Thyroid eye disease – innovating and caring beyond the eye

Professor Lelio Baldeschi qualified in Medicine cum laude at the University of  Pisa, graduated in Ophthalmology cum laude at the University of Florence, became PhD at the University of Amsterdam and FEBO in Paris. He sub-specialized in oculoplastic and orbital surgery in London and Amsterdam. Afterwards he has been a Universitary Docent (UD), Consultant surgeon and Director  to the Orbital Centre, University of Amsterdam. At present , he is Professor of Ophthalmology (“Chargé de Cours”), and Chef de Clinique to the “Orbita and Ocular Adnexal service” and President of the  PhD Council “Oculoplastic, Orbital, Lacrimal Diseases and Surgery”  at the Department of Ophthalmology,  Catholic University of Louvain, at the  Saint Luc Academic  Hospital of Brussels, He has been President (2014-2017) of the International Society of Dacryology and Dry Eye (ISD&DE), President for two terms  (2010-2012 and 2013-2015) of the Italian Society of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery (SICOP),  Currently, he is the President of the European Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy (EUGOGO).(number of citations: 3324;  H-index:25;  invited lectures 288;

Professor Colin Dayan trained in medicine at University College, Oxford, and Guy’s and Charing Cross Hospitals in London, UK before obtaining a PhD in the immunology of Graves’ Disease in Laboratory of Marc Feldmann. He then spent a year as an endocrine fellow at the Massachussetts General Hospital in Boston, USA before completing his specialist training in diabetes and endocrinology as a Lecturer in Bristol. He became a consultant senior lecturer in medicine (diabetes/endocrinology) at the University of Bristol in 1995 and Head of Clinical Research at the Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology in Bristol in 2002. In 2010, he was appointed to the Chair of Clinical Diabetes and Metabolism and Head of Section at Cardiff University School of Medicine. He served as Director of the Institute of Molecular and Experimental Medicine in 2011 – 2015. In 2020 he was appointed part-time as a Senior Clinical Researcher in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford and in 2021 as Director of the Joint Research Office for Cardiff University and Cardiff and Vale Health Board. He has also served as Secretary and Treasurer of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. 11950302.1 His research interests in thyroid disease include thyroid autoimmunity, thyroid hormone replacement and bioavailability, genetic epidemiology as applied to population variation in thyroid hormone bioavailability and thyroid eye disease. He was secretary of the European Thyroid Association 2013-2018. He is a currently an executive committee member of the British Thyroid Association, member of EUGOGO, Chair of the UK Thyroid Eye Disease Amsterdam Implementation Group and Chairman of Trustees of the Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust.

Mohsen B Kashkouli is Professor of Oculo-Facial Plastic Surgery at Rassoul Akram Hospital affiliated with Iran University of Medical Sciences since 1998. He has trained 12 Oculo-Facial Plastic Surgery fellows and 154 ophthalmology residents, published 3 books, 5 educational pamphlets, and more than 140 articles (First and corresponding author in 102) in the international peer reviewed journals (H-index: 20); organized more than 86 scientific meetings and courses; been invited as guest speaker to many international and national meetings (135 lectures/speeches); presented 162 abstracts; introduced 11 medical and surgical innovations in the field of Oculo-Facial Plastic Surgery, and been awarded many times. He is a member of the prestigious “Orbital Society” since 2018, a board member and scientific director of Iranian Society of Oculo-Facial Plastic surgeons (IrSOPRS) and member of American (ASOPRS), European (ESOPRS), Asia-Pacific (AP-SOPRS), and Middle east Africa (MEA-SOPRS) Society of Oculo-Facial Plastic surgeons. He is plastic surgery section editor and member of editorial board to 7 international ophthalmology and plastic surgery journals.

Dr Ugradar has published multiple papers and book chapters in the field of oculoplastics, and is a reviewer for numerous journals. His laboratory research focuses on the genetics of thyroid eye disease and the use of artificial intelligence, in the field of facial surgery. Dr Ugradar runs multiple FDA approved trials in the US. Dr Ugradar's research has led to awards from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS) for research in 2020 and 2021. Further, Dr Ugradar has gained US patents for innovative technology in ophthalmology.

Dr Kunwar Bhatia is a Consultant Head and Neck Radiologist at Imperial College Health NHS Trust, London. He was previously an Associate Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include advanced imaging in head and neck cancers, ultrasound elastography in the neck, and MRI imaging in thyroid eye disease. He has authored over 60 original articles, numerous conference proceedings, reviews and book chapters. He is a frequently invited speaker including for the ESR and ESHNR congresses. He is an advisory editor for the Clinical Radiology journal and the head and neck section editor and panel lead for the RCR iRefer guidelines.