History of the American Journal of Ophthalmology: A 100th Anniversary Update

• Published in: American journal of ophthalmology Vol. 186; pp. xii - xxii
• Main Authors: Stewart, Michael W., Duncan Powers, Sarah L., Parrish, Richard K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01-02-2018; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Anniversaries and Special Events; Bibliographic literature; Cancer; Clinical trials; Cytomegalovirus; Editorials; Editors; Glaucoma; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans; Internet; Macular degeneration; Ophthalmology; Periodicals as Topic - history; Publishing; Retina; Retinoblastoma; United States > US; Chicago Illinois
• ISSN: 0002-9394; 1879-1891
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2017.10.030

Raymond Baumhart, President of Loyola University, Chicago; William K. Beatty, Professor of Medical Bibliography, Northwestern University; Frederick C. Blodi, MD, Former Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Ophthalmology; Virginia S. Boyce, former Executive Director of the National Society to Prevent Blindness; Paul Bregeat, MD, Vice President of Academia Ophthalmologica International; Sidney Davidson, FRCS, Master, Oxford Ophthalmological Congress; Ian Fraser, FRCS, Former Honorary Secretary, Oxford Ophthalmological Congress; Edward Grom, MD, Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology, Hospital Universitario, Caracas, Venezuela; William R. Hensyl, Managing Editor, Dictionaries, Williams & Wilkins; Charles Huggins, Nobel Laureate, The University of Chicago; Cecile Kramer, Director, The Archibald Church Medical Library, Northwestern University; Sir Stephen Miller, Former Editor, British Journal of Ophthalmology; Thomas Moore, Honorary President, National Society to Prevent Blindness; Alvaro Rodriguez, MD, President, Pan American Association of Ophthalmology; Bernard Schwartz, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Survey of Ophthalmology; Bruce E. Spivey, MD, Executive Vice-President, American Academy of Ophthalmology; and David F. Weeks, President, Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc. In an encomium, Francis Heed Adler, MD, former Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Ophthalmology, said this of Dr Newell: “Dr. Newell took a small journal with an excellent reputation and made it the outstanding eye publication in the world—this has been accomplished by assiduous attention to excellence, careful referee supervision and meticulous editing.” First Series 1862–1864 Editor-in-Chief Julius Homberger Second Series 1884–1918 Editor-in-Chief G. Adolf Alt Third Series 1918–Present Editor-in-Chief Edward L. Jackson 1918–1927 William H. Crisp 1928–1930 Lawrence T. Post 1931–1940 Derrick T. Vail 1941–1965 Frank W. Newell 1965–1991 Michael A. Kass 1992 Bradley R. Straatsma 1993–2002 Thomas J. Liesegang 2002–2015 Richard K. Parrish II 2016– Table 1 Editors-in-Chief of the American Journal of Ophthalmology Board Member Years Served Position Thomas M. Aaberg 1978–2002 Senior Associate Richard L. Abbott 2003–2006 Associate Nisha Acharya 2014–2015 Executive Ron A. Adelman 2015– Frances Heed Adler 1963–1996 Natalie Afshari 2014– Lloyd P. Aiello 1999–2006 Mathea R. Allensmith 1973–1987 Wallace Lee Alward 1999–2008 Pierre Amalric 1996–1999 Douglas R. Anderson 1973–1990 Makoto Araie 2000–2004 Sophie J. Bakri 2010– Joaquin Barraquer 1996–2003 George B. Bartley 1993–2004 Senior Associate J. Bronwyn Bateman 1992–2003 Jules Baum 1983–1991 Crowell Beard 1973–1982 Bernard Becker 1963–1982 Rubens Belfort, Jr 1996–2008 William L. Benedict 1963–1972 Valerie Biousse 2003–2015 Alan C. Bird 1996–2002 Frederick C. Blodi 1963–1977 Mark S. Blumenkranz 2003–2008 Executive William M. Bourne 1983–2000 Benjamin F. Boyd 1963–1982 Rosario Brancato 1996–2003 Susan B. Bressler 2000–2005 Associate David J. Browning 2008– Executive Donald Budenz 2016– Executive Ronald M. Burde 1983–1992 Abstract Charles J. Campbell 1973–1997 Louis B. Cantor 2004–2015 Joseph Caprioli 1992–2015 Ronald Carr 1973–1987 Thomas Chalkely 1963–1982 Stanley Chang 2000–2003 Moses C. Chirambo 1996–1998 James Chodosh 2004– Executive David Coats 2004– Executive & Book Anne L. Coleman 2003– Associate Nathan Congdon 2004–2015 Frederick C. Cordes 1963–1972 Scott W. Cousins 1997–2000 Terry A. Cox 2005–2006 Janet L. Davis 2004– Associate Eugene De Juan Jr 2004 Joseph L. Demer 1995–2006 Marie Diener-West 1999–2004 Claes H. Dohlman 1973–1987 Sean Donahue 2017– Executive Stephen M. Drance 1996–2000 Sander Dubovy 2016– Sir Stewart Duke-Elder 1963–1982 Edwin B. Dunphy 1963–1972 Fred Ederer 1973–1991 Associate Susan G. Elner 2010–2012 Executive J. Terry Ernest 1973–1982 Michel E. Farah 2009–2015 Robert D. Fechtner 2004–2006 Sharon Fekrat 2003– Harry W. Flynn Jr 2004– Robert Folberg 2016– Executive Frederick T. Fraunfelder 1983–1991 Alain Gaudric 2004– Christopher A. Girkin 2005–2008, 2017– David S. Greenfield 2007– Executive Hans Grossniklaus 1994–2015 Associate DuPont Guerry, III 1963–1982 F. Herbert Haessler 1963–1972 Barrett G. Haik 2004–2006 Julia A. Haller 2000–2008 Executive Seenu M. Hariprasad 2009– Executive Parker Heath 1963–1972 Eugene Helveston 1978–1987 Paul Henkind 1973–1982 Eve Higginbotham 2016– Associate Michael J. Hogan 1963–1977 Nancy M. Holekamp 2006– Gary N. Holland 1992– Senior Associate Robert W. Hollenhorst 1963–1982 Andrew Huang 2016– Executive S. Rodman Irvine 1963–1972 Kyoki Ishida 2016– Douglas A. Jabs 2003–2013 Executive Frederick A. Jacobiec 1978–1990 Mark W. Johnson 2005– Malik Y. Kahook 2010– Peter K. Kaiser 2000–2015 Associate Anselm Kampik 2004– Executive Michael A. Kass 1983–1991 Associate Joanne Katz 2005–2006 Herbert E. Kaufman 1963–1987 Arthur H. Keeney 1963–1982 John H. Kempen 2006–2015 Executive Kenneth Kenyon 1983–1987 Tero Kivela 2017– Bertha A. Klien 1963–1982 Thomas Kohnen 2016– Steven Kramer 1978–1991 Alex E. Krill 1963–1972 Carl Kupfer 1963–1982 Byron Lam 2016– Executive James E. Lebensohn 1963–1982 Andrew G. Lee 2003–2013 Media Irving E. Leopold 1963–1991 Hilel Lewis 1995–2010 Executive Paul R. Lichter 2002–2015 Associate Thomas J. Liesegang 1994–2002 Abstract Arthur S. M. Lim 1996–2000 Shan Lin 2017– Donald J. Lyle 1963–1972 Ian M. MacDonald 2011– Executive Robert Machemer 1978–1998 Albert M. Maguire 2002–2003 Leo J. Maguire 1993–2003 Enrique S. Malbran 1996–2003 Edward E. Manche 2015– Executive William A. Mann 1963–1972 Mark J. Mannis 1992–2003 Book Review Steven L. Mansberger 2006– Executive Todd P. Margolis 2000– Executive Francisco Martinez-Castro 1996–2000 A. Edward Maumenee 1963–1989 Irene H. Maumenee 1973–1989 John D. McCann 2003–2009 Executive John Clement McCulloch 1963–1972 P. Robb McDonald 1963–1972 John M. McLean 1963–1972 David M. Meisler 2000–2004 Rupert M. Menapace 2007–2015 Travis A. Meredith 2005–2015 Executive Kevin Miller 2015– Executive Neil R. Miller 1992–2002 Book & Media Bartley J. Mondino 1992–2003 Darius Moshfeghi 2016– Executive Pran Nath Nagpal 1996–2000 Gottfried O. H. Naumann 1996–2004 Nancy Newman 1983–2015 Executive John V. V. Nicholls 1963–1972 Don H. Nicholson 1983–1991 Kohji Nishida 2008–2015 Edward W. D. Norton 1963–1991 Robert B. Nussenblatt 1992–2015 G. Richard O'Connor 1973–1987 Timothy W. Olsen 2006–2015 Executive Randall Olson 2000– Executive David W. Parke II 2000–2008 Executive Richard K. Parrish II 1999–2015 Associate Louis R. Pasquale 2015– Arnall Patz 1973–1989 Deborah Pavan-Langston 1978–1991 Jacob Pe'er 2017– Jay S. Pepose 1993–2015 Executive Julian D. Perry 2006– Executive Thomas M. Pettit 1983–1987 Stephen C. Pflugfelder 2003–2015 Executive Steven Podos 1973–1982 Albert M. Potts 1963–1982 Allen M. Putterman 1983–1996 Hugo Quiroz-Mercado 2004–2005 Pradeep Ramulu 2016– Gullapalli N. Rao 2000–2006 Narsing A. Rao 1992–2000 Christopher J. Rapuano 2005–2008 Algeron B. Reese 1963–1982 Carl D. Regillo 2004–2006 Robert D. Reinecke 1973–1982 Ian Rennie 2012– Executive Dennis Robertson 1983–1991 Merlyn M. Rodriques 1983–1996 Alvaro Rodriguez 1996–2000 Jack Rootman 2001–2003 Stephen J. Ryan 1978–1991 Marvin L. Sears 1963–1982 Jerry A. Shields 1983–1991 M. Bruce Shields 1983–2005 Koichi Shimizu 1996–2000 David Shoch 1963–1990 Abstract George K. Smelser 1963–1977 Ronald E. Smith 1983–1991 Lucia Sobrin 2016– Executive Richard F. Spaide 2005–2010 Executive Bruce E. Spivey 1973–2004 Senior Associate Paul Sternberg, Jr 2000– Executive Michael W. Stewart 2013– Associate Bradley R. Straatsma 1973–1991 Yasuo Tano 1996–2009 William S. Tasman 2002–2003 Hugh R. Taylor 1996–2008 H. Stanley Thompson 1978–1996 Associate Phillips Thygeson 1963–1977 Fotis Topouzis 2005–2015 Elias Traboulsi 1993–2010 Executive David T. Tse 2006– Mark O. M. Tso 1996–2003 Elmer Tu 2011– Executive Lawrence Tychsen 2016– Executive E. Michael Van Buskirk 1983–1991 Russell N. Van Gelder 2007–2012 Elizabeth Vanner 2014– Gianni Virgili 2016– Executive Gunter K. von Noorden 1963–1994 Michael D. Wagoner 2003–2008 George O. Waring 1978–1987 Jayne S. Weiss 2017– Kirk Wilhelmus 2004–2008 M. Edward Wilson 2003–2013 Executive Tien Y. Wong 2007–2014 Executive Alan C. Woods 1963–1972 Liteh Wu 2016– Richard W. Yee 1997–2003 Table 2 Board Members of the American Journal of Ophthalmology Since 1965 Dr Frank Newell, Editor-in-Chief of the AJO, worked with the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology (PAAO) Executive Board and its Executive Director, Dr Benjamin Boyd, to establish the AJO Lecture in 1971. Honorees and their lecture titles are as follows: 2017 L. Wu (Costa Rica), “Diabetic Macular Edema: A Look to the Past, Present and a Leap to the Future” 2015 E.Y. Tu (USA), “From Investigation to Innovation: Atypical and Acanthamoebal Corneal Infections” 2013 J.F. Batlle (Dominican Republic), “Cataract Surgery in Latin America: Current Situation” 2011 E.C. Alfonso (USA), “Fungal Keratitis: Past, Present and Future” 2009 M.E. Farah (Brazil), “Perspective in Retina-Vitreous Pharmacology” 2007 R.K. Parrish II (USA), “Optic Disc Findings of the Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study (CIGTS) after Five Years” 2006 A.L. Hofling Lima (Brazil), “Infectious Keratitis – Secondary to Ametropia Correction” 2005 B.E. Spivey (USA), “Self-Assessment, Learning, and Ascertaining Continuing Competence in Ophthalmology” 2003 H. Quiroz-Mercado (Mexico), “Vitrectomy Under Continuous Infusion of Oxygenated Perfluorocarbons” 2001 H. Lewis (USA), “Macular Translocation with Outpouching of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium, Choroid and Sclera Using Clips: Experimental and Clinical Studies” 1999 C. Barraquer Coll (Colombia), “Keratomileusis ‘from Corneal Grafts’ to ‘on Corneal Grafts’” 1997 L.M. Jampol (USA), “Retinal Vasculitis, 1997 Update” 1995 E. Maul (Chile), “Resultados en el Manejo del Glaucoma Crónico de Angulo Abierto (Outcome in the Management of Chronic Open Angle Glaucoma)” 1993 A.R. McPherson (USA), “Surgical A