ARVO Advocacy Award Recipients
2025 Achievements in Eye and Vision Advocacy Award
Dimitrios Karamichos
PhD, MSc
The University of North Texas (UNT) Health Science Center at Fort Worth College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences (CBTS)
Fort Worth , Tex.
2025 Emerging Advocate Award
Anna CS Tan
MBBS, MMed, PhD
Singapore National Eye Centre
Singapore
2023 Achievements in Eye and Vision Advocacy Award
Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi
RN, PhD
Moorfields National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre
London , United Kingdom
2023 Emerging Advocate Award
Rohan Bir Singh
MD
Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School
Boston , Mass.
2022 Achievements in Eye and Vision Advocacy Award
Padma Shri Natarajan
MD, D.Sc, FRCS
Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital
Mumbai , India
2022 Emerging Advocate Award
Shervonne Poleon
PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham , Ala.
2021 Achievements in Eye and Vision Advocacy Award
Peter Koulen
PhD, FARVO
University of Missouri - Kansas City
Kansas City , Mo.
2021 Emerging Advocate Award
Daisy Y. Shu
PhD
Department of Ophthalmology
Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachussetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School
Boston , Mass.
2020 Achievements in Eye and Vision Advocacy Award
João M. Furtado
MD, PhD
Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo , Brazil
2020 Emerging Advocate Award
Jarrod C. Harman
PhD
New Orleans, La.