Dr. András M. Komáromy is a clinician scientist in the Department of Clinical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in Philadelphia; joining as a post-doctoral fellow in 2003 and becoming an Assistant Professor in 2004. He received his veterinary degree from the University of Zurich in Switzerland, was an intern in small animal medicine and surgery at the Michigan State University, and obtained his PhD and veterinary ophthalmology training at the University of Florida. Dr. Komáromy is a board-certified veterinary ophthalmologist. As a clinician, he has a strong interest in comparative ophthalmology, diagnosing and treating eye diseases in various animal species. Dr. Komáromy is member and intermittent chief of the Ophthalmology Service at the Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also directs the veterinary ophthalmology residency program. Before receiving his first research grant from the National Eye Institute / National Institutes of Health (NIH/NEI) in 2009, he was enrolled in the Penn Vision Clinical Scientist Program at the Scheie Eye Institute; the first and only veterinarian to date going through this program designed for human ophthalmologists. His primary research and clinical interests are determining the molecular causes of inherited retinal diseases in the dog and developing treatment approaches to ameliorate sight degeneration. Dr. Komáromy has published over 50 scientific articles and book chapters, and he has been an invited speaker at several national and international conferences.