
FACULTY NEWS
Richard Abbott, MD
Honors: Chair
of World Health Organization Committee for Cost Reduction & Effective
Improvement in Eye Care Product Services; Featured Speaker for PBS special
on New Developments in Eye Care.
Appointment: Advisory Board and Executive Committee, PROJECT ORBIS Telemedicine
Cyber sight project
Invited Lectures: Walter
Stark Memorial Lectureship, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, University of
Oklahoma;."Development of Best Practice
Guidelines for Improving Quality of Eye Care Services," World Health
Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; "Ophthalmic Knowledge Base: Content
Development," Education Coordinating Council, American Academy of
Ophthalmology; Panamanian Ophthalmological Society; Keynote Address:
Combined AAO and International Society of Refractive Surgery Annual meeting,
Anaheim; Chilean Ophthalmological Society, Valdivia, Chile.
Allan Flach, MD, PharmD
Appointments: Elected President, Prevention Blindness, Northern California;
Elected Executive Secretary, Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society.
Creig Hoyt, MD
Invited Lectures: Visiting Professor, Albany Medical College, NY; Frank
Claffy Memorial Lecture, Sydney Australia; Guest Professor, Saudi Arabia
Ophthalmology Society.
David G. Hwang, MD, FACS
Elected: President, Ocular Microbiology and Immunology Group; Executive
Committee, Ocular Microbiology and Immunology Group.
Appointment: Chair, Ocular Infectious Disease Working Group.
Todd Margolis, MD, PhD
Invited Lectures: "New Concepts in Ocular Zoster," "Management
of Ocular HSV," 23rd Brazilian Congress of Ophthalmology, Salvador,
Brazil; Department of Ophthalmology, Federal School of Medicine, Sao
Paulo, Brazil; "The Red Eye," UCSF Topics in Emergency Medicine.
Honors: Appointed Scientific Advisory Board Member. Molecular Pathogenesis
of Infectious and Inflammatory Eye Research Group.
Appointments: NEI 5-Year Program Planning Committee, Cornea Section
(NIH); Advisory Board, The Pemphigus and Pemphigoid Society; Steering
Committee, UCSF Program in Population Sciences and Global Health.
Joan O'Brien, MD
Honor: Invited Member, Macula Society Research Committee.
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