Prof. Ilknur Tugal-Tutkun is a senior consultant at the Uveitis Service of Istanbul Bayrampaşa Eye Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. She had served as the Director of the Uveitis Service at the Department of Ophthalmology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine between 2007 and 2020. She received an MD from Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1984 and completed a residency in ophthalmology at the same institution in 1991. She completed fellowship training at the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Service, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary in 1994-1995. She is the Vice President of the International Uveitis Study Group, the Secretary of the International Society for Behcet’s Disease, and a member of the International Ocular Inflammation Society and American Uveitis Society. She has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and she is an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ocular Immunology and Inflammation.