2026 Board of Directors

Past President:
Bhupesh Bagga, DOMS, FRCS
L V Prasad Eye Institute
Road no 2, Banjara Hills
Hyderabad 500034
Telangana INDIA

President:
Rachel A.F. Wozniak, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology│Center for Visual Science
University of Rochester Medical Center
601 Elmwood Ave, Box 659
Rochester NY 14642

President-Elect:
Miel Sundararajan, MD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
UW Medicine
Box 359608
325 Ninth Avenue
Seattle, WA  98104

Secretary:
Gerami Seitzman MD
F.I. Proctor Foundation
University of California San Francisco
95 Kirkham Street
San Francisco, CA 94122

Executive Vice President (as of 1/1/17):
Irmgard Behlau, MD
Molecular Biology & Microbiology and Ophthalmology, S502A
Tufts – Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

AAO Council Representative (as of 1/1/26):
Irene Kuo, MD
Wilmer Eye Institute
4924 Campbell Boulevard, #100
Baltimore MD 21236

Elected at October 2025 Annual Meeting

Next meeting: Friday, October 9, 2026