Pasquale Aragona is a Full Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Messina, Italy, where is also the Head of the Eye Clinic, the Director of the School of Specialization in Ophthalmology, the Head of the Regional Excellence Centres for Ocular Surface Diseases and Rare diseases in Ophthalmology. He obtained an MD degree at the University of Messina in 1985 and obtained specializations in Ophthalmology (1989) and Clinical Pharmacology (1994). After that, he received his Ph.D. at the University of Padua, Italy, and was attached in 1987 and 1991 to the Moorfields Eye Hospital of London. He is an active board member of several scientific national and international societies, including the European Dry Eye Society (EuDES), and participated in two Tear Film and Ocular Surface (TFOS) Workshops: the MGD (2011) and the Dry Eye Workshop II (DEWS II). He is the recipient of several national and international prizes, including the prestigious Amber-Gold Medal of Polish Cornea Congress.