Piergiorgio Neri, BMedSc, MD (Hons), PhD, FEBOphth graduated from the University of Ancona Medical School in 2000. He obtained a specialist diploma in ophthalmology at the University of Ancona in 2004 and his PhD in neuroscience in 2007.

Dr Neri was Honorary Research Fellow in Uveitis at the Eye Department, University of Aberdeen, scientist visitor at the University of Tübingen and Visiting Professor at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. In 2010 he was named Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Polytechnic University of Marche-Ancona.

Dr Neri was honorary clinical ocular immunology consultant and medical retina consultant at the Ospedali Riuniti “Umberto I-GM Lancisi-G Salesi” of Ancona. He acted as director of the Ocular Immunology Service at the Ospedali Riuniti “Umberto I-GM Lancisi-G Salesi” of Ancona since 2007. In 2018, Dr Neri has joined Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi as Clinical Associate for Medical Retina and Uveitis and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University-Cleveland Ohio-USA as Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology.