Emerging and Personalised Approaches to Myopia Prevention and Management

Andrzej Grzybowski, M.D., Ph.D., MBA, MAE, EVERf is a Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland; Head of Institute for Research in Ophthalmology, Foundation for Ophthalmology Development, Poznan, Poland. Since 2016 he has organized annual Myopia sessions at American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) (together with prof. M. Repka) and major European congresses, including Euretina, SOE and EVER; since 2019, he has been a member of the Task Force for Myopia Control at the American Academy of Ophthalmology and is a co-author of the Academy’s 2020 recommendations on the prevention and treatment of myopia in children. He also co-authored the 2021 European Society of Ophthalmology guidelines on pediatric myopia management. He founded the European Myopia Network (https://myopianetwork.eu/) and since 2023 have organized online annual Myopia meetings (https://miopia.pl/conference-2023/en/).

Carla Lança is a researcher with expertise in vision science and myopia epidemiology. She was awarded with a PhD in Public Health from NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, for her research in visual function and reading performance in school children. She is currently a Research Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi. She is an educator with more than 10 years of experience as an Assistant Professor in Orthoptics and Visual Science at Lisbon School of Health Technology (ESTeSL), Portugal. She did a 3-year research fellowship in myopia at the Singapore Eye Research Institute. Her work focuses on population eye health and myopia prevention and control. She has collaborated on international research projects across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, with a focus on evidence-based myopia management and research that informs clinical practice and public-health policy. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and regularly serves as a reviewer and editor for international journals in ophthalmology, optometry and orthoptics. In addition to her research, she is involved in teaching and mentoring students and frequently contributes to international conferences as a speaker and session chair. Her work aims to support practical, evidence-based approaches to improving eye care and visual health.

Professor Seang-Mei SAW is the Distinguished Wallace Foulds Professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore; Co-Head, Myopia Department, at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) and Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her medical degree from NUS, and MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. Professor Saw’s work has been instrumental in building our current understanding of environmental and genetic influences, treatments and the burden of myopia. She has pioneered large-scale longitudinal myopia studies eg SCORM, STARS, GUSTO Myopia, and developed a fitness tracker FitSight for myopia prevention. Professor Saw has an H index of 145, with over 620 publications in international journals including the Lancet, Nature Genetics and JAMA. Professor Saw’s accolades include the prestigious leading national President’s Science Award, Singapore (Team) (2019), the Chew Sek Jin Memorial Lecture Award, International Myopia Conference (IMC 2013), the Top 100 Ophthalmologist Power List, The Ophthalmologist (2014, 2023) and the APAO Senior Achievement Award (2025).