- Fred Hollows
Frederick Cossom (Fred) Hollows, AC (April 9 1929 – February 10 1993) was an ophthalmologist who became known for his work in restoring eyesight for countless thousands of people in Australia and many other countries. It has been estimated that more than one million people in the world can see today because of initiatives instigated by Hollows.. The most notable example is The Fred Hollows Foundation. - Joseph Dello Russo
Joseph Dello Russo is an ophthalmologist who specializes in laser vision correction. He is currently the director of Dello Russo Laser Vision which operates clinics in Bergenfield, New Jersey, Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Dello Russo is best known as one of 10 surgeons selected by the FDA to perform the clinical stage III trials for Lasik starting in 1990, which eventually led to the FDA approval of Lasik in 1996. - Bashar Al-Assad
Dr Bashar al-Assad (') (born September 11, 1965) is the President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Regional Secretary of the Baath Party, and the son of former President Hafez al-Assad. - William Bates
William Horatio Bates (December 23, 1860 - July 10, 1931) was an American physician and ophthalmologist who developed what is now known as the Bates Method of natural vision improvement, a collection of techniques and exercises intended to improve vision. The efficacy of the method is questionable and his theory that the eye does not focus by changing the power of the lens, but rather by elongating the eyeball, through use of the extraocular oblique muscles, … - William Boothe
A native Texan, Dr. William Boothe received his undergraduate degree from Rice University with honors and completed his residency at Texas Tech University School of Ophthalmology. Dr. William Boothe attended the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, before serving an internship at Presbyterian Hospital in Internal Medicine. Dr. - Robert Maloney
Dr. Robert Maloney is an ophthalmologist and video personality. His present position is as director of the Maloney Vision Institute and Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine Dr. Robert Maloney is best known as the LASIK doctor on ABC's television show, "Extreme Makeover", and has also been featured as an industry spokesman for Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, NBC's Extra, … - Allvar Gullstrand
Allvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist. He was professor (1894–1927) successively of eye therapy and of optics at the University of Uppsala. He applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and of the refraction of light in the eye. For this work he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1911. - Harold Ridley
Sir (Nicholas) Harold (Lloyd) Ridley (10 July 1906, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire - 25 May 2001, Salisbury, Wiltshire) was an English ophthalmologist who pioneered artificial intraocular lens transplant surgery for cataract patients. He was educated at Charterhouse School before studying at Pembroke College, Cambridge from 1924-1927, and completed his medical training in 1930 at St Thomas' Hospital. - Jules Gonin
Jules Gonin (August 10, 1870 - May, 1935) was a Professor of Ophthalmology in Lausanne (Switzerland) who pioneered the procedure of ignipuncture, the first successful surgery for the treatment of retinal detachments. - Jose Barraquer
José Ignacio Barraquer was a Spanish ophthalmologist known to many as "the father of modern refractive surgery". Barraquer invented the cryolathe and microkeratome and developed the surgical procedures of keratomileusis and keratophakia. Barraquer was the son of Ignacio Barraquer, an ophthalmologist known for his contributions to the advancement of cataract surgery. - John Taylor
"Chevalier" John Taylor (1703-1772) was the first in a long line of British eye surgeons. While there is some evidence that he showed promise as an eye surgeon early in his career, it became evident that his major talent was that of self-promotion. Dubbing himself "Chevalier" and "Ophthalmiater Royal," Taylor became the self-proclaimed personal eye surgeon to King George II, the Pope and number of European royal families. - Hermann Snellen
Hermann Snellen (February 19, 1834-January 18, 1908) was a Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1862). - Melissa Brown
Melissa Brown is an ophthalmologist from Flourtown, Pennsylvania who is a member of the Republican Party. She was also a three-time candidate for the US House of Representatives. - Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 - September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist. In the words of the 1911 Britannica, "his life from first to last was one of devotion to science, and he must be accounted, on intellectual grounds, as one of the foremost men of the 19th century." Helmholtz is notable in a number of areas of science. In physiology, he is known for his mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, … - L. L. Zamenhof
Ludvic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer, Ludwik Łazarz) Zamenhof was an eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and successful constructed language in the world. According to biographers A. Zakrzewski and E. Wiesenfeld, his native languages were Polish, from the neighborhood where he was raised, and his parents' languages Russian and Yiddish, but his father was a German teacher, … - Charles Kelman
Charles D. Kelman (May 23, 1930 - June 1, 2004) was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer in cataract surgery. Kelman was born in Brooklyn, New York to David and Eva Kelman. He grew up in Queens where he attended Forest Hills High School. After graduation, he attended Boston's Tufts University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree, then studied medicine at the University of Geneva. - Warren Tay
Warren Tay (1843- May 15, 1927) was a British ophthalmologist who in 1881 first described the red spot on the retina of the eye, which is present in Tay-Sachs disease. He first reported this condition in the Volume I edition of the Ophthalmological Society, an organization in which he was a founding member. Here he described the symptoms in a child who also had neurological problems. - Alfred Sommer
Alfred (Al) Sommer is an American academic at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was born in 1942 in New York City and graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1963. Sommer has an MD from Harvard Medical School (1967) and an MHS from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1973). He is professor of Epidemiology and International Health, as well as Ophthalmology (at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine). - Patricia Bath
Patricia Era Bath (born November 4, 1942, Harlem, New York) is an ophthalmologist credited as the first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention. Bath received the patent in 1988 for an "Apparatus for ablating and removing cataract lenses", a version of a device designed to help remove cataracts with a fiberoptic laser. Bath graduated with a baccalaureate degree from Hunter College in 1964, … - Svyatoslav Fyodorov
Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov "; born August 8, 1927 – June 2, 2000) was a Russian ophthalmologist, eye microsurgeon, creator of radial keratotomy, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and politician. Fyodorov was born in "Proskurov" (now Khmelnytskyy, Ukraine), graduated from Rostov Medical Institute, then worked as a practicing ophthalmologist in a small town in Rostov Oblast. - Henrik Sjögren
Henrik Samuel Conrad Sjögren was a Swedish ophthalmologist best known for the eponymous condition Sjögren's syndrome. "Sjögren" is pronounced or. Henrik Sjögren should not be confused with Karl Sjögren, the "Sjögren" in Sjogren-Larsson syndrome. - Bernard Sachs
Bernard Sachs (January 2, 1858 -- February 8, 1944) was an American neurologist. After graduating with a B.A. from Harvard in 1878, Sachs travelled to Europe and studied under some of the greatest physicians of the time, such as Adolf Kussmaul (1822-1902), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833-1910), Friedrich Goltz (1834-1902), Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890), Theodor Meynert (1833-1892Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), … - Charles Schepens
Charles L. Schepens (March 13, 1912 - March 28, 2006) was an influential American ophthalmologist, regarded by many in the profession as "the father of modern retinal surgery", and member of the French Resistance. - Maurice Rabb Jr.
Maurice F. Rabb, Jr. (August 7, 1932-June 6, 2005) was an African-American ophthalmologist. He is widely known for his pioneering work in cornea and retinal vascular diseases. - Charles Michel
Charles Michel was an American ophthalmologist best known for publishing the first clinical report of successful electrology in 1875. Michel was practicing in St. Louis, Missouri when he began using a battery-powered needle epilator to treat trichiasis (ingrown eyelashes) in 1869. This direct current powered method was called electrolysis because a chemical reaction in the hair follicle causes sodium hydroxide to form, which damages the follicle. - Jacques Daviel
Jacques Daviel (11 August 1696 -30 September 1762) was a French ophthalmologist credited with originating the first significant advance in cataract surgery since couching was invented in ancient India. Daviel performed the first extracapsular cataract extraction on April 8, 1747. Daviel earned his medical degree from the Medical School of Rouen, practiced in Marseille where he was affiliated with the medical school there, … - William Bowman
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (July 20, 1816 - March 29, 1892) was a British surgeon, histologist & anatomist. He is most famous for his research using microscopes to study various human organs, though during his lifetime he pursued a successful career as an ophthalmologist. Born in Nantwich, Cheshire, third son of a banker & amateur botanist/geologist, Bowman attended Hazelwood School near Birmingham from 1826. - John Cooksey
John Charles Cooksey (born August 20, 1941) is an ophthalmologist from Monroe who was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana from 1997 to 2003. Cooksey was born in Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. He graduated from La Salle High School (La Salle Parish) in Olla, where his father operated a sawmill. He attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and received his M.D. degree in 1966. - William MacKenzie
William Mackenzie (born April 1791, died July 1868) was a Scottish opthalmologist. He wrote "Practical Treatise of the Diseases of the Eye", one of the first British textbooks of opthalmology. Mackenzie was born in Queen Street, Glasgow, and studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. From 1815 to 1818 he studied in London and continental Europe, returning to Britain in 1818. - Adelbert Ames Jr.
Adelbert Ames, Jr. (August 19, 1880-1955) was an American scientist who made contributions to physics, physiology, ophthalmology, psychology, and philosophy. He pioneered the study of physiological optics at Dartmouth College, serving as a research professor, then as director of research in the Dartmouth Eye Institute. He conducted important research into aspects of binocular vision, including cyclophoria and aniseikonia. - Marshall M. Parks
Marshall Miller Parks (1918 - July 25, 2005) was an American ophthalmologist known to many as "the father of pediatric ophthalmology". - Ignacio Barraquer
Ignacio Barraquer (March 25, 1884 - May 13, 1965) was a Spanish ophthalmologist known for his contributions to the advancement of cataract surgery. Barraquer was born in Barcelona, Spain. He was the father of Jose Barraquer, an ophthalmologist known to many as "the father of modern refractive surgery". - Karl Koller
Karl Koller (born December 3, 1857 in Schüttenhofen, Bohemia (now Susice, Czech Republic) died March 21, 1944 in New York, New York.) was an Austrian ophthalmologist who began his medical career as a surgeon at the Vienna General Hospital, and was a colleague of Sigmund Freud. Koller introduced cocaine as a local anaesthetic for eye surgery. - Johann Friedrich Horner
Johann Friedrich Horner (27 March, 1831 - 20 December, 1886) was an ophthalmologist based at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. After receiving his medical degree from Zurich in 1854, he did additional study in Vienna and Berlin. While in Berlin, he was an assistant to Albrecht von Graefe (1828-1870). It was during this time that Horner decided on becoming an ophthalmologist. He returned to Zurich in 1856, and later opened his own eye clinic named Hottinghof. - Bernard Becker
Bernard Becker (born 1920) is professor emeritus of opthalmology and visual sciences at the Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine. Becker is internationally honored as an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma and continues to be active in teaching and research. For more than 35 years, he led Washington University's department of ophthalmology. In 1978, students, patients, and colleagues raised funds in his honor, … - Eugen von Hippel
Eugen von Hippel was a German ophthalmologist who received his medical doctorate in 1889 from Heidelberg and soon after became assistant to ophthalmologist Theodore Leber. In 1897 he attained "professor extraordinaire" at Heidelberg, in 1909 he became professor at the eye clinic in Halle, and professor of ophthalmology in Göttingen in 1914. In 1904, Eugen von Hippel described a rare disease of the retina, and in 1911 discovered the anatomical basis of the disease, … - Jonathan Hutchinson
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913), English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist and pathologist, was born on 23 July 1828 at Selby, Yorkshire, England, his parents belonging to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Ernst Fuchs
Ernst Fuchs (born 14 June 1851, Vienna; died November 21, 1930, Vienna) was an Austrian ophthalmologist. In 1910, Fuchs reported 13 cases of bilateral central corneal clouding in elderly patients. Fuchs originally referred to it as "dytrophia epithialis corneae." - Shinobu Ishihara
was a Japanese ophthalmologist who created the Ishihara color test to detect colour blindness. Shinobu graduated from medicine in 1905 on a military scholarship and immediately joined the army as a doctor, serving mainly as a surgeon. He later changed specialities to ophthalmology. In 1908 he returned to Tokyo University where he dedicated himself to ophthalmic research. In 1910 he became an instructor at the Army Medical College. - Ian Constable
Ian Jeffrey Constable AO is an Australian ophthalmologist and the founder and director of the Lions Eye Institute in Perth, Western Australia. He is also the Foundation Lions Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Western Australia, and the Foundation Director of UWA’s Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science. Constable is also the Chairman of the West Australian State Science Council, the Director of Ophthalmology Services for the WA Department of Health, …
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