The charge of Prevent Blindness America's Adult Vision Advisory Committee is as follows:

To advise the PBA board of directors and staff on matters relating to adult eye disease, including:

• How PBA should undertake the fight against vision loss from adult eye disease
  
  
• Expanding the existing base of knowledge about services for patients
  
  
• Guiding PBA’s efforts to increase public and professional awareness of adult eye disease and the potentially beneficial outcome of early medical treatment
  
  
• Guiding PBA’s efforts to inform the public about emerging research on adult eye disease
  

Members

George A. Cioffi, MD, Chair
Chief, Ophthalmology
Devers Eye Institute

Eduardo C. Alfonso, MD
Professor Edward WD Norton Chair
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
University of Miami

Wallace L. M. Alward, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
University of Iowa College of Medicine

Murray Fingeret, OD

Chris A. Johnson, PhD
Director of Diagnostic Research
Discoveries in Sight
Devers Eye Institute

Michael A. Kass, MD
Professor & Head
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine

Paul P. Lee, MD, JD
Professor
Ophthalmology Department
Duke University Eye Center

Jeffrey M. Liebmann, MD, FACS
Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology
New York University School of Medicine
Director, Glaucoma Services

Mildred M. G. Olivier, MD
Midwest Glaucoma Center

Mark B. Sherwood, MD
Professor
Department of Ophthalmology
University of Florida

Melvin D. Shipp, OD, MPH, DrPh
Dean and Professor
The Ohio State University
College of Optometry

J. Timothy Stout, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Casey Eye Institute

Robert N. Weinreb, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology

Ex-officio Members

PBA Board Chair
R. Rick Hart, Chairman
President & Chief Executive Officer
Capital Bank & Trust

Scientific Committee Chair
James M. Tielsch, Ph.D.
Professor & Assc. Chair for Academic Programs
Department of International Health
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University

Staff
Jeff Todd
VP - Programs & Public Health
Prevent Blindness America

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