PRESENT POSITIONS
Director Emeritus and Consultant, Department of Ophthalmology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York; Clinical Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY; City University.

Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, New York University Medical School, NY.

Director Emeritus, Glaucoma Services, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, NY.

President, Highlights of Ophthalmology International.

HONORS
Elected Member, International Council of Ophthalmology – 1972-1980.

Charter Member and Former Vice President, Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis.

Commander Brother, Order to St. Johns of Jerusalem.

ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS AND DISTINCTIONS
Sam and Dora Cohen Medal, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (1984).

American Academy of Ophthalmology Honor Award (1986).

Gold Medal, University of Rome (1987).

Honorary Fellow, College of Medicine of South Africa (1999).

PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Lewis Memorial Scholarship at the end of the second year of medical school (1948-1952).

Royal Society of Medicine Prize, London, for most original research in ophthalmology, 
Published in the U.K. – 1963.

Conrad Behrens Prize for the best teaching film in ophthalmology – 1970.

NAMED LECTURES
Los Angeles Ophthalmological Society Lecturer: Classification of Angle Anomalies in
Congenital Glaucoma - 1984.

Sam and Dora Cohen Lecture: Surgical Treatment of Congenital Glaucoma – 1984.

Stocker Lecture, McPherson Hospital, N.C.: Surgical Management of Glaucoma – 1989.

GUEST OF HONOR
IV International Symposium on Immunology and Immunopathology. Padua, Italy – 1986.

XXI Alumni Meeting in Venezuelan Symposium on Glaucoma – Caracas, Venezuela – 1986.

Beijing Ophthalmological Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and 
Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology – 1987.

University of Rome, Department of Ophthalmology – 1987.

XXV Alumni Meeting, University of Caracas – 1990.

Visiting Professor by Invitation – 16 Departments in the USA, Italy, Australia, Israel, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela.

Lectures and surgical demonstrations by Invitation – 157 – USA, Panama, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Israel, Germany, Italy, Canada, Portugal, Spain, South Africa.

Teaching films – 16 – in cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery, prevention of blindness, combined cataract with glaucoma surgery.

Books (joint authorship) – 10 – subjects include experimental work in uveitis, glaucoma surgery, diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma.

Chapters in books - 47 – including chapters on metabolism in the formation of cataract, glaucoma surgery, experimental work in iris wound healing, public health in ophthalmology, treatment of eye trauma, exfoliation and pseudoexfoliation of the lens, developmental anomalies of the lens, rickettsial retinitis, review chapters on “malignant” glaucoma and its surgical management, resident training in cataract and glaucoma surgery and in
blindness prevention, surgery for congenital glaucoma, laboratory work on ocular immunity in uveitis. 

Journal articles in peer-review journals – 105 – mainly on aspects of diagnosis and surgical treatment of glaucoma and uveitis (hypertensive glaucoma).

Articles in non-peer-review journals – 31. 


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