Dr Colin Brock: 1939 – 2016

Dr. Colin R. Tribe

Most medical lives are spent being busy. When we are honest with ourselves, usually in the early hours of the morning, we know that we haven't given enough time to colleagues, wives, children and other members of our families. Outside medicine we all meet friends who say as much, usually with exceptional politeness. A successful academic colleague, the son of a retired general medical practitio...

Dr. Colin Tribe

The Work & Wisdom of Dr . Frederick W . Brock

F W. Brock understood strabismus better than any other individual, yet most vision care professionals have never heard of his work. If they do recognize his name, it is probably in association with the Brock string. That is how I first heard of Dr. Brock. I was a 48-year-old patient in optometric vision therapy who had been esotropic since early infancy. Although I had undergone three childhood...

Obituary: Dr. Robert B. Barlow 1939–2009

A star in the vision community was lost with the untimely death of our good friend and colleague, Robert Barlow. Bob succumbed on December 24th, at age 70, after a short bout with acute leukemia. Our sincere condolences are extended to his wife Pat, their three children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, as well as to his brother James and sister Margaret. Bob’s rise to preeminen...

Obituary: Dr. Laurent Descarries (1939–2012)

On October 3rd 2012, one of Canada’s leading neuroscientists, Dr. Laurent Descarries, a professor at the Université de Montréal, passed away at the age of 73. Dr. Descarries was internationally renowned for his extensive work on the ultrastructural organization of monoaminergic and cholinergic innervations in the brain, and in particular for his work demonstrating the mostly asynaptic character...