Tarek Shaarawy

Tarek M. Shaarawy is the Head of the Glaucoma unit and the Glaucoma surgery research group at the University of Geneva Hospitals. He obtained both his medical Bachelor and Masters Degree in ophthalmology from the University of Cairo, and his Doctorate in Medicine degree from the University of Lausanne. He trained in ophthalmology at the Cairo Research Institute of Ophthalmology and completed two glaucoma fellowships at the Universities of Lausanne and Basel. He is currently the president of the International Society of Glaucoma surgery as well as the associate vice president of the World Glaucoma Association.

His main research interests are surgical techniques of Glaucoma surgery, normal pressure glaucoma, and glaucoma patterns of practice in developed and developing countries. He is the author and editor of six textbooks on Glaucoma, and more than 100 book chapters and publications in peer reviewed journals. He serves as the editor in chief of the journal of current glaucoma practice and is a member of the editorial board of many ophthalmology journals, including the International Journal of Ophthalmology, Journal of Glaucoma, Canadian Journal of ophthalmology, Middle East African Journal of ophthalmology, Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology, among others.

Tarek Shaarawy is a founding member of the Baladi foundation providing glaucoma care in the south of Egypt. He is also active in a number of NGOs dealing with the global prevention of blindness.