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. 2022 Jun 28;6(3):259–261. doi: 10.1177/24741264221095126

2022 Distinguished Contributor Awards

PMCID: PMC9976136  PMID: 37008553

The American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) is pleased to recognize members who are active contributors to the Journal of VitreoRetinal Diseases (JVRD) through the JVRD Distinguished Contributor Awards Program.

Participants accumulate points for their submissions and/or peer reviews toward recognition as Distinguished Contributors (at least 5 points earned) or Master Contributors (15 or more points earned) and is cumulative since launch. Recipients are recognized annually at the ASRS Annual Meeting and on the ASRS website.

Listed here are those who have achieved the Contributor Award since April 2021.

Master Contributor

  • David RP Almeida, MD, MBA, PhD, DABO, FRCSC, FASRS

  • J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, PhD, FACS, FASRS

  • Charles C. Barr, MD

  • Neelakshi Bhagat, MD, MPH, FACS

  • David S. Boyer, MD, FASRS

  • Antonio Capone, MD, FASRS

  • Robison V. P. Chan, MD, MSc, MBA, FACS

  • Eric K. Chin, MD

  • Donald J. D’Amico, MD, FASRS

  • Sabin Dang, MD

  • Kimberly A. Drenser, MD

  • Justis P. Ehlers, MD, FASRS

  • Dean Eliott, MD, FASRS

  • Sharon Fekrat, MD, FACS, FASRS

  • Henry L. Feng, MD

  • Aaron S. Gold, OD

  • Dilraj S. Grewal, MD, FASRS

  • Leo A. Kim, MD, PhD, FASRS

  • Szilárd Kiss, MD, FASRS

  • John B. Miller, MD

  • Timothy G. Murray, MD, MBA, FASRS

  • Zofia Anna Nawrocka (vel Michalewska), MD, PhD, FASRS

  • Jerzy Nawrocki, MD, PhD, FASRS

  • Athanasios Papakostas, MD

  • Nimesh A. Patel, MD

  • Fabio Patelli, MD

  • Carl D. Regillo, MD, FASRS

  • Pukhraj P. Rishi, MBBS, MS, DO, FRCS, FRCSEd, FACS, FASRS

  • Cason B. Robbins, MD

  • Sagnik Sen, MD, FICO, MRCSEd

  • Sumit Sharma, MD, FASRS

  • Rishi P. Singh, MD, FASRS

  • William E. Smiddy, MD

  • Sunil Srivastava, MD

  • Akshay S. Thomas, MD, MS

  • Victor M. Villegas, MD

  • George A. Williams, MD, FASRS

  • Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD, FASRS

  • Marco A. Zarbin, MD, PhD, FACS

Distinguished Contributor

  • Jennifer Adeghate, MD

  • Radwan S. Ajlan, MBBCh, FRCS(C), FASRS

  • Ahmed Alkaliby, MD, MSc. Ophthalmology, MRCS Edin, MRCS Glasgow

  • Matthew F. Anderson, MBChB

  • Fares Antaki, MD, CM

  • Elizabeth A. Atchison, MD

  • Amee D. Azad, MD, MS

  • Austin Bach, DO, MPH

  • Sophie Jane Bakri, MD, FASRS

  • Himanshu K. Banda, MD

  • Kimberly Baynes, BSN, RN, COA

  • Alan R. Berger, MD, FRCS(C)

  • Gregory R. Blaha, MD, PhD

  • Joseph D. Boss, MD

  • Benjamin W. Botsford, MD

  • Nick Boucher, BS

  • Neil M. Bressler, MD, FASRS

  • Susan B. Bressler, MD, FASRS

  • Jessica L. Cao, MD

  • Varun Chandra, MBBS

  • Roomasa Channa, MD

  • Yicheng Chen, MD

  • John B. Christoforidis, MD

  • Felipe Ferreira Conti, MD

  • Anthony R. Cox Jr, MD

  • Shelley Day Ghafoori, MD, FASRS

  • H. Russell Day Jr, MD

  • Pauline Dmitriev, MD

  • Diana V. Do, MD, FASRS

  • Michael Dollin, MD

  • Sander R. Dubovy, MD

  • Pravin U. Dugel, MD, FASRS

  • Jacob S. Duker, MD

  • Sophia El Hamichi, MD

  • Andrew W. Eller, MD

  • Michael Vaughn Emerson, MD

  • Renata García Franco, MD

  • Marlon García Roa, MD

  • Andrea Gibson, PhD

  • Dan A. Gong, MD

  • Scott Grant, MD

  • Kyle M. Green, MD

  • Omesh P. Gupta, MD, MBA

  • Yu-Guang He, MD

  • Thomas Wayne Hejkal, MD, PhD

  • Natalie Huang, MD

  • Alex P. Hunyor, MD

  • Douglas SM Iaboni, MSc

  • Omar Mohammad Ismail, BS

  • Kazuaki Kadonosono, MD, PhD, FASRS

  • Levi N. Kanu, MD

  • Naveen Karthik, BA

  • Amir H. Kashani, MD, PhD, FASRS

  • Sundeep K. Kasi, MD

  • SiehYean Kiew, MBChB, MMed (Ophth)

  • Diana H. Kim, MD

  • Jane S. Kim, MD

  • Betty Klein, MD, FASRS

  • Piyush Kohli, MBBS, MS

  • Dara Koozekanani, MD

  • Karthik Kumar, MS

  • Shree K. Kurup, MD

  • Rafal Kustra, PhD

  • Ines Lains, MD, MSc

  • Ryan Larochelle, MD

  • Janice C. Law, MD, FASRS

  • Kim Le

  • Patrick Le

  • Henry A. Leder, MD

  • Gregory D. Lee, MD

  • Terry Lee, BA

  • Ramon Lee, MD

  • Tamara L. Lenis, MD, PhD

  • Joshua D. Levinson, MD

  • Albert Li, MD

  • Angela S. Li

  • Careen Lowder, MD, PhD

  • Genevieve Lucas, B Comm

  • V. G. Madanagopalan, MS, MRCS

  • Abdallah Mahrous, MD

  • Michael YK Mak, BHSc

  • Jonathan Marler, MBChB

  • Mitul C. Mehta, MD, MS, FASRS

  • Nitish Mehta, MD

  • Amit V. Mishra, MD

  • Hadi Moini, PhD

  • Omar Moinuddin, MD

  • Shizuo Mukai, MD

  • Jennifer Nadelmann, BS

  • Obuli Ramachandran Nandakumar, MD

  • Catherin I. Negron, MBA

  • Ashley Neiweem, MD

  • Steven D. Ness, MD

  • Anthony Obeid, MD, MPH

  • Patrick R. Oellers, MD

  • Daniel J. Oh, MD

  • Daniel J. Olson, MD

  • Ravi Parikh, MD, MPH

  • Sirichai Pasadhika, MD

  • Andre S. Pollmann, MD

  • Colin Joseph Prensky, MD

  • Ehsan Rahimy, MD, FASRS

  • Rithwick Rajagopal, MD, PhD

  • Renu Puthenvilayil Rajan, MD, FICO

  • Rajiv Raman, MS, DNB

  • Kim Ramasamy, MBBS, DO, DNB

  • Paulina Ramirez Neria, MD

  • Sandeep Randhawa, MD

  • Nadim M. Rayess, MD

  • Sarah P. Read, MD, PhD

  • Ashvini K. Reddy, MD

  • Nidhi Relhan, MD

  • Mario R. Romano, MD, PhD

  • Veronica Adriana Romero-Morales, MD

  • Tatiana R. Rosenblatt, BA

  • Elizabeth Rossin, MD, PhD

  • Daniel B. Roth, MD, FASRS

  • Jonathan F. Russell, MD, PhD

  • Claire Ryan, BA

  • Taiji Sakamoto, MD, PhD

  • Namrata Saroj, OD

  • David Sarraf, MD, FASRS

  • Ananth Sastry, MD

  • Eric W. Schneider, MD, FASRS

  • Parveen Sen, MBBS, MS

  • Veeral S. Sheth, MD, MBA, FACS, FASRS

  • Wen-Shi Shieh, MD

  • Ryan A. Shields, MD

  • M. A. Rehman Siddiqui, MBBS, MSc, FRCS(Ed), FRCOphth, FACS, FASRS

  • Rebecca Silverman

  • Pali P. Singh, BS

  • Harinderjit Singh, MD

  • Mohamed Soliman, MD

  • Shozo Sonoda, MD, PhD

  • Davis Clark Starnes, BS

  • Matthew Starr, MD

  • David H. Steel, MBBS, FRCOphth, MD(Res)

  • Maxwell S. Stem, MD

  • John Stephenson, BSc, MSc, PhD

  • Philip Storey, MD, MPH

  • Ivan J. Suner, MD, MBA, FASRS

  • George N. Thomas, MBBS, BMedSci, MMed (Ophthalmology)

  • Merina Thomas, MD

  • Justin H. Townsend, MD

  • Brittany C. Tsou, BS

  • Aditya Uppuluri, MD

  • Lejla Vajzovic, MD, FASRS

  • Diego Valera-Cornejo, MD

  • Brian L. VanderBeek, MD

  • Yolanda Villalpando-Gomez, MD

  • Marissa L. Wedel, MD

  • Adam J. Weiner, MD

  • Tian Xia, MD

  • Peng Yan, MD, FRCS(C)

  • Pradeepa Yoganathan, MSc, MD, FRCS(C), FASRS

  • Stephen Yoon, MD

  • Young Hee Yoon, MD, PhD

  • Gina Yu, BA


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