Maria Vittoria Cicinelli

Maria Vittoria Cicinelli is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy, and a clinician-scientist at IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele. She completed her ophthalmology residency at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele and a fellowship in medical retina and uveitis at Northwestern University, Chicago. Her clinical and research work focuses on medical retina, uveitis and multimodal retinal imaging, with an emphasis on imaging biomarkers and disease phenotyping. She is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Ophthalmology International and editor of the book Ultra Widefield Imaging of the Retina (Elsevier, 2025). Her awards include the ICO-Allergan Fellowship (2020), a Macula Society Research Grant (2023) and the American Academy of Ophthalmology Secretariat Award (2023), and she gave the Ophthalmologica Award Lecture at EURETINA 2025 in Paris. She is involved in the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, EURETINA and the Macula Society.