Leadership/Board of Directors

BENNIE H. JENG, MD
PRESIDENT
Term: July 2020 - June 2022

OFFICE:
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences University of Maryland School of Medicine
419 W. Redwood St., Suite 470
Baltimore, MD 21201 

VISHAL JHANJI, MD
VP/PRESIDENT-ELECT
Term: July 2020 - June 2022

OFFICE:
Eye & Ear Institute
203 Lothrop Street, Rm 833
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 

MICHELLE RHEE, MD
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Term: July 2020 - June 2022

OFFICE:
17 East 102nd Street 8W
New York, NY 10029 

THOMAS L. STEINEMANN, MD
CHAIR, FINANCE AND AUDIT
4th Term: July 2020 - June 2022

OFFICE:
2500 MetroHealth Drive 3rd Floor
Specialty Services Pavilion
Cleveland, OH 44109 

DEEPINDER K. DHALIWAL, MD, LAC
PAST PRESIDENT
Term: July 2020 - June 2022

OFFICE:
UPMC Laser Center MD Eye & Ear Institute
203 Lothrop Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 

CHRISTINA PRESCOTT, MD, PhD
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM CHAIR
Term: July 2020 - June 2022

OFFICE:
Eye & Ear Institute
203 Lothrop Street, Rm 833
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 

DEBORAH S. JACOBS, MD
CLAO FOUNDATION AD-HOC MEMBER DIRECTOR
Term: 2020 - 2022

OFFICE:
Massachusetts Eye & Ear
243 Charles Street
Boston, MA 02114

S. LANCE FORSTOT, MD
PRESIDENT - FOUNDATION
3rd Term: December 2020 - December 2022

OFFICE:
8381 Southpark Lane
Littleton, CO 80120 

BENNIE H. JENG, MD
JOURNAL EDITOR
Term: July 2019 - June 2020

OFFICE:
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences University of Maryland School of Medicine
419 W. Redwood St., Suite 470
Baltimore, MD 21201 

LORETTA SZCZOTKA-FLYNN, OD, PhD
OPTOMETRIC REPRESENTATIVE
2nd Term: July 2020 - June 2022

OFFICE:
CWRU Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences / UH Eye Institute / UH Case Medical Center
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106

BRUCE H. KOFFLER, MD
CHAIR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 
Term: July 2020 - June 2022

OFFICE:
120 N Eagle Creek Ste 431
Lexington, KY 40509 

PRASHANT GARG, MD
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE
1st Term: July 2019 - June 2021

OFFICE:
3867 Union Deposit Road
Harrisburg, PA 17109

TAMIESHA FREMPONG, MD
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE
1st Term: July 2019 - June 2021

OFFICE:
Mount Sinai Hospital
17 East 102nd Street
8th Floor East
New York, NY 10029

JOANN J. KANG, MD
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE
1st Term: July 2019 - June 2021

ECLA Rep to JCAHPO Board
August 2020

OFFICE:
Montefiore Medical Center
111 East 210th Street
Bronx, NY 10467

JESSICA CIRALSKY, MD
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE
1st Term: July 2019 - June 2021

OFFICE:
Weill Cornell Medicine Ophthalmology
1305 York Avenue, 11th and 12th Floor
New York, NY 10021

CLARA CHAN, MD
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE 
1st Term: July 2019 - June 2021

OFFICE:
Toronto Western Hospital
399 Bathurst St. 6th Floor E Wing
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2S8

 

PARAG MAJMUDAR, MD
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE
1st Term: July 2020 - June 2022

OFFICE:

 

PETER R. KASTL, MD, PhD, PRP
PARLIAMENTARIAN (non voting)
Term: Unlimited

OFFICE:
Tulane University 1430 Tulane Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70112-2632 

 

IRA UDELL, MD
AAO COUNCILOR
Term: December 2019 - December 2022
(3 years per term, maximum of 2 terms)

OFFICE:
 

MICHELLE RHEE, MD
AAO ALTERNATE COUNCILOR
1st Term: December 2019 - December 2022
(3 years per term, maximum of 2 terms)

OFFICE:
17 East 102nd Street 8W
New York, NY 10029 

 

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Phone: (303) 770-6048