Instructor: Anthony Aldave, MD

Dr. Aldave, holds the Walton Li Chair in Cornea and Uveitis and is Chief of the Cornea and Uveitis Division and Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Fellowship Program at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, The University of California, Los Angeles.  Dr. Aldave has received numerous honors during his career, including the Alpha Omega Alpha Scholarship Award for graduating first in his medical school class, the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation Fellowship, the American Ophthalmological Society-Knapp Testimonial Fund Fellowship, the first Claes Dohlman Society Award, and the Achievement, Secretariat and Senior Achievement Awards from the American Academy of Ophthalmology.  Recognized as a leader in the field of keratoprosthesis surgery, Dr. Aldave has performed more than 200 Boston keratoprosthesis procedures in the United States and around the world.  He has conducted Boston keratoprosthesis surgery skills transfer courses in over a dozen countries and many of the surgeons that he has trained have become the leading keratoprosthesis surgeons in their countries.  Dr. Aldave is frequently invited to lecture at international ophthalmology meetings on the Boston keratoprosthesis and has published 14 peer-reviewed articles on the subject, including serving as first author on the article entitled International results with the Boston type I keratoprosthesis, published in 2012. Dr. Aldave also has extensive experience in Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty.