Genetic Diseases of the Eye

Elias I. Traboulsi, MD, MEd is the Head of the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology and the Director of the Center for Genetic Eye Diseases at The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute and He is the executive Vice-President and Past President of The International Society for Genetic Eye Diseases and Retinoblastoma. He was Editor of Ophthalmic Genetics from 30 years. He authored more than 450 scientific articles and book chapters. He gave more than 20 named lectures including the Costenbader Lecture, the Marshall M. Parks Lecture, the Franceschetti and the François lectures. He received the Master Educator Award at Cleveland Clinic and the Parker Palmer Courage to Lead, and the John Gienapp Awards from the ACGME. Virginia Miraldi Utz, MD is a pediatric ophthalmologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She is also a professor in the UC Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Miraldi Utz is board certified and practices at the Burnet Campus. Her expertise lies in caring for children with general pediatric eye disorders as well as specialized ocular conditions, including uveitis (eye inflammation) and genetic disorders involving the eye and body. She serves on the editorial board for the Ophthalmic Genetics Journal, as chairperson of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) Pediatric Uveitis Committee and as vice-chair for the AAPOS Genetic Eye Disease Committee.Her dedication to improving visual outcomes and quality of life for children with eye disorders is evident in her commitment to research and clinical practice. Arif O. Khan, MD is Consultant in Pediatric Ophthalmology & Ocular Genetics at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, where he is responsible for the Pediatric Eye Care Service. Dr. Khan is also Professor of Ophthalmology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University. Previously, through the end of 2015, Dr. Khan was Senior Academic Consultant at the King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital and Senior Scientist at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, both in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Khan's clinical and research interests are the management and genetics of ocular developmental disorders and strabismus.