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2011 Myers Lecture Series
Hope for Prevention of Diabetic Retinal Complications: the Journey
October 24th, 2011
Lecture by Dr. Tony Adams
Tony Adams, OD, PhD, serves as editor-in-chief of Optometry & Vision Science as well professor and dean emeritus at the University of California (UC) Berkeley School of Optometry.
Dr. Adams has been a Professor of Optometry and Vision Science (Physiological Optics) since 1968 and Dean of the School of Optometry from 1992 to 2001 at UC Berkeley. He was a member of the University of California President’s Health Sciences Committee from 1992 to 2005 and is an author of the Health Sciences Reports on UC Health education needs. His December 2005 appointment to the UC President’s Health Advisory Council advised the UC Health Education Planning for California in the coming decade.
Dr. Adams was a member of the Executive Council of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO) from 1991 to 2001 and was its President from 1998 to 2000. He has been honored with the Glenn A Fry, Garland W Clay, and Eminent Service Awards of the Academy and received its highest Award, the Prentice Medal for vision research contributions. He was a member of the National Advisory Eye Council from 1996 to 2000, a major consultative body for the Director of the National Eye Council (NEI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the US Secretary of Health and Human Services. He was appointed by the Acting Director of NIH to serve on the search for the new National Eye Institute Director appointed in 2001.
With NEI/NIH support over the past 30 years, Professor Adams has studied the early vision changes of diabetics and has revealed some of the earliest vision and retinal function changes of patients with diabetes.
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