Richard Abbott, MD

Named Lectureships: 18th Annual Richard E. Hoover Memorial Lecture, Johns Hopkins University; Francis Heed Adler Lecture, University of Pennsylvania.

Visiting Professorships and Invited Lectures: AUPO Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA; Wills Worldwide Vision meeting celebrating the Grand opening of the new Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; American Association of Ophthalmology, San Juan, Puerto Rico (3 presentations).

Appointments: Director, American Academy of Ophthalmology Knowledge Base for Clinical Ophthalmology; Chair, Underwriting Committee, Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company (OMIC).

Appointments: Elected President Prevention Blindness, Northern California; Elected Executive Secretary Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society.

Visiting Professorships and Invited Lectures: Visiting Professor, 1st SERI-ARVO Meeting on Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, National University of Singapore, February 2003; Delta Gamma Lecturer, Houston Ophthalmological Society 2003 Meeting, March 2003; Arthur Jampolsky Lecture, California Pacific Medical Center, March 2003; "Congenital Fibrosis Syndrome Update," Michael J. Hogan Lecture, Cordes Eye Society Annual Meeting, April 2003; Angeline M. Parks Memorial Lecture, George Washington University, Washington, DC, May 2003.

Todd Margolis, MD, PhD

Invited Lectures: "Vaccinia and Smallpox," and "Viral Causes of the Acute Retinal Necrosis Syndrome," Uveitis Update, Cleveland Clinic, December 2002; "HSV Ocular Disease," Department of Stomatology, UCSF School of Dentistry, December 2002.

Appointments: Consultant to the CDC Taskforce on Bioterrorism; Consultant to the California State Health Department for complications of Smallpox vaccination; External Advisory Committee, Mentor in Vision in Research Oklahoma, COBRE Award.

Joan O'Brien, MD

Honors: Elected to the Academy of Medical Educators of the UCSF School of Medicine. Academy members are distinguished by accomplishment in: teaching, instructional development, student advising and mentorship, educational administration and leadership, and/or educational research.

Daniel Schwartz, MD

Invited Lectures: "Light Adjustable Lens," Royal Hawaiian Eye Meeting, Wailea HI, January 2003; "Light Adjustable Lens," and "New Insights into Early Macular Degeneration," Utah Ophthalmological Society-Grand Rounds, Sandy, Utah, January 2003; "Light Adjustable Lens," 7th ESCRS Winter Refractive Surgery Meeting, Rome, Italy, February 2003.

Robert Stamper, MD

Visiting Professorships and Invited Lectures: "Glaucoma Surgery" and New Diagnostic Tests," Southeast Asia Glaucoma Group, Manila, Philippines, September, 2002; "Glaucoma Diagnosis," and "Surgical Management of Glaucoma," San Diego Eye Bank Meeting, San Diego, November, 2002; "New Approaches to the Medical Management of Glaucoma," Delhi Eye Society; Mumbai Ophthalmic Society and Cochin Ophthalmology Society, New Delhi, Bombay and Cochin, India, November, 2002; "Managing Problems After Glaucoma Surgery," and "Controversies in Glaucoma Management," taught two courses at American Academy of Ophthalmology/ Pan American Association of Ophthalmology joint meeting, Orlando, October, 2002.

UCSF December Course Presentations:

The following UCSF faculty made presentations at the UCSF December Course, Ophthalmology 2003: What's Hot and What's Not?

David Hwang, MD, Stephen McLeod, MD, Daniel Schwartz, MD, Richard Abbott, MD, David Chang, MD, J. Brooks Crawford, MD, Thomas Lietman, MD, Douglas Fredrick, MD, Creig Hoyt, MD, Stuart Seiff, MD, Susan Carter, MD, John Sullivan MD, Robert Bhisitkul, MD, PhD, Jacque Duncan, MD, J. Michael Jumper, MD, Alan Flach, MD, PharmD, Joan O'Brien, MD, Jorge Alvarado, MD, and Shan Lin, MD.