He received an Academy Honor Award in 1979 and a Senior Honor Award in 1989, Distinguished Service Award in 1999 and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and is the recipient of the A. Edward Maumenee award of the Pan American Association of Ophthalmology. Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society, the Sigma Zeta Honor Society, and was listed in the March 1991 issue of Good Housekeeping as one of “The 400 Best Doctors in America,” as well as being repeatedly listed in “Best Doctors in America”. 

He has held numerous other positions in ophthalmology, medicine and business. Among the highlights: Chairman of St. Mary’s Hospital and Medical Center; San Francisco, Chairman of Mercy Services Corporation, founder and Chairman of Medem Corporation, Founding Director of the American Glaucoma Society; founder and Director of the Foundation for Glaucoma Research and Secretary-Treasurer of the Pan American Association of Ophthalmology, the American Eye Study Club and the American Glaucoma Society. He is a member of the International Council of Ophthalmology.

He is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.

Born in Virginia, Dr. Hoskins, the son of an ophthalmologist, received his medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia where he did his internship and residency. He was certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1970 and did his Glaucoma Fellowship at the University of California School San Francisco Medical Center. He served as Chief of Ophthalmology at the Naval Hospital in Rhode Island in 1968

The father of three, he lives with his wife, Ann, in Belvedere, located outside San Francisco, California.

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