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Kamel Guentri, MD is the VOIC Research Analyst and provides expert grading of both retinal and pediatric photoscreening images. A graduate of Constantine University in Algeria where he earned his Doctor of Medicine degree, Dr. Guentri took a dermato-venereology residency at the University of Rene Descartes in Paris, France where he subsequently established a practice of dermatology. He obtained additional training in hematology and oncology at Vanderbilt. He and his wife Dajla, also a physician, have two children (Ibtihelle and Heythem) and reside in Bellevue, Tennessee.

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	Lawrence M. Merin, RBP, FIMI, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the VOIC, graduated from Wayne State University. He attained certification as a Registered Biological Photographer (by examination) in 1980, is the only American to have been awarded Fellowship in the Institute of Medical Illustrators (London), and has also been named Fellow of the Ophthalmic Photographers’ Society (serving as President from 1996-2000) and the BioCommunications Association. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Honor Award and was accorded Honorary Partnership in the European Union’s TOSCA program of diabetic retinopathy screening. Mr. Merin has studied screening program design at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, and has been working in the field of diabetic retinopathy imaging for 30 years.

Kamel Guentri, MD is the VOIC Research Analyst and provides expert grading of both retinal and pediatric photoscreening images. A graduate of Constantine University in Algeria where he earned his Doctor of Medicine degree, Dr. Guentri took a dermato-venereology residency at the University of Rene Descartes in Paris, France where he subsequently established a practice of dermatology. He obtained additional training in hematology and oncology at Vanderbilt. He and his wife Dajla, also a physician, have two children (Ibtihelle and Heythem) and reside in Bellevue, Tennessee.


Cynthia Recchia, MD is a fellowship-trained vitreoretinal specialist. She received her medical degree from the Faculdade de Medicina de Teresópolis, in Brazil, where she subsequently did a residency in ophthalmology. Following a clinical retina fellowship at the Centro de Retina e Vítreo in Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Recchia then spent a year studying ocular oncology at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, and another year and a half studying medical retina and macular diseases at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in New York and serving as a senior reader for the Digital Angiography Reading Center. Dr. Recchia has co-authored over 15 peer-reviewed articles and over 25 abstracts.

		Richard Robinson, BS graduated from Austin Peay State College in Clarksville, Tennessee. Mr. Robinson has been a member of the Vanderbilt staff since 1963 and has participated in research in the areas of microbiology, immunology, radiology and ophthalmology. His bibliography includes 35 publications and 50 abstracts accepted by ARVO. From his 8th floor office in the Vanderbilt Eye Center, Mr. Robinson provides primary grading and quality assurance of pediatric photoscreening images from the Tennessee Lions Outreach Program and similar programs in other states.