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Ophthalmology at the University of Miami School of Medicine began in 1955 and attained departmental status in 1959. [3]Bascom Palmer Eye Institute was founded seven years later, on January 20, 1962, by Edward W. D. Norton, a neuro-ophthalmologist, retinal specialist, administrator and professor who joined the University of Miami's School of Medicine with aspirations of building a regional ...
Burt Kushner is an American pediatric ophthalmologist specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of strabismus.Kushner's contributions include demonstration of improved visual fields of patients following strabismus surgery, elucidation of torsional contribution to patients with diplopia, corticosteroid treatment of periocular capillary hemangioma, and novel hypotheses on the mechanism of ...
Alan Charles Bird (born 4 July 1938, in Bromley, Kent, UK) is an English ophthalmologist, famous for his work on degenerative and hereditary diseases of the retina. [1]Bird was educated from 1949 to 1956 at Bromley Grammar School and from 1956 to 1961 at Guy's Hospital Medical School, where he studied neurology and neurosurgery and received his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ...
Bascom Headon Palmer Sr. (? - April 2, 1916) was a state legislator and judge in Florida. [1] He was a Democrat and represented Columbia County, Florida in the Florida House of Representatives He then represented the 14th District in the Florida Senate from 1895 to 1901. [2] In 1901 he was appointed a judge. [1] He had two sons. [3]
In 2012, he was recruited to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami as professor of ophthalmology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. He served as vice chair for translational research, medical director of the echography and clinical research units, and director of ocular oncology ...
David Anthony Newsome M.D. FARVO (16 April 1942 – 24 February 2011) was a scientist, ophthalmologist, inventor, and author.He studied the treatment of age-related macular degeneration and proposed the usefulness of zinc supplements to slow the rate of vision loss from age-related macular degeneration.
Later, he joined the world-renowned Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami and became Director of glaucoma and Director of Cataract Surgery at the Moore Eye Institute which was a part of the Mercy System and the Crozer-Keystone Health System. He is a founding surgeon of Kremer Eye Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1]
Numerous leaders in eye and vision research and academia received a Fight for Sight grant early in their careers, including Harold Scheie, MD (1950), who founded the Scheie Eye Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Jampolsky, MD (1952), whose efforts led to the creation of the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, A. Edward Maumenee, MD (1958) director of the Wilmer Eye ...