Epstein elected AUPO President

posted February 23rd, 2011

David L. Epstein, MD, MMM, has been elected President of the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO), the national organization for chairs of ophthalmology programs as well as residency and research directors of ophthalmology departments in the United States and Canada. His appointment will take effect April 1, 2011 after serving as President-elect in 2010.

Dr. Epstein is the Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology and chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Duke University School of Medicine. He is also the recipient of several grants from the National Eye Institute and Research to Prevent Blindness. He is the author of more than 200 scholarly papers and consults in glaucoma clinical care while maintaining an active glaucoma research program. He has received several awards for his work and has served on numerous national scientific advisory boards, often as chairman; he served as president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in 1992-93. Epstein has a special interest in fostering physician-scientists’ careers in ophthalmology and translating the best in science to the understanding and treatment of human ocular disease.