Our Appreciation

The Editorial Board thanks the following scientific referees for contributing their time and expertise to review manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery from October 2024 through September 2025. Marco Abbondanza, MD, Rome, Italy Khaled Ahmed Abdelaty, MD, FRCSEd, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Mohamed Naved Abdul Karim, FRCS, Bangor, United Kingdom Norli Anida Abdullah, PhD, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Adi Abulafia, MD, Jerusalem, Israel Wagh Aclimandos, MB, BCh, FRCS, FRCOphth, London, United Kingdom Shishir Agrawal, MS, DNB, FRCS, MRCOphth, Meerut, India Muhammad Ahad, MBBS, FRCS, MRCOphth, PhD, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Masih Ahmed, MD, Houston, Texas Jorge L. Alió, MD, PhD, Alicante, Spain Bruce D. Allan, MD, London, United Kingdom Nuria Alonso-Santander, MD, PhD, Burgos, Spain Noel Alpins, MD, Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia Rana Altan-Yaycioglu, MD, FEBO, Adana, Turkey Michael Amon, MD, Vienna, Austria Robert Ang, MD, Makati City, Philippines Natalia Anisimova, MD, Moscow, Russia Anvesh Annadanam, MD, Ann Arbor, Michigan Abdelrahman M. Anter, MD, Miami, Florida Marco Antonini, MD, San Donà Di Piabe, Italy Samuel Arba Mosquera, PhD, Kleinostheim, Germany Juan G. Arbelaez, MD, Muscat, Oman Lisa B. Arbisser, MD, Sarasota, Florida Alfonso Arias-Puente, MD, PhD, FEBOphth, Madrid, Spain Pedro Arriola-Villalobos, MD, PhD, Madrid, Spain Steve A. Arshinoff, MD, FRCSC, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Pablo Artal, PhD, Murcia, Spain Leyla Asena, MD, Ankara, Turkey Amin Ashrafzadeh, MD, Modesto, California Ahmed Hassan Assaf, MD, FRCSEd, Cairo, Egypt Ehud I. Assia, MD, Kfar-Saba, Israel Gerd U. Auffarth, MD, PhD, FEBO, Heidelberg, Germany Shady t. Awwad, MD, Beirut, Lebanon Gordon Balazsi, MDCM, Mount-Royal, Quebec, Canada Alireza Baradaran-Rafii, MD, Tehran, Iran William R. Barlow, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah Bradley Barnett, MD, PhD, Sacramento, California Graham D. Barrett, MD, Nedlands, Washington Noel Bauer, MD, PhD, FEBOphth, Maastricht, the Netherlands Michael W. Belin, MD, Marana, Arizona Sashia Bennett, MD, PhD, Aarhus, Denmark George Beiko, MD, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Luciano P. Bellini, MD, Porto Alegre, Brazil Osvaldo Berger, MD, London, United Kingdom Benjamin Bert, MD, Fountain Valley, California Hiroko Bissen-Miyajima, MD, PhD, Tokyo, Japan Brecken Blackburn, PhD, Cleveland, Ohio Vanesa Blázquez-Sánchez, PhD, Madrid, Spain James C. Bobrow, MD, Clayton, Missouri Maja Bohac, PhD, Zagreb, Croatia Myriam Böhm, MD, Boston, Massachusetts John Bolger, FRCS, London, United Kingdom Vincent M. Borderie, MD, PhD, Paris, France Andreas F. Borkenstein, MD, Graz, Austria Basak Bostanci, MD, Istanbul, Turkey Patrick J. Bowers Jr, MD, Chattanooga, Tennessee Sheetal Brar, MD, Bangalore, India Jason Brenner, MD, Brookline, Massachusetts Luis F. Brenner, MD, Oslo, Norway Mark A. Bullimore, MCOptom, PhD, Boulder, Colorado Hendrik Burwinkel, PhD, Oberkochen, Germany Massimo Busin, MD, Forlì, Italy Humberto Carreras, MD, PhD, Las Palmas, Spain Vicente Lorenzo Cabahug, MD, Cebu City, Philippines Begoña Calvo, PhD, Zaragoza, Spain Mauro Campos, MD, São Paulo, Brazil Sergio Canabrava, MD, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Mario Canto-Cerdan, OD, PhD, Alicante, Spain Jose E. Capo-Aponte, OD, PhD, Lackland AFB, Texas Durval M. Carvalho Jr, MD, Brasília, Brazil Fabio H. Casanova, MD, PhD, Recife, Brazil Miriam Casares López, PhD, Granada, Spain José J. Castro-Torres, PhD, Granada, Spain Osman Cekic, MD, PhD, İstanbul, Turkey Maria Regina Chalita, MD, PhD, Brasília, Brazil Winston Chamberlain, MD, PhD, Portland, Oregon Clara Chan, MD, FRCSC, FACS, Toronto, Ontario, Canada David F. Chang, MD, Los Altos, California Craig J. Chaya, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah Soon-Phaik Chee, FRCS(G), FRCOphth(UK), FRCS(Ed), Singapore Tsan-Chi Chen, PhD, New Taipei City, Taiwan Albert Y. Cheung, MD, Norfolk, Virginia Helene Choquet, PhD, Oakland, California Dipankar Chowdgury, PhD, Surbiton, United Kingdom Marco Coassin, MD, PhD, Rome, Italy Ben Connell, MBBS, FRANZCO, MPH, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia David L. Cooke, MD, St. Joseph, Michigan Claus Cursiefen, MD, Cologne, Germany Kamal Das, PhD, MBA, Fort Worth, Texas Touboul David, MD, PhD, Bordeaux, France Petra Davidova, MD, Frankfurt, Germany Daniel G. Dawson, MD, Gainesville, Florida Albert Daxer, MD, PhD, Wieselburg, Austria Alberto de Castro Arribas, PhD, Madrid, Spain Davies W. de Lima Monteiro, PhD, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Diego De Ortueta, MD, PhD, FEBO, Recklinghausen, Germany Margaret DeAngelis, MS, PhD, Buffalo, New York Guillaume Debellemaniere, MD, Paris, France Joaquin DeRojas, MD, Sarasota, Florida Brian M. DeBroff, MD, New Haven, Connecticut Alexandre Denoyer, MD, PhD, Paris, France Steven H. Dewey, MD, Colorado Springs, Colorado Alois K. Dexl, MD, MSc, Salzburg, Austria Mohammad Reza Djodeyre, MD, PhD, Zaragoza, Spain William Dolla, PhD, Irving, Texas Manuel Lopes Domingues, MD, Maia, Portugal David Donate, MD, Lyon, France Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD, Rockville Centre, New York John E. Downing, MD, Bowling Green, Kentucky Melinda K. Duncan, PhD, Newark, Delaware Nasrine Anais El Salloukh, MD, Cleveland, Ohio William J. Dupps, MD, PhD, Cleveland, Ohio Timo Eppig, PhD, Homburg, Germany Dilaver Ersanli, MD, İstanbul, Turkey Tanner J. Ferguson, MD, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Joaquin Fernandez, MD, MSc, PhD, Almería, Spain Mariana Fernandez Mar, MD, Coyoacan, Mexico Luis Fernández-Vega-Cueto, MD, PhD, Oviedo, Spain José Ignacio Fernández-Vigo, MD, PhD, FEBO, Madrid, Spain Oliver Findl, MD, Vienna, Austria Bret Fisher, MD, Birmingham, Alabama Nicole Renee Fram, MD, Los Angeles, California Ian C. Francis, FASOPRS, PhD, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Ana Vega Freitas, MD, PhD, Sáo Paulo, Brazil Beatrice Frueh, MD, Bern, Switzerland Ivan Gabric, MD, Zagreb, Croatia Colin Gallagher, MD, Colorado Springs, Colorado Hua Gao, MD, PhD, Jinan, China Carmen Garcia-Saenz, MD, Madrid, Spain Sotirios Gartaganis, MD, PhD, Pátra, Greece Ronald N. Gaster, MD, FACS, Beverly Hills, California Damien Gatinel, MD, PhD, Paris, France Mathieu Gauvin, BEng, PhD, Laval, Quebec, Canada William G. Gensheimer, MD, White River Junction, Vermont Sudipta Ghosh, MNAMA, DOMS, DNB, Calcutta, India David Glasser, MD, Ellicott City, Maryland Adriano Guarnieri, MD, MSc, Lausanne, Switzerland José L. Güell, Barcelona, Spain Anders Gyldenkerne, MD, Aarhus, Denmark M. Bowes Hamill, MD, Houston, Texas Bassel Hammoud, MD, MS, Cleveland, Ohio Aravind Haripriya, MD, Madurai, India Ken Hayashi, MD, Fukuoka City, Japan Maria A. Henriquez, MD, MSc, PhD, Lima, Peru Robert Herber, MSc, Dresden, Germany Adam L. Hickenbotham, OD, MPH, PhD, Provo, Utah Richard Y. Hida, MD, Brasilia, Brazil Wilson Takashi. Hida, MD, PhD, São Paulo, Brazil Warren E. Hill, MD, Mesa, Arizona Nino Hirnschall, MD, Vienna, Austria Chris Hodge, PhD, BAppSc(Orth), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Peter C. Hoffmann, MD, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany Richard Hoffman, MD, Eugene, Oregon Alfredo Holgueras, MD, Valladolid, Spain Mike P. Holzer, MD, Heidelberg, Germany Frank Hwang, MD, Loma Linda, California Cristos Ifantides, MD, MBA, Cape Coral, Florida Tülay İnan, İstanbul, Turkey Mohammed Iqbal, MD, Sohag, Egypt Luis Izquierdo Jr, MD, PhD, Lima, Peru Arun Kumar Jain, MD, Chandigarh, India Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, DNBd, Chennai, India Rakhi Jain, PhD, Charlotte, North Carolina Vishal Jhanji, MD, Kowloon, Hong Kong Zhou Jihong, MD, Beijing, China Marta Jiménez-García, MSc, Zaragoza, Spain Guenal Kahraman, MD, Vienna, Austria Klemens P. Kaiser, MD, Frankfurt, Germany David Sung Yong Kang, MD, Seoul, South Korea Müjdat Karabulut, MD, FEBO, Muğla, Turkey Dong Hyun Kim, MD, PhD, Incheon, South Korea Stephen D. Klyce, PhD, Port Washington, New York Nathaniel E. Knox Cartwright, MA, FRCOphth, Exeter, United Kingdom Douglas D. Koch, MD, Houston, Texas Irene Kochevar, PhD, Boston, Massachusetts Shizuka Koh, MD, PhD, Suita, Japan Irene C. Kuo, MD, Baltimore, Maryland Georgios Labiris, MD, PhD, Alexandroupolis, Greece Grzegorz Łabuz, PhD, Heidelberg, Germany Scott R. Lambert, MD, Palo Alto, California Lampros Lamprogiannis, MD, MSc, PhD, London, United Kingdom Achim Langenbucher, PhD, Homberg, Germany Ruth Lapid-Gortzak, MD, PhD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Stephen Lau, MD, Cleveland, Ohio Antonio Lecisotti, MD, PhD, Siena, Italy Bryan S. Lee, MD, Los Altos, California Richard A. Lewis, MD, Sacremento, California Yan Li, PhD, Portland, Oregon Anja Liekfeld, MD, PhD, Potsdam, Germany Amy Lin, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, Bloomington, Minnesota Mark C. Lobanoff, MD, Minneapolis, Minnesota David Lockington, FRCOphth, Glasgow, United Kingdom Alberto López-Miguel, PhD, Valladolid, Spain Shamil Louaya, MD, Inezgane, Morocco Yifan Lu, MD, Boston, Massachusetts Nikolaus Luft, MD, PhD, FEBO, Munich, Germany LiXia Luo, PhD, Guangzhou, China Christoph Lwowski, MD, Frankfurt, Germany Adriana Falcão Lyra, MD, Recife, Brazil Sarah Maling, BSc, MS, ChB, FRCOphth, Ayelsbury, United Kingdom Boris E. Malyugin, MD, PhD, Los Angeles, California Nick Mamalis, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah Edward E. Manche, MD, Palo Alto, California Susana Marcos, PhD, Rochester, New York Elena Martínez-Plaza, PhD, Valladolid, Spain Samuel Masket, MD, Los Angeles, California Kanwal S. Matharu, MD, Iowa City, Iowa Wolfgang J. Mayer, MD, PhD, FEBO, Munich, Germany Colm McAlinden, MD, PhD, FEBO, FRCOphth, London, United Kingdom Glauco R. Mello, MD, PhD, Curitiba, Brazil Rupert Menapace, MD, Vienna, Austria Rita Mencucci, MD, Florence, Italy J. Morgan Micheletti, MD, Houston, Texas Kevin Miller, MD, Los Angeles, California Cole M. Milliken, MD, Charleston, South Carolina Edward J. Milverton, MD, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Manjula Misra, MD, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada Laszlo Modis, MD, PhD, DSc, Hajdú-Bihar, Hungary Isa Mohammed, MD, Baltimore, Maryland Per Montan, MD, PhD, Stockholm, Sweden Jonathan E. Moore, FRCOphth, PhD, Belfast, United Kingdom Majid Moshirfar, MD, Draper, Utah Joaquim N. Murta, MD, PhD, Coimbra, Portugal Kristian Næser, MD, Randers, Denmark Austin Nakatsuka, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah Nambi Nallasamy, MD, Ann Arbor, Michigan Mayank A. Nanavaty, MBBS, DO, FRCOphth, PhD, Brighton, United Kingdom Derek Nankivil, PhD, Jacksonville, Florida Ayman Naseri, MD, San Francisco, California Alanna Nattis, DO, Babylon, New York Marcelo P. Navarro, MD, Itaúna, Brazil Alejandro Navas, MD, PhD, Mexico City, Mexico Gabor Nemeth, MD, PhD, Debrecen, Hungary Marcus C. Neuffer, MD, Biloxi, Mississippi Irmingard Neuhann, MD, Munich, Germany Thomas F. Neuhann, MD, Munich, Germany Tobias H. Neuhann, MD, Munich, Germany Yutaro Nichi, MD, Osaka, Japan Rudy M.M.A. Nuijts, MD, PhD, Maastricht, the Netherlands David O'Brart, MD, MBBS, FRCS, FRCOphth, DO, London, United Kingdom Thomas A. Oetting, MD, Iowa City, Iowa Gregory Ogawa, MD, Albuquerque, New Mexico Thomas Olsen, MD, PhD, Aarhus, Denmark Randall J. Olson, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah Marcia Ong, MS, Fort Worth, Texas Brad E. Oren, MD, Weston, Connecticut Julio Ortega-Usobiaga, MD, PhD, FEBOS-CR, Bilbao, Spain Mark Packer, MD, FACS, Boulder, Colorado David J. Palmer, MD, Chicago, Illinois Seth Pantanelli, MD, Hershey, Pennsylvania Christophe Panthier, MD, MSc, Paris, France Lisa Park, MD, New York, New York Jitendra Kumar Singh Parihar, MBBS, MS, DOMS, DNB(INDIA), New Delhi, India Frederico A.S. Pereira, MD, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Konrad Pesudovs, PhD, Adelaide, SA, Australia Jeff Pettey, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah M. Ceu Brochado Pinto, MD, Gaia, Portugal Russell Pokroy, MD, Zerifin, Israel Somdutt Prasad, MS, FRCSEd, FRCOphth, FACS, Wirral, United Kingdom Paul Rolf Preussner, MD, PhD, Mainz, Germany Marianne O. Price, PhD, Indianapolis, Indiana Francis W. Price Jr, MD, Indianapolis, Indiana Frederik Raiskup, MD, PhD, DSc, FEBO, Dresden, Germany Kishore Raj, MD, Kathmandu, India Naveen K. Rao, MD, Boston, Massachusetts Olga Reitblat, MD, MHA, Petach Tikva, Israel Kamran M. Riaz, MD, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Matteo Ripa, MD, Ashford, United Kingdom Timothy V. Roberts, MBBS, MMed, FRANZCO, FRACS, Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia Cynthia J. Roberts, PhD, Columbus, Ohio Alan L. Robin, MD, Baltimore, Maryland Manuel Rodríguez Vallejo, PhD, Almería, Spain Vito Romano, MD, FRCOphth, Brescia, Italy Eric D. Rosenberg, DO, MScEng, Babylon, New York Kenneth J. Rosenthal, MD, Great Neck, New York Sylvain Roy, MD, PhD, Lausanne, Switzerland Jos Rozema, PhD, Wilrijk, Belgium Denise S. Ryan, MS, Oxen Hill, Maryland Ruth Sahler, ScD, MA, BA, Irvine, California Shiuzya Saika, MD, PhD, Wakayama, Japan Imene Salah-Mabed, MSc, PhD, Paris, France Marcella Q. Salomao, MD, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Marcony R. Santhiago, MD, PhD, São Paulo, Brazil Steven R. Sarkisian, MD, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Hiroshi Sasaki, MD, PhD, Kahoku, Japan Giacomo Savini, MD, Rome, Italy Giuliano Scarcelli, PhD, College Park, Maryland James M. Scott, MS, Fort Worth, Texas Julie M. Schallhorn, MD, San Francisco, California David J. Schanzlin, MD, La Jolla, California Daniel Schartmüller, MD, Vienna, Austria Patrik Schatz, MD, PhD, Lund, Sweden Titus Schug, MD, Frankfurt, Germany Tim Schultz, MD, FEBO, Bochum, Germany Craig William See, MD, Cleveland, Ohio Walter Sekundo, MD, Marburg, Germany Brian M. Shafer, MD, Sioux Falls, South Dakota H. John Shammas, MD, Lynwood, California Rose K. Sia, MD, Fort Belvoir, Virginia Shameema Sikder, MD, Bethesda, Maryland Francisco B. Silva, MD, Barcelona, Spain Rohit Shetty, FRCS(Glas), Bangalore, India Neal H. Shorstein, MD, Walnut Creek, California Aakriti G. Shukla, MD, New York, New York Michael Simpson, PhD, Arlington, Texas Janusz Skrzypecki, MD, PhD, Warsaw, Poland Michael Snyder, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio Uri Soiberman, MD, Baltimore, Maryland Nir Sorkin, MD, Tel Aviv, Israel David J. Spalton, FRCP, FRCS, FRCOphth, London, United Kingdom Sathish Srinivasan, RECSEd, FRCOphth, FACS, FWCRS, Ayr, United Kingdom Jason Stahl, MD, Overland Park, Kansas Gernot Steinwender, MD, Steiermark, Austria Brian Stagg, MD, Ann Arbor, Michigan Benjamin Stern, MD, Paris, France Rajaraman Suryakumar, BS(Optom), MSc, PhD, FAAO, Fort Worth, Texas Bianca N. Susanna, MD, Sáo Paulo, Brazil Zeba S. Syed, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Felipe Taguchi, MD, São Paulo, Brazil Jeewan Titiyal, MD, New Delhi, India Daniele Tognetto, MD, Trieste, Italy Bruno Trindade, MD, PhD, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Pierre Trottier, MD, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada Konstantinos T. Tsaousis, MD, MSc, MSc, PhD, Salt Lake City, Utah Raimo Tuuminen, MD, PhD, FEBO, Helsinki, Finland Thomas J.T.P. van den Berg, PhD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Karel Van Keer, MD, PhD, Leuven, Belgium Luis G. Vargas, MD, Mission Viejo, California Abhay R. Vasavada, MS, FRCS, Ahmedabad, India Shail Vasavada, MD, Ahmedabad, India Vaishali Vasavada, MS, Ahmedabad, India Viraj Vasavada, MS, Ahmedabad, India Emmanuel Vazquez, MD, Cuenca, Ecuador Fidel Vega, PhD, Terrassa, Spain Rengaraj Venkatesh, DO, DNB, Pondicherry, India Bruna V. Ventura, MD, Recife, Brazil Andreas Viberg, MD, PhD, Umeå, Sweden José R. Villada, MD, MRCOphth, Albacete, Spain Filippos Vingopoulos, MD, Boston, Massachusetts Denise Visco, MD, York, Pennsylvania Efstathios Vounotrypidis, MD, Ulm, Germany Bruce Wallace, MD, Alexandria, Louisiana Keith Walter, MD, Winston-Salem, North Carolina I-Jong Wang, MD, PhD, Taipai, Taiwan Li Wang, MD, PhD, Houston, Texas Yan Wang, MD, PhD, Tianjin, China Kai Wang, Beijing, China Kendrick M. Wang, MD, Kingwood, Texas George Waring IV, MD, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina Mitchell P. Weikert, MD, Houston, Texas Jascha Wendelstein, MD, Linz Austria Martin Wenzel, MD, Trier, Germany Lilian Werner, MD, PhD, Salt Lake City, Utah Caroline Wilson, MD, Hiawatha, Iowa M. Edward Wilson, MD, Charleston, South Carolina Robert Wisse, MD PhD, Utrecht, the Netherlands Fasika A. Woreta, MD, Baltimore, Maryland Shin Yamane, MD, PhD, Yokohama, Japan Kazuya Yamashita, MD, PhD, Kanagawa, Japan Hady Yazbeck, MD, Portland, Oregon Tun Kuan Yeo, FRCOphth, Singapore Ronald Yeoh, FRCS, FRCOphth, Singapore Norm Zabriskie, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah Jaime Zacharias, MD, Santiago, Chile Diego Zamora-de la Cruz, MD, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico Guangbin Zhang, MD, Xiamen, China Hongyuan Zhang, PhD, Cleveland, Ohio Yune Zhao, MD, Wenzhou, China Dagny Zhu, MD, Rowland Heights, California Xiangjia Zhu, MD, Shanghai, China Martin S. Zinkernagel, MD, PhD, Bern, Switzerland

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