David E. Beck, M.D.

David C. Leach, MD Award Recipients

During her time in residency, Jenny developed an interest in patient safety and transitions of care, specifically, the hand-off process. As our EIP application and proposals unfolded, Jenny became involved in the design and implementation of a hand-off study, which is known as the ISWITCH study. This innovative project tested different methods of handoff training and compared the effectiveness ...

The Third David M Lawrence, MD, Chairman's Patient Safety Award.

Remembering David L. Epstein, MMM, MD, 1944-2014.

On March 4, 2014, David Epstein, MD, was suddenly taken from us and we are left empty and saddened. David was a world-renowned glaucoma clinician-scientist who made seminal contributions to our profession in many key areas, including basic science research, research mentoring, the education and training of residents and fellows, administrative management, and health care policy at the universit...

David Kasner, MD, and the Road to Pars Plana Vitrectomy

David Kasner, MD (1927-2001), used his extensive dissections of eye bank eyes and experiences in teaching cataract surgery to resident physicians to realize that excision of vitreous when present in the anterior chamber of eyes undergoing cataract surgery was preferable to prior intraoperative procedures. Noting that eyes tolerated his maneuvers, he then performed planned subtotal open-sky vitr...

Manuscript Preparation and Publication David R . Holmes , Jr , MD ; Patricia

Stephen Jay Gould14 wrote, “I always look to closing paragraphs as indications of a book’s essential character.” Although that may be germane for books, in the case of manuscripts, it may be just the reverse; it may be that Abstracts are the indications of the essential character of as are the indications of the essential character of a manuscript. The structure of the Abstract varies depending...