Autorenportrait
Francesco Pichi is a Retina and Uveitis specialist at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and Professor of Ophthalmology at Case Wester Reserve University (USA). He graduated summa cum laude from the Alma Mater Studiorum of the Univeristy of Bologna and went on to pursue his ophthalmology residency at the University of Milan under the mentorship of Prof Giovanni Staurenghi. He underwent a preceptorship in uveitis and ocular immunology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (University of Miami, USA). He has pursued a two years' fellowship with Dr Careen Lowder at Cole Eye Institute (Cleveland Clinic, USA) in uveitis and ocular inflammations and infections. Dr Pichi has to his credit more than 100 presentations in both international and national conferences and 80 peer reviewed publications. He has authored 11 chapters in various text books. He was awarded for the best paper and best poster presentation at American Academy of Ophthalmology 2015 and 2017, and also received the International Ophthalmology Educational Award from AAO in 2016 and the AAO Achievement Award in 2018. He is a reviewer of various peer reviewed international ophthalmology journals. Piergiorgio Neri graduated summa cum laude from the University of Ancona Medical School in 2000. He obtained specialist diploma in ophthalmology with summa cum laude at the University of Ancona in 2004 and his PhD in neuroscience in 2007. Dr Neri was Honorary Research Fellow in Uveitis at the Eye Department, University of Aberdeen, scientist visitor at the University of Tübingen and Visiting Professor at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. In 2010 he was named Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Polytechnic University of Marche-Ancona. Dr Neri was honorary clinical ocular immunology consultant and medical retina consultant at the Ospedali Riuniti "Umberto I-GM Lancisi-G Salesi" of Ancona. He acted as director of the Ocular Immunology Service at the Ospedali Riuniti "Umberto I-GM Lancisi-G Salesi" of Ancona since 2007. Dr Neri has recently joined the Clevelan Clinic in Abu Dhabi (UAE) as Board Cerified Consultant/Staff Physician and Professor of Ophthalmology at Case Wester Reserve University (USA).Dr Neri is the Secretary General of the Society for Ophthalmo-Immunoinfectiology in Europe (SOIE) since 2008. Dr Neri has served EVER as Section Program Secretary for Immunology/Microbiology Section since 2010 and became Section President in 2016.Dr Neri is also listed in the panel of experts of the European Medicine Agency (EMA) and Italian Pharmaceutical Agency (AIFA). Dr Neri is author and co-author of more than 130 national and international publications, including original articles, editorials, reviews, book chapters, monographs and abstracts. Dr Neri acts as Editor-in-Chief of International Ophthalmology.
