Prof. Shlomo Melamed is a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Tel Aviv University Medical School, the Director of the Sam Rothberg Glaucoma Center, Sheba Medical Center and the incum-bent of the Zuker - Sussman Chair for Glaucoma Research at the Tel Aviv University, Israel.

During 1983-1985, he finished his fellowship at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and continued his focus on glaucoma service until 1988. Prof. Melamed is the founder and organizer of several international organizations, which are dedicated to glaucoma advancement. For example, he was the founder of International Glaucoma Symposia (IGS), which he had been the president for many times from 1991 to 2008; He was also the Founder and Chair of the World Glaucoma Projects Committee (WGPC) – an international surgical educa-tion and outreach program in the developing world in 2009. Meanwhile, Prof. Melamed was also the Chair of the Third World Glaucoma Promotion from 2009 to 2016. He has organized and partic-ipated in expeditions in places like Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Bolivia, India, Togo and Benin in West Africa, Burkina Faso, India and Nigeria.

Terms of Appointment: Aug 2018 – Jul 2020