2024
Thomas C. Lee, MD, Director of The Vision Center and Chief of the Division of Ophthalmology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the USC Keck School of Medicine, has made extraordinary contributions to advancing the understanding of pediatric retinal disease and childhood blindness. Dr. Lee is Director of the Vision Center, Chief of the Division of Ophthalmology, at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the USC Keck School of Medicine. He leads a team of physicians and basic scientists who are developing new treatments for conditions such as retinoblastoma and retinopathy of prematurity. In addition to developing a robust research program, Dr. Lee has helped create an innovative education platform to teach doctors in other countries remotely via the Internet. In 2010, he established a program in conjunction with the Armenian Eye Care Project, which deployed digital retinal cameras to the capital city of Yerevan allowing US based physicians to supervise Armenian doctors treating babies with retinopathy of prematurity. More recently he helped establish a neonatal nursing education program to assist the nurses who care for these children. It is his long-term goal to create an open online education platform that can be used to teach doctors and healthcare workers in other countries where resources are limited.
2023
Wiley A. Chambers, MD, Supervisory Physician, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
2022
Sheila Nirenberg, PhD, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
2020
Gerrit Melles, MD, PhD, Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019
Vladimir Kefalov, PhD, John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
2018
Botond Roska MD, PhD, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Basel
2017
Russell Van Gelder, MD, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington School of Medicine, UW Medicine Eye Institute, WA
2016
Daniel Palanker, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, CA
2015
Krzysztof Palczewski, PhD, University of California, Irvine and former Chair Department of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
2014
Emily Y. Chew, MD, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Washington, D.C.
2013
Simon W. M. John, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
2012
Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, Departments of Ophthalmology, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Constance L. Cepko, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Genetics, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
2010
Martin Friedlander, MD, PhD, Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute. Department of Ophthalmology, Scripps Clinic and Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA
2009
Roy W. Beck, MD, PhD, of the Jaeb Center for Health Research and the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2008
Jonathan C. Horton, MD, PhD, of the Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, CA
2007
David R. Williams, PhD, of the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2006
Lois E. H. Smith, MD, PhD, of Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2005
Burton J. Kushner, MD, of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
2004
Robert W. Massof, PhD, of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and Eliezer Peli, OD, of the Schepens Eye Research Institute at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2003
Richard A. Lewis, MD, of the Cullen Eye Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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