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Editorial board

The 12 editors of JCOVS work at universities and hospitals in 12 countries. Editors handle manuscripts in their areas of expertise and declare any competing interests before taking on a submission.

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Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Nandini Rao

MBBS, MS, PhD

Child Sight Institute, L V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabad, India

Prof. Nandini Rao is a senior pediatric ophthalmologist at the Child Sight Institute of L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, where she has practiced for more than fifteen years. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of refractive error in South Asian children, school-based vision screening and interventions to slow myopia progression. She has led multicenter studies with state education departments and serves on national advisory groups on childhood blindness. Before becoming Editor-in-Chief, she served as an associate editor of the journal.

  • Pediatric ophthalmology
  • Myopia epidemiology
  • School vision screening

Associate editors

Associate Editor

Dr. Katharina Vogel

MD, FEBO

Department of Ophthalmology, Heidelberg University HospitalHeidelberg, Germany

  • Glaucoma surgery
  • Optical coherence tomography

Associate Editor

Prof. Wenjie Zhou

MD, PhD

State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou, China

  • Myopia control
  • Ocular biometry
  • Childhood refractive error

Associate Editor

Assoc. Prof. Claire Dubois

MD, FRCSC

Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of TorontoToronto, Canada

  • Medical retina
  • Diabetic retinopathy screening
  • Teleophthalmology

Editorial board members

Dr. Amira Saleh

Ain Shams University, Egypt

Keratoconus, Corneal cross-linking

Prof. Hiroko Watanabe

Kyoto University, Japan

Age-related macular degeneration, Retinal imaging

Dr. Rafael Monteiro

Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Uveitis, Ocular toxoplasmosis

Assoc. Prof. Shirin Hosseinzadeh

Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Refractive surgery, Corneal biomechanics

Prof. Fiona Gallagher

University of Sydney, Australia

Neuro-ophthalmology, Visual field testing

Dr. Kwame Asante

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Cataract surgery outcomes, Community eye health

Dr. Jessica Morales

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

Glaucoma epidemiology, Eye care health services research

Assoc. Prof. Jae-won Kang

Seoul National University College of Medicine, South Korea

Strabismus, Amblyopia treatment