Emeritus
Faculty
James J. O’Donnell, MD, Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology.
Dr.
O’Donnell joined the UCSF faculty in 1976, serving as Vice
Chairman and Director of Education from 1984-1993. He was named the
Director of the Kimura Laboratory of clinical investigation in 1988.
Dr. O’Donnell is known and respected internationally for his
research efforts on hereditary eye conditions that included the cloning
of the human gene for galactokinase, reverse genetic analysis of the
gene for sex linked retinal degeneration in choroideremia; and work
on a gene involved in gyrate atrophy of the retina. He was also instrumental
in efforts to shed light on the ocular complications of AIDS. Dr. O’Donnell
also served as Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Education from 1991
through 1998, and Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education from
1994-1998. He won the UCSF Martin Luther King Award for championing
non- discrimination and affirmative action.
Stuart R. Seiff, M.D., Emeritus
Professor of Ophthalmology
Dr. Stuart Seiff joined the UCSF faculty in 1985 and served as Director
of the Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery service from 1985
to 2005. He served as Chief of Ophthalmology at the San Francisco
General Hospital from 2005 to 2008 and Vice Chair of the Department
of Ophthalmology from 1994 to 2005. Dr. Seiff's primary research
activities have been in the area of surgical optic nerve disease,
management of the ophthalmic complications of facial paralysis and
techniques in aesthetic surgery utilizing the endoscope and CO2 laser.
