Director Ophthalmic Pathology, Ophthalmology
School of Medicine

Recall Clinical Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Director of Ophthalmic Pathology, Ophthalmology
School of Medicine

Pathogenesis of Optic nerve injury in Glaucoma; complex glaucoma management

11 named lectures
50 visiting professorships; 211 Peer Reviewed Publications
American Board of Ophthalmology Associate Examiner 1978-1998
Director American Board of Ophthalmology 1999-2006
President American Board of Ophthalmology 2006
American Board of Anatomic Pathology 1978
Editor-in-Chief Ophthalmology 1995-2003
Board of Trustees American Academy of Ophthalmology 1995-2003
President Glaucoma Research Society 1998-2003

Honors and Awards:

MD Cum Laude, 1964
Alpha Omega Alpha, 1964

Senior Resident Teaching Award
Ophthalmology
University of Southern California
1990 – 1993

Senior Resident Teaching Award
Ophthalmology
University of Southern California
1995 – 1998

Distinguished Achievement Award
Doheny – USC Professional Association
Distinguished Achievement Award
June 18, 2005

Award for Excellence in Resident Training
University of Southern California
Ophthalmology
1995

American Board of Ophthalmology
ABO certified 1975, recertified 2006
Associate Examiner, 1978 – 1998
Board of Directors
January 1999 –2006
Vice Chair 2005
Chairman of Board 2006

American Board of Pathology
Certified in Amatomic Pathology 1978

American Ophthalmological Society
Elected Member
1986-present
Appointed member AOS Thesis Committee
December 07 – June 09

Glaucoma Research Society
(formerly the Organizing Committee of the Glaucoma Society of the International Congress of Ophthalmology)
Elected Member 1986 – Present
Executive Committee
1990 – Present
President
6/98 - 4/2003

American Academy of Ophthalmology
Elected Fellow 1976 - present
Appointed member
Instruction Advisory Committee
American Academy of Ophthalmology
1982 – 1983

Appointed Member, Glaucoma Panel
Quality of Care Committee
American Academy of Ophthalmology
April 1988 - 1992

Chair, Instruction Advisory Committee
American Academy of Ophthalmology
1983 – 1985
Honor Award
American Academy of Ophthalmology
1986

Chair, Skiills Transfer Committee
Associate Secretary for Skills Transfer
American Academy of Ophthalmology
January 1986 - December 1991

Appointed Chair, ANSI Z-80
American Academy Sub-Committee on
Glacoma Drainage Implants
American National Standards Institute
1990 – 1997

Senior Honor Award
American Academy of Ophthalmology
1997
Appointed Editor-in-Chief
Ophthalmology
January 1995 – December 2002
Secretariat Award 2002
Member Board of Trustees
American Academy of Ophthalmology 1995-2002
Lifetime Achievment Award, June 2007
Secretariat Award, (Annual Meeting) 2008

Appointed member Ophthalmic Technology Assessment Committee
2006 - 2009

American Glaucoma Society (charter member)
1987-present
Elected Treasurer January 1992 - December 1996

Listed In Best Doctors in America 1995 -2010
Listed in Castle Connolly Top Doctors in America 2001-2010
Listed in Guide to America’s Top Ophthalmologists 2006-2010 (Consumer’s Research Council of America)
Listed in Cambride Who’s Who 2009 - 2010
Listed in Super Docs of Southern California, 2008-2010
Listed in Orange Coast Magazine as an “Orange County Physician of Excellence”, January 2010

Ronald Lowe Medal
Australian New Zealand Glaucoma Interest Group (ANZIG)
Sydney, Australia, February 1999

Resident teaching award
2008-2009
University of California Irvine

B.S. Biology Reed College Portland, OR 1962, M.D. Cum Laude University of Oregon in 1964. Rotating Internship San Diego Naval Hospital 1964; USN Aviation Medicine, Pensacola, Florida 1966. USN Station Hospital Taipei, Taiwan 1966-68. San Point NAS, Seattle 1969-70. General and Neuropathology 1969-70 University of Washington (UW) Seattle. Ophthalmology UW, 1970-73. Ophthalmic Pathology Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) Washington, D.C. 1973-75. Ophthalmology faculty at UW 1975-6. Board Certified Ophthalmology 1975 and Anatomic Pathology in 1978. Doheny Eye Institute USC Director of Laboratories 1976-2006. American Academy of Ophthalmology 1976-present. AAO Lifetime Achievement Award 2007. Shaffer-UCSF glaucoma fellowship 1980-81. Charter member American Glaucoma Society 1987. Glaucoma Chief USC 1981-2005. Elected American Ophthalmological Society 1986, MS in Biomedical and Clinical Research USC 2006. ABO examiner 1978-98, ABO Director 1999-2006. Chair ABO 2006. International Glaucoma Research Society 1986, President GRS 1998-2006. Glaucoma Chief Scripps Clinic, San Diego 1987-88. UCI Glaucoma Director 2006-2012. Elected Verhoeff-Zimmerman Ophthalmic Pathology Society 2014. 12 Named lectures, 53 visiting Professorships, Peer-reviewed publications 215. Co-author 18 published symposia, 132 abstracts, 37 editorials, 30 text chapters, 8 manuals. Majn research Pathogenesis of Optic Nerve Injury in glaucoma. Editor-in-Chief AAO Journal Ophthalmology 1995-2003. Recipient of teaching wards at USC and UCI. Outstanding Physician Award UCI 2011. Retired from Gavin Herbert Eye Institute faculty & Laboratory Medicine at UCI June 30, 2020 Reappointed as recall Professor for Teaching UCI March 2021.

211 Peer Review Publications

211 peer reviewed articles
18 symposia
125 abstracts
35 editorials
35 chapters in textbooks & manuals

American Academy of Opthalmology

American Ophthalmological Society

American Glaucoma Society

Glaucoma Research Society

Verhoeff-Zimmerman Eye Path Soc.,

Medical Corps
USN 1964—1969

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Last updated
11/27/2021