• Editor-in-Chief, Ophthalmic Genetics
• Executive Editor, American Journal of Ophthalmology
• Author, Textbook of Genetic Diseases of the Eye, Oxford University Press
• Director, Vision First, a privately funded program for vision screening and detection of amblyopia and other eye diseases of children in the Cleveland Public Schools. More than 20,000 children examined to date.
• Past President, Current Executive Vice-President, International Society for Genetic Eye Diseases and Retinoblastoma

Fellowship - Children's Hospital National Medical Center

Pediatric Ophthalmology
Washington, DC USA
1990

Residency - Georgetown University Hospital

Ophthalmology
Washington, DC USA
1989

Fellowship - Johns Hopkins Hospital

Ophthalmic Genetics
Baltimore, MD USA
1986

Residency - American University of Beirut Medical Center

Ophthalmology
Beirut Lebanon
1985

Internship - American University of Beirut Medical Center

Internal Medicine
Beirut Lebanon
1982

Medical School - American University of Beirut

Beirut Lebanon
1982

Undergraduate - American University of Beirut

Beirut Lebanon
1977

• Ophthalmology
• Clinical Genetics (M.D.)

• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Member, 1981
• Fellowship Award, Children’s National Eye Care Foundation, 1989-1990
• Marshall M. Parks Fellowship Award, Costenbader Society, 1989-1990
• L. Harrell Pierce Wilmer Resident Teaching Award, 1995
• First Camille Matta Visiting Professor and Lecturer, American University of Beirut Medical Center, 1995
• Honor Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 1995
• Recognition Award for Outstanding Dedication and Leadership, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 1990-1997
• Clinician Scientist Award, Cleveland Clinic Eye Institute, 1998
• Faculty Recognition Award, Joint Commission for Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology, 1998 
• Robb-Petersen Lectureship in pediatric ophthalmology, Boston Children’s Hospital, “The Clinical and Molecular Genetic Aspects of Ocular Malformations,” 1999
• John-Pratt Johnson Lectureship in pediatric ophthalmology, Canadian Orthoptic Society, “The Genetics of Strabismus,” 2000
• Inaugural Martha Leffler Lincoln Lectureship in pediatric ophthalmology, The Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “Lid Fissure Configuration and Astigmatism in Children,” 2001
• Honor Award, American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 2002
• Physician-of-the-Year Award, Cleveland Clinic International Center, 2002
• Honorary Member, “Società Italiana Oftalmologia Genetica” (SIOG) (Italian Society of Genetic Ophthalmology), 2004
• Honorary Member, Columbian Pediatric Ophthalmology Group, 2004
• Georgia Knights Templar Educational Trust Lecturer, Emory Eye Center, Emory University, 2004
• Elected to the American Ophthalmological Society, 2004. Thesis: "Congenital Abnormalities of Cranial Nerve Development: Overview, Molecular Mechanisms and Further Evidence of Heterogeneity and Complexity of Syndromes with Congenital Limitation of Eye Movements”
• Senior Honor Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2005
• Ollendorff Lectureship, The Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University, New York, 2006
• Johnson Lectureship, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, 2006
• William B. Scott Lectureship, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa, 2007
• 35^th Victor G. Simpson Lectureship, Department of Ophthalmology, Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C., 2007
• Teacher of the Year, Cole Eye Institute, 2007
• Best Doctors in America, Several Years in a Row
• Funding from the National Eye Institute, Research to Prevent Blindness, Foundation Fighting Blindness, and other organizations as well as private funding

• American Academy of Ophthalmology
• American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
• American Ophthalmological Society
• International Society for Genetic Eye Diseases and Retinoblastoma

• Ophthalmology
• Pediatric Ophthalmology

• Amblyopia
• Batten Disease
• Birth Defects
• Cataracts
• Childhood Glaucoma
• Congenital Cataracts
• Conjunctivitis
• Genetic Eye Diseases
• Ocular Diseases Of Children
• Retinal Disorders
• Retinoblastoma

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