursky, MD, FASRS
Camila V. Ventura, MD, PhD
Victor M. Villegas, MD
Filippos Vingopoulos, MD
Albert T. Vitale, MD
Loi V. Vo, MS
Jay C. Wang, MD
George A. Williams, MD, FASRS
Clayton E. Wisely, MD, MBA
Andre J. Witkin, MD, FASRS
Robert W. Wong, MD, FASRS
Edward H. Wood, MD
Maria Woodward, MD
Charles C. Wykoff, MD, PhD, FASRS
Kunyong Xu, MD, MHSc
Justin J. Y. Yamanuha, MD, MS
Steven Yeh, MD, FASRS
Alex Yuan, MD, PhD
Marco A. Zarbin, MD, PhD
Alice Yang Zhang, MD