He is the Board Member of European Ophthalmological Society SOE, Board Member of Acta Ophthalmologica, President of the Finnish Association of Eye Research, the Member of Science Committee of the University of Tampere, the former President of the Finnish Ophthalmological Society and the Medical Association of Tampere. Prof. Uusitalo is the author of more than 350 publications including 237 peer-reviewed original scientific articles and the Editor of Handbook of Ophthalmology 2018.