Claes Henrik Dohlman, M.D., (1922) is an American ophthalmologist of Swedish origins. He was born in Uppsala, Sweden and received his schooling in Lund. He received his M.D. degree in 1950 and then entered ophthalmology training in Lund under Professor Sven Larsson. The years 1952-54 were spent in fellowship training in the United States. Thus,…
Endre Balazs (1920) received his medical training in Budapest, Hungary. At the invitation of Professor Theodor Huzella, Head of the Department of Histology and Embryology, as a first-year medical student, he began research on histochemistry and tissue culture and presented the results of his research on plant polysaccharides at an International Conference on Anatomy and…
László Bitó was born in Hungary in 1934. He was deported from Budapest with his family in 1951 by the Muscovite dictatorship that took over the country after the war. In ‘54 he was forced to work in a coalmine, where he became a local leader of the revolution of ’56. After the revolution was…
Frederick L. Ferris III, M.D. is the director of the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications and the clinical director at the National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Ferris earned his A.B. at Princeton University and his M.D. at Johns Hopkins University. Following medical school, he came to the NEI in…
Emily Y. Chew, M.D. is the deputy director of the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications and the deputy clinical director at the National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Chew obtained her M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1977. She completed her ophthalmology residency at the University of Toronto and…
Robert W. Massof received his B.A. in Experimental Psychology at Hamline University in 1970 while working at Honeywell Systems and Research in psychophysics and electrophysiology of primate color vision. His undergraduate honors thesis was on electroretinographic evidence of a cone system in the rat. Massof received his Ph.D. in Physiological Optics from Indiana University in…
Gordon Legge received a bachelor’s degree in physics from MIT in 1971 and a master’s degree in Astronomy from Harvard in 1972. In 1976, he obtained his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Harvard. His dissertation dealt with the characteristics of spatial-frequency channels in human pattern vision. He then spent a postdoctoral year with Fergus Campbell…
Dr. Dean Bok earned his Ph.D. Degree in Anatomy from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1968. His predoctoral studies with Dr. Richard W. Young introduced him to the field of retinal cell biology, and he has been devoted to that field ever since. Following graduation, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Anatomy…
Gerrit Melles, M.D., Ph.D. is a cornea specialist and founder of the Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery (NIIOS), the Melles Cornea Clinic Rotterdam, and Amnitrans EyeBank Rotterdam. His clinical work focuses on the management of corneal disorders, and he is also actively involved in research and development of ophthalmic surgical techniques. The cornea is…