2010 Basic Science Course in Ophthalmology Guest Lecturers
Dr. Tony Adamis, an Adjunct Professor at UIC is recognized as one of the best clinician scientists in the United States, with his research focusing on the mechanisms of ocular vascular disease and ocular drug delivery. Perhaps best known for his co-discovery of the role of VEGF in ocular disease, his work has provided additional insight into diabetic retinopathy, neovascularization, and angiogenesis. Indeed, he has a keen ability to conduct translational research in the area of ocular angiogenesis with significant clinical applications.
Professor Alan C. Bird is at Department of Clinical Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, London. Professor Bird's research focuses on understanding the causes of inherited retinal diseases such as RP and AMD as well as developing potential new treatments for them. He helped to develop the technique to document autofluorescence in the RPE Professor Bird also documented the relatively benign nature of Sickle cell retinopathy thus obviating the need for prophylaxis.
Dr. Donald J. D'Amico Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College and Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, is an internationally recognized leader in the field of vitreoretinal surgery. He recently assumed the Chair at Weill Cornell after his longstanding positions at Harvard Medical School as Professor of Ophthalmology, and as Associate Chief of Ophthalmology and Director of the Diabetic Unit at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Joseph L. Demer, M.D., Ph.D., is the Leonard Apt Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology, Director of the Ocular Motility Clinical Laboratory and Chief, Comprehensive Ophthalmology Division at the Jules Stein Eye Institute. He is the 2003 Recipient of the Friedenwald Award. His biography lists 170 publications in refereed journals and 29 book chapters. He has received many awards and honors and has been principal investigator on National Eye Institute research grants without interruption for the past 20 years. His scientific contributions range from pivotal studies on vestibulo-ocular interaction, optokinetic nystagmus, and visual adaptation to spectacle magnifiers in patients with low vision. His most recent studies of orbital mechanics with magnetic resonance imaging, especially his discovery, in collaboration with Dr. Joel Miller, of muscle pulleys for the rectus muscles and their possible functional significance in normal persons and in patients with strabismus, have received world-wide attention from his peers.
Dr. JP. Dunn, the Eugene de Juan, M.D. Professor of Ophthalmology is the as residency program director and chair of the Residency Education Committee. He maintains an active clinical and surgical practice, and has earned numerous teaching awards during his tenure. Dr. Dunn is the author or co-author of over 125 publications in the areas of immunologically-mediated ocular disease and the ocular complications of AIDS, and he has lectured in the United States and abroad on topics ranging from cataract surgery in patients with uveitis to residency education in Europe and South America.
Dr. Ralph C. Eagle, Jr., is Noel T. and Sara L. Simmonds Professor of Pathology at Wills Eye Hospital and Professor of Ophthalmology at Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Engle, MD, is an Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Inst, Professor at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Associate in Neurology and Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston. She received a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University. She is a recipient of the Sidney Carter Award in Child Neurology from the American Academy of Neurology and the E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics from the Society for Pediatric Research.
Dr. David Guyton is Krieger Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Director of the Krieger Children's EyeCenter at the Wilmer Eye Institute. He is internationally known for his contributions, inventions, and teaching in the fields of ophthalmic optics, clinical refraction, potential acuity testing, and ocular motility. His referral clinical practice in strabismus is heavily surgical, both pediatric and adult, with emphasis on re-operations and cyclovertical surgery, using adjustable sutures. Dr. Guyton is currently developing automated instruments for the vision screening of infants and children. Dr. Guyton was the ARVO president in 1995.
Dr. Graham Holder is Director of Department of Electrophysiology, and Consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. His department routinely examines more than 1,500 patients a year. He is also an Honorary Consultant at Kings College Hospital, London.
Dr. Lee M. Jampol has been Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University since 1983. Dr. Jampol's clinical practice and research have been largely in the area of vitreoretinal disease. He is specifically interested in inflammatory diseases of the retina, infection of the retina, age-related macula degeneration, and retinal manifestation of systemic diseases. Dr. Jampol has played a major role in supervising clinical trails, particularly in the area of age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Jampol was a Trustee and Vice-President of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and is a past president of the Macula Society.
Dr. Jay H. Krachmer is Professor and Chair and holder of the Mackall-Scheie Research Chair in Ophthalmology He specializes in clinical teaching and research aspects of cornea and external disease of the eye.
Dr. Douglas Lazzaro is the ophthalmologist-in-chief of Downstate Medical Center, State U of NY and a leader in cornea research.
Dr. Andrew G. Lee is a Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at U of Iowa. He is a Neuro-ophthalmologist and has been with the University of Iowa since February of 2000. Dr. Lee came to the University of Iowa from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He was valedictorian at Charleston Catholic High School in Charleston, West Virginia (1981) and graduated with distinction with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. (1985) He was an Alpha Omega Alpha Graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine (MD, 1989). Dr. Lee did his transitional Internship at Roanoke Memorial Hospital, affiliated with the University of Virginia (89-90), and his Ophthalmology Residency at Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (90-93, Ophthalmology Chief resident, 92-93). He did a Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellowship at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, and was a Fight for Sight (Herbert Tenzer Memorial) Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Neuropathology.
Dr. John Loewenstein is Associate Chief of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School. He is an international authority on medical imaging.
Dr. NARESH MANDAVA, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and is a specialist in the medical and surgical management of retinal diseases such as macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and retinal detachment. The retinal service participates in several national clinical trials including treatments for macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and retinal detachment. The University of Colorado has the most up-to-date specialized equipment for retinal surgery. His research interests include antiangiogenesis in macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, complex retinal detachment and ocular trauma, the NIH and private industry fund this research.
Dr. Irene Maumenee was educated in Europe and the USA and came to Johns Hopkins in 1969. In 1972 she established the Johns Hopkins Center for Hereditary Eye Disease, a facility where patients with individually rare genetic eye diseases could obtain clinical evaluation, prognostic assessment and management. Sophisticated tests performed in Dr. Maumenee's laboratory include those for diseases such as oculocutaneous albinism, retinitis pigmentosa and other hereditary retinal dystrophies, retinoblastoma, colobomatous malformations, anterior segment malformations, storage diseases, familial retinal detachments (including Norrie disease), congenital cataracts, dislocated lenses and congenital glaucoma. Dr. Maumenee has appointments in the Departments of Medicine (Division of Medical Genetics) and Pediatrics in addition to the Department of Ophthalmology. In 1991 she was appointed Ort Professor of Ophthalmology. She is board certified in Ophthalmology and in Medical Genetics. She has won several awards and has given numerous named and invited lectures. Dr. Maumenee is the Co- Founder and President of the International Society for Genetic Eye Diseases and is the President of the Ocular Genetics Study Club. She is the author of many scientific articles and has edited several books on the genetics of eye diseases. Her clinical and research interests are the nosology and management of hereditary ocular diseases, population genetics, computer application to genetic analysis and molecular genetics.
Dr. Tom Missotten is a uveitis consultant at Rotterdam Eye Hospital. His training at the KULeuven and AP-HP Paris enabled him to further specialized cytokine gene research with Professor Sue Lightman.
Mr. Anthony Thomas Moore is Sir Stewart Duke-Elder Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of Division of Inherited Eye Disease Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL, London and Honorary Consultant OphthalmicSurgeonMoorfields Eye Hospital, London and Hospital for Children Great Ormond Street, London and Honorary Professor of Ophthalmology, Institute of Child Health, UCL, London. His main research interests are in genetic eye disease and he has developed an internationally competitive research program in the area of inherited cataract and inherited retinal dystrophies. His team has recently been awarded a grant of £950,000 by the Department of Health to develop gene therapy for childhood retinal dystrophies in UK.
Dr. Robert Nussenblatt, is the director of immunology at NEI, NIH and has changed the way how uveitis is practice in US and was the ARVO president in 1998.
Dr. Richard B. Rosen, is director of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (NYEE) Advanced Retinal Imaging Center.
Dr. Oliver Sacks, is a professor of neurology at Columbia University, and is the author of several bestselling books, including several collections of case studies of people with neurological disorders. His 1973 book Awakenings was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film of the same name in 1990 starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.
Dr. George Spaeth, Louis J. Esposito Research Professor and Director, William & Anna Goldberg GlaucomaService Wills Eye Hospital, is the author of 10 medical textbooks and more than 250 articles in medical journals and winner of countless medical awards.
Elias Traboulsi, MD, is Head of the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Director of the Center for Genetic Eye Diseases at Cleveland Clinic's Cole Eye Institute. He is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and Director of the Ophthalmology Residency Program at Cleveland Clinic. He is also Chairman of the Department of Graduate Medical Education at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Traboulsi is the Executive Vie-President of the International Society for Genetic Eye Disease and Retinoblastoma and Editor-In-Chief of Ophthalmic Genetics. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Michael Woodruff at UCLA is an international authority on photoreceptor physiology.
Marco Zarbin, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chair, Institute ofOphthalmology and Visual Science, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School.Professor of Neurosciences, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School. Chief,Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, Newark, New Jersey.
