AESC Member Accomplishments

AESC Members who have served as President
of the American Academy of Ophthalmology

1980 Edward W.D. Norton
1981 David Shoch
1983 Stanley Truhlsen
1984 Whitney Sampson
1986 Thomas Kearns
1992 Froncie Gutman

2007 C. Pat Wilkinson
2010 Randolph L. Johnston
2014 Greg Skuta
2018 Keith Carter

AESC Members who have served as President 
of the American Ophthalmological Society

1988 Edward W.D. Norton
1989 David Shoch
1992 Thomas Kearns
1993 Bradley Straatsma
1994 Robert Welch

1996 Stanley Truhlsen
1998 W. Richard Green
2000 W. Banks Anderson
2004 Froncie Gutman
2007 John Clarkson

AESC Members who have served on the 
AAO Board of Trustees

Keith Carter
Michael Chiang
William Clifford
Anne Coleman
Tamara Fountain
Froncie Gutman
Barrett Haik
Ed Isbey Jr.
H. Dunbar Hoskins ¹

1-Also served as EVP

Randy Johnston
Cynthia Mattox
Christie Morse
Greg Skuta
Linda Tsai
Martin Wand
Ann Warn
Robert Wiggins Jr.
C. Pat Wilkinson

Members who have served as president 
of state, local or regional ophthalmology societies

Chris Albanis (IL & Chicago Society)
Tom Beardsley (NC)
Chad Brasington (NC)
Zack Bridges (NC)
Jeremiah Brown (San Antonio Society)
Bill Clifford (KS)
Joe Coney (Cleveland Society)
Forrest Daryel Ellis (IN)
George Ellis (New Orleans and
     LA/MS Ophthal/Oto)
David Epley (WA)
Rob Fante (CO)
Bradley Fouraker (FL)
Tamara Fountain (IL)

Sidney Gicheru (TX)
Scott Goldstein (Philadelphia Society)
David Granet (San Diego Ophth Assn)
Froncie Gutman (OH)
Barrett Haik (NY)
Tom Hutchinson (MA and NEOS)
John Irvine (Los Angeles Society)
Ed Isbey, Jr. (NC)
Randy Johnston (WY)
Steve Klapper (IN)
Jerry Knauer III (FL)
Carl Migliazzo (KCO+O)
David Miller (Cleveland Society)

Peter Netland (TN)
Sara O’Connell (KCO+O)
Ron Pelton (CO)
Robert Schimek (New Orleans)
Stephen Schwartz (FL)
Derek Sprunger (IN)
Linda Tsai (MO)
Martin Wand (NEOS)
Ann Warn (OK)
Aaron Weingeist (WA)
Bob Welch (MD)
Jess Whitson (Dallas Academy)

Members who have served as president 
of a national or subspecialty society

Tom Acers 7
Jack Baker 1
Keith Carter 7
Forrest Daryel Ellis 1
George Ellis 1
David Epley 1
Gary Foulks 9, 10
Tamara Fountain 4
Barrett Haik 7

Eugene Helveston 1
Philip Knapp 1
Mark Levine 4
Christie Morse 1 (also EVP1)
Edward Norton 7
Jay Older 4
David Plager 1
Carmen Puliafito 8
Richard Ruiz 7

Richard Simmons 2
Greg Skuta 2
George Spaeth 2
Roger Steinert 6
Derek Sprunger 1
Bob Welch 5
Bob Wiggins 1
Richard Wilson 2
Nick Zakov 3, 5

1 - American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus
2 - American Glaucoma Society
3 - American Society of Ocular Trauma
4 - American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
5 - American Society of Retina Specialists
6 - American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
7 - Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology
8 - ARVO
9 - Cornea Society
10 - Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists

Members who have served as a Director
of the American Board of Ophthalmology

Chris Albanis
Lee Alward
Keith Baratz
Ed Buckley
John Clarkson
David Epley
Ken Goins
Don Grass
Froncie Gutman*

Tom Hutchinson*
Edward Norton
Hal Shaw
Greg Skuta
Jim Tiedeman
Martin Wand*
Bob Welch
C. Pat Wilkinson*

Members who have served as a Director of
the Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company

Steven V.L. Brown
John Campagna
Randy Craven
Andy Doan
Rob Fante
Tamara Fountain*
Bradley Fouraker
Robert Gold
Dunbar Hoskins

Tom Hutchinson
Jerry Knauer III
Joe McFarlane*
Ron Pelton
Greg Skuta
Trexler Topping
Ann Warn
Robert Wiggins

Members who have served as chair 
of an academic department or dean

Thomas Aaberg (Emory)
Tom Acers (Oklahoma)
Keith Carter (U of Iowa)
Stanley Chang (Columbia)
John Clarkson (Bascom Palmer)
Gary Foulks (U of Pittsburgh)
Louis Girard (Baylor)
Froncie Gutman (Cleveland Clinic)
Barrett Haik (U of Tenn)
Jeff Henderer (Temple)
William Layden (U of South FL)

Peter Netland (U of VA)
Edward Norton (Bascom Palmer)
Carmen Puliafito (Tufts; Bascom
     Palmer; Dean - USC/Keck)
Mark Rosenblatt (U of IL at Chicago)
Richard Ruiz (U of TX-Houston)
Robert Schimek (Ochner)
Joel Schuman (U of Pittsburgh; NYU)
Greg Skuta (U of OK)
Roger Steinert (UC-Irvine)
James Tsai (Yale; Mt. Sinai)

Members who have participated in the 
AAO Leadership Development Program

Albanis, Chris (2009)
Bogie, Charles (2006)
Bridges, Wm Zachery (2002)
Brown, Jeremiah (2019)
Carter, Keith (2003)
Chan, R V Paul (2014)
Ciralsky, Jessica (2014)
Clifford, William (1999)
Coney, Joseph (2008)
Dhindsa, Hardeep (2016)
Epley, K David (2005)
Fante, Robert (2017)
Fountain, Tamara (1999)

Fouraker, Bradley (2008)
Giangiacomo, Annette (2009)
Gicheru, Sidney (2012)
Kishor, Krishna (2014)
Law, Janice (2015)
Maltzman, Jeff (2007)
Melendez, Robert (2008)
Miller, Aaron (2009)
Miller, Darby (2018)
Morse, Christie (2003)
Neely, Daniel (2012)
Orge, Faruk (2015)
Patel, Purnima (2016)

Pelton, Ron (2009)
Plager, David (2008)
Reynolds, Adam (2013)
Rizzuto, Philip (2002)
Saini, Arvind (2013)
Schwartz, Stephen (2010)
Sprunger, Derek (2003)
Tsai, James (2001)
Tsai, Linda* (2009)
Warn, Ann Acers (2001)
Weingeist, Aaron* (2002)
West, Constance (2002)
Williams, Pamela (2015)

* Also served as program director