Jeremiah Tao, MD, FACS is a professor and the chief of oculofacial plastic and orbital surgery at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He is editor of Ophthalmic Pearls, and oculoplastic surgery section editor of EyeNet, the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s (AAO) newsmagazine. Past positions have included scientific meetings program chair and executive committee for the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS). He was the oculofacial plastic surgery subspecialty liaison to the American Board of Ophthalmology for which he is currently an examiner and a member of the Oculoplastics Exam Development Committee. Dr. Tao has trained many oculofacial plastic surgeons practicing in the USA, as well as several around the world. He is the editor of the textbooks Plastic Surgery of the Lower Eyelids and Efficient Oculofacial Plastic Surgery. He has written over 100 peer reviewed papers and is a regularly invited speaker internationally. He has a US patent for an operating room fire prevention device.