Macular Dystrophies

Giuseppe Querques, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor at University of Paris XII, France, and Praticiens Hospitaliers mi-temps at Creteil Eye Clinic, Creteil, France. He earned his MD degree from the University of Bari and completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of Foggia, Italy. During his ophthalmology residency, Dr. Querques completed a medical fellowship at Retina Associated of New Jersey, USA, at Creteil Eye Clinic, University of Paris XII, France, and at Inselspital Eye Clinic, University of Bern, Switzerland. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Creteil Eye Clinic and obtained his PhD from the University of Foggia. Dr. Querques' main interests are medical retina (age-related macular degeneration, retinal vascular diseases, and inherited macular and retinal dystrophies) and ophthalmic surgery (retina and cataract). Dr. Querques has contributed to more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and his current main area of both clinical and laboratory research is the diagnosis (imaging) and treatment of age-related macular degeneration, retinal vascular diseases, and hereditary retinal diseases. Eric Souied, MD, PhD, is Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, Hôpital Intercommunal de Créteil, and Head of the Ophthalmology Department, Hôpital Henri Mondor, in France. He gained his MD from University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) before completing his ophthalmology residency with Prof. Gabriel Coscas. He also completed a medical fellowship at the Créteil University Eye Clinic and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles. Dr. Souied was appointed Professor in Ophthalmology at Créteil University Eye Clinic in 2006. His main areas of interest are medical retina [age-related macular degeneration (AMD), inherited macular and retinal dystrophies] and ophthalmic surgery (retina and cataract). Dr. Souied has contributed to more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of AMD, hereditary retinal diseases, ophthalmic genetics, and gene therapy of retinal dystrophies. He has been the recipient of a number of prizes and is a member of the Macula Society, the Gonin Club, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.

Stargardt's disease (STGD).- Macular Abnormalities in Panretinal Dystrophies.- Best Disease.- Pattern Dystrophy.- Autosomal Dominant Drusen.- North Carolina Makular Dystrophy (NCMD, MCDR1) and NCMD-like Disorders.- Sorsby Fundus Dystrophy.- Central Areolar Choroidal Dystrophy.- Maternally Inherited Diabetes and Deafness (MIDD).- X-linked Retinoschisis (XLRS).- Miscellaneous Very Rare Macular Dystrophies.- Management and Interventions.