Columbia Ophthalmology at the ARVO 2026 Annual Meeting
May 3–7, 2026
April 29, 2026
Columbia Ophthalmology is proud to be represented at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), taking place May 3–7 in Denver, Colorado. As the leading international forum for vision research, ARVO convenes scientists, clinicians, and trainees from around the world to share the latest advances and foster collaboration across the field.
Below is a list of Columbia Ophthalmology presenters and their accepted abstracts at ARVO 2026. We congratulate all participants and look forward to sharing their contributions with the global vision research community.
| Presenter | Date | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Revathi Balasubramanian (Faculty) | Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | 1:15 PM to 3:00 PM | Relationship between Cyp1b1 and Postn in trabecular meshwork development and pediatric glaucoma |
| Caroline Bao (MD Student) | Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | 1:15 PM to 3:00 PM | Impact of Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitor Therapy on Visual Acuity in Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients with Cystoid Macular Edema |
| Tayna Gebhardt (Hood-Tsamis Lab) | Monday, May 4, 2026 | 3pm - 4:45pm | An OCT-only Reading Center can reduce unnecessary referrals to a glaucoma clinic |
| Jed Golebka (Research Fellow) | Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | AI in retina II session | AI-Based Longitudinal Prediction of Spontaneous Vitreomacular Traction Release Using 3D Macular Cube OCT |
| Ahmet Hondur (Tezel Lab) | Monday, May 4, 2026 | 3pm - 4:45pm | Normative Thickness and Reflectivity of Segmented Retinal Layers in Foveal Optical Coherence Tomography Scans |
| Donald Hood (Faculty) | Thursday,May 7th, 2026 | 8-9:45am | When, and why, is an OCT scan too poor to correctly identify healthy eyes? |
| Maide Gozde Inam (Tezel Lab) | Wed, May 6, 2026 |10:15 AM to 12:00 PM | Structural, Functional, and Molecular Characterization of the Obesity-related Retinal Alterations in a Mouse Model |
| Onur İnam (Research Fellow) | Sunday, May 3, 2026 | 8:00 AM to 9:45 AM | A NOVEL MICRONEEDLE FOR SAFE ACESS TO SUBRETINAL SPACE FOR DRUG, GENE AND CELL DELIVERY |
| Nergis Khan (Resident) | Wed, May 6, 2026 |10:15 AM to 12:00 PM | NICOTINAMIDE SUPPLEMENTATION DOES NOT AFFECT THE REFLECTIVITY OF RETINAL LAYERS IN WHICH MITOCHONDRIA ARE KNOWN TO ACCUMULATE |
| Irmak Karaca (Retina Fellow) | Sunday, May 6, 2026 | 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM | Ex vivo evaluation of novel neuroprotective agents against ischemic injury in porcine retinal explants |
| Lisa Mayevski (Tezel Lab) | Monday,May 4, 2026 | 3:00 PM to 4:45 PM | LAYER-SPECIFIC CHOROIDAL ALTERATIONS REFLECT IMPAIRED CARDIAC FUNCTION ON OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING |
| Enrico Meduri (Retina Fellow) | Sunday, May 3, 2026 | 1:00 PM to 2:45 PM | Long-term Follow-up of Epiretinal Amniotic Membrane Grafting for Complex Retinal |
| Grace Mao (Hood-Tsamis Lab) | Thursday,May 7th, 2026 | 8-9:45am | Understanding the lower end of healthy OCT reports using a large real-world database, an electronic catalog, and artifact prototypes |
| Hilal Mir (Petrukhin Lab) | Sunday, May 3, 2026 | Mile High 1C | CMA-deficient Lamp2a knockout mouse as a model for testing dry AMD therapies |
| Neelam I. Shaaik (Hood-Tsamis Lab) | Monday,May 4, 2026 | 3:00 PM to 4:45 PM | A test of the assumptions underlying an archetypical arcuate method for detecting glaucomatous damage on an OCT report |
| Arin Stowman (MD Student) | Thursday,May 7th, 2026 | 8-9:45am | A Comparison of Linear vs. Quantile Regression in a Large Real-World Database |
| Anna Sun (Resident) | Monday, May 4, 2026 | 3pm - 4:45pm | A comparison of OCT reports from high myopes and emmetropes |
| Ronald Silverman (Faculty) | Sunday, May 3, 2026 | 9:30-10am; 1-1:30pm; 3:30-4pm | Mile High Foyer | 3D Ultrasound Imaging and Measurement of the Optic Nerve |
| Emmanouil Tsamis (Faculty) | Thursday,May 7th,2026 | 12:45pM to 1:00 pM - 11:45am to 1:30pm |Bluebird Ballroom 1A | A Novel Multivariate Trend-Based Metric for Glaucoma Progression: Adapting the H-T Index for Longitudinal Analysis |
| Gulgun Tezel (Faculty) | Wed, May 6, 2026 |10:15 AM to 12:00 PM | Microneedle Injections into the Optic Nerve Head for Delivery of Glaucoma Treatments |
| Tongalp Tezel (Faculty) | Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | 1:15 PM to 3:00 PM | SILICING HEMOGLOBIN EXPRESSION IN RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM RESULTS IN ACCELERATED PHOTORECEPTOR LOSS WITH AGING |
| Yijia Wang (Hood-Tsamis Lab) | Thursday,May 7th, 2026 | 8-9:45am | Baseline characteristics and test-retest variability of OCT and VF summary metrics for the Nicotinamideand Pyruvate in Open-Angle Glaucoma (NIC-OAG) clinical trial |
| Sandy Wu (Resident) | Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | 8:30 AM to 10:15 AM | Glaucoma and Risk of Incident Dementia in a Large Multicenter Electronic Health Record Cohort |
| Qun Zheng (Tezel Lab) | Wed, May 6, 2026 |10:15 AM to 12:00 PM | Culture of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Human Retinal Ganglion Cells on Amniotic Membrane for Patch Grafting Ganglion Cell Defects in Glaucoma |