General Optometry Expert Witness

Expert Witness No.449

California

Director for Continuing Education in Optometry

Assistant Dean & Senior Lecturer in Optometry Emeritus

Education

Los Angeles College of Optometry, O.D., 1948  

UCLA, A.B., 1950                              

University of California, Berkeley, M.S., 1951     

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 1957    

Honors

A.F. Martin Award of the Iowa Optometric Association

Vision Conservation Award of the California Optometric Association

Life Membership Award – American Academy of Optometry

Life Membership Award – American Optometric Association

Research and/or Professional Experiences

1994 to present
Retired from faculty of University of California at Berkeley and rehired as Director for Continuing
Education in Optometry

1979 to 1994
Assistant Dean and Director of Aniseikonia and Special Refraction Clinic, School of Optometry,
University of California at Berkeley

1973 to 1979
Senior Lecturer in Optometry and Director of Ocular Disease Clinic, School of Optometry, University
of California at Berkeley

1964 to 1973
Clinical Professor of Optometry, School of Optometry, University of California at Berkeley

1960 to 1964
Professor of Optometry and Director of Clinics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

1954 to 1960
Member of Faculty, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

1950 to 1954
Research and Teaching Associate, School of Optometry, University of California at Berkeley

1948 to 1950
Director of Night Clinic, Los Angles College of Optometry, University of California, Los Angeles

1964 to present
Active and continuous activity in the area of continuing education for optometrists.  Over 150 lectures
on various subjects to optometric groups in U.S.A., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia, New
Zealand,Japan, and South America

Past Professional Activities
(partial listing)

Member of A.A.U.P. Chapter president University of Houston, 1960-1962.
Member of the Faculty Senate University of Houston and Chairman of Faculty Affairs and Welfare
committee of the Senate, 1962-1964
Member of the American Academy of Optometry.  Chairman of Section on Refractive Problems,1966
1971.
Member of Association of Optometric Educators – National President, 1972-1974.
Member of National Board of Examiners in Optometry, 1956-1971.  President NBEO, 1965-1967.
Examination Director of NBEO, 1971-1980.
Consultant with Continuous Curve Contact Lens Company in development of Hydrocurve Lenses.
Member of Nevada Optometric Association.
Member, 1990-1993; Chair, 1991-1993: Committee on New Technologies of American Optometric
Association
Member Peralta Community Colleges Board of Trustees, December 1984 to December 1998.  Board
Chair, 1985-1987 and 1995-1996.

Recent (Since 1978) Teaching Assignments
School of Optometry, University of California at Berkeley

1978 to 1988 -- lecture courses on:  Disease of Outer Eye and Glaucoma, Visual Fields in Detection
Of Ocular Disease.

1978 to 1988 -- Instructor-in-charge, Ocular Disease Evaluation Clinic.

1988 to 1994 -- Lecture course on:  Ocular Pharmacology, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Drugs

1975 to 1994 -- Lecture course:  Nature and Etiology of Refractive Error.

Optometric Practice at Present

Associated (part time) with another doctor in Sparks, Nevada.

Publications