The American Board of Ophthalmology salutes its founding fathers and recognizes the efforts of all individuals who, by serving on our Board of Directors, have graciously donated their personal time and professional expertise to the development and maintenance of high standards in the practice of ophthalmology.
An asterisk (*) indicates the individual is deceased.
| Director |
Years of Service |
| Wendell Reber, MD* |
1915 -1916 |
| Alexander Duane, MD* |
1915 - 1917 |
| Frank C. Todd, MD* |
1915 - 1918 |
| Myles Standish, MD* |
1915 - 1922 |
| Edward Jackson, MD* |
1915 - 1925 |
| William H. Wilder, MD* |
1915 - 1935 |
| Edward C. Ellett, MD* |
1915 - 1947 |
| Hiram Woods, MD* |
1915 - 1925 |
| Walter B. Lancaster, MD* |
1915 - 1943 |
| William Campbell Posey, MD* |
1917 - 1919 |
| John E. Weeks, MD* |
1917 - 1923 |
| John R. Newcomb, MD* |
1919 - 1922 |
| Walter R. Parker, MD* |
1920 - 1933 |
| A.E. Bulson Jr., MD* |
1921 - 1923 |
| Allen Greenwood, MD* |
1921 - 1942 |
| Lee Masten Francis, MD* |
1922 - 1926 |
| William Zentmayer, MD* |
1922 - 1929 |
| Frederick C. Tooke, MD* |
1924 - 1929 |
| F. Phinizy Calhoun Sr., MD* |
1924 - 1933 |
| James M. Patton, MD* |
1926 - 1930 |
| John M. Wheeler, MD* |
1926 - 1931 |
| William H. Crisp, MD* |
1928 - 1938 |
| Luther C. Peter, MD* |
1930 - 1936 |
| John Green Jr., MD* |
1930 - 1944 |
| S. Judd Beach, MD* |
1930 - 1949 |
| Joseph L. McCool, MD* |
1932 - 1935 |
| Thomas D. Allen, MD* |
1934 - 1935 |
| John N. Evans, MD* |
1934 - 1937 |
| Conrad Berens, MD* |
1934 - 1947 |
| Everett L. Goar, MD* |
1934 - 1948 |
| Clifford Walker, MD* |
1936 - 1939 |
| William L. Benedict, MD* |
1936 - 1944 |
| Cecil S. O'Brien, MD* |
1937 - 1950 |
| Daniel B. Kirby, MD* |
1938 - 1945 |
| Georgiana D. Theobald, MD* |
1938 - 1949 |
| Grady Clay, MD* |
1939 - 1942 |
| Frederick C. Cordes, MD* |
1941 - 1951 |
| Theodore L. Terry, MD* |
1943 - 1947 |
| Algernon B. Reese, MD* |
1943 - 1950 |
| M. Hayward Post, MD* |
1944 - 1951 |
| Robert J. Masters, MD* |
1945 - 1952 |
| John H. Dunnington, MD* |
1946 - 1953 |
| Derrick Vail, MD* |
1946 - 1953 |
| Phillips Thygeson, MD* |
1947 - 1952 |
| Edwin B. Dunphy, MD* |
1947 - 1954 |
| Walter S. Atkinson, MD* |
1949 - 1956 |
| Brittain F. Payne, MD* |
1949 - 1956 |
| Francis H. Adler, MD* |
1950 - 1957 |
| James H. Allen, MD* |
1951 - 1958 |
| F. Bruce Fralick, MD* |
1951 - 1958 |
| Gordon M. Bruce, MD* |
1952 - 1959 |
| Paul A. Chandler, MD* |
1952 - 1959 |
| Michael J. Hogan, MD* |
1952 - 1959 |
| Alson E. Braley, MD* |
1953 - 1960 |
| John S. McGavic, MD* |
1954 - 1961 |
| Kenneth C. Swan, MD* |
1954 - 1961 |
| Merrill J. King, MD* |
1955 - 1962 |
| Harold H. Joy, MD* |
1957 - 1964 |
| C. Wilbur Rucker, MD* |
1957 - 1968 |
| Arthur Gerard DeVoe, MD* |
1958 - 1977 |
| W. Banks Anderson Sr., MD* |
1959 - 1962 |
| Harold G. Scheie, MD* |
1959 - 1966 |
| A. Edward Maumenee, MD* |
1960 - 1976 |
| Fred M. Wilson, M.D* |
1960 - 1976 |
| Robert N. Shaffer, MD* |
1960 - 1979 |
| F. Phinizy Calhoun Jr., MD* |
1961 - 1977 |
| Leonard Christensen, MD* |
1962 - 1974 |
| Frank W. Newell, MD* |
1962 - 1974 |
| John W. Henderson, MD* |
1963 - 1975 |
| John M. McLean, MD* |
1965 - 1968 |
| David O. Harrington, MD* |
1965 - 1977 |
| Irving H. Leopold, MD* |
1966 - 1979 |
| Bernard Becker, MD* |
1967 - 1974 |
| Joseph A.C. Wadsworth, MD* |
1967 - 1979 |
| Frederick C. Blodi, MD* |
1968 - 1980 |
| Robert W. Hollenhorst, MD* |
1968 - 1980 |
| William F. Hughes, MD* |
1968 - 1980 |
| David Shoch, MD* |
1969 - 1980 |
| Edward W.D. Norton, MD* |
1969 - 1981 |
| Goodwin M. Breinin, MD* |
1970 - 1981 |
| Robert P. Burns, MD* |
1970 - 1982 |
| DuPont Guerry III, MD* |
1971 - 1983 |
| Bradley R. Straatsma, MD |
1973 - 1980 |
| William H. Spencer, MD* |
1974 - 1981 |
| David Paton, MD |
1975 - 1982 |
| Bruce E. Spivey, MD |
1975 - 1982 |
| J. Donald M. Gass, MD* |
1976 - 1983 |
| Thomas P. Kearns, MD* |
1976 - 1983 |
| G. Richard O'Connor, MD* |
1976 - 1983 |
| Melvin L. Rubin, MD* |
1977 - 1984 |
| Dan B. Jones, MD |
1978 - 1985 |
| Robert B. Welch, MD* |
1978 - 1985 |
| Marshall M. Parks, MD* |
1979 - 1986 |
| Thomas D. Duane, MD* |
1981 - 1984 |
| Paul R. Lichter, MD |
1981 - 1988 |
| Froncie A. Gutman, MD |
1982 - 1989 |
| Robert E. Kalina, MD |
1982 - 1989 |
| Robert R. Waller, MD |
1982 - 1989 |
| Frederick T. Fraunfelder, M.D |
1983 - 1990 |
| Thomas H. Pettit, MD* |
1983 - 1990 |
| Stephen J. Ryan, MD* |
1983 - 1990 |
| George W. Weinstein, MD* |
1983 - 1990 |
| Robert D. Reinecke, M.D.* |
1984 - 1987 |
| Ronald M. Burde, MD* |
1984 - 1991 |
| George Edw. Garcia, MD* |
1984 - 1991 |
| Robert C. Drews, MD* |
1985 - 1992 |
| William Tasman, MD* |
1985 - 1992 |
| W. Banks Anderson Jr., MD |
1986 - 1993 |
| J. Brooks Crawford, MD |
1986 - 1993 |
| John T. Flynn, MD* |
1987 - 1995 |
| Malcolm N. Luxenberg, MD* |
1987 - 1995 |
| Douglas R. Anderson, MD |
1988 - 1995 |
| B. Thomas Hutchinson, MD* |
1988 - 1996 |
| Denis M. O'Day, MD* |
1989 - 1995 |
| H. Stanley Thompson, MD* |
1989 - 1996 |
| John L. Keltner, MD |
1990 - 1997 |
| Dennis M. Robertson, MD |
1990 - 1997 |
| George R. Beauchamp, MD* |
1991 - 1998 |
| Ronald E. Smith, MD* |
1991 - 1998 |
| Morton E. Smith, MD |
1992 - 1999 |
| Robert L. Stamper, MD |
1992 - 1999 |
| William E. Benson, MD |
1993 - 2000 |
| Fred M. Wilson II, MD* |
1993 - 2000 |
| Allan E. Kolker, MD* |
1994 - 1997 |
| John G. Clarkson, MD |
1994 - 2001 |
| Lee R. Duffner, MD* |
1995 - 2002 |
| William T. Shults, MD |
1995 - 2002 |
| Richard L. Abbott, MD |
1996 - 2003 |
| M. Bruce Shields, MD |
1996 - 2003 |
| Susan H. Day, MD |
1997 - 2004 |
| Charles P. Wilkinson, MD |
1997 - 2004 |
| Daniel M. Albert, MD |
1998 - 2005 |
| William F. Mieler, MD |
1998 - 2005 |
| Richard P. Mills, MD* |
1998 - 2005 |
| George B. Bartley, MD |
1999 - 2006 |
| Donald S. Minckler, MD |
1999 - 2006 |
| Edward G. Buckley, MD |
2000 - 2007 |
| Mark J. Mannis, MD |
2000 - 2007 |
| David W. Parke II, MD |
2005 - 2007 |
| Gregory L. Skuta, MD |
2001 - 2008 |
| James S. Tiedeman, MD |
2001 - 2008 |
| Donald N. Schwartz, MD |
2005 - 2008 |
| Martha J. Farber, MD* |
2002 - 2009 |
| David T. Tse, MD |
2002 - 2009 |
| Ivan R. Schwab, MD |
2003 - 2010 |
| Martin Wand, MD |
2003 - 2010 |
| David M. Meisler, MD |
2006 - 2010 |
| Marilyn B. Mets, MD |
2004 - 2011 |
| James C. Orcutt, MD |
2004 - 2011 |
| Wallace L.M. Alward, MD |
2006 - 2013 |
| Janet L. Davis, MD |
2006 - 2013 |
| David J. Wilson, MD |
2007 - 2014 |
| Anthony C. Arnold, MD |
2008 - 2015 |
| R. Michael Siatkowski, MD |
2008 - 2015 |
| John E. Sutphin Jr., MD |
2008 - 2015 |
| Nancy A. Hamming, MD |
2009 - 2016 |
| H. Culver Boldt, MD |
2009 - 2016 |
| Philip L. Custer, MD |
2009 - 2016 |
| Stephen D. McLeod, MD |
2014 - 2016 |
| Keith H. Baratz, MD |
2010 - 2017 |
| J. Douglas Cameron, MD, MBA |
2010 - 2017 |
| Paul P. Lee, MD, JD |
2010 - 2017 |
| Sophia M. Chung, MD |
2011 - 2018 |
| Claude L. Cowan Jr. MD |
2011 - 2018 |
| Kenneth M. Goins, MD |
2011 - 2018 |
| Dale K. Heuer, MD |
2011 - 2018 |
| Harold E. Shaw Jr., MD |
2012 - 2019 |
| Bhavna P. Sheth, MD, MBA |
2012 - 2019 |
| Lanning B. Kline, MD |
2013 - 2020 |
| Debra J. Shetlar, MD |
2013 - 2020 |
| David C. Herman, MD, MSMM |
2014 - 2021 |
| Jane A. Bailey, MD |
2015 - 2022 |
| Julia L. Stevens, MD |
2015 - 2022 |
| K. David Epley, MD |
2016 - 2023 |
| Don O. Kikkawa, MD, MBA, FACS |
2016 - 2023 |
| Andreas K. Lauer, MD |
2016 - 2023 |
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| Public Director Emeritus |
| Theodore R. Marmor, PhD |
2001 - 2002 |
| Suzanne T. Anderson, MBA |
2003 - 2010 |
| Christine W. McEntee, MBA |
2009 - 2016 |
| Matthew E. Fitzgerald, DrPH |
2011 - 2018 |
| Scott Wallace, JD, MBA |
2016 - 2019 |
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| Secretary-Treasurer/Executive Director |
| Frank C. Todd, MD* |
1916 - 1917 |
| William H. Wilder, MD* |
1918 - 1935 |
| John Green Jr., MD* |
1937 - 1943 |
| S. Judd Beach, MD* |
1944 - 1948 |
| Edwin B. Dunphy, MD* |
1948 - 1954 |
| Merrill J. King, MD* |
1955 - 1965 |
| Francis H. Adler, MD* |
1965 - 1979 |
| Robert N. Shaffer, MD* |
1980 - 1985 |
| William H. Spencer, MD* |
1986 - 1995 |
| Denis M. O'Day, MD* |
1996 - 2006 |
| John G. Clarkson, MD |
2007 - 2016 |