Dimitri Azar

Azar received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.^[3] Azar practiced at the Wilmer Eye Institute at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Medicine,^[5] and completed his fellowship and residency training at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School,^[6] where he was a tenured professor of ophthalmology (2003–2006) and senior scientist at the Schepens Eye Research Institute.^[7]

Azar also holds an honorary master's degree from Harvard, as well as an Executive Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.^[3]

After serving as tenured professor at Harvard Medical School, Azar joined UIC as a professor of ophthalmology, bioengineering and pharmacology,^[3] where he also served as head of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and B.A. Field Endowed Chair of Ophthalmologic Research.^[7] He has published more than 500 scientific articles, chapters and patents with over 20,000 citations. He is a member of the American Ophthalmological Society,^[8] former president of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society,^[3][9] president-elect of the Chicago Medical Society, and former Trustee of the Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).^[10][3]

Azar is the CEO of Lacristat, a San Jose headquartered ophthalmology biotech company and serves as Senior Advisor at Verily. Until recently, he was the founder and chief executive officer of Twenty Twenty Therapeutics, a joint venture between Verily Life Sciences and Santen.^[1][2]

He was a non-executive member of Novartis' Board of Directors from 2012 until 2019.^[3][11] He was also a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee and the Research & Development Committee.

Azar was a senior director of ophthalmological innovation at Verily, where ophthalmological projects include the development of smart contact lenses, including lenses designed to assist those with presbyopia and an intraocular lens.^[12][13][14] He was on the board of Verb Surgical Inc.^[15] and sits on the board of the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society in the US.^[16] He also sits on the board of Jellisee and the Cure Blindness Project (aka, Himalayan Cataract Project).

• Azar DT, Steinert R., Stark WJ, editors. Excimer Laser Therapy: Phototherapeutic Keratectomy Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins; 1997 ISBN 978-0683303469
• Azar DT. Refractive Surgery. Stamford, CT: Appleton & Lange-Simon and Schuster; 1997 ISBN 978-0323035996
• Difficult and Complicated Cases in Refractive Surgery, Jorge L. Alió and Dimitri T. Azar, Springer, 2015 ISBN 978-3642552373
• Pharmacologic Therapy of Ocular Disease (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology), Scott M. Whitcup and Dimitri T. Azar, Springer 2017 ISBN 978-3319582887
• Albert DM, Jakobiec FA; (Azar DT, and Gragoudas ES associate editors to FAJ).  Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology Second Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders; 1999. ISBN 978-0721675008
• Jakobiec FA, Azar DT, editors. Pediatric Ophthalmology; International Ophthalmology Clinics; Winter 1992.  ISBN 978-0316456524
• Azar DT, editor.  (Stark WJ, Azar NF, Pineda R, Yoo SH, associate editors).  Intraocular Lenses in Cataract and Refractive Surgery.  Philadelphia PA; Saunders; May 2001. ISBN 9780721686998
• Melki SA, Azar DT, editors.  101 Pearls in Refractive, Cataract, and Corneal Surgery.  Thorofare, NJ: Slack; June 2001. ISBN 978-1-55642-684-1
• Azar DT, Koch DD, editors.  LASIK: Fundamentals, Surgical Techniques, and Complications.  New York, NY: Marcel Dekker; November 2002.  ISBN 978-0824745776
• Tsubota K, Boxer-Wachler B, Azar DT, Koch DD, editors.  Hyperopia and Presbyopia.  New York, NY: Marcel Dekker; 2003.  ISBN 978-0824741075
• Foster CS, Azar DT, Dohlman CH, editors.  Smolin and Thoft's The Cornea: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Practice, 4th Edition. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2005.  ISBN 978-0781742061
• Azar DT, Camellin M, Yee R, editors.  LASEK, PRK, and Excimer Laser Stromal Surface Ablation.  New York, NY: Marcel Dekker; 2005.  ISBN 978-0824754341
• Melki SA, Azar DT, editors.  101 Pearls in Refractive, Cataract, and Corneal Surgery, 2nd Edition. Thorofare, NJ: Slack; 2006. ISBN 978-1556426841
• Azar DT, editor. (Gatinel D, Hoang-Xuan T, associate editors).  Refractive Surgery, 2nd Edition.  St. Louis, MO: Elsevier-Mosby, 2007. ISBN 978-0323035996
• Albert DM, Miller JW, editors, Azar DT, Blodi BA, associate editors.  Albert and Jakobiec's Principles and Practice in Ophthalmology, 3rd Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier, 2008. ISBN 978-1437721119
• Alio JL, Azar DT editors. Management of Complications in Refractive Surgery. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. ISBN 978-3540375838
• Azar DT, editor; BCSC 3. Clinical Optics, American Academy of Ophthalmology. San Francisco, CA; 2012. ISBN 978-1615255573
• Alio JL, Azar DT, Abbouda A, Asward E, editors. Difficult and Complicated Cases in Refractive Surgery. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 ISBN 978-3642552373
• Azar DT, Rosen E. Yanoff and Duke's Cataract and Refractive Surgery e-book e-book searchable. ISBN 978-0323374941
• Whitcup S, Azar DT, editors. Pharmacologic Therapy of Ocular Disease. Springer Heidelberg, 2017 ISBN 978-3-319-58290-0
• Alio JL, Azar DT editors. Management of Complications in Refractive Surgery. Second Edition. Springer-verlap Berlin Heidelberg, 2018 ISBN 978-3-319-60561-6
• Azar DT, editor.  Refractive Surgery, 3rd Edition.  St. Louis, MO: Elsevier-Mosby, 2019. ISBN 978-0323547697
• Azar DT, Alio JL, Hallak J, Cortina SM, editors. Surgical management of Astigmatism, Jaypee Publishing, 2020 ISBN 978-9389188851
• Albert DM, Miller JW, Azar DT, Young LH, editors, Blodi BA, associate editors. Albert and Jakobiec's Principles and Practice in Ophthalmology, 4th Edition. Philadelphia, PA: by Springer Verlag. 2022 ISBN 9783030426347