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Giuseppe Lo Giudice obtained an MD from the University of Messina, Italy. He completed his ophthalmological residency at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padua, Italy, after residency training. He was a fellow in the Ophthalmology Department of the Gironcoli Ophthalmic Center from 2002 to 2004. He was an assistant in ophthalmology at Conegliano Hospital Conegliano, Treviso, Italy from 2004 to 2007. Since

2007, Dr. Lo Giudice has been a surgeon and vice-director at San Antonio Hospital, University of Padua. His major fields of interest are treatments for retinal diseases (proliferative retinopathies, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy) and vitreoretinal surgery. He has more than 25 years of experience in clinical research as well as in clinical trials and laboratory research. He performed more than 9000 anterior segment surgeries (cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery, corneal transplantation) in the last 5 years and more than 2000 vitreo-retinal surgeries for several vitreoretinal diseases (ocular trauma, complicated cataract surgery, retinal pucker, retinal detachment, and vitreoretinal proliferative disease) in the last 3 years.

Irene Gattazzo graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Padua, Italy, in 2016. She then specialized in ophthalmology at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2022. During her training, she showed interest in different fields of ophthalmology and participated in several research projects, with a predilection for retinal imaging.
