We are proud to be engaged in many international collaborations. Please see the list below (sorted by country) for more information.
The Sydney Eye Hospital is a quaternary referral unit for eye diseases that receives patients from across the state of New South Wales in Australia.
Prof Stephanie Watson, the chief investigator for SCORPIO in Australia, is a corneal specialist and the head of the Corneal Research Group at the University of Sydney, Save Sight Institute, and the Head of the Corneal Unit at the Sydney Eye Hospital.
The health research center in Nouna opened in 1992 and has since expanded to include more than forty researchers. Its competence is recognized throughout Burkina and beyond. Prior to SCORPIO, the center has collaborated closely with the University of California in San Francisco on infant mortality and severe acute malnutrition projects. It also collaborates with other European research centers on clinical, environmental and social research projects.
The Laboratorio de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Oculares y Sistémicas (Laboratory of Ocular and Systemic Autoimmune Diseases) is located at the University of Chile in Santiago, Chile. Here, there is a special focus on the development of biomarkers and translational research in Ophthalmology. This research lab is led by clinician Dr. Cristhian A. Urzua, MD and includes a multidisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians, graduate/undergraduate students, fellows and collaborators from Chile and overseas. Areas of interest include Ocular Immunology, Retina and Uveitis, as well as ocular surgery and R&D.
The Saarland University Medical Center (Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes UKS) is a University Hospital based in Homburg/Saar, Saarland, Germany. The Department of Ophthalmology (Chairman: Prof. Dr. med. Berthold Seitz ML) is a large tertiary cornea center in Germany with more than 670 keratoplasties per year, but also provides care in all subspecialties for patients from Germany, France, and Luxemburg. The department includes the LIONS Eye Bank Saar-Lor-Lux; Trier/Westpfalz, one of the most modern eye banks in Europe, and the Integrative Clinical Study Center (IKSZ) for clinical research. We are proud to be part of the capriCORN project!
The Aravind Eye Hospital was founded by Dr. Venkataswamy with a mission to "eliminate needless blindness". In 1976 he helped create the GOVEL Trust, under which all Aravind Eye Hospitals were launched. Aravind started as a 11-bed hospital and has now evolved into one of the largest facilities in the world for eye care.
The Ophthalmology department at the Rabin Medical Center (RMC), Petah Tikva, Israel is affiliated with the Tel-Aviv University. Our team is very excited to take part in this worldwide innovative research designed to apply new technologies to increase the diagnosis rate of seasonal conjunctivitis outbreaks.
Our Malawi team members are active contributors to CapriCORN. The Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach (BICO) is the coordination center for this study.
The B. P. Koirala Lion’s Center for Ophthalmic Studies (BPKLCOS), Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Tribhuvan University is the first pioneer government medical school in Nepal and is situated in the capital city of Kathmandu. Since its establishment in 1996, the main mission of BPKLCOS is Education, Service & Research.
The PNSO was created in 1987 with the primary objective of reducing the prevalence of preventable blindness in Niger. The PNSO organizes treatment for people living in trachoma endemic areas and performs trichiasis surgeries throughout the country. The PNSO has partnered with UCSF for many years and has collaborated on trachoma research projects with Proctor since 2008.
Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) manages more than 380,000 patient visits and over 41,000 surgeries annually. SNEC is entrenching its position as an Asian leader in eye care delivery, research and education.
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital is one of two large teaching hospitals in Johannesburg, South Africa. Associated with the University of the Witwatersrand, tertiary care is provided to the Gauteng region and neighboring provinces. The ophthalmology unit provides care in all sub-specialty disciplines. Current areas of research include ocular surface squamous neoplasia, genetics in glaucoma and botox for strabismus. We are excited about our collaboration with the team UCSF.
The Pallas Kliniken was founded in Olten, Switzerland nearly 30 years ago. Since then, the clinic has expanded within German-speaking Switzerland to provide comprehensive eye care in all sub-disciplines across 17 locations.
Founded in 1958 and administered by the Veterans Affairs Council, the Taipei Veterans General Hospital is a tertiary referral teaching hospital. Here, first-class care is provided to Taipei City and the surrounding areas. Additionally, this group is active in both basic and clinical research. A highlight of their basic research is the use of a dry eye mouse model to investigate the crosstalk between the immune system and nervous system in dry eye pathogenesis. Clinical research is broad ranging and includes meibomian gland dysfunction treatment to diagnosis and treatment of challenging corneal infections.
“The Department of Ophthalmology at Chulalongkorn University is one of the highly respected institutes in Thailand. Our mission is to provide the best ophthalmic care, together with optimizing academic training programs. Together, our team has developed high-quality research endeavors in several ophthalmic areas.
Phramongkutklao Hospital is a Thai Army hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. It is a 1200-bed hospital. It provides service to the general population of Bangkok and its surrounding metropolitan area.
Srinagarind Hospital, affiliated with Khon Kaen University, is of the biggest uveitis centers in the northeast of Thailand and receives many referred patients from every part of our country. We have to deal with a lot of ocular inflammation issues and continue to work on many projects in order to develop our practice. We are honored to be part of the SCORPIO team.
The team at the University California, Berkeley School of Optometry is excited to be part of the worldwide research effort using genomic technology to learn more about Adenoviral and other infectious conjunctivitis. Our team consists of our hard-working optometry residents who are overseen by clinical faculty. We hope one day to see the results and discuss findings with the rest of the SCORPIO teams across the world.
The Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) is an academic institution located in New York City (NYC), USA. It provides patients with ophthalmic care in all subspecialties in the metropolitan area of NYC and surrounding states, including the ambulatory care network (ACN) clinic that serves the local community of Washington Heights. The cornea division involves a team of faculty members, clinical and research fellows, and coordinators, who all seek contributions to scientific knowledge for the best care of their patients. We are honored to be part of the capriCORN team!
EyeSight Hawaii is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and specializes in corneal diseases and surgery, refractive surgery, cataract surgery, and dry eye treatments. Dr. Kristin Hirabayashi and Dr. John Olkowski are both on faculty for the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Hawaii's medical school. They treat numerous corneal ulcer patients and are excited to be collaborating with UCSF in this international study.
UCLA Stein Eye Institute is a vision-science campus dedicated to the preservation and restoration of vision through its global programs and innovative research, quality patient care, and multidisciplinary, integrative education, all with community outreach.
Casey Eye Institute (CEI) is part of the Oregon Health & Science University (OSHU) and is located in Portland, Oregon. CEI is an academic medical center providing exceptional eye care for adults and children in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. CEI treats eye conditions from the most straightforward to the most complex.
Pacific Vision Institute of Hawaii is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and offers exceptional, advanced eye care in a state of the art facility with a personalized touch. Led by Dr. Vivien Tham, a proud Proctor fellow, the team provides tertiary level ophthalmological care for the state of Hawaii and the Pacific region in the field of uveitis, cornea, external diseases and cataract-refractive surgery. We are so excited to be part of SCORPIO and honored to represent Hawaii in such a momentous, global research project.
The Shiley Eye Institute and Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology is located in La Jolla on UCSD's health campus and provides primary eye care for all conditions of the eye and surrounding structures, both routine and urgent. As the only academic eye institute in the region, we offer convenient patient referrals and state-of-the art education and training, as well as access to clinical trials and medical resources.
Cornea Associates of Texas is a 7-physician cornea subspecialty practice in North Texas with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth and Plano. Collectively, the physicians at Cornea Associates of Texas evaluate over 500 new corneal ulcer patients annually. In addition to treating infectious keratitis, all physicians at Cornea Associates of Texas specialize in the treatment of complex cataracts, corneal transplantation, ocular surface disease and refractive surgery.
Established over 30 years ago, Price Vision Group (Indianapolis, Indiana) is an internationally recognized center for the diagnosis, treatment, and care in the field of corneal and refractive surgery.
The Ministry of Health partnered with the health care team of Vanuatu to create their National Eye Centre. Here, a dedicated eye care team works tirelessly to help their nation fight against preventable blindness. Vanuatu was the first Pacific Island nation to eliminate trachoma.
Hai Yen Vision Research and Training Institute (Hai Yen Vision Institute - HYVI) is part of the Hai Yen Eye Care System, one of leading private centers in the field of Ophthalmology in Vietnam. HYVI includes a team of enthusiastic ophthalmologists, excellent epidemiologists, well-trained nurses and qualified optometrists, who all have experience in participating in domestic and international multi-center research projects.