Curbside Consultation in Cataract Surgery

David F. Chang, MD is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Harvard College and earned his MD at Harvard Medical School. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where he is now a clinical professor. Dr. Chang is Chairman of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting Program Committee, having previously chaired the Cataract Program Subcommittee. He organized and was the program co-chair for the first 6 AAO "Spotlight on Cataracts" Symposia. He has been selected to deliver the following named lectures: Transamerica Lecture (UCSF), Williams Lecture (UCSF), Wolfe Lecture (University of Iowa), DeVoe Lecture (Columbia-Harkness), Gettes Lecture (Wills Eye Hospital), Helen Keller Lecture (University of Alabama), Kayes Lecture (University of Washington, St. Louis), and Thorpe Lecture (Pittsburgh Ophthalmology Society). He has received 2 AAO Secretariat Awards (2003 and 2006). He was the inaugural recipient of the UCSF Department of Ophthalmology's Distinguished Alumni Award (2005) and received the 2006 Charlotte Baer Award honoring the outstanding clinical faculty member (of more than 2000 active clinical faculty) at the UCSF Medical School. He was the 2007 recipient of the Strampelli Medal from the Italian Ophthalmological Society. Dr. Chang is vice-chair of the AAO Practicing Ophthalmologist Curriculum Commit-tee for Cataract and Anterior Segment, which developed the American Board of Ophthalmology knowledge base for the MOC examination. He is also on the AAO Cataract Preferred Practice Pattern Panel. Dr. Chang is chair of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Cataract Clinical Committee and is a member of the ASCRS Eye Surgery Education Council Presbyopia Task Force. He is on the scientific advisory board for the UCSF Collaborative Vision Research Group, American Medical Optics, Calhoun Vision, Medennium, Peak Surgical, and Visiogen, and is the medical monitor for the Visiogen Synchrony accommodating IOL Food and Drug Administration (FDA) monitored trial. He is co-chief medical editor for Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today and is the cataract editor for 2 online educational sites: the AAO's "Specialty Clinical Updates" and the Ocular Surgery News "Ophthalmic Hyperguides." He is editor of the Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today Virtual Textbook of Cataract Surgery and was the principal author of Phaco Chop: Mastering Techniques, Optimizing Technology, and Avoiding Complications (published by SLACK Incorporated), which was the first ophthalmic textbook to have a paired DVD featuring instructional surgical video.