Dr. A. Linn Murphree is Professor of Ophthalmology and Pediatrics at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC), and Director of the USC Ocular Oncology Service and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) Retinoblastoma Program. Following his training as a Fulbright Fellow in Human Genetics at the University of Copenhagen, Dr. Murphree began…
Dr. Brenda L. Gallie is President of the International Retinoblastoma Consortium, Director of the Retinoblastoma Program at the Hospital for Sick Children, Paediatric Ocular Oncologist at Calgary Children’s Hospital, Professor at the University of Toronto, and Adjunct Scientist and Lead of Health Informatics Research in the University Health Network TECHNA Institute. Dr. Gallie completed a…
Dr. Thaddeus (Ted) P. Dryja is a Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Dryja is a 1972 magna cum laude graduate of Yale College (BA, chemistry) and a 1976 graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine (MD). From 1976-1983, he completed an internship in medicine…
Dr. Webster Cavenee did his graduate and postdoctoral training in cell biology, biochemistry and human genetics. He received his PhD with honors in 1977 from the University of Kansas Medical School and then did postdoctoral work at the Jackson Laboratory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of…
Dr. King-Wai Yau is a Professor in Department of Neuroscience and Department of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Princeton University (1971) and a Ph.D. in Neurobiology (1975) from Harvard University. He did postdoctoral work with Denis Baylor at Stanford Medical School and with Sir Alan…
Dr. Jeremy Nathans is a Professor in the Departments of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Neuroscience, and Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He currently holds the Samuel Theobald Professorship at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Nathans earned bachelor’s degrees – in Life…
Dr. Sheila West is a Professor at the Wilmer Eye Institute and holds the El Maghraby Chair in Preventive Ophthalmology. Dr. West received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is recognized for her wide-ranging discoveries in public health ophthalmology, notably in trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide….
Dr. Michael Kass is the Bernard Becker Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Kass did undergraduate training at the University of Michigan and received his M.D. degree and M.S. in neurophysiology from Northwestern University School of Medicine. His first academic position was Assistant Professor at…
Dr. Mae Gordon is a Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Division of Biostatistics at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Gordon received her B.A. degree from Portland State University in 1967 and her Ph.D. in Sociology/Psychology and Psychometrics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in…