Robert N. Weinreb, M.D., delivered the 35th Jules Stein Lecture at the University of California, Los Angeles on May 21, 2004. In his lecture,“Changing the Paradigm for Diagnosing Glaucoma”, he discussed the critical importance of the optic nerve examination in glaucoma. On June 19, 2004, Dr. Weinreb delivered the E. Michael van Buskirk Lecture at the Devers Eye Institute on “Uveoscleral Outflow: Of Mice and Men.” He delivered the same lecture at the University of Oregon Health and Science University on June 19, as well. On June 17, he delivered the Mansour Armaly Lecture at the University of Iowa College of Medicine on “Glaucoma Management: Translating Laboratory Science into Clinical Practice”.

Professor Barbara L. Brody, Director of the Division of Community Ophthalmology at the UCSD Shiley Eye Center, was selected to give the Roehr Memorial Lecture at the Stein Institute for Research on Aging in March 2004. The lecture, entitled “Resilience of the Human Spirit: Lessons in Overcoming Loss from the Study of People Living with Macular Degeneration,” was aired on UCSD-TV. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the lecture, please contact Linda Field at 858-822-2831.

Lingyun Cheng, M.D., and William H. Freeman, M.D., were invited to demonstrate new surgical techniques and deliver an academic symposium on new trends and developments of vitreoretinal sugery for posterior segment diseases by the Chinese Ophthalmological Society. The visit took place at the new Kang-Ming Eye Hospital in Taiyuan, China from September 14th to 22nd, 2004.

David B. Granet, M.D., was selected as Executive Committee member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, 2004 Section on the Ophthalmology Executive Committee.

Don O. Kikkawa, M.D., was appointed Associate Examiner for the Oral Board Exam, for American Board of Ophthalmology, San Francisco, May 2004. Dr. Kikkawa was also appointed as Program Chair for joint American Academy of Ophthalmology and American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Scientific Symposium in Chicago, Illinois, 2005.

Pamela A. Sample, Ph.D., was selected as Chair of the Standards Committee on Visual Function for the Board of International Perimetric Society.

Robert N. Weinreb, M.D., and Professor Erik Greve (Amsterdam) edited the first edition of “Glaucoma Diagnosis”, an international consensus on glaucoma diagnosis.