Aging in Ophthalmology

Prof. Dr. Jorge Alió, is academically serving in Universidad Miguel Hernández as Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology and Director of the Iberia Biobank and Biodata created jointly with the funding of the National Network of Clinical Research (OFTARED, National Health Institute Carlos III), where he is the Coordinator of Eye Diopter Research. His clinical services as an ophthalmic clinician and surgeon are provided in ‘Vissum Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante’ (Founded by Dr. Alió in 2004), ‘Grupo Miranza’. Throughout his career and arising from his clinical research activities, he has been the author or co-author of 669 peer review papers, 385 book chapters, 99 books (as editor or co-editor), and over 2.111 presentations and invited lectures in international meetings. Jorge Alio, recently entered the ‘Forbes’ list of the 100 best doctors in Spain Andrzej Grzybowski, M.D., Ph.D., MBA, MAE, is a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Institute for Research in Ophthalmology. He has been an active editor, editor in chief, and author of more than 500 peer-reviewed international publications and over 50 book chapters as well as reviewer for more than 20 journals. He serves as editorial board member of several international journals, including the American Journal of Ophthalmology, and is a lifelong member of the European Academy of Ophthalmology. As the only Polish ophthalmologist he was included in the top 2% ranking of world-best scientists prepared by Stanford University. In 2022 he was awarded Officers’ Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for outstanding achievements in research and teaching and support for international scientific cooperation by the President of Poland, a ranking of the Top 100 most influential people in the world of ophthalmology. Anat is a retina specialist, expert in retinal toxicity, and has a strong research interest in the early detection of retinal disease. Her career path started with four years serving as a physician-officer in the Israeli Navy, a residency in TASMC, a fellowship in retinal vascular diseases and vitreoretinal surgery at The Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore, before returning to Israel, where before long, she was appointed head of TASMC’s vitro-retina unit, and then went on to become the Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology. She has found the time to publish more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, write multiple textbook chapters, and take on leadership roles within international societies (she is the current General Secretary of EURETINA and serves on the international committee of the Macula Society)

• 1. Aging as a risk factor in eye disease: Mechanisms of aging in the human bodyDavid Teren and Jorge L. Alió2. Age-related changes of the eyelid and surgery of eyelids in agingDaniel Briscoe, Oz Levinkron, Daniella Shalom and Muhammad Kridin3. Age-related changes in the optics of the human eyeJos J. Rozema and David A. Atchison4. Cornea aging: A layered perspectiveDimitri Azar5. Aging in human lensJorge L. Alio6. Aging and accommodationDavid Teren and Jorge L. Alió7. Aging in the trabecular meshworkCarlo Alberto Cutolo, Daniele Gaudenzi and Carlo Enrico Traverso8. Aging in glaucoma surgeryDaniele Gaudenzi, Carlo Alberto Cutolo and Carlo Enrico Traverso9. The aging vitreous gelNancy M. Holekamp10. Aging of the human retinaAlbert Augustin11. Aging of the retinal pigment epitheliumErica L. Fletcher, Jessica Yw Ma, Josephine Hc Wong, Una Greferath, Ophelia V. Ehrlich, Andrew I. Jobling and Kirstan A. Vessey12. Eye and major age-related central nervous system degenerative disordersAndrzej Grzybowski, Hongkang Wu, Xiaoling Huang and Kai Jin13. Eye and major age-related cardiovascular disordersHaichao Chen, Yu Huang, Wenyi Hu, Ten Cheer Quek, Zhuoting Zhu, Ching- Yu Cheng, Ya Xing Wang and Tien Yin Wong14. Aging of the choroidRupesh Agrawal15. Age-related diseases of the macula (Divided into five subchapters: Stages, nonproliferative changes, age-related changes with proliferative findings, geographic atrophy, neovascular age-related macular degeneration)Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth and Marie Louise Enzendorfer16. Changes in retinal anatomy and physiology in normal aging and age-related macular degenerationEmanuel Yuquan Tan and Sobha Sivaprasad17. Aging surgery of ocular adnexa and conjunctivaDaniel Briscoe, Oz Levinkron, Daniella Shalom, Muhammad Kridin and Shahar Frenkel18. Age-related changes of the ocular motor system and squint surgeryElena Hernandez-Garcia and Rosario Gomez-De-Liaño19. Therapeutic approaches to aging in the ocular tissuesM.D. Pinazo-Durán, V. Zanón-Moreno, E. Bendala-Tufanisco, J. Benitez-Del-Castillof, J.E. O´Connor, I Andrés-Blasco and R.P. Casaroli-Marano20. Dietary supplementsFigen Bezci Aygun, Matias Iglicki, Anat Loewenstein and Dinah Zur21. Prevention of the aging process of the eyeCarla Danese and Paolo Lanzetta22. A glance at the futureJorge L. Alio, Andrzej Grzybowski and Anat Loewenstein